eConnections - August 18, 2023

eConnections
Notes & News from the Cathedral of Saint James
August 18, 2023

In this Week's eConnections:

  • Requiem Eucharist for Fr. Jim Lodwick

  • Food Request for Reception following Funeral

  • SMH August Outreach

  • EfM Open Registration

  • Julian of Norwich Group

  • HBCU Special Events

  • Community Health & Wellness Fair

  • Cathedral Calendar

  • Making Sunday Worship Happen: Volunteers for this Sunday

  • For Your Prayers


Upcoming Events

Funeral Reception
 

The Hospitality team is seeking donations of finger food for Fr. Jim's funeral. Preferably, we'd like some Mexican finger food (not all), but any food donations are definitely needed and welcomed. If you'd like to provide a dish but cannot attend the service, you're invited to drop off your dish that Sunday morning. Please contact Betsy VanderBurg to coordinate what you plan to bring/donate so she can ensure all bases are covered. She may be reached via email at vancebetsy@comcast.net or by phone at (773) 220-3548. Thank you.

Registration is open for enrollment in Education for Ministry (EfM) for 2023 -2024 year.
 
EfM is a four year course in Theological Education to which participants makes a commitment one year at a time. EfM helps the faithful encounter the breadth and depth of the Christian tradition and brings it into conversation with their experience off the world as they study, worship and engage theological reflection together. More information is available on the EfM website.
 
Please let Mother Tina or Father Brian know if you are interested in beginning this year.













Julian of Norwich Book Study/Reflection

A Book study/reflection on Julian of Norwich’s Showings will be held at the Cathedral of St. James on 4 Wednesdays in September and October. September 6 & 20 and October 11 & 25. It will be from 6:30 – 8:00. (Time can be adjusted to meet the needs of participants.) It will be facilitated by Mother Tina Velthuizen.

Mother Tina has been an Oblate with the Order of Julian of Norwich for more than 20 years and was greatly influenced by Julian’s writings soon after being confirmed in the Episcopal Church in 1972. That influence continues as she enters more deeply into Julian’s teaching and trust in God’s love. At Julian Fest in June of this year she was inspired to offer to introduce Julian’s teaching to others. In each session we will share insights from what we have read and do a process of Lectio Divina with a passage of her text. God speaks to us through the writing of the Saints as well as through Scripture. Once we know who is interested, more details will be forthcoming. 

About Julian, a 14th Century mystic:
At the point of death, after Julian choose to focus her eyes on the crucifix held before her, she receives 16 Showings of God’s love. She writes a short account of them soon after her recovery and then expands her reflection on them 20 years later, after she became an Anchorite. (A person who is enclosed in a room(s) attached to a parish church.) Her writings were lost for about 600 years, but re-emerged in the mid 20th Century.

Thomas Merton writes of Julian: “Julian is without doubt one of the most wonderful of all Chrisian voices. She gets greater and greater in my eyes as I grow older and whereas is the old days I used to be crazy about St. John of the Cross, I would not exchange him now for Julian if you gave me the world and the Indies and all the Spanish mystics rolled up in one bundle. I think that Julian of Norwich is with Newman the greatest English theologian.”

Tennessee State vs. Notre Dame

An Historically Black College or University lines up against the Fighting Irish football team for the first time ever on Saturday, September 2. To mark this occasion, several special events are planned for that weekend. Please check out these opportunities below!


Cathedral Calendar

This Week at CSJ

Sunday, August 20
The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
  Year A, Proper 15, Track 2
8:00 am  Holy Eucharist: Rite One
10:30 am  Holy Eucharist: Rite Two
11:45 am  Hospitality

Monday, August 21
Administrative Offices Closed
No Events Scheduled

Tuesday, August 22
Administrative Offices: 9 am - 1:30 pm
No Events Scheduled

Wednesday, August 23
Administrative Offices: 9 am - 1:30 pm
9:30 am  Raising Cane Bible Study
  Call (425) 436-6335; Access Code 782266

Thursday, August 24
Saint Bartholomew
Administrative Offices: 9 am - 1:30 pm
No Events Scheduled

