By The Reverend
Canon
Stephen C. Casey
This edition of the Scep-
ter appears the Sunday
after Trinity
Sunday. Trini-
ty Sunday is the
last major festi-
val of the
Church season
after Easter
until the Feast
of All Saints at
the beginning
of November.
What lies in
between is
called the “long
green season,”
from the hang-
ings which
adorn the altar
during the
long season
of Pente-
cost. These
are the sum-
mer months,
when things
slow down, church activi-
ties take a sabbatical and
personal vacations are
taken. It is said that the
“long green season” is the
time when God goes to
Florida, for it is a reality
that Sunday attendance
drops significantly during
the summer months. And
Trinity as God in relation-
ship: with Jesus, with the
Holy Spirit; and the whole
Trinity of persons in relation-
ship with humanity. The
Russian theologian, Sergey
Bulgakov likened
the Trinity as
God’s love in ac-
tion. If God is
love, and Jesus the
expression of
God’s love, then
the Holy Spirit is
love of that love.
In other words, the
Holy Trinity is not
an abstract
thought, but a real-
ity, something we
experience. The
Trinity enlightens
and enlivens our
relationship
with God
the Father,
God the
Son, God
the Holy
Spirit in
community – God in rela-
tionship with God’s self;
God in relationship with each
of us. The Orthodox Church
has a word for it: Perichore-
sis, which means encircling.
As God in Christ and the
Holy Spirit are a circle of
love, so we are encircled by
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it all begins with Trinity
Sunday.
The concept of the Trinity
of Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit is at the heart of what
it means to be a Christian.
For although difficult to
describe, at the heart of the
Trinity is community. The
Trinity of God the Father,
God the Son, God the Holy
Spirit is God in community
with God’s self, and in com-
munity with each and every
one of us.
St. Augustine, described the
Special points of interest:
Worship services and Parish hours are on
the back cover of the Scepter
Staff and Vestry Members are listed on the
back cover of the Scepter
Thank you notes 4
Why I Pledge 6
Movie Review 6
Adult Fellowship 7
Men’s Group 7
Pentecost Sunday 10-11
Celebration Dinner 12-13
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“the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is at
the heart of what it means to be a Christian.”
the Trinity, God in relationship with us.
I pray that each and every one of you
will have a wonderful and restful sum-
mer, enfolded by the Trinity, but mind-
ful that during the summer we receive
many visitors. It is helpful for them to
experience St. Edward’s in community.
So I invite you to remain faithful in
your giving as well as in your attend-
ance. It may be said that “God goes to
Florida” in the summer, but God in
Christ is ever present in our lives, en-
folding us in the Trinity of Love: Fa-
ther, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Blessings
Fr. Stephen+
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Reflections
Parish Office Hours
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fri-
day:
9 AM – 3 PM
Tuesday: 9 AM – 1 PM
Parish Administrative Assistant:
Michelle Bentley
Scepter
Production Staff:
H. J. “Mac” Miller
If you're the last person to leave
the building following Sunday ser-
vices or an event, please take the
time to make sure all the lights are
turned off (including the rest
rooms) and the doors are locked.
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Information
Reginald Heber (1783-1826), a vicar and
hymn-writer in England, was the first person
to compile a hymnal based around the church
calendar. He composed the beloved hymn
“Holy, Holy, Holy” specifically for Trinity
Sunday, with lyrics based on Revelation 4:8-
11.
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to
Thee;
Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!
The joyful song celebrates the eternal, om-
nipotent Triune God. Throughout the verses,
Heber used units of three to symbolize the
Trinity (God is “perfect in power, in love and
purity”; God is worshiped by saints, cheru-
bim and seraphim; and he’s praised “in earth
and sky and sea”).
Heber, who witnessed much idol worship
while serving as Bishop of Calcutta, often
reaffirmed God’s holiness in his hymns.
British poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson
so admired the uplifting language in “Holy,
Holy, Holy” that he proclaimed it the finest
hymn ever written.
