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New Community Gathering: Representatives from the Diocese of Los Angeles played an integral role as about 200 clergy and laity from across the Episcopal Church gathered to “set the vision quest” during the March 12-15 New Community Clergy and Lay Conference at the Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Themed “Together, Advancing the Sacred Dream,” the second such gathering of ethnic ministries throughout the church was intended to move participants deeper into collaborative mission, partnership and relationship. Pictured above are Los Angeles diocese representatives (from left) Mary Crist, Vanessa Mackenzie, Diane Jardine Bruce, Pat McCaughan, Lou Glosson, Ada Nagata, Mark Bradshaw, Jamesetta Hammons, Robert Edwards and Margaret McCauley. A story by Pat McCaughan about the conference is on the Episcopal News Service website at bit.ly/1j4iLu3
Learn how to prevent bullying at Pasadena conference March 29
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ll Saints Church, Pasadena, will present a free one-day conference on empowering youth and parents against bullying on Saturday, March 29, 1 - 4:30 p.m. 1:00-4:30 p.m. A diverse panel of experts will share their own experiences with bullying, how they overcame it, and teach how to identify bullying. Most importantly, attendees will train in how to change culture for the better and prevent bullying in the future.
To register, visit tinyurl.com/antibully2014. For more information, check the All Saints Youth Facebook page at facebook.com/ascyouthpasadena or contact Jeremy Langill at [email protected] or 626.583.2782, or Isaac Ruelas at [email protected] or 626.583.2743. All Saints Church is located at 132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena 91101 (across Euclid from Pasadena City Hall).
Join Canterbury Irvine for festive Spring Garden Party April 5
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anterbury Irvine, the Episcopal Church campus ministry at the University of California’s Irvine campus, will hold its annual Spring Garden Party on Saturday, April 5, 3 - 5 p.m at St. Michael & All Angels Church, Corona del Mar. The Very Rev. Mark Richardson, president and dean of Church Divinity School of the
Pacific (CDSP) will be the speaker; Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce also will be present. The event, a fundraiser for the ministry, will include a silent auction as will as festive food and drink and fellowship. For reservations (requested by March 31), email to [email protected].?
he Bishop W. Bertrand Stevens Foundation is accepting nominations for its 2014 Bishop Garver Clergy Awards and 2014 Youth and Young Adult Ministry Awards. The deadline for nominations is April 15, and awards will be finalized by mid-May. Bishop Garver Clergy Awards, honoring the late Bishop Suffragan Oliver B. Garver, are for the professional enhancement of clergy who have been ordained 10 or fewer years and are canonically resident in the DioBertrand Stevens cese of Los Angeles. The Bishop Stevens Youth and Young Adult Ministry Awards fund endeavors that help clergy and other staff become better ministers to youth, programs that strengthen the connection beOliver B. Garver tween youth and the church, and those that will strengthen ministries to and by young adults. The awards and the foundation are named for the second bishop of Los Angeles. Nominations for recipients of awards should be made by rectors, senior wardens or bishop’s wardens, or Cathedral Center staff. Nominations for the Bishop Garver Clergy Awards should be sent to Charles C. Read, c/o Jones Day, 555 S. Flower Street, 50th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071-2300 or emailed to [email protected]. Questions may be directed to Read at 213.243.2818. Proposals for the Youth Ministry Awards should be sent to Harlan H. Thompson, c/o Northern Trust, 2049 Century Park East, Suite 3600, Los Angeles, CA 90067-3210 or e-mailed to [email protected]. Questions may be directed to Thompson at 310.282.3854. ?
AROUND THE DIOCESE On SUNDAY, MARCH 23 3:30 p.m. J. S. Bach Birthday Bash Concert Trinity Episcopal Church 1500 State Street, Santa Barbara Information: 805.687.0189 or 965.7419 4 p.m. Bach’s Mass in b minor St. Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church 1227 Fourth Street, Santa Monica Information: 323.662.5007 5 p.m. St. Francis @ 5 Contemporary Service St. Francis Episcopal Church 280 Royal Avenue, Simi Valley 93065 Information: 805.526.5141 6 p.m. ‘Lent Event’ with Marcus Borg All Saints Episcopal Church 132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena Information: 626.583.2733 TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
‘Versed’: The Book of Job - Session 2
Cathedral Center of St. Paul 840 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles 90026 Information: Chris Tumilty, 213.482.2040 FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 8 p.m.
