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Trinity Cathedral

The Carillon for July 2014

The Carillon is the monthly newsletter of Trinity Episcopal

Cathedral

Sara Calkins, Editor

www.trinitysj.org

Dean’s Desk Page 2

Canon’s Corner Page 3

Hope With South Sudan

Internet Insights Page 4

Opportunities & Outreach Page 5

Celebrations! Page 7

Music Ministry

Internet Insights Page 8

Feasibility Study Report Page 9

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Trinity Cathedral Staff The Very Rev. David Bird, Ph.D.

Dean and Rector

Mr. Michael Joyce

Music Director

Ms. Heike Merino Cathedral Administrator

Mr. John Davis Sexton

Volunteer Staff

The Rev. Canon Randolf J. Rice, J.D.

Canon Residentiary

The Rev. Canon Lance Beizer, J.D. Canon Vicar

The Rev. Jerry W. Drino, D.D. Priest Associate, Sudanese Ministries

The Rev. Lee Barford, Ph.D. Deacon

The Rev. Penelope Duckworth

Stuart Johnson Artists in Residence

Mr. Paul Archambeault

Treasurer

Graciela Velazquez Coordinator for Latino Ministries

A Clean Sweep

Recently Trinity’s vestry asked whether there was a more church oriented way of analyzing the next steps for a parish other than SWOT (STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES, and THREATS).

There is. It is called SWEEP and has existed for more than twenty years. SWEEP

(SERVICE, WORSHIP, EVANGELISM, EDUCATION, and PASTORAL CARE) is an excel-lent way of looking at the overall purpose and program of a church.

Thus under service we would list all of the various ways in which we serve the com-munity, e.g., feeding programs going out from the church; the groups we house in the church, such as Scouts and 12-step programs. How do we evangelize? Is it by

bringing people into the church? Is it by getting names of people and being along-side them in coffee hour? Do we concentrate on our jobs or own friends at the

church rather than greet the new, the lonely or the lost? What are our education programs and opportunities? There are our Sunday school programs; our midweek classes; catechism classes after the 12.30 service, but what should we add? Then

we add Pastoral Care which surely is much more than the work done by the clergy. The lay eucharistic ministers going out with communion are not just extending our worship. They are also making the pastoral contact with people who cannot get to

church. In the same way a few faithful volunteers go to particular shut in members and convey the pastoral heart of the parish in their work.

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July 2014

Trinity

Episcopal Cathedral

“A place at God’s table for everyone”

Diocese of El Camino Reál

The Right Reverend Mary Gray-Reeves, Bishop

Dean’s Desk

Trinity Cathedral Established 1861

81 N 2nd Street, San Jose CA 95113-1205

24-hour phone 408 293-7953 Fax 408 293-4993 E-mail: trinicat@pacbell.net Web site: www.trinitysj.org

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One variation of the expression that behind every good man

stands a good woman, at least the one that comes most readily to my mind, is that behind every

good man stands an even better woman. Today we celebrate the life of a woman, Macrina, who is

in a very special category indeed, since she was the sister and mentor to two of the most

extraordinary men in Christian history—both theologians and bishops—and, to put icing on this particular cake, a third brother who also became a bishop, Peter of Sebaste.

The two more famous brothers were Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, for whom a San Francisco parish is named. Together with their long-time friend, Gregory of

Nazianzus, they were the primary creators of the formula-tion of the concept of the Trinity that was codified in the

Nicene Creed, and consequently used throughout Chris-tendom to this day to set forth the Church’s beliefs.

Although the creed is named for the Council of Nicea, the designation is a bit misleading, since, although the council was called by the Emperor Constantine in 325 AD in order

to determine the doctrines that were necessary to define our religion, controversy swirled around the Christian

world for years after the council over the exact relation-ship of God the Father and Christ the Son. In fact, it was-n’t until after blood was actually shed that the issue was

finally settled at the Council of Constantinople in 381. And it was the work of Basil, who was dead by the time of the

latter council, and of the two Gregorys, that formed the basis for the orthodox Christian understanding that the Son is distinct from, but not less than, the Father, and

that, together with the Holy Spirit, they live as the undi-vided and co-eternal Trinity that makes up the one God of us all.

