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used, should we pay off the deficit all at once, how is the operating budget different from a bequest, what percent of our budget do we pay to the Diocese? And, especially, how can we maintain our second clergy, to continue the solid work he has done building the

Newcomers Committee, Family Ministry, and Childcare, especially since the future of St. Mark’s is in families and children? (To join the Clergy Fundraising Committee, contact Alexis.rockstar@gmail.com). It was also evident in questions and suggestions on how

to make St. Mark’s more active and bring more people to the church, a question that is brought up every year.

We have new a new Interim (Rev. Michael Hiller), a lot of healing to do, and new members on the Vestry (Evelyn Larsen, Sterling Hada, Fran Carlson, and Phil Caruthers) who lead us. May God bless us all going forward and may the Holy Spirit guide us in finding ways to communicate as one body. Perhaps we can find time to have further congregational discussions so that all of us feel we belong and are heard. X

by Meg Gentes

The 2016 Annual Meeting revealed more than accounting and the valuable work of volunteers in many aspects of church life. It showed that St. Mark’s has not only been in transition or, actually, transformation,

over the past several years, it has made a new start in many areas. In concrete ways, a new understanding of inclusivity, expressions of trust and support among congregants, and a renewal of ministries that look to the future were cultivated. Many people were acknowledged for their gifts and called to participate in new ways and to find the love of Christ in themselves and others. This was a phenomenal kind of growth not measurable by the financial accounts statement or bland rhetoric.

The elephant is still in the room, but an attempt at a deeper questioning was made at the meeting. It came out in the discussion on leadership: where are we going, what should we be trying to do, what should we participate in? We heard it in questions of finance and allocation of funds: how is St. Mark’s money being

For an electronic copy of the 2015 Annual Report, contact office@stmarksberkeley.org.

P a r i s h i o n e r s packed the seats on 1/31 for a s t a t e - o f - t h e -church update from St. Mark's leadership.(Photos by Jerry Walker)

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On Sunday, January 17, 2016, the parish of Santiago de Jerusalén will gather for their annual meeting.  After a hearty breakfast, they will settle in to plan the course they will follow through

the upcoming year.  Father Michael Salanic will lead the discussion, but counts on leaders from the congregation to emerge.  He and I have had several discussions on this topic and how St. Mark’s, via the Deacon’s Discretionary Fund and my energy, can support the hopes and dreams of the parish.  We’ve come to the conclusion that a pre-school at this point is a greater dream than we can realize and that perhaps we should consider building steps to that goal.  Beyond that, we are a bit vague on the specifics.  I feel strongly (and I hope I represent your opinions ) that the path and its details should be determined by the parish and that we should support them in their goals.  Right now, Father Miguel and I are in one of those verbal skirmishes reminiscent of contretemps with my siblings:  “No, you say first!”

In my mind is the potential for a “Centro de Reforzamiento,” essentially a study hall staffed by a paid teacher/director, who would provide remedial help to students.  Here in Guatemala there are three school sessions per day: morning, afternoon, and evening.  Students chose one of the three, and if the center were open from mid-morning to mid-afternoon, regardless of their schedules, all students would have access to the services.  Part of my dream is to provide a free lunch during the crossover hour.  For about 75 cents per student per day we could provide what is essentially a banquet for these youngsters:  tortillas, beans or rice, a bit of protein (egg or chicken), a fruit or vegetable, and clean water to drink.  Hunger and nutrition are significant issues here.  St. Alban’s Mission, the English-language parish in neighboring Antigua, has expressed interest in supporting a project such as this and might provide some of the needed tables and chairs.

Please send your thoughts and feedback to me at  phyllismanoogian@yahoo.com and follow my updates on Facebook. X

Annual meeting2016 GUATEMALAby The Rev. Deacon Phyllis Manoogian

At the annual meeting on Sunday I was pleased to announce that the Interim Search Committee had recommended, and the Vestry had enthusiastically approved, the Rev. Michael Hiller’s

appointment as Interim Rector.  Michael was Interim Rector here at St. Mark’s after Robyn Clark retired 11/10-11/12.  Michael will start the first Sunday of Lent.  Below is a short bio.

A native Angelino, Michael T. Hiller spent his childhood living in the west where his father, a Lutheran Pastor, served congregations in California, Colorado, and New Mexico, and taught at St. John’s

College in Kansas.  Following in the family tradition of priestly service, Fr. Hiller studied at St. Paul’s College, Concordia, Missouri; Concordia Sr. College, Ft. Wayne, Indiana; and at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri.  Ordained in 1971, he then served at The Lutheran Church of the Way in Taunton, Massachusetts (LC-MS), at The Lutheran

Church of Saint Ambrose (ELCA) in Pennsville, New Jersey, and then at Saint Francis Lutheran Church (ELCA) in San Francisco.  While serving at Trinity Episcopal Church in San Francisco, he was received as a priest of the Diocese of California in 2008.  Fr. Hiller is just completing a term as Interim Rector at Saint Mark’s Church in Santa Clara, California.  Fr. Hiller is the author of a blog on the lectionary, “Break Open the Word”, that can be found at http://www.breakopenword.blogspot.com.

