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TRINITY TALKTRINITY TALKTRINITY TALK December 2015

2400 N. Canal Street Orange, California 714-637-1390

The Rev. Jeannie Martz, Rector The Rev. Annie Calhoun, Associate Rector

email:churchinfo@trinityorange.org website: www.trinityorange.org

CHRISTMAS EVE

4:00PM FAMILY SERVICE WITH CHILDREN’S PAGEANT AND

HOLY EUCHARIST

7:30PM CANDLELIGHT SERVICE WITH MUSIC AND STRINGS

10:30PM CANDLELIGHT SERVICE WITH TRINITY CHOIR AND STRINGS

CHRISTMAS DAY

10:00AM HOLY EUCHARIST WITH CHRISTMAS CAROLS

SUNDAY DECEMBER 27, 2015

8:00AM HOLY EUCHARIST—RITE I

10:00AM SERVICE OF LESSONS AND CAROLS

It is the task of the iconographer to open our eyes to the actual presence of the divine. The icon is not an end in itself

but assists us in going beyond what can be seen with our physical eyes into the realm of a mystical experience. A

good icon is a work of beauty which bears witness to God. It is an instrument for the transmission of Christian faith

revealing truth beyond the reach of words and symbols like the language of the parables. Ludmila Pawlowska along

with other great artists, Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse and Warhol, to name a few, has used the icon as a source of inspira-

tion in an attempt to explain spiritual reality.

While looking at the icons, both traditional and contemporary, we realize that they are painted not for their lovely deco-

rative purpose but as a holy place to enter and stay within. Ludmila’s unconventional, abstract work intends to draw

the viewer into an encounter with the unknown and boundless deep. Recurrent images, such as her use of eyes,

painted differently each time, convey many meanings and are not exclusively religious nor are they always trustworthy.

The viewer might see that the eyes represent the universal symbol for watchfulness, mindfulness as well as compas-

sion. The bullets she has incorporated in her paintings, of course, can represent violence or even a way of crucifixion

in the contemporary world. The small figures found in several of her paintings may symbolize the displaced people

like those she knew as a child and even members of her own family who were being driven from place to place by po-

litical and economic forces.

Says Mila, as she prefers to be known, ”the icon tradition is very strict and prohibits any

transformation.” Her art is created in very much the same way that the old traditional icons

were. Both used carefully prepared wood as the basis for the paint. Both have many layers

of paint in which the same beautiful colors and luminosity are evident. Both create an inclu-

sive metaphor for spirituality and faith. Like the Gospel texts, icons aim to transform the

viewers, drawing them from away the ordinary to another more spiritual level of understand-

ing. They are Mila’s inspirational source.

Icons in Transformation

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From our Rector

………….The Rev. Jeannie Martz

“Could it be? Yes, it could. Something’s coming, something good, If I can wait! Something’s coming, I don’t know what it is, But it is Gonna be great! The air is humming, And something great is coming. Come on, deliver To me!”

So sings Tony in “West Side Story” – but it could just as easily be us, Trinity, singing because something great is coming our way too.

Tony’s anticipation, of course, led up to his meeting Maria, the Juliet to his Romeo. In our case, we’ll soon be meeting Ludmila Pawlowska, her husband Jan – and Mila’s Icons. (Be sure to read this issue’s cover article!)

To be honest, Anne Warburton, Trinity’s exhibition coordinator, and I have already met Jan, Mila, and the Icons. The exhibition is currently up in Riverside, co-hosted by All Saints, Riverside and the Riverside Museum of Art, and Anne and I were invited to attend their pre-opening gala on October 30 as the guests of the Rector of All Saints, the Rev. John Conrad. The gala began at the church and then shifted to the Museum.

(Half of the pieces on display are arranged and/or hung through-out All Saints’ nave, and half are in a standard rectangular white exhibition room at the Museum. The two locations are approxi-mately a five minute drive apart, although that can change with traffic and the lights, and parking at or around the Museum seems to notoriously bad.)

Anne and I arrived in Riverside curious, excited, and a little ap-prehensive, part of us still wondering if we could really pull off hosting the exhibition by ourselves. As I wrote later in an email to the members of our Icons Committee, “Anne and I came both came back inspired, energized, and with a whole new confi-dence that Trinity will shine as a host location.”

Continuing from my email, “(We also came back very glad that we’re a solo location because of convenience, and also because the difference between the overtly spiritual exhibition in the church and the consciously secular ‘artsy’ exhibition in the Mu-seum was palpable. The Museum location didn’t drain the Icons of their power, but it took them out of their context and neutered them a bit.)

“While All Saints has a much more traditional interior than we do – as well as more wall space along its side aisles, we’re still very comparable because we can work with our main display space in the same way (and we’ve got more of that space). We’re wid-er than they are, and I think longer too.”

“Doug [Knarr],” I wrote [Doug had gone to Riverside on a recon-naissance mission while they were still setting up], “I think when you were up there their pews were still bolted to the floor. What they did, and what we can do as well without the trouble of un-bolting and risking damage to the floor, is bring their altar down to the center of the nave and arrange the pews to face it on all four sides – worship ‘in the square’, so to speak.