But who is this woman, Macrina, whose life we com-

memorate in this month’s column—the woman who stood behind the theologians whose work on the Trinity was so crucial to the development of Christianity? She

was the oldest of ten children, born in 327 AD into a Christian family in Cappadocia, a province in what today is Turkey, a mostly rural and often desolate area that has

been compared with Nevada. Despite the general poverty of the area, this family was well off, the father being a

lawyer and orator. When she was twelve, her parents be-

trothed her to a young man with good prospects, himself intending to become a lawyer. He died before the mar-

riage, however, and Macrina decided then never to marry, but to remain celibate and to devote herself to the care of her younger siblings, while herself living a basically

religious existence. What we know of Macrina’s life comes entirely from two

works by her brother Gregory. He tells us that she was both beautiful and brilliant, and that she had a strong

sense of what was truly important in life. As time passed, however, and as her siblings grew up—one, Naucratius, died unexpectedly, and then their father also died.

Macrina began to take over the parental role as source of mentoring and advice for the others. For example, when Basil returned from Athens, to which he had gone to

study rhetoric and oratory, puffed up with his new-found skills, and full of ambition for wealth and prestige,

Macrina managed to take him down a few pegs and actu-ally to persuade him to devote his life, as she had, to a monastic, contemplative life—from which, of course, he

would later be called to the episcopate so that he could use his considerable talents on behalf of his religion rather than for self-aggrandizement. Of equal importance,

she was able to persuade her mother that they should give up their wealthy lifestyle and establish a community

where women could live a communal, monastic life filled with contemplation and prayer.

Indeed, it’s pretty clear that the success of all three of her brothers who became bishops very much depended on

Macrina’s insistence that they devote their lives to their church rather than to themselves. Her consistent advice, counsel and theological insight were of utmost impor-

tance to their success—and to the eventual stability of orthodox Christianity. Yet, throughout her life, Macrina chose to remain within her monastic community, and

even assisted Basil and Peter to write a rule for monastic life that served as one of the bases for the more famous

rule of St. Benedict in the following century. Macrina’s mother died in 373, and then brother Basil died

in 379, still a couple of years before the Council of Con-stantinople, and finally this marvelous woman herself, having given away all her possessions, and weakened by

hard living and illness, herself died just nine months after her brother. Gregory tells of his visit to her deathbed,

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Canon’s Corner

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Hope With South Sudan

Soccer for Peace/Volleyball for Peace

What is the passion we see swirling around the world as millions are glued to their TV sets watching the “Beautiful Game?” This phenomenon is as real in San Jose as it is in

Sao Paulo. But it is also real in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya where the only real outlet for tens of thousands of

youth is soccer or volleyball. In March, Hope With South Sudan invited Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves to underwrite the participation of Michael Puot Rambang at a trauma heal-

ing, peace and reconciliation weeklong training at Ka-kuma Refugee Camp. Michael is a university journalism student in our program living in Nairobi, and the brother

of Angelina Rambang of Trinity.

A vision came to Michael during the training: what is needed is a soccer tournament for young people where the teams would be a mix of players from different

tribes. They would have training in peace and rec-onciliation before the games and then would be encouraged to participate as peacemakers back in

their own communities.

Michael’s vision took hold and now it has been expanded to include young women in a volleyball tournament. All of this will be a part of the Ka-

kuma Institute for Peace, a coalition of pastors from all of the tribes in the refugee camp with a

population of 133,000. HWSS is a partner in this effort and is proud that Michael represents the fruition of so many donors over the past eleven

years who have invested in the future of South Sudan through education of some of the most needy children.

UN Sponsorship Sought

Through the Office of Global Relations of the Epis-copal Church, the staff liaison with the UN is seek-ing UN recognition and sponsorship for the program. We

are likewise seeking sponsorship with the Anglican Net-work for South Sudan and the American Friends of the Episcopal Church in Sudan/South Sudan. We have re-

ceived the endorsement of the dioceses and bishops of El Camino Real and Olympia (Western Washington State).

You can help: Donate directly to HWSS: “Sports for Peace” either by check or on line through PayPal at

www.hopewithsouthsudan.org You can help connect us

with local youth soccer or volleyball teams to invite them to join in this concrete effort to build peace. If you have

contact with the San Jose Earthquakes or university teams, call or email us and make an introduction that we can follow up on.