Fr. Hiller lives with his husband, Arthur M. Morris III, in San Francisco. His daughter, Anna Hiller, also lives there with her husband, Mark Pritchard. X

The Rev. Michael Hiller

top vestry actionsby Bruce Alexander

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To help us initiate planning for the end of life, two adult forums were held in November. The first focused on the legal steps recommended to ensure that our preferences for care at the end of life are

respected. Without advanced planning we are not ensured that our wishes are known to our families and health care team. A simple fall or an illness could suddenly make it impossible to get to the bank or a notary.

On November 15, Bonnie Bishop, an elder lawyer, explained the legal forms we need to facilitate a peaceful end of life, such as Advanced Directives, POLST, Power of Attorney for Health, and Financial Care. With an example of the Uniform Statutory Form Power of Attorney, she advised us to review our legal forms every ten years as circumstances and legal forms change. She suggested we keep a card version in our wallet and a copy on the refrigerator. Another example of when a power of attorney may suddenly be needed could be on admission to a nursing home for rehabilitation. Legal evidence of the individual responsible for health care decisions and payment may be required in case an individual becomes unable to take action for her/himself.

The second forum, on November 22, broadened the discussion of steps necessary to prepare for the end of life. Circumstances that make us more vulnerable as we age include living alone; being unable to drive; difficulty seeing, hearing or walking; declining health; and reduced social support and regular “family” visits. Initiating discussion on EOL planning can be facilitated by starting with an expression of love and sharing worries about how the individual is coping. Asking broad questions about what the physician has explained regarding a family or friend’s illness may be a non-threatening bridge to discussing their worries.

Affirming an individual’s worth and independence can facilitate discussion of organizing caregiving, locating important papers and photos, and funeral planning. Our discussion touched on understanding choices about illness and

treatment, the difference between palliative care and hospice, and spiritual challenges that accompany aging and illness. .

Additional information and examples of helpful resources are available on the counter in the northeast corner of the library. X

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Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness by Juan de Flandes

ASH WEDNESDAYLENT

You Are Invited to the Observance of holy Lent

Ash Wednesday, February 10, 2016Liturgies and imposition of ashes will be offered at

7:30 a.m. (chapel), 12:10 p.m. (chapel) and 7:30 p.m. (church)

At the evening liturgy the choir will offer:Imposition of ashes: Miserere me, Deus - AllegriAnthem: Call to Remembrance, O Lord - Farrant

Service: Mass for Four Voices - ByrdMotet: Emendemus in melius - Byrd

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Every Sunday in Lent, those interested are welcome to join us in discussing Sally Vickers' novel  Miss Garnet's Angel,  which recounts a British school teacher's trip to Venice to celebrate her retirement.  She is

a "fallen away" Anglican, having been put off by the religious instruction of her childhood, and has lived her life in a very secular environment, but her stay in Venice confronts her with some remarkable "spiritual" (unexplainable) experiences.   Her story intersects/resonates in a number of ways with the story of the Book of Tobit.  The book's chapters in fact alternate between her story and the author's remarkable retelling of the Book of Tobit.   Vickers challenges us to consider the strange ways in which God's/angelic presence may irrupt into our contemporary (highly secular) lives.   She also recognizes that our contemporary responses to such irruptions may not reflect either clear understanding or traditional piety   — that we are as complex as the world we live in, and that God's "angels" have to cope with that complexity.

The group, led by Judith Berling, will meet in the basement classroom, between services, at 9:00 AM, beginning on February 14. Depending on interest, there may be an additional time during the week. Books are readily available at a discount through Amazon.com. If you prefer, you can contact the Rev. Stephen Trever at Stephen@stmarksberkeley.org and he will organize a group order. Ten copies of this book will be available at Pegasus Books on Solano Avenue. at a 20% discount starting on February 5. X

Lenten Book group

Miss Garnet’s Angel by Sally Vickers

Do not let us forget the real object of our

fast. We deny ourselves to subdue our bodies, so that our spiritual life may increase.

We fast that we may be s t r o n g e r

to fight against our besetting sin, our bad habits, and faults.

If you do not know, find out at once what is your

besetting sin, i.e., the sin you most frequently commit; fight hard against it, and pray for the opposite virtue every day.

--E.F. PembertonSome Thoughts About Lent

For Busy People

J.S. Bach:  Concerto in A minor, BWV 593Olivier Messiaen: Livre du Saint Sacrement:  Institution de l'Euchariste Arvo Pärt: Annum per Annum Janet Linker (b. 1938):   Variations on O Waly WalyBach: O Lamm Gottes Unschuldig, BWV 618 and Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist,  BWV 671.   

