All Sundays In July

Fr. Bob will be on vacation during the month of July.  

Services continue as normal:  7:45 & 10:15 a.m.

Substitute Priests for July 

We are glad to welcome two priests who will take the Sunday services in July.

Sundays July 5 & 12:  The Rev. Anthony Miller

This is Anthony’s first time with us.  

Sundays July 19 & 26:  The Rev. Marilyn Omernick 

We are happy to have Marilyn return to us.  She last substituted for Fr. Bob on his Annual Long Retreat in February.

We’re Famous!

On Sunday June 21, Church of the Angels was visited by a Mystery Worshipper from the Christian Website  Ship of Fools.  These anonymous people visit different churches and then write a review on their experience.   We came out pretty well except for the “store bought cookies that didn’t look appetizing or Lucy Jones crocheted cover for the Lectionary.  Other than that we passed.   You can read the review at:

 http://shipoffools.com/mystery/2015/2880.html

Praying the Anglican Rosary  Saturdays in July at 9:00 a.m. in the  Church

The Financial Page

Please keep up with your Annual Giving Pledge during the Summer.   The bills keep coming in even when we’re away.  Thanks so much. 

Emmaus Road: Summer Movies  Monday evenings in July  7:00 p.m.

Emmaus Road continues its summer movie schedule  Mondays.  Films will be announced each week.

Summer Reading;  The Late History of Israel

Keep at it.  Before long we’ll come to The One and Only True and Authoritative, Historically Correct, and Officially Approved Report of the Amazing Rise, God Fearing Life, Heroic Deeds, and Wonderful Achievements of David the Son of Jesse, King of Judah Seven years, and of both Judah and Israel for Thirty three, Chosen of God and Father of King Solomon.*    Or by it’s working Title:  The King  David Report. 

Summer Sunday School

The Atriums are closed for the summer giving our Catechists a well deserved rest.  We are deeply grateful for all their dedication to the spiritual development of our children.  During the summer we will have a basic Sunday School for children at the 10:15 service.  Marielle Askew will give a short lesson and lead the children in some art and craft activities. 

Music with the Angels:  Black Rose Early Music Ensemble Sunday July 12 4:00 p.m.

 Black Rose Early Music Ensemble invites you to spend a musical "Day in the Country, and a Night on the Town".  Enjoy a walk in the woods, go bird-watching, evade a swarm of bees, attend a peasant wedding, get the latest gossip from the Town Crier, and end the day with a Royal Fireworks display.  Playing on copies of 18th-century instruments, the group will perform music by Handel, Hotteterre, Telemann, Biber, and others.  July 12, 4 pm, at Church of the Angels,  Free-will offering, $10 suggest, but we never turn anyone away regardless of ability to pay.  Children are always welcome.

 Coffee Hour Sign Up for July and August

The Calendar shows some gaps in the Sundays in July for Coffee Hour.  Please jump in to  help.

 Something Added to the Large Print Bulletin

Chris Askew who makes the Large Print Bulletin for Sundays has added something to it as an aid to, as we say in Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, “Enable fuller participation in the Liturgy.

 Chris is adding the brief introductions to the Sunday Scripture Readings that appear in the small print bulletin inserts.  They come from a book written by our former bishop and New Testament scholar, Frederick Borsch entitled Introducing the Lessons of the Church Year.  Bishop Borsch has written a brief paragraph on each of the Sunday readings.  This paragraph helps set the context of the readings we’re going to hear with some relevant historical and theological information.  Looking at these introductions prior to the readings can help in getting a deeper of understanding of them.   These introductions will come on one page that also contains the calendar and announcements  and Daily Scripture readings.  You can easily take that page out of the Large Print Bulletin and take it home.

 The Large Print Bulletin can be a help in your daily prayer life.  On a Sunday morning  we get a lot of material in a very short period of time.  It can be helpful to later in the week go back and re-read the Scriptures,  the hymns which are religious poetry set to music, and the Liturgy itself as a way of continuing and deepening the sense of Christ’s presence to us in Scripture and Liturgy.

