FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE

Volume 61 Number 7 JULY/AUGUST 2011

The Episcopal Church of Saint Michael

Pacific View Drive at Marguerite Corona del Mar California 92625 949.644.0463

& All Angels

www.stmikescdm.org

...From the Desk of the Rector

INTERFAITH GATHERING TO COMMEMORATE 9/11

BELOVEDS IN CHRIST,
Summer is here! Shes out in full bloom! Kids and vacations and Good Humor trucks in tune. Fishin and swimmin and Fourth of July, Camping under a starry night sky. . . And I will know that God is the reason That we have the beauty of every season. And He will stay with me and never depart, Lovingly tending the seasons of my heart. - from The Season of Summer by Bonnie David When summer comes around, fun and mischief sure abound. - from Summer by Miles Christian Barth Yes, Summer 2011 will be different here at Saint Michael & All Angels! DURING JULY AND AUGUST THERE WILL BE ONE WORSHIP SERVICE ON SUNDAY MORNING AT 9AM. This is an opportunity for eight oclockers and ten oclockers to get to know each other, to try sitting in different places in our wonderful sanctuary, and to experience worship in different ways. Please do try sitting in different places; please do get to know parishioners you do not already know, and please be open to different answers to the most frequently asked question since we decided to have one worship service at 9am on Sunday mornings in July and August 2011, Will there be music? Every Sunday morning worship service will be a celebration of the Holy Eucharist. The Revd Fr. Jeff Hulet will be in charge. Stephen Black, our Minister of Music will be away from July 5 until August 10. We are working on music for those five Sundays; if there is Sunday-at 9am worship without music, we hope ten oclockers will enjoy experiencing how eight oclockers worship all but five Sundays of the year! There will be nursery care and Sunday School under direction from Anne Conover, Marjie Blevins-Boor, Elizabeth Henry and Melinda Rader.

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lease save Saturday evening, September 10, and Sunday morning, September 11, to envision global understanding while honoring the 10th anniversary of the 9/11/2001 terror attacks. One Light will be one hour of diverse expressions of music, prayer and reflection at Los Angeles City Halls Spring Street steps on Saturday, September 10. Gathering music will begin at 7:15pm and the event will culminate with the lighting of lanterns to be taken back to houses of worship. Bishop Bruno proposed the observance saying, The One Light gathering will demonstrate our commitment to one another and to creating a peaceful shared future. Together we will welcome all faith groups, and persons of no faith, by extending the hospitality of the Abrahamic tradition shared as Jews, Muslims and Christians. Please let Peter know that you will attend. There may well be a bus for us with neighbors from other Corona del Mar-Newport Beach faith communities. Here on Sunday morning, September 11, at both 8 and 10am worship services, Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, will speak. Dr. Siddiqi is the Imam and Director of the Islamic Society of Orange County. By invitation from President Bush, in September 2001 he led a Muslim Prayer at an Interfaith Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance. He is the President of the Academy of Judaic, Christian and Islamic Studies in California. (Editors note: An article about the National Cathedral is on page 7 of this issue.)

FAITH: LO SERVING BUILDING OUR FAITH: LOVING CHRIST AND SERVING OUR COMMUNITY

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PARISH NEWS AND NOTES

A CONTRIBUTION WAS MADE TO THE RECTORS DISCRETIONARY FUND by Sally & Sam McCulloch, by the Johnson-Woodward family in thanksgiving for Janet and by the Freyling-Morris family in thanksgiving for Madonna. These funds extend our Parishs mission of outreach, providing for such needs as can be helped by financial assistance. LOAVES AND FISHES: During July to mid-August we will collect school supplies, especially 8-12 count markers, spiral notebooks (college or wide ruled), and filler paper (3-hole punched and either college or wide ruled). Please turn donations in to the red wagon before August 15th. From mid-August through September we will collect prizes and party favors for the October carnival at the soup kitchen, especially Hot Wheels Cars, small toys/novelties and stuffed animals. Monetary donations are always welcome, too, and checks should be made payable to Saint Michael & All Angels, with Loaves and Fishes on the memo line. (Tax ID #952123746)

