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Episcopal News Service. March 9, 2005 [030905-3-A]
Coming up Friday, March 11, 2005...
CAMP ALLEN, Texas - The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church will meet in Camp Allen, Texas, March 11-16 for its annual retreat, which will include private reflection and conversation.
SEATTLE, Washington - Mark Williams, director of music at St. Paul's Cathedral School, London, will give an organ recital at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 11, at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, Washington. Williams' program will include music by Bach, Buxtehude, Byrd, Vierne
and Reubke.
Williams became assistant sub-organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in 2000, at the age of 21. He received his early musical training at Manchester Cathedral and in his hometown of Bolton in Lancashire, before going on to spend a year as Organ Scholar of Truro Cathedral in Cornwall. In 1997 he took up the organ scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was also later awarded an academic scholarship. Since August 2000, he has been Organist-in-Residence at the International William Byrd Festival in Portland Oregon each summer.
Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 students and seniors, and can be purchased at 206.325.6500 or online at http://www.ticketwindowonline.com.
Further information: Heather Hodsdon, 206.323.0300, ext. 240.
St. Mark's Cathedral, 1245 10th Avenue. Tel: 206.323.0300. http://www.saintmarks.org.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The third annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days for Global Peace with Justice will be held March 11-14 in Washington, D.C.
The conference theme "Make All Things New" coincides with a new presidential term, a new Congress and a new opportunity for people of faith to learn together and raise their voices in advocacy for a more just and peaceful world.
Participants gathered will address urgent global issues and examine U.S. policy regarding the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America, global economic justice, global security, eco-justice and U.S. domestic issues. They will also issue briefings and receive training in advocacy.
Speakers will include Dr. Maryann Cusimano Love, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.; Bishop Vashti McKenzie, African Methodist Episcopal Church; and Baldemar Velasquez, founder/president, Farm Labor Organizing Committee. Rick Ufford-Chase, Presbyterian Church, will moderate.
The Episcopal Church is one of several supporters of Ecumenical Advocacy Days for Global Peace with Justice which highlights the urgency of pursuing wise and peaceful solutions to conflicts and the need for aid, debt and trade policies that benefit our impoverished brothers and sisters throughout the world.
For further information call 202.543.4150 or email info@advocacydays.org.
Coming up Saturday, March 12, 2005...
SOUTH BEND, Indianapolis - "A Lenten Quiet Day: Passion and Promise" will be held from 9 a.m. til 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 12, at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. James in South Bend, Indiana.
The day will begin at 9 a.m. with coffee and conversation. There will be two meditations in the morning, the Holy Eucharist at noon, and a sharing time about 1:30 p.m. After the first Meditation a little time will be spent in Lectio Divina, a reflective reading of Scripture, and after the second there will be a brief period of still prayer in preparation for the Eucharist. Luncheon will be served.
"The general focus for the day will be on Christ's passion and on the difference this incredible gift makes to our lives as we live them," says coordinator Kitty Clark. "Lent gives us chance after chance to behold Jesus, and, in the human cost of his living and dying, to see love, self-giving, out-pouring love, at the very heart of the Godhead, the very core of who God is. The cross of Christ is God's love writ large across the sky."
Clark is from St. Andrew's, Valparaiso, and is now living at the DeKoven Center in Racine, Wisconsin, where for the last 10 years she has been serving as volunteer program coordinator. She is a clergy widow, mother of five children, and English teacher, now retired. Clark brings a
lifetime's experience attending retreats, and in the last years leading them, both in the Diocese and at the DeKoven Center. The bishop has recently named her an honorary Canon of the Cathedral of St. James.
The Quiet Day is free and open to the public. Further information and registration: 574.232.4837 or stjames@michaina.org.
Cathedral of St. James, 117 N. Lafayette Blvd., South Bend, Indiana 46601.
THE PLAINS, UPPERVILLE, Virginia - Camerata Cantores and Brass Classique will present two concerts of sacred music, March 12 and 13. "Sing To His Name" will be presented at Grace Episcopal Church in The Plains, Virginia on Saturday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m. The encore performance will be held Sunday, March 13, at 4:00 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Virginia.
The 28-member madrigal ensemble, founded and directed by Helen Dill, will perform works from the 16th century as well as selections from John Rutter's "Requiem" and Maurice Durufle's "Requiem," two twentieth century compositions.
Brass Classique, founded and directed by Richard Dill, will join Camerata Cantores in this program of sacred music.
Guest organist Anne Timberlake of the Warrenton Presbyterian Church will also accompany the group. Organ and brass will be featured in their own selections, and join Camerata Cantores to conclude the program in a performance of "Sing To His Name" composed by Jane Marshall.
Tickets are $15.00 and will be available at the door. For more information, call 540.937.4044 or visit http://www.cameratacantores.org.
Grace Episcopal Church, 6507 Main Street, The Plains, Virginia 20198. http://www.gracechurch.net.
Trinity Episcopal Church, 9114 John S Mosby Hwy, Upperville, Virginia 20184.
Coming up Sunday, March 13, 2005...
ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania - Yehezkel Landau, a man with outstanding scholarly and long-term peacemaking credentials, will deliver the 2005 Wallenberg Tribute Lecture, "Healing the Holy Land: Interreligious Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine," at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 13, in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall, on the Muhlenberg College Campus in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
This fifty-minute lecture, sponsored by the Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding at Muhlenberg College, is free and open to the public.
Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew St., Allentown, Pennsylvania 18104. http://www.muhlberg.edu.
BOSTON - This week's Trinity Forum, "How I Keep My Prayer Going," will be presented by Brother Curtis Almquist, Superior, Society of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge, at 10:15 a.m. on Sunday, March 13, in the church. "Almquist's infectious Christian faith has touched many people. In this Forum, he will discuss the ways in which daily prayer enlivens his sense of Christ's presence."
This week's Sunday Night Forum, "Preparing to Walk through Holy Week, Bible in Hand" will be held from 4:30-5:45 p.m. on March 13, in the Commons of Trinity Church, Boston. The Sunday Night Forum series during Lent, "Dust Off Your Bibles: Basic Bible Literacy," will be a short course on the greatest love story ever told. The series will be conducted by parishioner H. Mark Smith, who promises these sessions will be "less about dumping data, and more about unlocking mysteries."
Trinity Church, 206 Clarendon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116. Tel: 617.536.0944. http://www.trinityboston.org/default.asp.
FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas - Just in time for Spring Solstice, two well-known retreat leaders will help members of the Northwest Arkansas community reflect on how changes in the seasons mirror their own spiritual journeys.
Joyce Rupp and Macrina Wiederkehr, authors of a newly released book, "The Circle of Life," will speak at 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 13, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Wiederkehr, a Benedictine Sister at St. Scholastica Monastery in Fort Smith, Arkansas, says that participants should come prepared to celebrate the beauty of their own personal stories, hidden in each season's story.
"The seasons of the earth: spring, summer, autumn and winter, circle through our days, blessing both our inner and outer lives. Every movement in the circle of life is a dance of life and death ...and life. Each of the external seasons is like a mirror for our soul's seasonal journey. As we pass through these patterns of the year and of the heart, we are offered graced opportunities for spiritual transformation," she says.
Rupp is known for her work as a writer, retreat and conference speaker and "spiritual midwife." She is a member of the Servite (Servants of Mary) community and has led retreats throughout North America, as well as in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. She is the author of many books, including the bestsellers Rest Your Dreams on a Little Twig, The Cup of Our Life, May I Have This Dance and Praying Our Goodbyes.
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana -The Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys, accompanied by a string orchestra, will sing the Indianapolis premiere of Scottish composer James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 13, at Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis.
Additional performances will include: Two psalms and a proverb by Ned Rorem (for choir and string quintet); De Profundis by Arvo Part (for choirmen, percussion and organ); Crucifixus pro nobis by Kenneth Leighton (for tenor soloist, choir, and organ).
The choir and orchestra, under the direction of Frederick Burgomaster; include Christopher Freeze, tenor soloist; and Marko Petricic, organist.
Further information about Christ Church Cathedral and its ministries, please visit http://www.cccindy.org.
SAN FRANCISCO, California - "At Odds with Stem Cell Research" will be this week's Forum at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, featuring Dr. Randy Schekman, from 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 13, at Gresham Hall, on the Crypt Level of the Cathedral.
Cell and developmental biology has taken center stage in a political, ethical, and religious debate that has invigorated discussions of national and international science policy. From state ballot measures to the presidential debates, this scientific breakthrough in treating disease was on everyone's mind. But is it, as some groups say, tantamount to abortion?
Schekman is a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and will help unravel the science and controversy behind this medical marvel.
For more information about this event please call 415.749.6360 or email Larry Bisagni at larryb@gracecathedral.org. Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St. (at Taylor St.), San Francisco, California 94108. Tel: 415.749.6300. http://www.gracecathedral.org.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - State Day prayers this Sunday will remember West Virginia in liturgies at Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues Northwest (Mount St. Alban), Washington, D.C., 20016; 202.537.6200; http://www.cathedral.org. The Very Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III will be the preacher at the 11 a.m. service. Next Sunday, March 20: State Day prayers will remember Nevada.
ANGLICAN COMMUNION - Following the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, this Sunday (5 Lent: Passion Sunday) you are asked to pray for the Most Rev. Badda Peter Sugandhar, Moderator, Church of South India & Bishop of Medak. The Anglican Cycle of Prayer can be accessed online at: www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/main.cfm.
Coming up Monday, March 14, 2005...
NEW YORK - A public forum, "Beyond the Soup Kitchen," will be held 7-9 p.m. on Monday, March 14, at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York.
The forum, moderated by Bill Bell, religion columnist for The Daily News, will address issues of hunger in our communities. Participants will include Jan Poppendieck, author of "Sweet Charity: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement"; Janet Dorman, director of St. Mary's Feeding Programs; Gail Brewer, City Council member; and Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger.
The forum is free and open to the public. Donations appreciated. Further information: the Rev. Patti Welch at 212.316.7474 or pwelch@cathedralnyc.org.