Canon Dr. Robert L. Bozeman is Cathedral Musician at Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, Kentucky, and Artistic Director of Cathedral Arts.  Dr. Bozeman is a “Bones for Life® teacher and creator of “Better Movement: Better Music,” working with musicians in the area of somatic education (learning through the body), assisting his students to move in ways that make their goals achievable, with ease.   

Canon Bozeman earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree (DMA) in organ performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. There, he was a teaching assistant, studying organ with Roberta Gary and harpsichord with Vivian Montgomery. His research topic “Gesture, Movement, and the Keyboard Performer” received a grant from the University of Cincinnati Graduate Research Council, funding research of the project and the subsequent video related to the project. Other grants for his work have been funded by the Tangeman Sacred Music Center (Cincinnati) and the Christ Church Cathedral (Indianapolis) Episcopal Church Women.     He directed and produced An American Evening, a CD recording of music by American composers and a second choral recording Lux Aeterna: Eternal Light.   He received the Master of Music degree from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Conservatory of Music, studying with John Ditto, and the Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Oklahoma. He performs as an organist, pianist, harpsichordist, and conductor. For more information about him and his work visit www.robertbozeman.com. X

The 30th season of the Second Sunday Evensong/Organ Recital continues at St. Mark’s, Berkeley, on Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 5:30 p.m.  St. Mark’s Schola Cantorum will offer Evensong followed

by a recital offered by Robert Bozeman. This day being the first Sunday in Lent, Canon Bozeman will perform the following pieces.

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Robert bozemanEvensong & ORGAN recital:

Robert Bozeman

by George Emblom

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Hugs & RosesSunday, January 10, was the Rev. Coryl Lassen's last day at at. Mark's. Both coffee hours became farewell

parties where congregants said goodbye with food, words, roses, and hugs. Pictured below with Corrie (left to right, top to bottom): Sue Diehl, Bob Kolenkow, LeRoy Howard, Frank Brown, Jeff Armbruster, Dana Buntrock, Kathi Day, and the Rev. Stephen Trever. (Photos by Diana Blackwell.)

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by Liz Charlton

Hot MealsReport

Hot Meals needs your help! Hot Meals for the Hungry is St. Mark's oldest person-to-person ministry of hospitality to the needy. This ministry is at a turning point with the departure of Charlotte

Blackmer, our long-time executive coordinator and super cheerleader. St. Mark's supports Hot Meals financially through an annual offering and by greatly welcomed individual donations throughout the year. What we need now are hearts and hands. We suffered the loss of several senior volunteers last year; your participation is needed to help us move forward.

We have opportunities for experienced cooks and food shoppers to learn (or practice) how to buy food for and cook for a crowd. However, non-cooks should know there is plenty of work for them. Are you a friendly, hospitable person? The people walking through our doors need that as much as they need the hot meal. Do you need some young people in your life to give you hope for the future? We’ve got an amazing community of volunteers and most of them are between 12 and 25. And we have a number of administrative tasks, many of which don’t require regular attendance on meal days.

If you would like to discuss how your gifts and skills might mesh with Hot Meals' needs, email Liz Charlton at hotmeals@stmarksberkeley.org or call her at (925) 280-1671.

There is a place and a purpose for everyone at Hot Meals. We need your help. X

by Diana Blackwell

Editor'sNoteFarewell, Nigel!Welcome, Marguerite!

Charlotte Blackmer

After five years of copyediting and proofreading the Lion, Nigel Renton is stepping

down. Nigel is turning 89 and says he prefers to leave "while still at the top of my game." Nigel’s skill, reliability, and gentlemanliness have made him a pleasure to work with. He will certainly be missed here at the Lion.

Fortunately, St. Mark’s also enjoys the presence of long-time congregant Marguerite Judson, who has graciously agreed to become our new copyeditor/proofreader on a trial basis, starting with the March issue. Marguerite has done writing and editing for years in her work as a journalist, banker, and marketing/fundraising director of non-profits. She writes "I'm honored by the invitation and delighted to have a way to help St. Mark's remotely while  my field education courses  at CDSP keep  me at other congregations." We at the Lion are honored by her acceptance and can’t thank her enough.

The Lion distribution team still needs additional help in mailing out the Lion every month. It's easy work and a great opportunity for conversation. For more details, or to volunteer, please contact the

Parish Office or speak to Marjorie Pettyjohn at coffee hour.X

Nigel Renton

Marguerite Judson

plan is still largely the same, as one can learn by going to the web site of the present-day incarnation of the organization, the Scripture Union International (now spread to 130 countries around the world): a five-year reading of the Bible, with only ten to twelve verses a day. Now, of course, the readings and commentary on them, together with study helps, are all available in print, “delivered to your home,” or on Kindle, as well as on an eBook and via a daily email.

