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MARCH 9, 2014
Lenten message from the presiding bishop By Katharine Jefferts Schori
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New horizons in world mission
JANET KAWAMOTO
Above: At a diocesan seminar on “Global Engagement in the 21st Century,” held at St. Edmund’s Church, San Marino, on March 1, Bishop Suffragan Mary Glasspool leads a discussion of how the church might work constructively and respectfully with people around the world. At left: Noah Bullock, director of Foundacion Cristosal, which works with the Anglican Church in El Salvador, talks about theological and practical aspects of ministry there. Other speakers included Canon Serena Beeks on Haiti, Canon Robert Williams on Jerusalem and the Middle East, Ricardo Reznichek on ministry in Belize and Dr. Don Johnson on AIDS prevention and treatment in Africa.
Congregations invited to participate in Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath Weekend
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laces of worship across the United States are joining Washington National Cathedral for the second annual Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath Weekend March 13 - 16. The event, sponsored by Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, will commemorate those whose lives have been lost and those whose lives have been forever changed by gun violence, and reaffirm commitment as communities of faith to address this national problem. The National Cathedral will mark the weekend with a series of events beginning on Thursday, March 13. A full schedule and webcast information are available at bit.ly/ MLk6Lt. To participate in Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath, congregations may: • Include a prayer or litany during Sunday services (see resources below); • Make available an “action card” or oth-
er resources for on-going action; • L ight 32 votive candles to represent the average number of lives lost each day to gun violence in the United Sates — and extinguish them at the end of the service; • Show a film relating to gun violence, such as “Living for 32,” and follow the screening with a discussion. Prayers and litanies are available online at bit.ly/1fFbEV8. For additional information and resources, contacts within the Diocese of Los Angeles include: • Canon Mary Leigh Blek, OrangeCounty [email protected] or 949.206.9676; • The Rev. Canon Gary Commins, chair of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship Gun Violence Prevention Action Group, at [email protected]; • Virginia Classick, Peace and Justice Program Group, at SFVBradyChapter@aol. com or 818.225.0410. ?
he season of Lent, which Christians have practiced for so many centuries, is about the same kind of yearning for greater light in the world, whether you live in the Northern Hemisphere or the Southern Hemisphere. The word “Lent” means “lengthen” and it’s about the days getting longer. The early church began to practice a season of preparation for those who would be baptized at Easter, and before too long other members of the Christian community joined those candidates for baptism as an act of solidarity. It was a season during which Christians and future Christians learned about the disciplines of the faith — prayer and study and fasting and giving alms, sharing what they have. But the reality is that, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, the lengthening days were often times of famine and hunger, when people had used up their winter food stores and the spring had not yet produced more food to feed people. Acting in solidarity with those who go hungry is a piece of what it means to be a Christian. To be a follower of Jesus is to seek the healing of the whole world. And Lent is a time when we practice those disciplines as acts of solidarity with the broken and hungry and ill and despised parts of the world. I would invite you this Lent to think about your Lenten practice as an exercise in solidarity with all that is — with other human beings and with all of creation. That is most fundamentally what Jesus is about. He is about healing and restoring that broken world. So as you enter Lent, consider how you will live in solidarity with those who are hungry, or broken, or ill in one way or another. May you have a blessed Lent this year, and may it yield greater light in the world. ? The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori is presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church.
AROUND THE DIOCESE SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Affordable Care Act Workshop (Spanish) All Saints Episcopal Church 132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena Information: 626.583.2734
SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 4:30 p.m.
Solemn Evensong & Organ Recital St. James’ Episcopal Church 3903 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles Information: 213.388.3015 SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 5 p.m.
Contemplative Eucharist
All Saints Episcopal Church 132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena Information: 626.796.1172 SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 6 p.m.
Solemn Lenten Evensong
St. Bede’s Episcopal Church 3590 Grand View Blvd., Los Angeles Information: 310.391.5522 TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 7:30 pm
Lenten Taizé: Create in Me a Clean Heart St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 7th & Atlantic, Long Beach Information: 562.436.4047
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 6:30 - 8 p.m.
A Lenten Evening Apart
St. George’s Episcopal Church 808 Foothill Blvd., La Canada Information: 818.790.3842, ext.12 FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 7 p.m.
Celtic Prayer: ‘Who’s My Neighbor?’ St. Columba’s Episcopal Church 1251 Las Posas Road, Camarillo Information: 805.482.8831
FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 7:30 p.m.