We are so thankful to everyone who has been so suppor-tive of the students of HWSS and hope that you rejoice in

this opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of thousands of young people

Thank you

Fr. Jerry Drino

Founder, Co-chair Hope With South Sudan jdrino@hopewithsouthsudan.org

408-806-4506

www.hopewithsouthsudan.org

Children in Kakuma Refugee Camp (Photo by Bol Deng Bol, Ex Dir. HWSS)

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Opportunities and Outreach

Good Will, Good Works—Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in San Jose 1861-2014

Culture Heritage Center of the

Martin Luther King, Jr. Library 150 E. San Fernando Street from June 24 to August 31.

The exhibition opens June 24, 2014 at the Culture Heri-tage Center. An opening reception will be held on July 2nd from 1 to 3 p.m. The Very Rev. David Bird, Dean and

Rector of the Cathedral, will informally discuss the past and present links with San Jose at the event. “Good Will, Good Works—Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in San Jose

1861-2014” will be on display until August 31.

A special note of thanks goes to Jean Libby for her tireless work to put up the exhibit on Trinity Cathedral at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library.

Lunch for People Who are Homeless For the first of two meals in June, 12 volunteers gathered on Saturday morning to make and serve a lunch to resi-

dents of both the Cecil White Cen-ter and the nearby Julian St. Inn.

We served a resident favorite; pasta with meat sauce, garlic bread, and green salad, along with

milk and juice, ice cream sundaes, and an assortment of pies and fruit.

A special thank you goes to friend

of the parish, Ben White, who

acted as lunch coordinator. As all good leaders do, he jumped in and went right to work; first on the meat for

the sauce, slicing open the packages and breaking up the very cold meat and later, washing and slicing stalks of cel-ery for the meat sauce.

Many thanks go to Leslie Barr for her menu idea and to Erin McCauley, who shopped for all the groceries early in

the week and loaded them into the refrigerator for us to use on Saturday. (Thanks in advance to Lindy Hayes who

will do the shopping for next Saturday’s lunch at the San Jose Family Shelter.) Thank you to Darryl Parker who was our chef this morning. He slaved over the hot stove, cre-

ating the delicious meat sauce as well as the special garlic butter topping for the garlic bread.

Thanks to parishioner Roger Lobbes who got an early start and brought to boil the big pot of water for the

pasta. A big thank you goes to today’s new volunteer; Re-becca Singh, who has been attending the Brent Walters seminars at Trinity, saw a notice for the lunch, and de-

cided to help. She first worked with returning friend of parish, Steven Shortt, parishioner, Kimberly Fong (who

was one of three youngsters helping today), and Roger to produce a half dozen steamy and garlicky loaves of garlic bread. Later, Rebecca helped with prepping the veggies

for the salad. Thank you, once again, to Rick Hawes, for donating the

veggies for the salad, several jugs of juice, a big bag of oranges, apples, and bananas, and several fruit pies. He

also organized the salad-making activities, with parish-ioner Michelle Fong washing all the veggies, and friends of the parish Susan Parks, and Vivian and Philip Chu (the

other two youngsters) and their dad, Harrison, doing the slicing, dicing, and grating

Thanks again to Lucky supermarket, at the corner of Saratoga and

Pruneridge Avenues in Santa Clara, and especially managers, Andrew and Reuben, and bakers, Ernie,

Amina, and Sandy for their continu-ing support. They donated a dozen

loaves of hot and fresh French bread for our garlic bread and many mouth-watering cakes and

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I hope that what I have written above will give you some

ideas for thinking about both what we already do and what we also should be doing. It would be a great help to us if members and potential members would mull over

these categories and note down areas both in which you would like to serve or which you hope we might at some point address. It will help us prepare for our long range

plan and it will also greatly strengthen our stewardship.

There is much friendly disagreement in The Episcopal Church whether we should call it not SWEEP but SWEEPS, adding stewardship as a final category. I can

understand both sides of the argument. I realize that stewardship is essential to the life of the church, but I also believe the five categories we have listed are them-

selves the key components of stewardship. If we engage in them faithfully then the pledge of our time, talent and

treasure must surely come about. What do you think?