Summer Changes
The only service that is “suspended” for
the summer is the 2nd Sunday Contem-
porary service for July and August. It
will resume in September.
Sunday May 31 will also mark the for-
mal end of the Christian Formation year
with the last class of Sunday school
before reconvening in the fall.
The center of a sunflower mimics the
manmade images that depict the
Trinity
The Finest Hymn
Please notify us if we misspell
your name or make any other
e r r o r i n t h e S c e p t e r .
Third Saturday of
Each Month
Next Service
5:30 PM
June 20th
Rite II
Saturday Service
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Patrick Ishler rehearsing with the choir.
Military News
Please keep in your prayers those
close to us who are serving in the
military. Brandon Fox
Gordon Frankenfield
Brandon Fuhrman
Matt Fuhrman
Adam and Christina Grim
Drew Johnson
John Lewis
CWO5 Barry Loar
Craig Massey
Hank Morrow III
Richard Mutari
David Peck
Capt. Andrew Pfeiffer
Rev. David J. Sparks,
Mike Spurr
David Sternberg
Allison Tomich
Evan Westgate
Seamas Whitesel
1st Lt. Thomas Whitesel,
Ian Williams
Include your news and announce-
ments in the next Scepter.
Due date for July/August will be:
June 20th.
Send articles and announcements to:
We All Need a Tree
www.sainteds.org
Contributed by Irene Achey
I hired a plumber to help me restore an
old farmhouse, and after he had just fin-
ished a rough first day on the job: a flat
tire made him lose an hour of work, his
electric drill quit and his ancient one ton
truck refused to start.
While I drove him home, he sat in stony
silence. On arriving, he invited me in to
meet his family. As we walked toward the
front door, he paused briefly at a small
tree, touching the tips of the branches
with both hands.
When opening the door he underwent an
amazing transformation. His face was
wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two
small children and gave his wife a kiss.
Afterward he walked me to the car. We
passed the tree and my curiosity got the
better of me. I asked him about what I had
seen him do earlier.
'Oh, that's my trouble tree,' he replied 'I
know I can't help having troubles on the
job, but one thing's for sure, those troubles
don't belong in the house with my wife
and the children...So I just hang them up
on the tree every night when I come home
and ask God to take care of them. Then in
the morning I pick them up again.' 'Funny
thing is,' he smiled,' when I come out in
the morning to pick 'em up, there aren't
nearly as many as I remember hanging up
the night before.'
College Care Package Thank You Notes
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First Sunday in May
Eric Henry, our Diaconal Intern, preached on the first Sunday of May, and gave the children a nice visual and talk related to
the scripture of the day: "I am the vine and you are the branches."
Dear St. Edward’s Family,
Wow, I can’t believe my second year of college is almost over. The time has gone by incredibly fast. I would like to thank every one for the goodie box and the wonderful letter you sent me. I look forward to seeing all of you in two or three weeks. It’s still odd not waking up at 7AM on Sunday mornings and going in to church. It’s always nice to come home for breaks and see everyone, and being able to talk about more than how is school going. Again I can’t wait to see everyone in a few weeks and thank you again for the goodie box.
From,
Chad
Dear St. Edward’s Church,
Thank you for sending me a care package! As a member of Texas A&M’s corp of ca-dets, I am always on the move and in need of snacks. Your service to myself and many of my buddies is greatly appre-ciated. God bless. Sincerely,
Clay Tennies
Dear St. Edward’s,
Thanks so much for the
great care package. With
my schedule of late night
studio work and baseball
practice it is always good
to have such a great box
of snacks in the
room! Thanks for think-
ing of me.
Ian Bentley
Kid’s Corner
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Bible Quiz
Which of the following is an accurate husband-wife
match from Scripture?
A. Abram and Ruth
B. Boaz and Ruth
C. Hosea and Ruth
D. Ananias and Ruth
Answer: B (See Ruth 4:13.)
A trinity drawing for you to
color. Can you find the simi-
larities in the red Pentecost
altar cloth on our lectern?