Contemplative Taizé Experience
Church of Our Saviour 535 W. Roses Road, San Gabriel Information: 626.282.5147, ext. 13 More listings at www.ladiocese.org (Calendars). THE
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 10
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
Where the Spirit leads By Diane Jardine Bruce
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n the the first Sunday in Lent in all three years of the Revised Common Lectionary cycle of readings we hear an account by one of the synoptic gospel writers of the temptation of Christ. While each writer has his own spin on this story, there is one thing that is clear in all three — after Jesus was baptized he was led into the wilderness by the Spirit and tempted by the devil/Satan for 40 days. Each year at this time I look at where the Spirit is leading me, and try to very intentionally follow. I also normally give up one thing and take on another as a form of spiritual discipline. Each year I find myself tempted during these 40 days to give up what I gave up and move on to something other than what I took on — that is my own personal temptation each year. Yet in resisting the temptation and staying with what I’ve chosen to spiritually focus on each year, I find myself growing in my relationship with Jesus. It feels as though
he is walking with me during my moments of great temptation, as his behavior in the wilderness gives me strength to carry on in my own Lenten journey. This year I’m giving up my online Scrabble and Words with Friends games (I love them) and taking on reading and reflecting on the saints put forward in Lent Madness (check it out at www.lentmadness.org). You may think that seems silly, but giving up something I love and taking on a study or a new prayer discipline helps me wake up to where my priorities are and how they need to be shifted or tweaked. When I follow where the Spirit leads, I grow. My prayer for us all this Lenten season is that, whatever Lenten discipline we undertake, we follow that Spirit knowing that Jesus did the same — and that he is walking with us still. ?
Camp Stevens women’s retreat to focus on pilgrimage
T
he annual Women’s Retreat at Camp Stevens — a weekend of conversation, inspiration and renewal — will take up the subject of pilgrimage this year. It will be led by the Rev. Canon Kelli Grace Kurtz, vicar of St. John’s Church, La Verne, who is preparing to walk the Camino de Santiago Compestella (the Way of St. James), a 500-mile pilgrimage route in France and Spain, this summer following her 50th birthday. Through her experience and their own storytelling, partici-
pants in the retreat will consider the importance of daily, annual and once in a lifetime pilgrimages; share stories of womanhood, of being tired, and of how they find inspiration and renewal in themselves, one another and God; and learn about the Camino walk and its draw to hundreds of pilgrims each year. The retreat fee of $200 includes all content, materials, meals and accommodations in the camp’s Lax-Sadler Lodge. To sign up, visit www.campstevens.org/register or call 760.765.0028. ?
Did you know?
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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
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Episcopal News Weekly WWW.EPISCOPALNEWS.COM
SERVING THE SIX-COUNTY DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES
Scan to subscribe to
The Episcopal News
MARCH 9, 2014
Lenten message from the presiding bishop By Katharine Jefferts Schori
T
New horizons in world mission
JANET KAWAMOTO
Above: At a diocesan seminar on “Global Engagement in the 21st Century,” held at St. Edmund’s Church, San Marino, on March 1, Bishop Suffragan Mary Glasspool leads a discussion of how the church might work constructively and respectfully with people around the world. At left: Noah Bullock, director of Foundacion Cristosal, which works with the Anglican Church in El Salvador, talks about theological and practical aspects of ministry there. Other speakers included Canon Serena Beeks on Haiti, Canon Robert Williams on Jerusalem and the Middle East, Ricardo Reznichek on ministry in Belize and Dr. Don Johnson on AIDS prevention and treatment in Africa.
Congregations invited to participate in Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath Weekend
P
laces of worship across the United States are joining Washington National Cathedral for the second annual Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath Weekend March 13 - 16. The event, sponsored by Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, will commemorate those whose lives have been lost and those whose lives have been forever changed by gun violence, and reaffirm commitment as communities of faith to address this national problem. The National Cathedral will mark the weekend with a series of events beginning on Thursday, March 13. A full schedule and webcast information are available at bit.ly/ MLk6Lt. To participate in Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath, congregations may: • Include a prayer or litany during Sunday services (see resources below); • Make available an “action card” or oth-
er resources for on-going action; • L ight 32 votive candles to represent the average number of lives lost each day to gun violence in the United Sates — and extinguish them at the end of the service; • Show a film relating to gun violence, such as “Living for 32,” and follow the screening with a discussion. Prayers and litanies are available online at bit.ly/1fFbEV8. For additional information and resources, contacts within the Diocese of Los Angeles include: • Canon Mary Leigh Blek, OrangeCounty [email protected] or 949.206.9676; • The Rev. Canon Gary Commins, chair of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship Gun Violence Prevention Action Group, at [email protected]; • Virginia Classick, Peace and Justice Program Group, at SFVBradyChapter@aol. com or 818.225.0410. ?