Anniversaries in July/August
Anniversaries in July
Birthdays
1st - Jeanne Rees 2nd - James Jackson 4th - Frances Haynes 7th - Marjie Blevins Bob Jenkins 11th - Steve Morris Marshall Solomon 12th - Olive Rumbellow 19th - Richard Zevnik 25th - Chris Smith 28th - Catherine Lee Alexandra Magenheimer 29th - Suzie Peltason 30th - Peter Haynes+ 31st - Louise Stover

Anniversaries in August
Birthdays
3rd - Paddy Nelson Doris Palmaer Victor Rumbellow 7th - David Clemensen 9th - Bob Anderson 17th - Chin McLaughlin 18th - Jay Launt 20th - Jack Keating Ruth Poole 23rd - Murry McClaren 26th - Sue Ewers 27th - Lynne Ruedy 28th - John Johnson Ray Johnson Stacy Stone 29th - Jack Peltason Baptisms 20th - Chin McLaughlin 25th - Teri Corbet Weddings 2nd - David & Diane Clemensen 4th - John & Myrna Ireland 6th - Bob & Diana Brookes, Jr 13th - Jim & Libby Wallace 20th - Richard & Cam Wallis 21st - Bruce & Kathy Stuart 25th - Steve & Ann Morris 26th - Bob & Shirley Anderson

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Weddings
1st - Derek & Courtney Falde 7th - James & Marguerite Jackson 10th - Wally & Barbara Paulson 18th - Michael Boor & Marjie Blevins Jeff & Stacy Stone 27th - Ali & Gail Haghjoo 28th - Joseph & Evelyn Riyhani 30th - Norm & Beth Bianchi

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PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for the September issue of For the Love of Mike is Wednesday, August 17th. DO WE HAVE YOUR MOST RECENT EMAIL ADDRESS? Please contact Susan Beechner at sbeechner@stmikescdm.org with changes or additions.

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Saint Mikes 2nd Annual Golf Tournament
We will be playing a best ball format at Mile Square Golf Course on Friday, September 16th with a dinner to follow at the church. Sign ups have already begun, so line up your golf buddies and get ready for fun, food & fellowship! Proceeds will benefit our parish. We are also looking for players, hole sponsors, raffle donations and volunteers. For more information and to volunteer, please contact Mike Ortt, 714/323-8189.

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PLEASE CHECK the lost and found box next to the tract rack in Michaels Room. FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE
is a publication of Saint Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church, Corona del Mar, CA. Copy deadline is the second Wednesday of the month. We welcome letters and articles. Online at www.loveofmike.net Editor: Susan Beechner

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LEST WE FORGET: There have been 4436 American military casualties in Iraq and 1473 in Afghanistan. "Lord hear our prayers for those who are dead and for those who mourn."
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Summer
When water flows, and the wind blows. You can feel the summer breeze, playing with the autumn leaves. When clouds are white, and the sun is bright. You can see the grass grow tall, next to the river's water fall. When roses are red, and the weeds are dead. You can taste the gold, sweet honey, while the earth is warm and sunny. When trees are green, and they can't be seen. You can hear the church boys singing, while the morning bells are ringing. When morning turns to night, and the moon's your only light. You can smell the honeysuckle, as you stroll along and chuckle. When summer comes around, fun and mischief sure abound. --Miles Christian Barth

There will be Adult Education at approximately 10am in our Davis Library; it will center on the readings for each Sunday, beginning with a collective reading of the commentary from Introducing the Lessons of the Church Year by Frederick Houk Borsch which are on the inside front cover of each Sunday worship bulletin. (Although we are presently using the Revised Common Lectionary, you can discover the lessons for each Sunday in Summer 2011 on pages 897-8 of the Book of Common Prayer. For example, in our current Lectionary A, the lessons for July 3 are Proper 9 Closest to July 6; lessons for August 28 are Proper 17 Closest to August 31.) Please enjoy these changes for Sundays this Summer and let me know what you think of them. I am deeply grateful to Fr. Jeff Hulet for taking charge while I am away on our Parish Pilgrimage in the Holy Land and, then, on vacation. We three Hayneses return from the Middle East and Greece on July 28. Between then and August 31, I hope to travel in California (the Sierras, Tahoe, Yosemite, the Monterey Peninsula and Big Sur) and to join Frances and Don in Geneva, Switzerland, where Frances will be the Best Woman (what I call both Maids and Matrons of Honor) at the wedding of the oldest daughter of her business partner on August 27. So, I will be around some times in August for emergencies; but Jeff+ will be in charge, alongside our Senior Warden, Craig Kennedy. Summer 2011 will be different and wonderful! As poets Bonnie David and Miles Christian Barth say, When summer comes around . . . know that God is the reason that we have the beauty of every season.