USC Chamber Singers & Concert Choir
St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church 1031 Bienveneda Avenue, Pacific Palisades Information: 310.573.7422 SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 7 p.m.
Celestial: The Age of Tallis, Tye and Byrd Blessed Sacrament Episcopal Church 1314 N. Angelina Drive, Placentia Information: 714.528.2995 SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 4 p.m.
Weicheng Zhao, organ, and Fang Gao, violin 1175 San Gabriel Blvd., San Marino Information: 626.793.9167 SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 4:30 p.m.
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
St. James’ Episcopal Church 3903 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles Information/Tickets: www.SaintJamesLA.org More listings at www.ladiocese.org (Calendars). THE
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 12
Episcopal News Weekly Editor: Janet Kawamoto, [email protected] Correspondent: The Rev. Patricia McCaughan, [email protected] Art Director: Molly Ruttan-Moffat, www.mollyruttan.com Advertising: Bob Williams, [email protected]
FROM THE BISHOPS
Thirsting for God By Mary D. Glasspool
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he people of Israel were on a journey. They had been led by Moses out of slavery in Egypt, and had been promised a new land in which to live, free of bondage. But this journey was a long one which the people made by stages, and in today’s first lesson, they were still out in the wilderness, complaining to Moses and wondering about whether God was still with them. The people thirsted there for water — and I think they were thirsting for God, as well. Deep within each of us is a human need that exists on many different levels. The human need to which I am referring is thirst.
Trust is the conviction that my efforts may be of great importance, but God’s result will do just fine. On a physical level we can be thirsty for water. Then there is the thirst for emotional satisfaction in human relationship. And at an even deeper level, at what I would call a spiritual level, there is within each one of us the thirst for God. Each of us yearns for meaning, for goodness, for the transcendent. When the pace slackens in this too-busy world, perhaps in the middle of the night, we hear the quiet protest and yearning of the spirit within. Deep calls to deep. It is the cry of the stream for the ocean; the call of a human being for a lover; the yearning of the prisoner for freedom, and the wanderer for home. It is the thirst of the soul for God. We fear separation, isolation, and abandonment — and we long to find God. In fact, fear is an emotion that can contribute to the
separation, isolation, and abandonment we sometimes feel, and can preclude us from trusting the God for whom we thirst. Fear is not to have control, but to want it desperately. Trust is to yield control to God and to know that it’s okay not to be perfectly in control of everything. Fear is to experience great upset over the unknown. Trust is to recognize that God knows, even if I don’t, and that’s sufficient. Fear is rooted in the conviction that my conclusion, my result, is the only good one —nothing else will do. Trust is the conviction that my efforts may be of great importance, but God’s result will do just fine. Fear worries constantly about other living forces that have power over me to harm me. Trust has a final concern only for the one force who is stronger than all, who will care for me. Fear makes me shrink and constrict. Trust in God and other trustworthy people allows me to open myself up and expand, to come closer to the God who calls me. In the many-layered dialogue of today’s Gospel lesson, Jesus provides the good news we need to hear. He and the woman at the well are talking about worshiping God, and Jesus says this: The hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. In worship, and in our life’s journey, the fundamental reality is not that we are looking for God, but that God is looking for us! God seeks us, thirsts for us, desires us, and loves us first. Drink it in, my friends; it’s true! ?
