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FOR ALL THE SAINTS

AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2015 A publication of ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH: An Anglo-Catholic Parish in the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego

ON THE COVER: The Assumption of Mary (studio of Sir Paul Peter Rubens.) In 1611, the cathedral at Antwerp announced a competition for an Assumption altar. On February 16, 1618, Rubens submitted two models. He finished the huge altarpiece on September 30, 1626. Thus, fifteen years elapsed between the beginning and conclusion of this project. The cathedral needed the time to complete a majestic marble frame. This oil sketch of the altarpiece is part of the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the National Gallery of Art

IN THIS ISSUE

Rector’s Message No Empty Moments in Our Lives………………….……... Parish Calendar of Events August …..……………………………………………………………. September…………………………………………………………… Commemoration Our Lady of Walsingham………………………………………. John Mason Neale………………………………………………… Treasurer’s Corner………………………………… Rick Ochocki………………………………………………………. The Windows of All Saints’ St. Cecilia and St. Ambrose……..…………………..……….. St. Patrick and St. Hilda………………………………………... Parish Life Baby Shower for Baby Girl McQueen…...……………..… Louise D. Lawson Joins All Saints’ Staff………………….

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No Empty Moments in Our Lives

RECTOR’S MESSAGE

Beloved in Christ, In my last message I let you in on my planning for the effects that my upcoming parental leave will have on the parish; how Masses would be covered, my availability, etc. In this message I’d like to share some of the ways I’m planning for the effects our baby girl’s arrival will have on me. Why? Because there are no empty moments in our lives. God is always revealing something of himself to us so that we can know him more fully and experience his love more deeply. He wants that relationship to be personal and intimate, and so he does this in and through our own thoughts, feelings, and desires. No matter what our circumstances, then, the way we meet him is the same, so I hope that sharing this will help you make a similar connection. I’ll describe this as a kind of prayer with four actions because I think it’s helpful to see how they build on one another, but this isn’t really a formula. Prayer is about relationship and these are four aspects of that relationship that we have to actively practice and develop. The first action is to acknowledge what’s going on in our hearts. During big life transitions and events, this can be easier to identify, but usually if someone were to ask, ―How are you, really,‖ we’d have to stop and think about how to answer. Sometimes we really aren’t sure, but at other times we just don’t want to be honest about it, even with ourselves. Since the second action is to relate the content of our hearts to God, this is obviously a big problem. It’s a sure sign of our brokenness that often the parts of us that God most wants to heal are the parts we’re most reluctant to share. God wants us just as we are, not as we want to be, because that’s what allows us to receive him as he is, and not as we want him to be, which is the third action. When we’re only willing to receive the pleasant things that make us happy and comfortable, our lives will gradually fill up with dead-ends because the paths to them only go so far. If we truly receive God and all that he offers, we’ll find that there is joy and peace on the way of the cross, and that not even the grave is a dead-end. You can already tell that receiving God in this way invites us to respond, the fourth action. This may be sharing the joy at what God has touched in us, apologizing and reconciling the relationship, a simple act of kindness for a stranger. Though our responses can often seem small, as we make a habit of sharing our lives with God, we grow in sharing the divine life of the Trinity.

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RECTOR’S MESSAGE

Now, here’s a personal example from Everett’s arrival where you can see this in practice. Everett was a really easy baby, but not so easy that it was like he wasn’t there. My biggest struggle was that I couldn’t get him to sleep and, if I could, he would not nap for me like he would for (seemingly) everyone else. So while intellectually I knew that all children are blessed gifts from God, I was having a hard time experiencing that as a reality. Then one day, as I sat in the rocking chair with Everett, feverishly praying that he would remain asleep when I put him down in the crib and stay that way long enough to at least go to the bathroom in peace, I finally acknowledged my frustration, resentment, and impatience. I related it all to God and asked him for help reconciling how I felt with how I thought I was supposed to feel. Almost immediately, as if God had been waiting for me to ask, I received the sense that I’m no less trouble to my heavenly Father as a spiritual infant, and yet he loves me more than I could ever imagine because his love is never tainted or weakened by selfishness. Then came the realization that the more I’m able to set aside my own selfishness and love Everett (and all those around me), the more I’d taste that love God himself offers. My immediate response was joyful, thankful (and silent!) tears, but I can recount all of that because I’ve meditated on that grace in some way nearly every day since and it only gets deeper. Sarah and I are often asked if Everett knows what it means for him to have a baby sister, and our response is always that we don’t even know that! Daunting as that is, in planning for her arrival I’ve continued to meditate on the fact that in the midst of such a difficult time for me, God was waiting to make himself known in a profound and beautiful way through it. I’ve also been trying to cultivate a greater general awareness of God’s presence in my life, as well as times to intentionally seek it out. Whether you’re having a baby, running errands, or cleaning the bathroom, God is moving powerfully in your life. There is nothing about you that is unimportant to him and if we actively offer up the good, the bad, and especially the ugly, we will know that that’s true. In His mercy,

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August

PARISH CALENDAR OF EVENTS

1 Societies of Mary 11:00am All are welcome to join the Societies of Mary for their monthly day of devotion, beginning in the Chapel with Rosary at 11:00am with Mass to follow. After which we will adjourn to the Parish Hall for a potluck luncheon.