But in 1911 and ’12 parishioners had to make do with their little card, which further encourages them to read God’s Word “thoughtfully and with

prayer. Before reading ask God to prepare your mind and soul for a spiritual understanding of His Message. These readings will not take over three minutes [!]. They may be used for Family Worship as well as for Individual Study.”

The text goes on to assure the reader that “The Clergy hope that each card will be kept in regular use. Private devotional habits will mean much for the strength of the Parish. It is only upon such foundations that a solid Church can be built.” Surely present-day clergy (and parishioners) would agree, perhaps a bit wistfully? And in the last paragraph, it seems easy to discover the ancestor of our contemporary Bible study group: “Once a month in each congregation there will be short meetings at which the readings will

be discussed and questions answered. Watch for the announcements.” The remaining inside page helpfully lists “Suggestions for Private Devotion (These are only suggestions not rules).” And it provides a “suggested" weekly prayer scheme, covering not only all members of the Scripture Union “scattered in many lands,” but also many other individuals and entities, such as “the Bishop of the Diocese,” “those in doubt,” “all educational efforts,” and even—hallelujah!—on Saturday, “the choirs and Sunday School teachers.” —Who could ask for anything more? X

After the sweet treats of our New Year’s column, readers are doubtless eager for us to return to our customary sober consideration of Important Historical Matters. So it is that we take up the last

of the duplicate material from the Edward L. Parsons papers returned to St. Mark’s archives from UCB’s Bancroft Library. These two small folders appear to indicate that, from 1909 (and possibly before, though there’s no evidence for that) and continuing for at least five years, there was a serious parish endeavor to encourage the daily reading of Scripture. To see this with some perspective, we must remember that the Forward Movement, with its published daily Bible passage and commentary, with prayers, widely circulated in the church, has only been operative since 1935, following action by General Convention the previous year, in part exactly to address the need for wide-spread personal scriptural study.

The illustration shows the cover of the member’s card, measuring only three inches by six and folded in three, for 1912; it is nearly identical to that of the previous year, which we also now possess. The three inside pages present the reading scheme for the year. The back cover informs us that “The Parochial Scripture Union is part of a world-wide Scripture Union, which began in 1879 … . Beginning in England the Union has spread over all the world: the readings on this card are printed in 40 languages … . We learn that the reading course “takes the Members throughout the Scriptures in five years; 1912 is the third year of the present course [this is why we surmise that the effort may have lasted for at least another two years]. “Two Gospels are read each year. With few exceptions the whole of the New Testament is read. While from the Old Testament only the more edifying parts are chosen.”

Although the reference to the “more edifying” OT texts is missing, the other information regarding the

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by Len Retrospectans

The Lion Looks Back

The Scripture Union (1909 - ?)

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Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour

POEISISFrom Lewis Brown

Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good. This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous. It is in that thought that we collect ourselves, Out of all the indifferences, into one thing: Within a single thing, a single shawl Wrapped tightly round us, since we are poor, a warmth, A light, a power, the miraculous influence. Here, now, we forget each other and ourselves. We feel the obscurity of an order, a whole, A knowledge, that which arranged the rendezvous. Within its vital boundary, in the mind. We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Note: If we can imagine God is that not enough? Isn’t that God’s intervention? We only know what we think we know. The blessing is in the thinking. X

Nancy Ditzler, Pleasanton

Occupation:Retired elementary school teacher and Alameda County Social Worker

Interests, hobbies: Urban education, gardening, Cal women's basketball and tennis, ping-pong

Most people don’t know that:I am an Oakland native and would like to see Oakland the city it could be

What I like best about St. Mark’s is:St. Mark's has been my spiritual home since 1950 when I entered the University. Mary Mcwilliams and I were confirmed by the Rev. Walter Williams in 1954. Hugh and I were married by the Rev. Walter Williams in May 1954. Our four children were baptized at St. Mark’s by the Rev. George Tittmann. The caring parishioners, our beautiful music, and Corrie’s sermons are favorites

Favorite TV show, movie, book:TV: BooknotesBooks: I just finished reading The Promise by Oral Lee Brown, an East Oakland education philanthropist. I also enjoyed The Power of One

General Comment:Thank you for the Communication Committee. The Lion and the Cub keep me well informed. For several years I enjoyed working with Vanessa on duplicating the Lion  X

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1 Annual Meeting 2016 2 Top Vestry Actions 2 Annual Meeting 2016 Guatemala 3 End of Life Forums 4 Ash Wednesday 5 Lenten Book Group 6 Music Ministry 7 Hugs & Roses 8 Hot Meals Report 8 Editor's Note 9 The Lion Looks Back10 In the Spotlight10 Poesis 11 February Calendar MORE!