A June Day
The very spirit of summer breathes to-day, Here where I sun me in a dreamy mood, And laps the sultry leas, and seems to brood Tenderly o'er those hazed hills far away. The air is fragrant with the new-mown hay, And drowsed with hum of myriad flies pursued By twittering martins. All yon hillside wood Is drowned in sunshine till its green looks grey. No scrap of cloud is in the still blue sky, Vaporous with heat, from which the foreground trees Stand out--each leaf cut sharp. The whetted scythe Makes rustic music for me as I lie, Watching the gambols of the children blythe, Drinking the season's sweetness to the lees. --John Todhunter

Yours, in Christ -

Summer
Now day survives the sun. The pale grey skies A sort of dull and dubious lustre keep As with their own light shining. Nature lies Slumbering, and gazing on me in her sleep, So still, so mute, with fixed and soul-less eyes. The sun is set, yet not a star is seen: Distinct the landscape, save where intervene The creeping mists that from the dark stream rise; Now spread into a sea with islets broken, And woodland points, now poised on the thin air: In the black west the clouds a storm betoken And all things seem a spectral gloom to wear. The cautious bat resents the lingering light, And the long-folded sheep wonder it is not night. --Josiah Conder

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PRAYERS & PASSAGES FOR THIS LIFE

Lord God Almighty, in whose Name the founders of this country won liberty for themselves and for us, and lit the torch of freedom for nations then unborn: Grant that we and all the people of this land may have grace to maintain our liberties in righteousness and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. --A Collect for Independence Day

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CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

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WORSHIP SCHEDULE Sunday

Holy Eucharist 9am Adult Education 10am Sunday School 9am

Nursery Care provided from 8:45am Tuesday Matins 7 a.m. Peace Mass 7:30 a.m. Thursday Eucharist with Healing - Noon
ABOUT SAINT MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS CORONA DEL MAR

We are a Christian Community of the Anglican Communion who come to hear Gods word and receive and share the Lord Jesus Christ. Our purpose is to have Christ live in us in order that in Christ we may live faithful and productive Christian lives. Our commitment to the Gospel is evangelical; our liturgical tradition, catholic; our theology orthodox but open to thought, reflection, and spiritual endeavor. We care about the world and strive to serve Christ in it.

ummer Sunday school is now in session. Sundays This Summer promises to be a joyful time of fellowship and celebration for our youngest parishioners. We'll be studying Gods creation with an emphasis on fun and family. Each Sunday will start with worship music, song and dance in All Angels Court. Then, our kids will have an opportunity to celebrate Gods love in the classroom as well as outdoors. Because we will be offering supervised time on the playground throughout the season, we encourage children to come to church in play clothes and sunblock. It would also be a great time to invite friends to Sunday school. But its not all play at Saint Michaels; we also want these growing Christians to understand the importance of their contribution to the world in which they live. From now until September, we will be collecting pennies to go toward the purchase of a farm animal through Heifer International. If we can put $120 in the Piggy Bank, we can buy a real pig to help a needy family out of poverty. Also in conjunction with Heifer International, our high school youth group is hoping to work at that organizations booth at the Orange County Fair this summer. To support that effort, we will organize a family outing to visit them, Heifer, and the Fair in August. As always, nursery care is provided for the tiny tots during our 9am worship service every Sunday through August, except July 3rd.