5 Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ (tr) Mass 9:30am

7 John Mason Neale, Priest, 1866 Morning Prayer 9:00am

Mass 9:30am

11 Clare, Abbess at Assisi, 1253 Mass Noon

Finance Committee Meeting 6:00pm

12 Jeremy Taylor Bishop of Down, 1667 (tr) Mass 9:30am

14 Feast of St. Mary The Virgin (tr) Morning Prayer 9:00am Mass 9:30pm

18 William Porcher DuBose, Priest, 1918 Mass Noon

Vestry Meeting 7:00pm


August (continued)


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21 Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1153 (tr)

Morning Prayer 9:00am Mass 9:30am

25 St. Bartholomew (tr) Mass Noon

28 Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 430 Morning Prayer 9:00am Mass 9:30am


September


1 Giles, Abbot in Provence, c. 708 Mass Noon

2 The Martyrs of New Guinea, 1942

Mass 9:30am

4 Paul Jones, Bishop & Peace Advocate, 1941 Morning Prayer 9:00am

Mass 9:30am

5 Societies of Mary 11:00am All are welcome to join the Societies of Mary for their monthly day of devotion, beginning in the Chapel with Rosary at 11:00am with Mass to follow. After which we will adjourn to the Parish Hall for a potluck luncheon.

7 Labor Day: Parish Office Closed

8 Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mass Noon

Finance Committee Meeting 6:00pm

9 Constance, Nun and her Companions, 1878 Mass 9:30am

13 Holy Cross Day (tr)

Low Mass 8:00am

High Solemn Mass 10:30am

September (continued)


15 Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mass 9:30am Vestry Meeting 7:00pm 16 Ninian, Bishop in Galloway, c. 430 Mass 9:30am 18 Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, 1882 Morning Prayer 9:00am Mass 9:30am 22 St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist (tr) Mass Noon 23 Our Lady of Walsingham (tr) Mass 9:30am 25 Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow, 1392 Morning Prayer 9:00am Mass 9:30am 29 St. Michael and All Angels Mass Noon 30 St. Jerome, Priest and Monk of Bethlehem, 420 Mass 9:30am

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Our Lady of Walsingham 1061 and 1921

COMMEMORATION

To the right of the lectern is a statue of the Blessed Mother and Child which has been recreated from the medieval seal of the priory in Walsingham, England. One Sunday after church, a visiting priest showed Father Tony the statue of the Blessed Mother and Child which had been in a church now closed. The priest thought All Saints’ would be a good new home for the statue. The 2004 8th grade graduating class of All Saints’ School raised $250 to purchase the statue and gave it as their class gift to the parish of All Saints’. Here is the story about how the shrine in Little Walsingham was created. In 1061 the Lady Richéldis de Faverches, lady of the manor of Little Walsingham, and a holy and devout widow, was granted a vision of the Holy Mother Mary. The vision occurred three times, and in the vision, the blessed Virgin took Richéldis in spirit to Nazareth and showed her the house in which the Holy Family

had lived. She told Richéldis to measure the dimensions of the Holy House and to build it as a chapel of Annunciation on the site which the Blessed Virgin would indicate. Legend has it that Richéldis didn’t know where to build the Holy House. One story tells that she awoke one morning to find two plots of ground free of dew. She took that as a sign, and started construction on one of the plots. But things did not go well, until one morning she woke to find the building had been moved to the other plot of ground. Another legend has it that a spring broke out of the ground in the center of the village of Walsingham. Richéldis also took that as a sign and built there a replica of the Holy House. This smaller wooden building measured twenty-three feet six inches by twelve feet ten inches.

Blessed Mother and Child reproduced from the depictions on the seal of the priory found in a local museum in Walsingham, England.