A gorilla walked
into an ice cream
store and ordered a
sundae. He put
down a ten dollar
bill to pay for it.
The clerk thought,
What can a gorilla know about mon-
ey? So the clerk handed back a single
dollar as change.
The clerk said, “You know we don’t
get many gorillas in here.”
“No wonder,” answered the gorilla,
“at nine dollars a sundae.”
Cost of a Sundae
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By Elaine Radcliffe
In 1981, five couples, Carolyn and Ray
Miller, Nancy and Bob Oliver, Carol and
Stu Pindell, Johan and Paul Ross, and
Katie and Peter True, petitioned Bishops
Stevenson and McNutt for permission to
look into the possibility of an Episcopal
Mission in fast-growing Hempfield. Fol-
lowing much study, research, discussion,
and meetings with potential congregants,
permission was granted and space was
rented in a Union Hall in Landisville. The
meeting space required the setting up and
tearing down each Sunday of folding
chairs, roughly-constructed kneeling
benches, and a portable altar and cross
borrowed from St. Thomas’ Church! Fa-
ther John Norman was appointed by the
Bishops to be our first Vicar.
Before the first service, Stu Pindell asked
me if I might be willing to “play hymns
once in a while.” Of course, I said that I
would and, “thereby hangs a (27-year)
tale!” I played the first service on Septem-
ber 13, 1981 on an old donated upright
piano that sounded much like the pianos
we heard in the saloons in old Western
movies! We did purchase a better piano
and I played 50 services a year for many
years. Our young teen-age children
joined, and thoroughly enjoyed, the first
Youth Group and made many cherished
friends and memories. When we formed a
choir, our children participated, and my
husband, Wayne, joined the bass section
and continued to sing until he was too ill
to do so. Wayne and I both served on vari-
ous vestries and went to the Diocesan
Convention.
Now, you may well ask, what does that
have to do with “why I pledge?” During
all of the years of making music and new
friends, during the “ups and downs” of St.
Edward’s founding and growth, during a
building campaign, during ground-
breaking in 1989, and during the joyous
(and sometimes stressful) days leading up
to our first service in our new sanctuary in
February, 1990, Wayne and I discovered
something! We discovered what good
friends we had made, how those friends
responded to the needs of other “St. Ed-
wardians,” and in short, what a “church
family” was all about! Many times during
all of those years we wondered what our
lives would have been like had St. Ed-
ward’s Church not existed, and the answer
was always that our lives would have been
less rich, less joyful, and less surrounded
by the love of many.
So, Wayne and I, of course, decided to
pledge, as do I, now that he has passed
away. People often say that one gets out
of a church what one puts into it in “Time,
Talent, and Treasure.” This is true in
many ways, because it takes all three to
maintain and grow a church; however,
when we do participate in those three
ways, we also learn the importance of
sharing the church year in our holy place,
through triumphs and failures, joys and
sorrows, with the love, friendship, and
support of our priest and fellow parishion-
ers. This is a gift truly beyond price.
Why I Pledge to St. Edward’s Church
By Glen Bentley
I am always on the
lookout for something
I have never seen be-
fore and I think this
fits the bill.
Sunshine Superman, is
a portrait of BASE
jumping founding father Carl Boenish,
effectively captures the irrepressible en-
ergy of a man who never tired of taking
flying leaps. But it also does something
even rarer for the documentary genre: It
demands to be shown on an IMAX
screen. If you can see in this format do.
Weaving archival footage from Boenish
daredevil-in-the-clouds short films with
sweeping shots from jaw-dropping
heights—including stunning aerial im-
agery of Norway’s famed Troll Wall—
director Marah Strauch creates a tapestry
of high-in-the-sky awesome that some-
times feels as though the audience is
looking down on Earth via a Steadicam
being operated in heaven. The story of
Boenish, who parlayed his interest in
skydiving into a career as a filmmaker/
adventurer who freefell from L.A. sky-
scrapers, Yosemite’s El Capitan, and that
Troll Wall, is an effectively compelling
narrative about the thin line between
excessive risk and supreme gutsiness, in
BASE jumping and in life.