GUIDANCE
Nancy Peggy Sam Sue Ray Ann & Steve Ashley Chloe Bill

REPOSE
Madonna Freyling Janet Johnson Barbara Hoff

THANKSGIVING
- for our Parish Pilgrimage to the Holy Land; - with Peter for Edith Coppen; -with Murry for George McClaren; - for Jim Brophy with Barbara & Wally Paulson; - for Louise Stover and Catherine Stover Winters birthdays; - with Karen Schaeffer & Chris Smith and Myrna & John Ireland for their anniversaries; - for life and love Call Esther McNamee for prayer requests at 949.640.1749

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MYSTERIOUS SUMMER (CONTD)

With thanks to Phillip Grosset, the curator of the Clerical Mysteries website (http://detecs.org/intro.html) where I found the material below (perhaps stole is a better word in this context!),I continue my occasional summer flirtations with the charming characters who inhabit Anglican mystery tales. Several parishioners have read and enjoyed the Callie Ansonseries of mysteries by Kate Charles and thanks to Mr Grosset, I offer this edited background to and precis of the series. If youd like to read the books, they will shortly be available in our Davis library. Our parish secretary, Susan Beechner, is currently controlling their circulation, so give her a call to get on the list. -- Norris Battin

he Revd Callie Anson is the newly arrived curate at All Saints' Church in Paddington in London. Four years older than her 26-year-old brother in the first book (but still only "nearly 30" in the third book), she has just broken up with her fianc Adam, who, awkwardly for her, is now a curate in the same diocese. She has a very demanding mother who is never satisfied with her, and a happy homosexual younger brother, Peter, whose company she always enjoys. After university, she had followed her father into the Civil Service - then her father had got cancer and she had been much helped by the woman hospital chaplain, Frances Cherry. It was Frances who "had helped her to discover her vocation to the priesthood, and put her on the path leading to ordination: 'Before I met Frances, I didn't even know that women could be priests. Afterwards, I knew that I had to be one.' " It is Frances who describes her as "so normal. So sensible, so sane". Callie is an interesting and attractive character, more notable, perhaps, for her loving, caring personality than for any deep spiritual understanding or experiences. She is nothing if not thoroughly down-to-earth and approachable. When her brother Peter asked her, "What do they call you, then? They surely don't call you 'Father' do they? Or 'Mother'?" Callie laughed and explained, "I don't think they know quite what to call me. They've never had a woman curate here before. So I've just been telling them to call me 'Callie' ".

Kate Charles is the pen name used by Carol Fosher Chase (1950- ). She was brought up in Bloomington, Illinois, where she graduated from Illinois State University, then went on to earn an MA from Indiana University. She moved to England in 1985, where she came to serve as parish administrator for her local church. Her first crime novel in a series featuring the solicitor David Middleton-Brown, who is also an expert on ecclesiastical furnishings, vestments and silver, was published in 1991. These first books were very well received in the UK, but were felt to be "too English" by American publishers. (Ed. note:This will of course, make them attractive to many in our parish.) After open-heart surgery in 1996, Charles changed direction, and began writing one-off suspense novels. Her first book featuring the clerical detective, CallieAnson, did not appear until 2005. Kate Charles lectures on crime stories with clerical backgrounds, and lived for twenty years in Bedford in East Anglia, before moving to Ludlow in Shropshire, near the Welsh border. Both she and her husband are now UK citizens. Evil Intent (2005) Evil Intent sees Callie Anson beginning her new job as curate at All Saints' Church in Paddington. She is troubled, as not only has she recently broken-up with her fianc Adam, but also finds that she is the subject of deep-seated hatred from some of her male colleagues who are bitterly opposed to the inclusion of women in the priesthood. One curate in particular, Father Jonah Adimola, picks her out for a torrent of verbal abuse - then, when he is found strangled, Callie's friend Frances (The Revd Frances Cherry) is arrested. Her defending lawyer turns out to be an exlover of Detective Inspector Neville Stewart who is the officer prosecuting Frances, and Detective Sergeant Mark Lombardi is the handsome Italian who has fallen for Callie. Talk about close police involvement! The book is full of lively/interesting/ eccentric characters and we are made to care about their hopes, disappointments and frustrations, which the author describes with real sympathy and understanding. And there's the latest arrival,Callie's new cocker spaniel, Bella: The church background, too, rings absolutely true, from a description of all the tiresome duties connected to the "high calling" of being a vicar's wife, to the workings of the Forward in Faith group

