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Episcopal News Service. June 1, 2005 [060105-2-A]
Coming up Friday, June 3, 2005...
NEW YORK -- HipHopEMass.org will begin the summer with its First Birthday Celebration at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, June 3, at Trinity Episcopal Church of Morrisania in the South Bronx.
Based at 137-year old Trinity Church, HipHopEMass.org will welcome New York City rapper, "Glory," the Human Beat box, "D. Cross," and DJ, "Ol School Sam," of Trinity's South Bronx neighborhood. Summer masses begin with neighborhood processions at 6:30 p.m. on Trinity Avenue off Boston Road across from Morris High School in the South Bronx.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- An evening of Broadway music will be performed by St. Paul's Choir, featured soloists, and guest musicians, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 3, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. The concert is open to the public and free of charge. A reception will follow the performance.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 261 South 900 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 (801) 322-5869. http://www.stpauls-slc.org/.
SEWANEE, Tennessee -- Education for Ministry (EFM) will hold its 30th Anniversary Celebration at the University of the South's School of Theology in Sewanee, Tennessee, June 3-5.
EFM students, graduates, mentors, coordinators, and trainers will gather to celebrate a program of theological education and reflection that has touched the lives of more than 60,000 people around the world.
The conference will include lectures, presentations, workshops, and idea swapping, with plenty of time for networking and fellowship.
Registration and a detailed description of the event are posted on the EFM website at http://www.sewanee.edu/EFM/EFMhome.html. The conference qualifies as Alternate Mentor Training for eligible participants. The cost, which includes tuition, housing, and meals, is $229 for single accommodations and $248 for double accommodations. Call 800.722.1974 or e-mail efm@sewanee.edu to register.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The second annual Washington Early Music Festival, "Spain and the New World," is set for June 3-26. The festival, which offers performances in downtown churches, among them the Episcopal parishes of St. Mark's and St. James', Capitol Hill, and Epiphany, D.C., will explore the early music of Spain and its former colonies, dance and visual arts.
The performances will showcase lesser-known music of an earlier era, some of which has languished unheard for years in archives at the Library of Congress and the Peabody Library.
This year's offerings include a concert by composer Tomas Luis de Victoria, a Spanish Renaissance composer who created ethereal sacred music; a concert featuring Renaissance polyphony for "high voices" only -- alto, countertenor and soprano; music unique to the remote reaches of Iberia; traditional music of the Sephardic Jews in their language of Ladino or Judeo-Espanol; and music from the Latin American Spanish colonies with its intermingling of native and Spanish influences.
The festival will feature many local early music performers, including both well established and new ensembles. Festival-goers can join a dance workshop or participate in an all day exploration of the music of Philippe Rogier, culminating in a performance of their own.
St. Mark's, Capitol Hill, is once again hosting an arts show.
The Washington Early Music Festival was founded in 2003. Further information: http://www.earlymusicdc.org/.
Coming up Saturday, June 4, 2005...
FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia -- The Diocese of Virginia's Commission on World Mission will honor Assistant Bishop Francis Gray of Virginia; also know as "the mission bishop," on June 4, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at Trinity Church in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Gray officially retires on June 30.
Anyone in the diocese who has been touched by Gray's ministry is encouraged to attend. In lieu of gifts, contributions may be made in Bishop Gray's honor to the Fund for World Mission. RSVP to Mary Anne Bryant at 804.643.8451, ext. 15.
Further information about the Diocese of Virginia can be found online at: http://www.thediocese.net/.
ISLA VISTA, California -- Episcopal Campus Ministry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will host a Jazz Vespers service at St. Michael and All Angels Church, Camino Pescadero and El Greco in Isla Vista, California, on Saturday, June 4, at 5:30 p.m.
Jazz Vespers unites instrumental jazz with a simple prayer service. The Rev. Norm Freeman leads a group of musicians from the University's jazz program for this Vespers in honor of graduating students. All are welcome. Further information: 805.968.2712.
St. Michael and All Angels Church, 6586 Picasso Road, Isla Vista, California 93117. Tel: 805.968.2712. http://www.saintmikesucsb.org/.