he season of Lent, which Christians have practiced for so many centuries, is about the same kind of yearning for greater light in the world, whether you live in the Northern Hemisphere or the Southern Hemisphere. The word “Lent” means “lengthen” and it’s about the days getting longer. The early church began to practice a season of preparation for those who would be baptized at Easter, and before too long other members of the Christian community joined those candidates for baptism as an act of solidarity. It was a season during which Christians and future Christians learned about the disciplines of the faith — prayer and study and fasting and giving alms, sharing what they have. But the reality is that, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, the lengthening days were often times of famine and hunger, when people had used up their winter food stores and the spring had not yet produced more food to feed people. Acting in solidarity with those who go hungry is a piece of what it means to be a Christian. To be a follower of Jesus is to seek the healing of the whole world. And Lent is a time when we practice those disciplines as acts of solidarity with the broken and hungry and ill and despised parts of the world. I would invite you this Lent to think about your Lenten practice as an exercise in solidarity with all that is — with other human beings and with all of creation. That is most fundamentally what Jesus is about. He is about healing and restoring that broken world. So as you enter Lent, consider how you will live in solidarity with those who are hungry, or broken, or ill in one way or another. May you have a blessed Lent this year, and may it yield greater light in the world. ? The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori is presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church.
AROUND THE DIOCESE SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Affordable Care Act Workshop (Spanish) All Saints Episcopal Church 132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena Information: 626.583.2734
SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 4:30 p.m.
Solemn Evensong & Organ Recital St. James’ Episcopal Church 3903 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles Information: 213.388.3015 SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 5 p.m.
Contemplative Eucharist
All Saints Episcopal Church 132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena Information: 626.796.1172 SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 6 p.m.
Solemn Lenten Evensong
St. Bede’s Episcopal Church 3590 Grand View Blvd., Los Angeles Information: 310.391.5522 TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 7:30 pm
Lenten Taizé: Create in Me a Clean Heart St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 7th & Atlantic, Long Beach Information: 562.436.4047
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 6:30 - 8 p.m.
A Lenten Evening Apart
St. George’s Episcopal Church 808 Foothill Blvd., La Canada Information: 818.790.3842, ext.12 FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 7 p.m.
Celtic Prayer: ‘Who’s My Neighbor?’ St. Columba’s Episcopal Church 1251 Las Posas Road, Camarillo Information: 805.482.8831
FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 7:30 p.m.
Contemplative Taizé Experience
Church of Our Saviour 535 W. Roses Road, San Gabriel Information: 626.282.5147, ext. 13 More listings at www.ladiocese.org (Calendars). THE
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 10
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
Where the Spirit leads By Diane Jardine Bruce
O
n the the first Sunday in Lent in all three years of the Revised Common Lectionary cycle of readings we hear an account by one of the synoptic gospel writers of the temptation of Christ. While each writer has his own spin on this story, there is one thing that is clear in all three — after Jesus was baptized he was led into the wilderness by the Spirit and tempted by the devil/Satan for 40 days. Each year at this time I look at where the Spirit is leading me, and try to very intentionally follow. I also normally give up one thing and take on another as a form of spiritual discipline. Each year I find myself tempted during these 40 days to give up what I gave up and move on to something other than what I took on — that is my own personal temptation each year. Yet in resisting the temptation and staying with what I’ve chosen to spiritually focus on each year, I find myself growing in my relationship with Jesus. It feels as though
he is walking with me during my moments of great temptation, as his behavior in the wilderness gives me strength to carry on in my own Lenten journey. This year I’m giving up my online Scrabble and Words with Friends games (I love them) and taking on reading and reflecting on the saints put forward in Lent Madness (check it out at www.lentmadness.org). You may think that seems silly, but giving up something I love and taking on a study or a new prayer discipline helps me wake up to where my priorities are and how they need to be shifted or tweaked. When I follow where the Spirit leads, I grow. My prayer for us all this Lenten season is that, whatever Lenten discipline we undertake, we follow that Spirit knowing that Jesus did the same — and that he is walking with us still. ?
Camp Stevens women’s retreat to focus on pilgrimage
T
he annual Women’s Retreat at Camp Stevens — a weekend of conversation, inspiration and renewal — will take up the subject of pilgrimage this year. It will be led by the Rev. Canon Kelli Grace Kurtz, vicar of St. John’s Church, La Verne, who is preparing to walk the Camino de Santiago Compestella (the Way of St. James), a 500-mile pilgrimage route in France and Spain, this summer following her 50th birthday. Through her experience and their own storytelling, partici-
pants in the retreat will consider the importance of daily, annual and once in a lifetime pilgrimages; share stories of womanhood, of being tired, and of how they find inspiration and renewal in themselves, one another and God; and learn about the Camino walk and its draw to hundreds of pilgrims each year. The retreat fee of $200 includes all content, materials, meals and accommodations in the camp’s Lax-Sadler Lodge. To sign up, visit www.campstevens.org/register or call 760.765.0028. ?
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