who "pretend that women priests don't even exist." It was one of them who had said "that it was no more possible to ordain a woman than to ordain a pork pie." There is a lot happening and, although Callie herself does not do much detecting, and does not seem to have much in the way of deep spiritual experiences, it is all very well written and holds the interest throughout. Secret Sins (2007) Secret Sins is another fast-moving and interesting story, this time involving late middleaged Morag Hamilton, a new parishioner whom curate Callie befriends, who is worried about her granddaughter Alex, a lonely and isolated twelve-year-old with a work-obsessed father and a self-absorbed stepmother. Eventually Alex runs away to meet "Jack" whom she imagines to be about her own age and whom she met on the internet. This sets off a police hunt for her. Meanwhile Detective Inspector Neville Stewart has also been asked to investigate what has happened to a pregnant woman's missing husband, last seen out jogging. Then his body is found in the canal. Callie and her friend Frances Cherry, the hospital chaplain, are soon involved, as is Callie's would-be lover Sergeant Mark Lombardi, the Police Liasion Officer who is trying to summon up courage to introduce her to his close Italian family. And he is very conscious that she is a priest (or will soon be one), so "it would be wrong to push her into a physical relationship. Not when he wasn't in a position to offer her anything in the way of commitment." As in the earlier book, Callie does not do much detection herself, but is closely involved in the action. The author manages to bring her and the other characters to life in a way that stresses their individuality. It is all very down-to-earth: even a small boy goes in for a bit of blackmail when he realises Alex is on a train without a ticket. The plot is less coherent than in the earlier book, but it leaves one looking forward to the next book in the series. Deep Waters (2009) Deep Waters is concerned with the celebrity couple Jodee and Chazz, stars of a TV reality show, and the unexplained death of their baby Muffin. They live in curate Carrie Anson's parish, and Carrie becomes involved with the funeral arrangements, in spite of the disapproval of her own vicar and his wife. Detective Inspector Neville Stewart is called away from his honeymoon to investigate the case.And journalist Lilith Noone's professional future is put on the line when she too becomes involved. Meanwhile Carrie's friend, police family liaison officer Mark Lombardi, is shocked by the sudden death of his brotherContinued on page 6

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Mysterious Summer, from page 5 in-law. This turns out to be murder and Mark finds himself in an impossible position, torn between loyalty to his family and his growing love for Callie. The author's main interest is in exploring the intricacies of human relationships and much more time is spent on these than on unfolding the murder mystery. There is little actual detective work and the final arrest of the murderer is only briefly and not too convincingly described. But the characters of Cally and Mark, his "difficult" niece 13year-old Chiara, his friend Inspector Neville Stewart and his new wife Triona, Callie's vicar's far-from-welcoming wife Jane, and her old friend hospital chaplain Frances are all brought alive in a vivid and convincing way. It is Frances who, in her hospital work, had to face up to a distraught mother "who had expected her to come up with answers for the unanswerable questions. 'Why my son? How could a loving God take away my son, in the prime of his life, when he had so much to live for? How could you believe in a God who could do that?' There were no answers. Only more questions." It all gets very emotional. It is certainly the opposite end of the spectrum from the hard-boiled thriller in which people get shot down on every side without anybody getting too concerned. So, if you want a fast moving whodunnit, or exciting action, or even just a gripping plot, this book is not for you. But for a realistic account of the problems of everyday living and loving, it has much to offer. Kate Charles has her own website, / www.katecharles.com/and there is a complete bibliography on the Fantastic Fiction site www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/ kate-charles/. St. Mikes Facebook Page http://bit.ly/b01vx7 Join us Read us every day Leave a comment!