Director Strauch traces Boenish’s story
from his childhood—which involved a
brief period spent anchored to a wheel-
chair while recovering from polio—to
his life-changing role as aerial photogra-
pher working alongside John Franken-
heimer on the 1969 sky-diving picture
The Gypsy Moths, she occasionally relies
on staged reenactments to illustrate key
Boenish milestones.
You have never seen anything like this
before and as Boenish says at one partic-
ularly significant moment, if you jump,
the angels will take care of you and your
search for cinematic creativity.
Movie Review: Sunshine Superman
“The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad!”
—Anonymous
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Adult Fellowship Men’s Group
By Mike Patrone and
John Meyer, co-chairs
News and views from the men's group:
Randy Westgate, a member of our par-
ish, was the guest speaker at our last
breakfast till September. The subject was
"Celebrate Recovery" which aids partici-
pants dealing with hurts, hang-ups and
habits. Randy is a leader in the one that
meets at LCB Manheim. It is a Christian
12 step recovery program. It was a very
informative talk.
This year we have had very diversified
speakers.
Michelle has put in the bulletin about the
men taking out the trash after the ser-
vices. What if this plan took place
whereas the early service men took
out the trash already in the cans, leaving
one for the late service and the early men
also taking out one of the recycle bins.
Picnic WHEN: Sunday, June 14, 4:00 p.m.
(This is also Flag Day, if you wish
to wear red, white, & blue!)
WHERE: At the Radcliffe’s home,
3190 Grande Oak Place in West
Hempfield. Hot dogs, drinks, and
paper products will be provided.
PLEASE BRING: A side dish, such
as potato salad, cole slaw, baked
beans, etc. or dessert. Please tell
what you’ll bring on the phone or
the sign-up sheet.
DEADLINE: Monday, June 8. Ei-
ther sign up on the sheet in the Par-
ish Hall or call Elaine Radcliffe at
285-4912. If you have questions or
need directions, call Elaine.
Coffee Hour
.
Thank you to the
following hosts for providing fellow-
ship and hospitality to our 8 AM, 9:15
AM, and 10:15 AM coffee hours during
the month of May:
Sandy Patrone
Linda Spire
Dottie Gschwend
Helen Castle
Bev and Larry Hess
The Rosenberg-Kernic Family
Carl and Carol Cotnoir
R.B. Mullineaux
All the St. Edward’s men who hosted
during Mother’s Day on May 10th
The 3 Willows – Geraldine Cosgrave,
Janet Rumer, June Klemm
As we approach the summer months,
please know how important the coffee
hour is to St. Edward’s. It is always a
nice community gathering after the ser-
vices and a wonderful way to welcome
visitors that are new to the area, looking
for a church home, or visiting relatives
during the summer vacations.
A woman had just returned to her home
from an evening of church services,
when she was startled by an intrud-
er. She caught the man in the act
of robbing her home of its valuables and
yelled:
'Stop!
Acts 2:38!' (Repent and be Baptized, in
the name of Jesus Christ, so that your
sins may be forgiven.)
The burglar stopped in his tracks. The
woman calmly called the police
and explained what she had done.
As the officer cuffed the man to take him
in, he asked the burglar: 'Why
did you just stand there? All the old lady
did was yell a scripture
to you.
''Scripture?' replied the burglar 'She said
she had an Ax and Two 38s!'
Acts 2:38
New Place: The Forum, 500 Walnut St., Harrisburg
New Time: 11 a.m., Sept. 12, 2015
The Transition Committee has felt the presence of the Holy Spirit throughout all of the work we have been given to do
and especially now. A site previously unavailable to us for the consecration has now become available.
