March 24, 2010

In the diocesan cycle we pray for the people of St. Peter’s Church, Ladue (1872), and James, their Rector
In our companion diocese of Lui, we pray for the people of Wandi Archdeaconry, and Gibson, their Priest

IN THIS EDITION
 
Prayers during upcoming elections in Sudan l Prayer Vigil
l HOB on El Salvador
The Companion Diocese Relationship l Bart Ehrman
l Egypt
Committee is calling the diocese to l Strings Attached-St.
prayer during the elections in Sudan Stephen's
l Newsline
this April.
BISHOP'S VISITATIONS
Prayer Service and Eucharist, Vigil
preparation. At 12:00 noon we'll March-April 2010 are Bishop
Smith's sabbatical months
celebrate Eucharist on Saturday, April
10, at St. Timothy's Church, Creve Sun, May 9, Christ Church-
Coeur. We hope to have our friends and new mission partners from Cape Girardeau
Sun, May 16, St. Peter's-
Blackmore Vale, Diocese of Salisbury, UK join us by Skype.(Skype is a free Ladue
computer-to-computer video or audio chat software.) We're also working on a Sun, Jun 6, Church of the
Ascension-Northwoods
simultaneous gathering at Lui Cathedral in Sudan. Sun, Jun 13, Ft. Leonard
Wood
Sun, Jun 20, Trinity-Jefferson
Prayer Vigil. Lui, Sudan, is eight hours ahead of Missouri; a prayer vigil is County
scheduled from 4:00 p.m. Saturday, April 10, through 4:00 p.m., Tuesday,
April 13, (Central Time). Life of the Diocese

Fri, Mar 26 9:00 AM - 10:30

We have an online sign-up sheet for the vigil. Send an email for AM Journey to Jobs: Lenten
instructions/password, and please include your name/parish. Not online program for job seekers, each
Friday in Lent, 9:00 -10:30 at
much and still want to sign up? Call 314-255-1387 with your St Timothy's in Creve Coeur.
name/parish/phone and we'll add you to the sign-up sheet. Organized by David Boudinet
of CSMSG and the Rev. Steve
Lawler of St Stephen?s. All are
invited. Each session will have
a presentation, discussion,
fellowship and prayer. Bagels
a n d Coffee will be provided.
For more information contact
David Boudinet or Fr. Lawler.
T h e seven sessions are:
Beginning; Readjusting;
Committing; Resourcing ;
Connecting; Deepening ;
Ending.

Sat, Mar 27 The Peace Meal

Project at St. John's-Tower
Grove, every Saturday Serving
from 4-6 p.m. To sign up as a
  volunteer, please contact
Scott Splater at
ssplater@yahoo.com or 314-
Background. Lisa Fox, former Companion Relationship Committee chair, 497-1050. A full shift is from
posted a great article about the call for prayer, and background on the 2-6:30 p.m. and a half shift
would be 2-4:30 p.m. (food
upcoming elections and their importance at Lui Notes blog. "The first visitors prep and cook) or 4-6:30
from Missouri traveled to Lui in 2003, while the civil war was still active. The (serve and clean up).

constant refrain of the Moru people then was: We thought you had forgotten
Sat, Mar 27 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
us, but now you have come. That has been the refrain through the The Gardens of Holy Week,
establishment of the covenant between Lui and Missouri in 2006, until the Morning Retreat, St.
Stephen's Complete article
present day. Now, our friends in Lui are asking our prayers as they enter
this anxious time in the life of their nation." Sun, Mar 28 4:00 PM Taize at
Trinity, St. Charles, 318 S.
  Duchesne, ph 636-949-0160
 
Standing with the people of El Salvador Saturday Retreat

House of Bishops, meeting at Camp Allen, condemn the attempted March 27, 9 am - 2 pm
St. Stephen's-Ferguson
assassination of Bishop Martín Barahona and issue a letter of solidarity with  The Gardens of Holy Week
the people of El Salvador. The Garden of Eden
The Garden of Gethsemane
The Garden of the Resurrection
...As we prepare to commemorate the life and ministry of
Archbishop Romero on the thirtieth anniversary of his As we prepare to enter Holy
Week, spend some time
martyrdom, we know too well the cost that can be paid for walking quietly through the
being a servant of Christ. We fear that those who can prevent sacred gardens of our
creation, redemption, and
a repeat of this heinous act will be too slow to respond. We salvation.
call upon the civil authorities, particularly the Department of
Justice, to promptly investigate, apprehend, and bring to This quiet retreat time will
provide opportunities for
justice those who are responsible for this crime. meditations,  reflection,
prayer, and silence in
anticipation of the blessed
We stand in steadfast solidarity and love with our brother time that lies ahead. More
Martín and all the people of the Diocese of El Salvador. The information.

apostle Paul said, “If one member suffers, all suffer together
MONDAY MAR 29
with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.”
ESM ONLINE BOOK CLUB
Indeed, today we suffer with Bishop Martín and the people of 
 El Salvador. We pray that through our solidarity and the This month we're discussing
Dan Allender's Sabbath.
resolve of those who carry the responsibility for civil order that
we will one day soon rejoice with all our brothers and sisters in Monday, March 29th, 7:30
El Salvador when their land has become a place of Shalom. p m-8:30, or until the
conversation wanes. We'll
leave the discussion open for
Read the full text online, with links to background on this story and pictures the rest of Holy Week.

from the House of Bishops meeting at Camp Allen in Navasota, Texas.