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Episcopal News Weekly WWW.EPISCOPALNEWS.COM
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MARCH 23, 2014
Application process open for Stevens Foundation awards
LYNN COLLINS
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New Community Gathering: Representatives from the Diocese of Los Angeles played an integral role as about 200 clergy and laity from across the Episcopal Church gathered to “set the vision quest” during the March 12-15 New Community Clergy and Lay Conference at the Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Themed “Together, Advancing the Sacred Dream,” the second such gathering of ethnic ministries throughout the church was intended to move participants deeper into collaborative mission, partnership and relationship. Pictured above are Los Angeles diocese representatives (from left) Mary Crist, Vanessa Mackenzie, Diane Jardine Bruce, Pat McCaughan, Lou Glosson, Ada Nagata, Mark Bradshaw, Jamesetta Hammons, Robert Edwards and Margaret McCauley. A story by Pat McCaughan about the conference is on the Episcopal News Service website at bit.ly/1j4iLu3
Learn how to prevent bullying at Pasadena conference March 29
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ll Saints Church, Pasadena, will present a free one-day conference on empowering youth and parents against bullying on Saturday, March 29, 1 - 4:30 p.m. 1:00-4:30 p.m. A diverse panel of experts will share their own experiences with bullying, how they overcame it, and teach how to identify bullying. Most importantly, attendees will train in how to change culture for the better and prevent bullying in the future.
To register, visit tinyurl.com/antibully2014. For more information, check the All Saints Youth Facebook page at facebook.com/ascyouthpasadena or contact Jeremy Langill at [email protected] or 626.583.2782, or Isaac Ruelas at [email protected] or 626.583.2743. All Saints Church is located at 132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena 91101 (across Euclid from Pasadena City Hall).
Join Canterbury Irvine for festive Spring Garden Party April 5
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anterbury Irvine, the Episcopal Church campus ministry at the University of California’s Irvine campus, will hold its annual Spring Garden Party on Saturday, April 5, 3 - 5 p.m at St. Michael & All Angels Church, Corona del Mar. The Very Rev. Mark Richardson, president and dean of Church Divinity School of the
Pacific (CDSP) will be the speaker; Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce also will be present. The event, a fundraiser for the ministry, will include a silent auction as will as festive food and drink and fellowship. For reservations (requested by March 31), email to [email protected].?
he Bishop W. Bertrand Stevens Foundation is accepting nominations for its 2014 Bishop Garver Clergy Awards and 2014 Youth and Young Adult Ministry Awards. The deadline for nominations is April 15, and awards will be finalized by mid-May. Bishop Garver Clergy Awards, honoring the late Bishop Suffragan Oliver B. Garver, are for the professional enhancement of clergy who have been ordained 10 or fewer years and are canonically resident in the DioBertrand Stevens cese of Los Angeles. The Bishop Stevens Youth and Young Adult Ministry Awards fund endeavors that help clergy and other staff become better ministers to youth, programs that strengthen the connection beOliver B. Garver tween youth and the church, and those that will strengthen ministries to and by young adults. The awards and the foundation are named for the second bishop of Los Angeles. Nominations for recipients of awards should be made by rectors, senior wardens or bishop’s wardens, or Cathedral Center staff. Nominations for the Bishop Garver Clergy Awards should be sent to Charles C. Read, c/o Jones Day, 555 S. Flower Street, 50th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071-2300 or emailed to [email protected]. Questions may be directed to Read at 213.243.2818. Proposals for the Youth Ministry Awards should be sent to Harlan H. Thompson, c/o Northern Trust, 2049 Century Park East, Suite 3600, Los Angeles, CA 90067-3210 or e-mailed to [email protected]. Questions may be directed to Thompson at 310.282.3854. ?
AROUND THE DIOCESE On SUNDAY, MARCH 23 3:30 p.m. J. S. Bach Birthday Bash Concert Trinity Episcopal Church 1500 State Street, Santa Barbara Information: 805.687.0189 or 965.7419 4 p.m. Bach’s Mass in b minor St. Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church 1227 Fourth Street, Santa Monica Information: 323.662.5007 5 p.m. St. Francis @ 5 Contemporary Service St. Francis Episcopal Church 280 Royal Avenue, Simi Valley 93065 Information: 805.526.5141 6 p.m. ‘Lent Event’ with Marcus Borg All Saints Episcopal Church 132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena Information: 626.583.2733 TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
‘Versed’: The Book of Job - Session 2
Cathedral Center of St. Paul 840 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles 90026 Information: Chris Tumilty, 213.482.2040 FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 8 p.m.