General Convention News:  

“It’s the sort’a  thing you’d like if you’re the kind’ a person that likes that sort’a thing.”    Abraham Lincoln.

Bishop Michael Curry from North Carolina Elected 27th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church

 Bishop Michael Bruce Curry

from North Carolina

Elected 27th Presiding Bishop

of The Episcopal Church

Presiding Bishop-Elect Michael B. Curry

[June 27, 2015]  The Rt. Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, was elected the 27th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church on the first ballot on June 27.

Bishop Curry, 62, is the first African-American to be elected Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church.

The election occurred during the 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church.

Of the 174 votes tallied, Bishop Curry received 121 (89 needed to elect).

Following his election by the House of Bishops, Bishop Curry’s election was overwhelmingly confirmed by the House of Deputies, 800 for, 12 against.

Meet Presiding Bishop-Elect Curry

Bishop Curry was ordained Bishop of North Carolina on June 17, 2000.

His experience includes:

1988-2000: Rector, St. James' Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland

1982-1988: Rector, St. Simon of Cyrene Episcopal Church, Lincoln Heights, Ohio

1982-1988: Chaplain, Bethany School

1978-1982: Rector, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Winston Salem, North Carolina

He has served on a number of Episcopal Church Committees, a Commissions, Agencies, and Boards:

• Chair, Board of Directors, Episcopal Relief & Development (current)

• Board of Trustees, Saint Augustine's University (current)

• North Carolina Council of Churches (current)

• Moral Monday movement (current)

• Chair, Advisory Committee, Office of Black Ministries (current)

• Bishop Visitor, Community of the Transfiguration (current)

• TREC/Task Force for Reimagining the Episcopal Church

• General Convention Committees: Evangelism, Global Mission

• Standing Commission on World Mission

• Union of Black Episcopalians

• Institute of Christian and Black Studies of Baltimore

• Ecumenical Clergy on the Square, Revival and Citizens on Patrol (Baltimore)

• Jubilee Ministry, St. James' Afterschool Academy, Baltimore

• Board, Episcopal Social Ministries, Diocese of Maryland

• Chair and Co-Chair, convention Planning Team, Diocese of Maryland

• Commission on Ministry, Dioceses of Maryland, Southern Ohio and North Carolina

• General Board of Examining Chaplains

• Board and Faculty, College of Preachers

• Coordinator, The Racism Steering Committee, Diocese of Southern Ohio

• Board, Winston-Salem Urban League

He holds a Bachelors of Arts, with High Honors from Hobart and William Smith College; a Masters of Divinity from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale; Continuing Studies at The College of Preachers, Princeton Theological Seminary, Wake Forest University, The Ecumenical Institute of St. Mary's Seminary and Institute of Jewish Christian Studies; and D.D., honors causa, from Sewanee The University of the South,  Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, Virginia Theological Seminary, and The Episcopal Divinity School

An author, his publications include:

• Songs My Grandmother Sang (Morehouse Publishing, Spring 2015)

• Crazy Christians: a Call to Follow Jesus (Morehouse Publishing, 2013)

• "Some Strange Things Are Happening in Charlotte", opinion, (The Huffington Post, Sept. 4, 2012)

• "Stay in the City", sermon (The African American Pulpit, Judson Press, 1999 issue)

• "Abyssinian Annals," a weekly column( The Baltimore Times)

• Essay ("Joy", Forward Movement, 1995)

• Article Series (Episcopal Life, September 1993- May 1994)

• "Servant Woman" and "There's Power in the Word " , sermons ( Sermons that Work 11, Forward Movement Publications)

Married to Sharon, they are the parents of two adult children.

The 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church is meeting through July 3 in Salt Lake City, UT (Diocese of Utah). The Episcopal Church’s General Convention is held every three years, and is the bicameral governing body of the Church. It comprises the House of Bishops, with upwards of 200 active and retired bishops, and the House of Deputies, with clergy and lay deputies elected from the 108 dioceses and three regional areas of the Church, at more than 800 members.