Big Thank You to April and Dwight Bond for the Wine Tasting and Architectural Tour!
It was a great event and a great turn out for the Wine Tasting and Architectural Tour as one of our activities to celebrate Church of the Angels 125th Anniversary. This was the brainchild of Dwight and April Bond who secured the wines for us to sample as well as having made a special label for our own bottle of Chardonnay . April and Dwight also did the setup and provided snacks for everyone as well. It was a big job. We had a large group of people and everyone had a great time. We sold quite a bit of wine, but we still have several cases of our own private label and these are available for sale. The price per bottle is $25.00. They will be available on Sundays and at the Parish Dinner at the end of September.
Our Final Celebration for our 125th Year.
Evensong and Parish Dinner
Sunday, September 28, 4:30 p.m.
We will close out our 125th Year with a special Evensong and Parish Dinner on Sunday September 28. This is one day before St. Michael and All Angels Day which is September 29 and was the day in 1889 when the construction of Church of the Angels was completed.
Evensong: Evening Prayer from The Book of Common Prayer set to music is one of the unique contributions to Christian Worship by the Anglican Tradition. Many of you have traveled to England and participated in Evensong liturgies in the different cathedrals and you know how wonderful it is.
We will do a special Evensong and our Choir will be joined by Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble. Jouyssance holds concerts here three times a year. It will be a wonderful service.
Dedication of the Organ and the Lytch Gate Thanks to the generosity of two parish families, we accomplished two major capital tasks in our 125th year. We completely restored the Roosevelt Organ and we reconstructed and the Lytch Gate so that it now has a slate roof to match the Church. The Lytch Gate was built in the 1950’s. So both the Organ and the Lytch Gate are set to last another 125 years.
Parish Dinner: Following the Evensong we’ll gather on the Church patio for a toast to celebrate our 125 years and hopes for our future. Then we’ll go to the patio behind the Parish Hall for an all Parish Dinner. It will be a nice setting.
Details:
Invitations: We’ve taken the current mailing list and prepared invitations for everyone on it. The invitations are in alphabetical order and will be on the table outside Church for the next two weeks. You can pick up your invitation before or after church and do your RSVP at the same time. Or you can take the invitation home and mail the RSVP card back.
Why the RSVP is Important: We all know about “Californian Casual,” however we have two goals we’d like to attain. We are keeping the price low so everyone can participate. The actual cost comes to about $100.00 per person. The parish is picking up the added cost. We would like to not over-buy the food, an accurate count will prevent that.
In Conclusion We are looking forward to a wonderful event. If the wine tasting event is any indication, we can see that we are in for a very good time. So please pick up your invitations and mail back the RSVP
If You Are New to the Parish: There are blank invitations in the box. Please pick one up and join us.
Emmaus Road Monday September 1, 7:00 p.m.
Emmaus Road continues its summer activity of viewing movies with religious themes. This Monday’s movie will be the second half of Schindler’s List.
Hands of the Angels September 13,
The Hands of the Angels Knitting & Handicrafts group meets on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays 10:00 a.m. in the Parish Hall Living Room. Everyone is welcome to join and if you’d like, learn how to knit. The next meeting will be Saturday September 13, 10:00 a.m. Parish Hall Living Room
Saying Good by, temporarily
Claire Votava departs this week to begin her freshman year at Dartmouth. Max Sinclair left last week to begin his freshman year at Loyola Marymount Los Angeles. Jake Stanley returned for his senior year at Austin College in Texas.
Two Sundays ago, The Young Person’s Guide to Love and Wealth Management group met at Bill and Rebecca Woods house to give a send off to Claire and Max and share their experiences and insights into navigating the world of college. It was a good time.
We wish Claire and Max well as they begin and Jake as he moves toward graduation. We’ll see them again at the holidays.
Coffee Hour Sign Up
The Sign up Sheet for Coffee Hour for September and October will be on coffee table this Sunday. From the calendar you can see we have some Sundays open in August. We thank our new parishioners, Adrian and Jacqueline Beltran for jumping in several times this summer. Also thank you to Raheleh and Raffi, who will be married here on August 30 for jumping in this Sunday.
Food For Thought: Video Version
Sunday, September 7, 9:00 a.m.
Starting Sunday September 7, we’ll offer a video course on Science and Religion. This is a course from The Teaching Company which makes videos of lectures from outstanding college professors. The lectures are a half hour in length and the presenters are very good. You wouldn’t find yourself nodding off in their class even if it was after lunch!
This video series is titled, Science and Religion. It is twelve lectures, 30 minutes each. The lecturer is Dr. Lawrence Principe: Professor of History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, and professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. For Professor Principe, what he calls, “The Warfare Thesis” as a paradigm for thinking of science and religion is false. He will walk us through the history of the development of science and theology as disciplines of inquiry seeking truth and show their assumptions, methods, and how they fit together. There will be time for discussion following the video. Everyone is welcome to attend any or all.
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd to begin:
Sunday, September 7.
Being Post-Labor Day, we hope everyone will be back from summer trips. This seems like a good day to open the Atriums and begin the Catechesis again. We’ll make it a full welcome back with …(see below)
Parent and Children Barbecue:
Sunday, September 7, 4:30 p.m. at the Rectory
Fr. Bob and Tracy will host a cook out at the Rectory for all the parents and children of the parish. They do this at both the beginning and the end of the summer. It is a chance for everyone to connect and enjoy each other’s company while engaged in the most difficult and important work any of us ever does. A notice went out to the parents this week. More details will follow as we get closer.
Food For Thought
On the Food for Thought Table this Sunday, an article from the August 4th issue of The New Yorker: “Finding the Words: In a book-length elegy, the poet Edward Hirsch confronts the loss of his son.” As Christians we can sometime loose sight of what the faith gives us. Every so often we get the opportunity to step outside our Christian context and from that perspective can gain a new appreciation of what our faith bestows upon us. St. Paul says, “We do not grieve as others do who have no hope.” He doesn’t say that Christians don’t grieve and suffer staggering losses. We do grieve, it hurts us terribly, but we don’t go through it the way one does who has no hope of anything else. In this article we get a graphic picture of human grief in which there is no hope of anything redemptive, there is only loss and that’s it. The article can help us see how faith does for us and why it is so necessary.
Looking Further Ahead
Annual Parish Retreat
October 17-19 Camp Thousand Pines, Crestline.
This will be our fourth year at this site. We’ve had wonderful times here. Participation can happen in several ways. One can stay the weekend at Camp Thousand Pines. This is especially good for families with children. There is lodging in nearby Crestline as well, and people can come on the site for the program and activities. Third, the Crestline is only an hour and a half away and people can easily drive up for the day on Saturday. The Retreat is especially good for new people to get to know parishioners better.
Allen Woolery has some pictures that people can see to get a sense of things. Check the link below.
Photos:
https://churchoftheangelsretreat.shutterfly.com/pictures/5
Short Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDDq_E0gSlM