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Please check the display of helpful material in the tract racks just inside Michaels Room (on the right going BENEDICT OF NURCIA in). Items are priced as marked and you may drop your donations in the (480c-540c) box provided, Father of Western Christian For Those in Hospitals -- Patience Monasticism for Patients is a helpful pamphlet for those who are preparing to be enedict was born about 480, the hospitalized and for the post surgery son of a Roman nobleman, in time. Exercises of breathing, thought Nurcia (Umbria, central Italy). At about and imagery are given to help achieve age 20, disgusted with what he saw of calmness, relief and healing. life in Rome, he abandoned his studies. Accompanied by his aged nurse he WHY GO TO CHURCH? sought a place of refuge from the great city and wound up in a hillside cave If you're spiritually alive, you're above Lake Subiaco, about forty miles going to love this! If you're spiritually west of Rome. While at Subiaco, twelve autonomous dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is still monastic congregations grew up around him. Sometime between 525 hope! and 530 Benedict and some of his A church goer wrote a letter to the disciples moved to Monte Cassino, editor of a newspaper and complained where he established another that it made no sense to go to church community. About 540 he composed every Sunday... "I've gone for 30 his monastic Rule. Benedicts Rule is said to be a balance years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like of moderation and reasonableness, and 203,000 sermons. But for the life of has become the basis for later monastic me, I can't remember a single one of rules. Its average day provides for a them. So, I think I'm wasting my time little over four hours devoted to liturgical and the preachers are wasting theirs prayer, a little over five hours in spiritual reading, about six hours of work, one by giving sermons at all." This started a real controversy in hour for eating, and about eight hours the "Letters to the Editor" column, for sleep. The entire Psalter is to be much to the delight of the editor. It recited in the Divine Office once every went on for weeks until someone week. At profession, a new monk takes vows of stability, amendment of life, wrote this clincher: "I've been married for 30 years now. and obedience. Pope Gregory the Great adopted In that time my wife has cooked Benedicts monasticism as an some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot instrument of evangelism when he sent recall the entire menu for a single one Augustine to convert the Anglo-Saxon of those meals. But I do know this... people. In the Anglican Communion They all nourished me and gave me today, the rules of many religious orders the strength I needed to do my work. are influenced by Benedicts Rule. Benedict does not appear to have been If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead ordained or to have desired to found an today. Likewise, if I had not gone to order. He died sometime between 540 church for nourishment, I would be and 550 and was buried alongside his spiritually dead today!" When you are twin sister Scholastica, at Monte DOWN to nothing... God is UP to Cassino. His Feast Day is July 11, and something! Faith sees the invisible, will be celebrated at the regular 7:30am believes the incredible and receives the Peace Mass. impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual WEB SITE OF THE MONTH nourishment! Israel Background WE NEED Greeters, Ushers and http://bit.ly/bF7Xz3 Altar Guilders. Please contact Canon

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NATIONAL CATHEDRAL RE-ENVISIONS ITS 'MINISTRY AT THE HEART OF THE NATION'

By Mary Frances Schjonberg
May 2011 [Episcopal News Service] The people who formulated Washington National Cathedral's new strategic plan, its dean says, had to wear at least three different hats: one to inspire vision, one to prompt attention to practicality and one to help recall the bottom line. The process that resulted in the 20122014 Strategic Plan was, in part, about becoming very clear about "precisely the work that we think is financially feasible and fundable in our ministry," The Very Revd Samuel Lloyd told Episcopal News Service in a telephone interview May 10th. The plan is meant to describe "as succinctly and clearly as possible what we think we're doing for the country and for the Episcopal Church," Lloyd said. It includes mission and vision statements, followed by four goals for living out that mission and vision. The mission statement harkens to the cathedral founders' intent that it be the spiritual home for the United States. The vision outlined says the cathedral ought to be a "catalyst for spiritual harmony in our nation, renewal in the churches, reconciliation among faiths, and compassion in our world." The four goals call for the cathedral to be: - a sacred place, welcoming the country to pray, commemorate, celebrate, and mourn. - an historic landmark and national treasure symbolizing the role of faith in America. - a living, Christian community in the Episcopal tradition welcoming people of all faiths. - a leader in convening people of all faiths to examine and respond to important issues in the world. The 44-page plan, which is being printed and readied for distribution, explains the mission, vision and goals in detail, and is based on interviews, workshops, analysis and review. It is, the dean said, "the culmination of several years of thinking hard about our strategic future." It also represents a shift in focus and emphasis at the cathedral. For the first nearly 90 years of its life, the cathedral's plans centered on actually completing