Friday, August 25
Administrative Offices: Closed
12:05 pm  Holy Eucharist

Saturday, August 26
No Events Scheduled

Sunday, August 27
The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
  Year A, Proper 16, Track 2
8:00 am  Holy Eucharist: Rite One
10:30 am  Holy Eucharist: Rite Two
11:45 am  Hospitality
2:00 pm  Visitation for Fr. Jim Lodwick
3:00 pm  Requiem Eucharist for Fr. Jim Lodwick
  Reception following

Looking Ahead

through August 11
Joe Anand-Obleton out of the office

through August 12
Fr. Brian Grantz out of the office

Tuesday, August 15
Chapter Meeting

Sunday, September 10
Ministries Faire


Making Sunday Worship Happen

Sunday, August 20
The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Year A, Proper 15, Track One

8:00 am  Lector  Volunteer Needed
8:00 am  Eucharistic Minister  Volunteer Needed

10:30 am Lectors Joe Ross & Joe Anand-Obleton
10:30 am Server  Ainsley Gray
10:30 am Eucharistic Ministers  Betsy VanderBurg & Mary Beth Wright
10:30 am Ushers  Keith LaPierre & Nicole Pinter
10:30 am Hospitality  Rhonda Culbertson

Counters: Tuesday, August 22: Donna Woods & Liz Burman
Folder: Friday, August 25: Peg Swadener

Flowers: The flowers adorning the altar this Sunday are given by Tom and Liz Burman in thanksgiving for their anniversary.
   
Volunteers Needed
Sunday, September 3
8:00 am Eucharistic Minister
10:30 am Acolyte
 


For Your Prayers

  • For Olivia, who has leukemia, and her family.

  • For Tony, who is in the hospital.

  • For Russ.

  • For the repose of the soul of Fr. Jim Lodwick.

  • For Daniel and his family.

  • For Amber.

  • For the repose of the soul of Omotayo Olutoye, mother of Bunmi Okanlami. Please pray also for her husband, Olufemi Olutoye, and the whole Olutoye family.

  • For Mary Evelyn Burman, sister of Tom Burman, who is in hospice care.

  • For Sandy.

  • For John G.

  • For Dede.

  • For John Monroe, brother of Sue Fain.

  • For Pat, who is working in California until November, and Shela.

  • Caitlin H.

  • Steve B.

  • Cherryl Andries.

  • The LaFiero family.

  • Sharron McGowan.

  • Kara.

  • Bernard.

  • Christopher Hillak.

  • DeDe Guth.

  • Rhonda.

  • Tammy, daughter of Tony Molnar.

  • Alan Thompson.

  • Continued healing for Donna Woods, and for Dave.

  • Peju, Bunmi, and the Okanlami family.

  • Gina Dudeck & Dale Brucki.

  • The Raman family.

  • Milo & Gussie Wietstock, parents of Steve Wietstock.

  • Mike Jaworski, and Lisa.

  • Marilyn Klopfenstein.

  • Tony Molnar.

  • Dan & Gail Mandell.

  • Russell Cartwright.

  • Ron Gunn.

  • Cobie.

  • Alissa Broussara.

  • Nan Noecker as she continues her diaconal formation.

  • Becky Ballentine; Jo Dorsch; Sharron McGowan; Joyce Marchant; Dave & Alice Miller; Fr. Paul Tracy; Ginger & Richard Bitner.

  • Al Caparell; Tony Lemna; Mike; Denise & Demetrius.

  • For those preparing for marriage: Matthew Diehl & Chau-ly Phan (September 30). 

  • For those awaiting the birth or adoption of a child: Christopher & Andrew Hillak.


Social Media

Cathedral of Saint James Podcast

Our adult forum conversation with Dr. Samantha Slaubaugh on 'Wealth, Poverty, and the Patristic Period' is now available on Apple Podcasts:

Cathedral of Saint James Livestream

We livestream each 10:30 AM Sunday service on YouTube and Facebook. 

Joe Anand-Obleton