USC Chamber Singers & Concert Choir
St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church 1031 Bienveneda Avenue, Pacific Palisades Information: 310.573.7422 SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 7 p.m.
Celestial: The Age of Tallis, Tye and Byrd Blessed Sacrament Episcopal Church 1314 N. Angelina Drive, Placentia Information: 714.528.2995 SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 4 p.m.
Weicheng Zhao, organ, and Fang Gao, violin 1175 San Gabriel Blvd., San Marino Information: 626.793.9167 SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 4:30 p.m.
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
St. James’ Episcopal Church 3903 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles Information/Tickets: www.SaintJamesLA.org More listings at www.ladiocese.org (Calendars). THE
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 12
Episcopal News Weekly Editor: Janet Kawamoto, [email protected] Correspondent: The Rev. Patricia McCaughan, [email protected] Art Director: Molly Ruttan-Moffat, www.mollyruttan.com Advertising: Bob Williams, [email protected]
FROM THE BISHOPS
Thirsting for God By Mary D. Glasspool
T
he people of Israel were on a journey. They had been led by Moses out of slavery in Egypt, and had been promised a new land in which to live, free of bondage. But this journey was a long one which the people made by stages, and in today’s first lesson, they were still out in the wilderness, complaining to Moses and wondering about whether God was still with them. The people thirsted there for water — and I think they were thirsting for God, as well. Deep within each of us is a human need that exists on many different levels. The human need to which I am referring is thirst.
Trust is the conviction that my efforts may be of great importance, but God’s result will do just fine. On a physical level we can be thirsty for water. Then there is the thirst for emotional satisfaction in human relationship. And at an even deeper level, at what I would call a spiritual level, there is within each one of us the thirst for God. Each of us yearns for meaning, for goodness, for the transcendent. When the pace slackens in this too-busy world, perhaps in the middle of the night, we hear the quiet protest and yearning of the spirit within. Deep calls to deep. It is the cry of the stream for the ocean; the call of a human being for a lover; the yearning of the prisoner for freedom, and the wanderer for home. It is the thirst of the soul for God. We fear separation, isolation, and abandonment — and we long to find God. In fact, fear is an emotion that can contribute to the
separation, isolation, and abandonment we sometimes feel, and can preclude us from trusting the God for whom we thirst. Fear is not to have control, but to want it desperately. Trust is to yield control to God and to know that it’s okay not to be perfectly in control of everything. Fear is to experience great upset over the unknown. Trust is to recognize that God knows, even if I don’t, and that’s sufficient. Fear is rooted in the conviction that my conclusion, my result, is the only good one —nothing else will do. Trust is the conviction that my efforts may be of great importance, but God’s result will do just fine. Fear worries constantly about other living forces that have power over me to harm me. Trust has a final concern only for the one force who is stronger than all, who will care for me. Fear makes me shrink and constrict. Trust in God and other trustworthy people allows me to open myself up and expand, to come closer to the God who calls me. In the many-layered dialogue of today’s Gospel lesson, Jesus provides the good news we need to hear. He and the woman at the well are talking about worshiping God, and Jesus says this: The hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. In worship, and in our life’s journey, the fundamental reality is not that we are looking for God, but that God is looking for us! God seeks us, thirsts for us, desires us, and loves us first. Drink it in, my friends; it’s true! ?
Did you know?
FEATURED ITEM:
The Diocese of Los Angeles has a full-service Credit Union. The Episcopal Community Federal Credit Union has been in existence since 1994, and any Episcopalian in the diocese can join.
Bill Pay Auto Loans Signature Loans Business Loans Wire Transfers Financial Education
THE 1979 BCP AND NRSV BIBLE
Religious Jewelry
Prayer Books/Bibles
ECFCU offers a full line of financial products: Saving and Checking Accounts Free Income Tax Preparation Holiday Club Accounts Debit/ATM Cards Individual Credit Counseling 24-Hour Telephone Information On-Line Banking
Gifts
800-366-1536 ext. 254 www.efcula.org
840 ECHO PARK AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90026 PLEASE CALL AT 213.482.2040, EXT. 228 MONDAY – FRIDAY: 9AM – 4PM • SATURDAY: 10AM – 2PM