the building that would fulfill the three purposes of its founders: serving as a church to the United States, a house of prayer for all and the seat of the Diocese of Washington. The cathedral has "always been alive with a sense of having a national role, but its energy had to be spent primarily with the massive work of building this grand cathedral," Lloyd said. After the building was deemed complete in October 1990, there were what the new plan calls a "number of efforts" to describe more effectively the cathedral's mission or to strategically reassess and articulate that mission and ministry. One such effort in 2006 took center stage during the cathedral's 2007-2008 centennial celebrations, the new plan says, "but, as these recommendations were being implemented, the Great Recession rolled through the cathedral's financial infrastructure like a rogue wave, and significant time and energy were spent righting the ship." Some cathedral staff members lost their jobs, beginning with the 30 staff positions that were cut in midNovember 2008. The budget cuts highlighted what the plan calls "the perpetual lack of the fundamental resources necessary to sustain the cathedral's life and ministry" that have led to periodic financial crises and "to constant calculating and pennypinching simply to keep the essentials of [the cathedral's] operation intact." However, Lloyd said, the cathedral's finances are now solid. "We're making our budgets no deficits," he said, noting that the cathedral raised more money in annual contributions during the last year than it had in years. Still, he predicted that the cathedral's coming years will see "significant fund-raising, significant revenue generation and a capital campaign as well." And the plan necessitates leaving behind some initiatives once considered part of the cathedral's mission. For instance, Lloyd said, it became clear that the cathedral's efforts in global development weren't its "strongest capacity or calling." However, "creat[ing] the events that bring people together and inspiration engaging with global issues is something that the cathedral is uniquely positioned to do." If the plan calls for the cathedral to take a more pro-active approach to what Francis Sayre, a previous dean, called its "monetary asphyxiation," it

also calls for it to take more consistent and thoughtful approach to how it serves as a spiritual home for the United States. "The time when the country most knows that we are the nation's church is when we bury a president or are part of inaugurating one or we are available for an event like 9/11," Lloyd explained, calling this as the cathedral's "ministry of being available and ready to respond when those events come." Now the cathedral wants "to serve that role in a more regular and consistent way," suggesting that it ought to, for instance, offer interfaith prayer services on annual civic holidays. As to the plan's goal of having the cathedral continue and strengthen its ability to convene interfaith discussions on the issues of the day, Lloyd said there is no place in the U.S. capital that is dedicated to the spiritual life of America or the story of faith in America, or that can be the place where people meet to discuss the role of faith in national and international affairs. Yet, he concedes, there is a lot of talk in Washington, D.C. about religion and politics. "It's one of the hottest topics going and there is a lot written and there is a great deal said on the airwaves and what we're trying to do is draw that into public and civil conversation in a setting that invites the most thoughtful and reflective responses," he said. "There are scholars writing how about it, there are politicians finessing their way around it, but what we're trying to do is to create a context where those conversations can happen in ways that contribute positively to what people are thinking." Lloyd noted that the National Cathedral is on its own in this work. Despite its name and despite its membership in the Episcopal Church, it gets no funding from either the government or the denomination. Still, he said, "it's an Episcopal ministry of serving the nation and the world from the heart of the nation's capital." -- The Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg is national correspondent for the Episcopal News Service

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EACH WEEK IN THE COMING WEEKS

Sunday

Holy Eucharist at 9:00 a.m. Nursery care from 8:45 a.m. on Sunday School at 9:00 a.m. Adult Education, 10:00 a.m., DL Whiz Kids, 1:30-5:00 p.m., AAC House of Speed, 5:00-7:00 p.m., AAC St. Mikes basketball, 7:00-9:00 p.m., AAC Matins at 7:00 a.m., Peace Mass at 7:30 a.m. Whiz Kids, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., AAC Volleyball, 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m., AAC

July & August: Sunday Morning Worship 9:00 a.m. only

Sun., July 3rd Parish Pilgrimage to Holy Land begins Mon., July 4th Office closed for Independence Day Wed., July 6th Vestry Meeting, 7:00 p.m., CR Tues., July 12th Hutchins Consort Board, 4:00 p.m., CR Sun., July 17th Parish Pilgrimage to Holy Land ends Tues., July 26th Spyglass Hill Homeowners Board, 6:00-9:00 p.m., CR Thurs., July 28th St. Mikes volunteers at Heifer International booth at the OC Fair, 7:00-9:00 p.m. AUGUST Wed., Aug. 3rd Vestry Meeting, 7:00 p.m., CR Thurs., Aug. 4th Senior Ministry, 2:00 p.m., CR Tues., Aug. 9th Hutchins Consort Board, 4:00 p.m., CR Sat., Aug. 13th St. Mikes volunteers at Heifer International booth at the OC Fair, 4:00-10:00 p.m. th Wed., Aug. 17 Deadline for September For the Love of Mike, 5:00 p.m. Tues., Aug. 23rd Spyglass Hill Homeowners Board, 6:00-9:00 p.m., CR Mon., Aug. 29th Life Line Health Screening, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m., AAC