This freed up their whole sanctuary area for display – and in fact, that’s where the big hanging pieces are.”

How totally cool is that?

Something big is coming to Trinity – and that something big, Icons in Transformation, will require the transfor-mation of our nave and the transformation of the Youth Center, because pieces will be displayed in both locations. The bulk of the exhibition’s time at Trinity will be the entire season of Lent 2016. Late January through late March – with the final day being the day after Easter.

The Icons will be with us for all of Lent.

The Icons will be with us for Easter Sunday.

Trust me – we will miss the Icons when they are gone.

Just as All Saints has done, we’ll make some physical changes in the nave to accommodate them while they’re with us. Move the altar? Maybe. Move pews? Definitely. Change the whole look of our worship? Yes, for a time.

Will we like the changes? Some of us, yes; some of us, no. (Kind of like using The Message translation of Scrip-ture during the summer – and potentially just as spiritually thought-provoking, if we can go with the flow!)

Early on, I had emailed the Rector of a host parish in Huntsville, Alabama, to ask him for any words of Icon wis-dom he might have. Even though he was on vacation, he texted back immediately to say that hosting Icons in Transformation had been a profound spiritual experience for the entire parish and the best thing they’d ever done.

(For a priest to text back while on vacation is huge.) (HUGE.)

Other host rectors questioned since have echoed this strong conviction. If we’re open to it, we’re about to jour-ney through Lent, through Holy Week, through the Great Vigil of Easter, and to the empty tomb on Easter Sunday in a whole new phenomenal way. (Come, Lord Jesus!)

But none of us has to wait for Lent; there are lots of ways to get involved starting right now: would you like to be a docent (talk to Lindsay Whipple) or a sponsor (talk to Susie White) for the exhibition? Are you in a position to be a corporate sponsor, or do you know someone who might be? Do you have friends who would like to be docents, or perhaps to arrange for a private tour for a group they be-long to? This is a ready-made program for any number of organizations!

Do you know someone who could help with our publicity? Who’s on your contact list?

Something’s coming, something good – and it’s going to be once-in-a-lifetime great!

As we begin a new church year and head into Advent, we can hear it on the wind: Icons in Transformation is coming to Trinity very soon.

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S.A.S. PROGRAMS

December, 2014

SAS PROGRAMS

December, 2015

December 1 – 11:00 AM HEIDI and JACK

CRABBS will share memories of their train jour-

ney this past summer to the beautiful CANADI-

AN ROCKIES. A POTLUCK LUNCH will follow

their presentation.

December 15 – 11:30 AM It’s a tradition! SAS

will enjoy Christmas Lunch at the OLIVE GAR-

DEN RESTAURANT, 2330 N. Tustin, at 11:30

AM. Please go directly to the restaurant and

please note the change in time.

A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW

YEAR TO ALL!

12/01 Patty Carlton 12/19 John McCulloch

12/02 Blake Kibby 12/21 Micki Ireland

12/07 Roy Wojahn 12/23 Jim Little

12/08 Richard Burnette Carys Elendu

Bob Sunshine 12/24 Pete Weidner

Karen Rodriguez 12/25 Priscilla Selman

Barbara Jensen Joe Donaldson

12/10 Charlie Wood Arianna Jaime

12/12 Doug Omer 12/28 Salina Morales

Edgar Dominguez 12/30 Lydia Waterson

12/15 Robert Bilodeau Chris Candela

Russ Higgins Alejandro Bulnes-Shaw

Ian Hicks 12/31 Rev. Jeannie Martz

12/18 Betty Johnson

12/11 Martin Miguel and Cheryl Sosa

12/18 Bill and Lynda Miller

12/18 Robert and Amy Morales

12/20 Alejandro and Shari Bulnes-Shaw

12/21 Jim and Betsy Little

12/28 Fred and Anne Warburton

The Book Club is taking December off for the holidays, but will re-

sume Saturday January 9th. The group will have a discussion on

the book A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson.

They meet in the library from 9:30am - 11:00am. Come join them for

a truly enjoyable morning, and some lively literary discussions. A

short synopsis follows:

BOOK STUDY

It is 1923. Evangeline (Eva) English and her sister Lizzie are missionaries heading for the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. Though Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, Eva's motives are not quite as noble, but with her green bicy-cle and a commission from a publisher to write A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar, she is ready for adventure.

In present day London, a young woman, Frieda, returns from a long trip abroad to find a man sleeping outside her front door. She gives him a blanket and a pillow, and in the morning finds the bedding neatly folded and an exquisite drawing of a bird with a long feathery tail, some delicate Arabic writing, and a boat made out of a flock of seagulls on her wall. Tayeb, in flight from his Yemeni homeland, befriends Frieda and, when she learns she has inherited the contents of an apartment belonging to a dead woman she has never heard of, they embark on an unexpected journey together.

A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar explores the fault lines that appear when traditions from different parts of an increas-

ingly globalized world crash into one other. Beautifully written, and peopled by a cast of unforgettable characters, the

novel interweaves the stories of Frieda and Eva, gradually revealing the links between them and the ways in which they

each challenge and negotiate the restrictions of their societies as they make their hard-won way toward home. A Lady

Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar marks the debut of a wonderfully talented new writer.

