May 29, The Second Sunday after Pentecost

Daily Scripture Readings;  bookofcommonprayer.net/daily_office.php

See the different options.  There is full morning and evening prayer.  There is also the option of the readings only.  There is also an app for receiving the daily readings by email, or on a mobile device

 Sunday Scripture Readings:  bookofcommonprayer.net/lectionary.php

Set it for 1979 Contemporary, and the Bible version used in Church is Revised Standard Version

Sunday June 5: 

Following the 10:15 Liturgy

 Parish Lunch and Estate Planning Presentation

 On Sunday June 5, following the 10:15 Liturgy there will be a lunch in the Parish Hall and presentation on Estate Planning by Ellen Farewell, an estate planning attorney and friend of Carolyn Styler. 

 Here is some information about her:

After graduation from UC Irvine, and spending 3 years in retail, she went to work in her father's estate planning law office.  She worked in his office for 4 years, sold real estate and went to law school at night. She had planned to practice with him, but he passed away prior to graduation. After a short stint with a firm, she opened her own practice in 1988.  She has lectured through the years for numerous businesses on estate planning. She is involved in PEO, and other local philanthropic groups.   She and her family are long time members of St. Mark's Church in Glendale, reside in Glendale and have 3 children.

Why this is important.

 Estate Planning, is thinking about where you want your assets to go after leaving this world for the Kingdom of God.  Thinking about this and making considered decisions makes it possible for the disposition of your assets to become a gift that reflects your values, love, and commitments to people and organizations that you have supported over the course of your life.  In the absence of such a plan, the disposition of your estate will be decided by others as in accordance with impersonal estate law and the result could be other than you would wish.

 Who this is important for:

 1.  People who have already made and estate plan.  It may be that you have already done this.  However there could be changes in the law and also aspects of your situation that have changed.  This presentation will give you the most up to date information and possibly raise some issues you might not have thought of.

 2.  People who have not made an estate plan.  You might be in a situation where you’ve discussed this for many years but haven’t taken any action.  (Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!)   This could be the spur, the inspiration, the push to get this done.

 3.  People with young children.

It doesn’t usually happen that both spouses die at the same time.  However, it could.  Do you know  who you want to take care of your children?   Are you sure that you want it to be assigned to a close relative?  You might not.  If that’s the case, you need to make that clear. 

 It turns out that this is a subject that’s important to all people at all places in the life cycle.  It’s a bit like having an Advanced Directive for your medical care.   It all comes down to the question, who do you want to make decisions about some of the most important things in your life, you or someone else?

Legacy Giving:  One of the Four Fields of Christian Giving.

 We talk of four fields or ways, Christian people give to the ongoing life of the Christian community.

1.  Annual Giving.  That’s the giving that supports the day to day, year to year life of a parish.

 2.  Mission Giving:  That’s giving beyond the local Christian community to help advance the Kingdom of God through acts of mercy and charity.

 3. Capital Giving:   That is giving for the building, upkeep, and improvement of parish infrastructure.

 4.  Legacy Giving:  That is giving beyond our life time to support the Christian community and other organizations in their ongoing life. 

Legacy Giving and Church of the Angels

Church of the Angels has been blessed with very generous Legacy Gifts over the course of it’s history.  Money left to the Church in years past was one source of funds to do the Centennial Restoration in 1989-1990.  Using money we saved, money we raised, and money left to us, we set the Church building to last another 100 years.

 100 Years from now those members of Church of the Angels will need to do what we did, restore the building.  They will need to fund it the way we did, with their savings, their Capital Giving, and just like us, Legacy Gifts left to the Church by us. 

 We hope as part of this presentation you will consider making a provision for Church of the Angels in your estate planning. 

 There’s no Free Lunch, (But this Sunday we’ll make an exception)

Chris Ortiz is coordinating the Parish Lunch.  We need to have people sign up so we can plan accordingly.  You can sign up at Church this Sunday or email the office. 

 Please participate.  You’ll be glad you did.

Outreach Barbecue:   Saturday June 4, 4:30 p.m. at the Rectory

There are several new ideas for Outreach activities at Church of the Angels that people have recently shared.   So to gather these ideas and think about them and what we might do, Fr. Bob will host a barbecue at the Rectory on Saturday June 4 at 4:30 p.m.  We’ll have dinner together and discuss some ideas and see what might be possible.   This is not a commitment to do an outreach activity, just a brainstorming session to see  what ideas people have. 

 There will be a sign up at Church on Sunday.

Altar Flowers

We have a number of Sundays coming up that are open for people to give Altar Flowers.   If you would like to give Altar Flowers for a memorial or a thank offering  on any of these open Sundays, please email the Church Office.  It will be added to the calendar and acknowledged in the bulletin

 Sundays Available:

June: 12

July 17

August 7, 21, 28

Louise Macatee Ordination: 

Saturday, June 4 10:00 a.m.  St. John’s Pro-Cathedral 514 West Adams Blvd. Los Angeles

Louise Macatee, our Ministry Study Student from a year ago, will be ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons by Bishop Jon Bruno.  Everyone is invited to attend.

 Food For Thought

On the Food for Thought Table this Sunday

Two articles taking opposite positions on the question of whether or not we have free will.

 1.  From Philosophy Now  “Reclaiming Freedom.”   The author argues that indeed we have free will and why he thinks so.

 2.  From The Atlantic, There’s No Such Thing as Free Will.  This author argues that free will is an illusion, but if we didn’t believe in it, life would be a disaster.

 So feel free or compelled to pick these up freely choose which foregone conclusion you like!

Music with the Angels:

Sunday, May 29, 4:00 p.m. Harpsichord Music by Louis Couperin

Professor Robert Zappulla of Claremont Graduate University will perform a harpsichord recital of music by the French Baroque master, Louis Couperin in Pasadena's historic Church of the Angels, constructed in 1889. Zappulla, a former pupil of the late, world-renowned harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt, will play on a fine replica of a 17th-century Flemish instrument by Edward Turner.

The concert is free –

Sunday June 19  4:00 p.m.  Celebrate Father's Day with Early music

In honor of Father's Day, Jouyssance will present a concert dedicated to fathers and father figures of all types and traditions. From Josquin's monumental Pater noster, to madrigals and chansons, all things fatherly (even early sports!) will be considered.

Das Boot:  Working on the Boat that is Church of the Angels.

There has been a lot of activity in the last several weeks.  Baldo Coronado came back for a second week of work fixing broken sprinkler pipes, electrical faults in the Church lights, fixing tripping hazards around the Parish Hall and Rectory, and patching up the drive way. 

 From Eric Jones:   Hey Father Bob,

 Yesterday, I worked on the clock room for a little while.  

 First, I replaced the broken glass in the lancet window that is adjacent to the light sensor.  I thought it was important to replace it so that it would cut down on dust that might get into the clock movement.  It is rather unusually held in place with wooden splines.  When I get back from my trip, I'll reinforce it with some glazing putty.

 Secondly, I scrubbed up the floor.  It certainly won't win any design awards, but it's clean and will do the job for as long as we need.