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday AA meeting, 7:00-8:00 a.m., SW Whiz Kids 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., AAC Volleyball, 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m., AAC Thursday

Mens Readers & Seekers, 7:30-9:00 a.m., DL Whiz Kids 9:15-10:15 a.m., 2:50-3:50 p.m., AAC IN THE COMING MONTHS Holy Eucharist with Healing at Noon Volleyball, 5:00-9:00 p.m., AAC Sun., Sept. 4th Adult Education Com., 11:30 a.m., CR Yoga class, 9:00-10:00 a.m., NW AA meeting, 7:00-10:00 p.m., SW Whiz Kids 9:00-11:30 a.m., AAC Basketball, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
SW - South Wing PC - Parish Center RR - Red Room, AAC

Friday

Sat., Sept. 10th One Light (see article on page 1 of this Love of Mike issue)
L.A. City Hall, Spring Street steps, 7:15 p.m. Sun., Sept. 11th Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, Iman, will be our homilist, 8 & 10am

Meeting Rooms: AAC - All Angels Court DL - Davis Library MR - Michaels Room NW - North Wing CR - Conference Room BR - Blue Room, AAC

Tues., Sept. 13th WomanSpirit begins, 9:00 a.m., DL Fri., Sept. 16th St. Mikes 2nd Annual Golf Tournament Sun., Sept. 18th Worship Commission, 11:30 a.m., CR Sun., Sept. 25th Saint Michael & All Angels Day observed Sun., Oct. 2nd Blessing of Critters, honoring Saints Francis and Clare of Assisi

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AN INVITATION FROM PAM MILNER, ALTAR GUILD CHAIRMAN hank you for your ongoing contributions as a member of the Saint Michael & All Angels parish family. Canon Haynes and I would like to invite you to also contribute as a valued member of St. Michaels Altar Guild. Attrition in the Altar Guild roster over the past year has created a critical need for new members, both male and female, young and old. Anyone can be an Altar Guild member and its service is very rewarding and ties well to Sunday worship. This additional gift of your time would be very meaningful, rewarding and most appreciated by all the parish family. Your service would involve 15 minutes before and after either an 8am or 10am worship service one Sunday a month and a 30 minute set up on the Saturday morning before that service. Please feel free to call or email either Peter (phaynes@stmikescdm.org) or

949.644.0463) or me (949.720.8075 or pmilner@roadrunner.com) if you will graciously accept this invitation or if you have any questions at all. I and others on Altar Guild would be happy to shadow and train you at a convenient time for you. May God bring many blessings to you and your family. ---Pam Milner HELP WANTED Heifer International is seeking volunteers to work at their booth at the Orange County Fairgrounds for the shifts from 7-9pm on Thursday, July 28, and 4-10pm on Saturday, August 13. If you are interested, please contact Michele Duncan, 949.929.4117. SAINT MICHAELS PHONE TREE MINISTRY HAS BEEN REVITALIZED! Every parishioner will be contacted by phone once a month or so and given a chance to talk about needs and suggestions, to learn about opportunities for service, or to just visit. Please contact Ruth Poole, 949.644.9263, if you would like to be part of this ministry.

OUR 2011 GRADUATES, PROUD PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS Catherine Conroy, granddaughter of Ray & Monty Pentz, will graduate this June from UC, Irvine, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa,with a School of Humanities Undergraduate Award in European Studies. Catherine majored in Journalism, and will continue her studies at Chapman University School of Law on scholarship. Katherine Draffin graduates this june from Newport Harbor High School. She will attend Loyola University, New Orleans, in the fall, majoring in Music Industry Studies. Katies proud parents are Jill & Mike Draffin. Andrew Smallin, grandson of Wally & Barbara Paulson, graduated from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Alexander Stonehill Wortham graduated from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, with his Juris Doctor in May 2011. His mother, Anna-Lisa Stonehill, reminds us that Alexander was a child reader in church! Congratulations to all of you!

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