Before departing for the Crusades, Richéldis’ son, Geoffrey, placed his departed mother’s precious chapel in care of a priest-guardian. The shrine began to draw more and more visitors and pilgrims. The shine became internationally famous – second only to the Holy Lands, Rome and Compostella. Unfortunately, five centuries later, King Henry VIII gave the orders for the destruction of the shrine and in 1538, Protestant mobs attacked and destroyed the church and the shrine. The wood-carved statue of Our Lady and Child was burned in London at Smithfield. In 1921, Father Patten, the vicar of the small Anglican parish in the village of Walsingham, became interested in restoring the shrine. He found the seal of the priory in a local museum. Working with artisans, architects and ecclesiastical historians, the Holy House and the statue were reproduced from the depictions on the seal. The statue showed Mary seated on a high-backed throne, holding a lily as a scepter, with the Christ Child seated on her lap, holding a book of the Gospel in his hand. Now, four centuries after its destruction, pilgrimages to Walsingham are once again a regular feature of Christian life in the British Isles and beyond. If you wish to learn more about the present day shrine, visit www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/intro.htm From Holy Men and Holy Women by Fr. John-Julian, OJN

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http://www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/intro.htm

John Mason Neale 1818—1866

COMMEMORATION

John Mason Neale was born in London in 1818, studied at Cambridge, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1842. He was offered a parish, but chronic ill health, which was to continue throughout his life, prevented him from taking it. In 1846 he was made warden of Sackville College, a position he held for the rest of his life. Sackville College was not an educational institution, but an almshouse, a charitable residence for the poor. In 1854, Neale cofounded the Sisterhood of St. Margaret, an order of women in the Anglican Church dedicated to nursing the sick. Many Anglicans in his day, however, were very suspicious of anything suggestive of Roman Catholicism. Only nine years earlier, John H. Newman had encouraged Romish practices in the Anglican Church, and had ended up joining the Romanists himself. This encouraged the

suspicion that anyone like Neale was an agent of the Vatican, assigned to destroy the Anglican Church by subverting it from within. Once Neale was attacked and mauled at a funeral of one of the Sisters. From time to time unruly crowds threatened to stone him or to burn his house. He received no honor or preferment in England, and his doctorate was bestowed by an American college (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut). However, his basic goodness eventually won the confidence of many who had fiercely opposed him, and the Sisterhood of St. Margaret survived and prospered. Neale translated the Eastern liturgies into English, and wrote a mystical and devotional commentary on the Psalms. However, he is best known as a hymn writer and translator, having enriched English hymnody with many ancient and mediaeval hymns translated from Latin and Greek including Christ Has Made the Sure Foundation, Come Ye Faithful Raise the Strain, Jerusalem the Golden, Draw Nigh and Take the Body of the Lord. From James Kiefer’s BIO’s


By Rick Ochocki

TREASURER’S CORNER

Operating income was less than planned for the month of June, and expenses were greater than expected.

Actual Budget Difference Revenues $22,730 $25,047 $(2,317) Expenses $58,727 $41,192 $17,535 Key REVENUE deviations from plan were:

Current month pledges were $861 over plan Investment income was $4,973 under plan due to distribution timing

differences Key EXPENSE deviations from budget were:

Business expenses were $2,742 over budget (new telephone system)

Pastoral expenses were $18,910 over budget (2nd vesting of Fr McQueen’s housing allowance)

Totals through June: Actual Budget Difference Pledges $69,643 $68,290 $1,353 Total Revenues $151,217 $151,782 $(566) Expenses $215,042 $247,150 $(32,108) For the first six months of 2015, our deficit is $63,825


St. Cecilia and St. Ambrose

THE WINDOWS OF ALL SAINTS’

In this issue we continue our exploration of the stained glass windows at All Saints’ with four saints as they are depicted in the double windows on the south side of the Nave. We are grateful to Dr. Stephen Cox and Mr. John S. Gray III for their gracious permission to reprint excerpts and pictures from their books, Changing and Remaining: A History of All Saints’ Church and The Windows of All Saints’ respectively. (Both are available for purchase from the Parish Office.) St. Cecilia, patroness of church music, holds in her left hand the model of an organ. The subject of pious legends and romances, Cecilia died in the late second century or early third century. Her association with church music, particularly with the organ, is largely accidental. Early stories describe her singing in her heart to God, and by the time of the renaissance she is depicted as playing the organ. In the glass above the saint is a cauldron with a fire beneath it – a symbol of the attempt to suffocate her in the overheated bath of her house. That wasn’t actually her means of death, even mythologically, but the appearance of flame in a window dedicated to a virgin makes an interesting ironic contrast – which is carried forward in the next window. St. Ambrose (c. 340-397), bishop of Milan, is renowned as a scholar, preacher, pastor, and writer. He is esteemed as one of the four great ―doctors‖ or teachers of the Church. His theological writings provided a strong defense of the divinity of Christ and of the Holy Ghost. He was an influence on the conversion of his more famous contemporary, St. Augustine. Like St. Cecilia, he is strongly associated with church music: he emphasized the importance of hymns and composed them himself. Also like Cecilia, he was an exponent of the virtues of virginity. The emblem above him is a flaming heart, recalling the flames in the St. Cecilia window. The window depicts Ambrose as a calm, handsome man with eyes lowered in contemplation, holding a bishop’s crosier in his left hand. He is looking, however, in the direction of the flail that he holds in his right hand, emblematic of the penance he boldly imposed on the Emperor Theodosius for authorizing the massacre of 7,000 citizens of Thessalonica in retaliation for sedition in that city.