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DECEMBER OUTREACH CALENDAR

We wish to thank everyone for the support received for our re-cent Holiday Boutique; the Prop-erty Commission for setting up the Parish Hall, those who con-tributed to the bake sale, for the donated items for the Trinity sale

table, those who worked many hours creating craft items, our Outreach members for their endless hours, and all the shoppers that made the boutique a great suc-cess.

We raised approximately $2,800.00 to go to our local charities. Our sincere THANKS to you all.

Pat Higgins and Joan Greco.

Buddy Walk Wrap Up

Another great day at Angels Stadium with Rebecca’s Rebels at the 2015 DSAOC Buddy Walk. DSAOC Raised $160,000 and had 2300 walkers. Rebecca’s Rebels won the 2nd place award in fundraising with $9,000 and 2nd place for walkers with 73. We also won the 1st annual “Tres Herald” award for the most Corporate sponsors thanks to Trinity Episcopal Church - Outreach, Chambers, Noronha & Kubota and W. Robert Kelley Corp. Thank you for all of your support for our family. You guys Rock! The Mattson Family

12/07 Ingathering Sunday—Canned meat, rice and beans

12/28 Southwest Community Center

Attention Parents: Sunday January

10th at the 10am service will be Acolyte

Recognition. Please make sure your

Acolyte is in attendance so that we can

say a big THANK YOU!

ACOLYTE RECOGNITION SUNDAY

SUNDAY SUPPER FOR

JANUARY 3rd

2016

6 cans White Tuna in Water 4lb.2oz.

2 large jars Mayonnaise 64oz.

10 cans Tomato soup 50oz.

8lg. bottles of soda

6lg. bottles of juice

2 large box’s of Coco Mix

150 10oz Styrofoam Bowls (for soup)

100 10oz. cold cups

100 10oz. hot cups

50 Plastic Knives – Forks – Spoons

150 12 in. Heavy Duty Paper Plates

Pam Spray

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WORSHIP AND GIVING

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ATTENDANCE

11/01 207 $8,155

11/08 189 $9,118

11/15 172 $7,534

11/22 152 $4,097

The annual youth progressive dinner will be on Sunday December 20. All Trinity middle school and high school students and friends are invited. We meet at the youth center at 5:30pm then car-

pool to different houses for food, returning to church for a crazy gift exchange. We are finished at 9pm. Plan on joining us! Parents are needed to drive and join us along the way for food and fun. Please contact Rev. Annie with any questions, thank you!

Youth Group meetings

We will continue to meet on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 except for December 23 and 30 due to the holidays. Our first meeting of 2016 will be on Wednesday January 6.

ADVENT GIVING - Trinity Out-

reach supports Episcopal Relief

and Development during the Ad-

vent season with its Hope Chest

collections. Please pick up a card-

board Hope Chest from the back table of the Church and donate

to help a hurting world. Also Thanks to a group of generous do-

nors, any monetary donations including those through the Gifts for

Life catalog, made to ERD between October 30 and December

31 will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $750,000. To participate

in this matching gift challenge, and provide help for a hurting

world, go to www.er-d.org.

December 24 8:30am –12:00pm

December 25 Closed

December 28 8:30am -12:30pm

December 29 8:30am-12:30pm

December 30 8:30am-12:30pm

December 31 8:30am-12:30pm

January 1 Closed

HOLIDAY OFFICE HOURS

DON’T MISS OUR TRADITIONAL CHILDREN’S PAGEANT.

The pageant will take place at our 4pm service on Christmas

Eve. All children are welcome to participate in this festive oc-

casion. Please plan on joining us.

Living generously is a spiritual practice that helps us in-crease our trust in God. When we fully understand that all we are and all we have are gifts from God, then we can live into sharing these gifts with others. Generosity

takes courage and trust that there will always be enough. Our challenge may be the gap between what we think is enough (especially when we consider the consumerism and fear our society often promotes) and what actually is enough. The choice to live generously with our love, understanding, acceptance, for-giveness, time and money is a daily practice.

Thank you so much for your participation in our stewardship program this past month. Your financial commitment to Trinity helps us to maintain and increase our mission and ministry here in Orange. Thank you for submitting your financial commitment, this helps us budget for 2016. If you haven’t submitted your pledge card please prayerfully consider what you can do to support Trinity and get your pledge in as soon as possible. Thank you!

BLUE CHRISTMAS SERVICE

The holidays can be challeng-

ing, exhausting, and just plain

sad for folks who are dealing

with the pain of loss. To honor

our loss, on Wednesday, Dec. 16 we will

gather in the church at 7 p.m. for a service

of Scripture, prayer, and reflection, accom-

panied by music and a very special lighting

of the Advent wreath. If this time of year is

almost more than you can bear, please plan

on joining us.

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Confirmation

With

Bishop Diane

Jardine Bruce

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ST. PAUL’S SUNDAY SUPPER PROGRAM