We are pleased to announce that the venue of the Consecration for Bishop Elect Audrey Scanlan will move from the Hil-
ton Harrisburg to the Forum. With this change we are now able to hold the service at 11 a.m. rather than 9 a.m. This
gives us the gift of time together before the service. It also makes it possible for more people who would not have been
able to attend because of the early start time to come and celebrate the consecration of our new bishop. Bishop Elect
Audrey Scanlan and our Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori are both very happy with these changes.
The Forum is located within walking distance from the Hilton. It has recently been renovated with new seating and is
handicap accessible. It is also the home of the Harrisburg Symphony. It can seat over 1600 people.
The reception will immediately follow in the Pennsylvania Room at the Hilton Harrisburg. The banquet the evening be-
fore will also be held at the Hilton.
We are excited for the special time for our diocese and for our Bishop Elect Audrey Scanlan. We look forward to seeing
you all on Sept. 11 and Sept. 12.
Ordination and Consecration of The Rev. Canon Audrey Cady Scanlan
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From the Transition Committee DIOCESE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
Bishop Elect Audrey Scanlon
Stephen, Luke and Catherine Donohue
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Luke Donohue Master’s Degree Commencement
Luke graduated with a master's degree in
archaeology from the University of Alabama
on the second of May. He starts work as an
archaeological project manager on Monday
the 18th. He is now living in Atlanta and
working for ECA . Shelby Hall at University of Alabama Birmingham
St. Edward’s is “Red”y For Pentecost Sunday
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Kathie Rodgers
Dorris Smith and Bob Young
Jane Young Rayelenn Casey Helen and Tony Castle
Carol Cotnoir
The red streamers added to the celebration.
Pentecost Sunday
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Reenie and Ted Cardwell Barbara and Harry West
Thomas and Patrick Ishler
Sam Fleming
Sharon and Robert Hubbard
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By Rayelenn Casey
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Celebration Dinner
Just in case anyone isn't sure which one is Father Ste-
phen
Annual
Celebration
Meal
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Celebration Dinner
Senior Warden Leslie Arnold thanks Michelle Bentley, Susan
Landin, and RB Mullineaux for their teamwork and excellent
efforts in planning and carrying off this year's Celebration
Meal so successfully.
Senior Warden thanks Buddy Yeager for his six years of
service as St. Edward's sexton -- and the applause was
long and loud as Buddy accepted his gift and returned to
his table.
Planners Michelle Bentley and Susan Landin worked hard to get every
detail right.
"We are a community built by those who came
before -- and building for the people yet un-
born."
The Celebration meal on the 16th of May was an absolute de-
light. It always gifts me with joy when I experience the commu-
nity of St. Edward's in fellowship, and I am grateful to all those
who made the evening possible: to Hank Spire, for his inspiring
words; Leslie Arnold, Senior Warden, for her words of apprecia-
tion; but most of all to Michelle, R.B. Susan Landin, and Barba-
ra Schultz for making the whole evening possible. Thank you
all.
Fr. Stephen+
Sunday Services
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite I (said)
10:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II
9:10 a.m. Contemporary Service (2nd Sunday, Sept – May)
Wednesday
12:00 Noon – Holy Eucharist with healing
Saturday
5:30 Holy Eucharist Rite II (Third Saturday)
2453 Harrisburg Pike
St. Edward’s Episcopal Church
Phone 717-898-6276
Email: [email protected]
www.sainteds.org
The Reverend Canon
Stephen C. Casey, Rector
The Rev. Harold F.
Morrow, Jr., Deacon
The Rev. Eugene F.
Lefebvre, Honorary Associ-
ate Priest
Eric Henry, Parish Intern
Leslie Arnold Senior War-
den
Michelle Bentley, Parish
Administrative Assistant
Parish Office Hours
Monday, Wednesday, Thurs-
day, Friday: 9 AM – 3 PM
Tuesday: 9 AM – 1 PM
Staff Worship Services
Vestry
(year term ends)
Leslie Arnold (2018)
Tony Bianco (2016)
Camille Horine (2018)
Maura Keener (2016)
Brian Newsome (2018)
Mike Patrone (2017)
Peg Reiley (2017)
Henry Spire (2018)
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