LOS ANGELES -- The Middle East Task Force of the Diocese of Los Angeles will host a service of Evensong at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 4, at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul. A focus of the service will be the life and ministry of Solomon Mattar, an Anglican churchman who served as warden of the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem before he was murdered in 1967. Mattar's daughter, Florence, is chair of the Task Force. The service will be followed by a presentation by Nancy Dinsmore, North American development officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem in which she will advise attendees on the current situation in the Middle East. On July 1, the Dioceses of Los Angeles and Jerusalem will begin a three-year companion relationship, as authorized in December 2004 by vote of Diocesan Convention. The Cathedral Center is located at 840 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles.
SYRACUSE, New York -- Well known author and popular theologian Marcus Borg will be in Syracuse on Saturday, June 4, for a day-long lecture. The Diocese of Central New York, in partnership with Hendricks Chapel of Syracuse University, will be presenting this lecture to be held at Hendricks Chapel on the Syracuse Campus from 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Borg is a professor of religion and culture at Oregon State University. He is nationally and internationally known in both academic and church circles as a biblical and Jesus scholar.
Borg's life work has been devoted to helping people understand the historical person of Jesus as well as inviting people to re-imagine the Christian faith in a meaningful way for 21st-century Americans.
The lecture is open to the public. Further information can be found online at http://www.cny.anglican.org/borg/?LinkID=29.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Episcopal Church and its Office of Government Relations have joined in partnership with Bread for the World, Call to Renewal and other faith organizations to hold the One Table, Many Voices Conference -- a mobilization to end poverty and hunger -- in Washington, D.C., June 4-7.
"This important event is a call to action to fight hunger both at home and abroad," said Maureen Shea, director of Government Relations. "Activists, lay and clergy leaders, heads of communion will gather to learn, worship, and lobby together to feed the hungry. We hope many Episcopalians will join us."
The Office of Government Relations will host pre-conference workshops on Saturday, June 4, from 1-5 p.m. Episcopalians planning to be present at the conference are invited to attend workshops on current legislation, the work of the Episcopal Church, and grassroots organizing.
The four-day conference will educate and train attendees on domestic and global issues involving hunger and poverty. Participants will be able to meet anti-hunger and poverty advocates from around the country and world in plenary sessions and workshops. Featured speakers will include the Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World; the Rev. Jim Wallis, convener and president for Call to Renewal; Bhante Dhammasiri, president of Washington Buddhist Vihara; Grandmother Connie Mirabal, Elder of the Hopi Nation; and Ray Suarez, senior correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
There will also be inspiring worship services, a reception at the French Embassy (recognizing the 24 Millennium Challenge Account eligible countries), and an Interfaith Convocation at Washington National Cathedral on Monday, June 6 at 7 p.m. with Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold introducing guest speaker Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town. The conference will culminate on National Hunger Awareness Day with a rally at the MCI Center to kick-off the Hunger Lobby Day on Capitol Hill.
To register please visit the One Table, Many Voices website http://www.onetableconference.org/
Coming up Sunday, June 5, 2005...
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- Bishop Charles Jenkins of Louisiana has invited Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon of Kaduna, Nigeria, to speak at two churches in New Orleans: Christ Church Cathedral on June 5 and Trinity Church on June 12.
Jenkins, who is vice-president of Province IV, will escort Idowu-Fearon to the provincial Synod at Kanuga, North Carolina, June 8-10, where he will address that meeting.
Idowu-Fearon was the preacher at the Episcopal Church's 2003 General Convention Eucharist in Minneapolis and was a member of the Lambeth Commission which created the 2004 Windsor Report. Idowu-Fearon and Jenkins met one another at the 1998 Lambeth Conference in England when both were new bishops in their respective countries.
Christ Church Cathedral, 2919 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70115. Tel: 504.895.6602. http://www.cccnola.org/.
Trinity Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130. Tel: 504.522.0276. Tel: http://www.trinityc.net/.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- State Day prayers this Sunday will honor New Mexico on Sunday, June 5, at Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues Northwest (Mount St. Alban), Washington, D.C., 20016; 202.537.6200; http://www.cathedral.org/. Next Sunday, June 12: a major State Day will remember Maryland.
ANGLICAN COMMUNION -- Following the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, this Sunday (3 Pentecost) will give thanks for the Diocese of Northern Malawi, Central Africa. The Rt. Rev. Christopher John Boyle, bishop. The Anglican Cycle of Prayer can be accessed online at: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/main.cfm.