More importantly still, would you be willing to think through all these categories so that both our stewardship and our long range goals, which we need to forge, are

grounded in the essential marks of a living Spirit-filled church?

- David

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Dean’s Desk, continued

Canon’s Corner, continued

where she lay on just planks covered by a coarse veil. In

this work, titled “On the Soul and the Resurrection,” Gregory refers to her as simply “the teacher,” a title fre-quently given by his disciples to Je-

sus himself. “Basil, great among the saints, had departed from this life and gone to God, and all the

churches mourned his death,” he writes. “But his sister the teacher

still lived and therefore I visited her.” Gregory was, however, distraught to find her suffering greatly, and about

to die. Macrina let him shed his tears and then, as she was so used to do-ing for others, she comforted him,

reminding him of the hope of the Resurrection. She then died, he tells

us, in great peace. So here then is the story of this most

extraordinary woman, without whose life our religious convictions

may have turned out to be quite dif-ferent from our current idea of or-thodoxy. Macrina was a person seduced by desire nei-

ther for luxury and riches, nor for position and public recognition. She was Martha in the kitchen, a servant to

servants—in fact, the very model of Christian ser-vanthood—someone who truly understood Christ’s mes-

sage and worthy indeed of our rec-

ognition and thanks. - Lance

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Celebrations!

Randolf Rice 7/1 John Vandervort 7/3 Michele McCarthy 7/4 Sally Billstrom Schroeder 7/5

Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves 7/5 Barbara Robinson Inderbitzin 7/10 Mariette Franke 7/11 Heike Merino 7/12 Michael Bird 7/13

Shelley Kesselman 7/13 Patricia Sooy 7/16 Rev. Vern Jones 7/19 Cathy Cushman 7/20

Julie Pifer 7/21 Dorothy Smith 7/21 James Gibson 7/23 Alexandra Bird 7/23 Mary Ellen Hawkins 7/28

“O God, our times are in your hand: Look with favor, we pray,

on your servants as they begin another year.

Grant that they may grow in wisdom and grace,

and strengthen their trust in your goodness all the days of their lives;

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”

Deanna and Gary Hull 7/2 Shelley and Jeffrey Kesselman 7/4

Carol and Anthony Garcia 7/7 Mary and James English 7/11 Kathy Richmond and Scott Fosdick 7/14 Leslie and Dale Bailey 7/21 Ann and Lance Beizer 7/27

Happy Anniversary!

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Internet Insights

Since when do we have to agree with people

to defend them from injustice?

- Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984)

Summertime and the liturgies are easy! Nope, “that ain’t necessarily so!”

However, the choir which serves so faithfully each week and during holidays to make the liturgies come alive and elevate them to a higher plane of spirituality, is going to

take a bit of a break during July and August. During July, the choir will not meet on Wednesday eve-

nings as they do every week. They will meet a little earlier each Sunday before the liturgy. Then, during August, they

will take a break and maybe get away on the weekends. In their place, we hope to supplement the liturgies with talented soloists.

When we reconvene in the Fall, why not consider becom-ing a part of a wonderful group and enjoy making a

“joyful noise” before the Lord? Ladies, we really, really need you – we could do such wonderful literature if we

had a few more female voices to join our ranks. Consider joining us a putting us in your plans.

A little reminder about the combined effort to create a Junior Choir to enhance our worship from time to time. Ms. Alison Collins and our Music Director Mike Joyce

hope to undertake a combined effort to create a choir from young people in our parish. Initially, the rehearsals

should be on Sundays around noon and dismissing around 12:30pm.

Be sure to support some or all of the many concerts that are being held now at Trinity: The Winchester Orchestra

regularly concertizes three or more times per year; our Irish friends that are beginning to regularly hold programs

in our church. The Harp Guild of San Jose is presenting programs in the Cathedral as well--the June 2014 concert by the harpist, Noel Wan, was nothing short of remark-

able. Noel has received rewards for her harp-playing liter-ally from all over the world. She will begin attendance at Yale in the Fall.