*All blue type indicates text from Dr. Cox’s Changing and Remaining (2011).


St. Patrick and St. Hilda

THE WINDOWS OF ALL SAINTS’

St. Patrick (387-461?), bishop and patron saint of Ireland, was born in Britain, the son of a Roman official. As an adolescent, he was captured, taken to Ireland, and enslaved. He escaped to Britain; then, inspired by a vision, returned to Ireland and set about converting its people to Christianity. The glass shows the saint with a shepherd’s crook in his left hand; his right hand makes the kind of gesture that people often make when engaged in reasonable argument. Above the saint are the crossed shepherd’s crooks, again symbolizing the bishop’s pastoral office. Before them is what has been called ‖the shield of faith emblazoned with St. Patrick’s own symbol of the trinity, the shamrock [which is simultaneously three in one], and the bishop’s mitre.‖ A shamrock also appears below, by St. Patrick’s left leg, conveying the obvious association with Ireland as well as with the Holy Trinity. St. Hilda (614-680). a member of an Anglo-Saxon ruling family, was converted to Christ at the age of 13. She devoted herself to the religious life and became famous for her wisdom and her skill in directing religious institutions. All who knew her called her ―Mother.‖ She founded and governed Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, the home of both monks and nuns. In the window, Hilda holds with her left hand a scroll with seal, while a dove prepares to alight on her right hand—symbols, presumably, of the influence of the Holy Spirit in person (the dove) and in Scripture (the scroll). Beside the saint’s right foot is a golden crown, apparently symbolizing, her abandonment of her secular heritage for the work of the church. Above her is a depiction of the Whitby Abbey, standing on the rock of Christ, on which the Church herself is founded

*All blue type indicates text from Dr. Cox’s Changing and Remaining (2011).


Baby Shower for Baby Girl McQueen - Photos by John Gray III

PARISH LIFE


Louise D. Lawson Joins All Saints’ Staff

PARISH LIFE

Father McQueen’s call to me on a June Friday afternoon was an answer to a prayer. Yes, I was interested in the position as Parish Administrator at All Saints’ Episcopal Church. Since my first day, June 22, the parishioners of All Saints’ have been most welcoming and supportive in my role as Parish Administrator, especially on the Sunday I attended the 10:30am worship service with my husband, Blair and friend, the Rev. Dr. Judith Allison. Your support of my future endeavors for the parish showed through your greetings and conversations during the Baby Shower for the baby girl McQueen. It was a heartwarming reception. What talents and experience do I bring to All Saints’? I was born and raised in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn New York where I attended Good Shepherd Lutheran Church – active in the church choirs, Sunday School and youth program. My college years were at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut where I majored in organ and voice graduating with honors. After graduation I worked in New York City for New York Life Insurance Co as a College Relations Assistant, continued with organ studies with John Huston and sang in the choir of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church and First Presbyterian Church where Blair and I were married. We moved to Connecticut where I was a systems engineer for IBM and then Software Developer and Consultant for our firm L.I.S. Associates. At the First Congregational Church in Washington, CT I was church soloist, substitute organist and involved in many volunteer activities – Church Moderator, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Steeple Rebuilding Committee, Chairman of the Pipe Organ Selection Committee and member of the pastoral Search Committee. We raised two daughters, Laura and Heidi. It was upon the insistence of Laura and her husband, Paul, that we moved to California to be with our grandchildren (which now number eight). We moved to California in the winter of 2003, settling in Scripps Ranch and joining St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Poway where I was their webmaster, member of the Coventry Choir, lector, and chalice bearer. It was as Assistant for Communications at St. Bart’s for the past 5 years that I honed my skills in communications – bulletins, weekly and monthly newsletters, creating brochures for church programs and concerts, publicity to newspapers, webmaster, etc. Thank you again for your warm welcome and I look forward to meeting more parishioners as the year progresses.


ALL SAINTS’ EPISCOPAL CHURCH 625 Pennsylvania Avenue

San Diego, CA 92103-4321 Phone: (619) 298-7729 Fax: (619) 298-7801

Email: [email protected] Website: www.allsaintschurch.org

Office Hours: Mon - Fri: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Rector: The Rev. J.D. McQueen II [email protected]

PARISH STAFF

Parish Administrator: Mrs. Louise D. Lawson [email protected]

Business Administrator: Mrs. Gayle Murken [email protected]

Organist & Choirmaster: Robert MacLeod

ALL SAINTS’ PRESCHOOL

3674 Seventh Avenue San Diego, CA 92103-4321

Director: Mrs. Renika Battles Phone: (619) 298-1671 www.sdallsaints.com

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