We hope to be celebrate Evensong about six times a year

this coming season, so please look for announcements here and online. Special thanks to our chorister, Doug Woukon who will be organizing the music for these

events and thanks to the gentlemen who are giving their time to present these para-liturgies and help get the pro-gram off the ground.

Wishing you a terrific summer of rest, relaxation and re-

generation--keep on singing! PEACE!

Mike Joyce

Music Ministry

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Feasibility Study Report

From The Vestry, Trinity Cathedral June 18, 2014 Now that Trinity Cathedral has emerged successfully from a financial restoration plan, the Vestry felt that it was time for the parish to consider opportunities for addressing a variety of urgent needs and new opportu-nities for outreach. To this end, Trinity engaged the services of J.D.Klote and Associates, a respected church fundraising consultancy, to conduct a three-week assessment of the feasibility of undertaking a capital cam-

paign. The following executive summary outlines the findings described in Klote's report.

Trinity Feasibility Study: Executive Summary The Feasibility Study, performed over three weeks, in which the entire congregation was invited to partici-

pate, revealed that Trinity Cathedral, while having come a very long way in the last decade, does not cur-rently meet the four prerequisites for a successful campaign. These are Proper Timing, Appealing Case, Influ-

ential Leadership, and Constituency with Adequate Resources. Therefore, J.D.Klote & Associates could not recommend proceeding with a Capital Campaign at this time, but instead recommends that Trinity undertake a comprehensive Ten-Year Strategic Plan, solidifying its core foundation of Mission, Vision and Values — es-pecially Vision.

Between the impact of the proposed commercial and residential development on the property surrounding Trinity causing uncertainty about making any improvements to our facility, and the small number of volun-

teers who are able to make this campaign a priority for the next 10 weeks, the timing is clearly not the most opportune. Trinity’s needs are clear, and strong support for the needs is also clear. What is not clear is which of these needs might be covered by the developers and which needs Trinity will be faced with addressing on its own.

Influential lay leadership is critical and is present in Trinity, but, unfortunately, not ready or able to commit in the numbers needed at this time. The same can be said of the adequate resources. While the capacity to give seems to be present, the will to give is not widely present and that may well be due to the campaign plan not being defined in sufficient enough detail to win support.

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pastries. Another big thank you goes to Ben for arranging,

picking up, and delivering the baked goods. The next lunch will be held on Saturday, July 10, 2014.

About 10 volunteers are needed for this local mission ac-tivity so if your schedule allows please consider coming and helping. We meet to prepare lunch at 10:15 am in the

kitchen of the Parish Hall. No experience is required, just a desire to help those less fortunate than ourselves. There

is a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board in the Parish Hall. If you have any questions, please ask any of the volun-teers or Fr. Bird.

- Alan Fong

Acolytes and Ushers Urgently Needed

We are in need of acolytes and ushers to help at the Sun-day services during the 8:00 am (Ushers) and 10:30am (both) services. If you or your child (for acolytes boys or

girls, ages 9 and up), Ushers (ages 12 and up) is inter-ested in these fulfilling ministries please contact the office at trinicat@pacbell.net or 408-293-7953.

Support Trinity Cathedral

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the link provided and start supporting Trinity. http://smile.amazon.com/ch/94-1156841. Thank you!

Bible Workbench

Meetings are on Wednesdays from 10am to noon in the parish hall. Classes are ongoing and all are welcome. Fee

per unit is $10. Contact Jerry Drino at jdrino@sbcglobal.net for more

information.

We are looking for pictures and videos of

Trinity’s Talent Show

Thanks to all of you who attended and participated in "Trinity's Got Talent". We had many great compliments

on the show, and it was a great success. It is amazing how much talent we have at Trinity! Based on all of the posi-tive feedback, we will try to make this an annual event, so

start thinking about ideas for next year. If any of you have good pictures from the show please

send them to Heike in the office (trinicat@pacbell.net) so that we can try to get them on the website.

- Diane Bird

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Opportunities and Outreach, continued

One day a boy and his grandparents came to visit the 150-year-old church, a national

landmark. As they toured the church, the grandfather was explaining some of the fea-

tures, and the boy listened attentively. Then they reached the confessional in the back.

"I know what this is!" the boy said excitedly, turning to his grandfather. "This is time out,

isn't it?"

Room for Humor!