Father Rod Wiltse facilitates
  the book club, email him for
an invitation at
  wiltse@charter.net.
Bart Ehrman featured speaker at St. Peter's
30 HOUR FAMINE 4/23-24
Controversial and bestselling author Bart D.
Ehrman, Ph.D., is this year’s lecturer at St. Peter’s The 15th Annual 30 Hour
Famine week-end is at Church
Episcopal Church, Ladue, for the Rev. Dr. Clifford L. of the Advent in Crestwood.
Stanley Lecture Series. Writing in the areas of  New
Testament and Early Christianity, he has written or The Advent Youth Group has
designed T-Shirts for the
edited twenty-three books, numerous scholarly week-end. These T-Shirts will
articles, and dozens of book reviews. Dr. Ehrman is cost $20.00 and proceeds
from T-Shirts will also go to
the  James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the  World Vision. Please contact
Department of Religious Studies, University of North Nancy Birtley at 636-296-8307
or at nancy@birtley.net to
Carolina at Chapel Hill. RSVP for the famine and to
order your T-Shirt. T-Shirt
orders are due by 4/4/10.
Lecture I: Friday, April 23, 7:00 p.m.
“A World of Contradictions? An Historical More info on the 30 hour
Approach to the New Testament” famine...

Lectures II and III: Saturday, April 24, 9:00 a.m. Join the Conversation

“Liar, Lunatic, or Lord? Searching for the Historical Jesus” NEW! Awaiting your comments
“Is the New Testament Forged? Literary Forgery in the Early on news articles, online at the
diocesan site, diocesemo.org
Christian Tradition”
  Diocesan Resource Sharing E-
You can find a directory of his audio and video interviews online at his web List. A diocese wide mail list
called 4LOW. (For the Life Of
site, and read a passage from his 2008 book, God’s Problem: How the Bible the World.) Share resources,
Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question — Why We Suffer, at opportunities, things that
worked in your parish and
NPR.com. things that didn't; ask the
wider community their
opinions. To subscribe, send
In preparation for these lectures, St. Peter’s is offering a series with Jamie an email to 4low-
Spencer at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday evenings, April 7, 14 and 21  (Elliot  subscribe@lists.diocesemo.org

Room), to “open pages from Bart Ehrman’s  Misquoting Jesus.” Deeper Discussion E-List. A
Dr. Spencer is a professor of English at St. Louis Community College. In moderated list to talk about
those "hot potato" issues that
recent years he has led discussion groups of religious works by C. S. Lewis crisscross faith and culture,
and English religious poets at the Church of St. Michael and St. George and converse about them with
a high degree of Christian
(where he is a parishioner and Lay Reader), as well as at Ladue Chapel and concern for one another.
St. Peter’s. He is an Associate Member of the Jesus Seminar and is Subscribe via hotpotato-
subscribe@lists.diocesemo.org
preparing several articles on religious moments in literature.
HOLY WOMEN, HOLY MEN
For more information, please contact St. Peter’s,
office@stpetersepiscopal.org, 314-993-2306. March 26
Richard Allen
First Bishop of the African
The Rev. Dr. Clifford L. Stanley Lecture Series is presented by a generous Methodist Episcopal Church,
1831
gift from The Rev. Allan Zacher, Ph.D. and Deborah Zacher Endowment
Fund. II. Loving God, your servant
Richard Allen was born a
slave, but in you he learned
l St Peter-Ladue St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 110 N. Warson Road, that he was your beloved child
Ladue, MO 63124, ph 314-993-2306, www.stpetersepiscopal.org by adoption in Jesus Christ,
and by the power of the Holy
Spirit was led to proclaim
liberty to his captive people:
  Give us strength to proclaim
your freedom to the captives
  of our world; through Jesus
News! Egypt Pilgrimage lowers price Christ, Savior of all, who with
you and the Holy Spirit lives
and reigns, one God, for ever
Cheryl Ward, tour organizer, just announced a and ever. Amen.
substantial price reduction for the Pilgrimage
trip to Egypt planned for this May 31-June 14. Allen, Richard [1716-Mar. 26,
$500 less per person or $1000 less per 1831] Born into slavery, he
became a preacher when he
couple. There are still a couple of purchased his freedom, and was
presentations planned around the diocese. the first African American
ordained in the Methodist
Feel free to contact Cheryl at 314-753-6142 Episcopal Church. After the
with any questions. founding of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, he was elected
a bishop.
March edition of the 2010 Pilgrimage
newsletter available online. March 30
Innocent of Alaska
Bishop, 1879
"Pilgrimage is praying with your eyes open.
Egypt is where so many of our stories II. Holy Immortal One, you
blessed your people by calling
originate, where the stories of the great Innocent from leading your
Abrahamic faiths intertwine. We peer into Church in Russia to be an
apostle and light to the
caves under Coptic Christian churches to see people of Alaska, and to
where the Holy Family safely hid from Herod, proclaim the dispensation and
grace of God: Guide our
we enter the catacomb prisons of the saints, swim in the Red Sea, sit in steps, that as he labored
one of the holiest synagogues of the Jewish faith, cross the Sinai where the humbly in danger and
hardship, we may witness to
children of Israel wandered for forty years, attend Cairo Cathedral services, the Gospel of Christ wherever
in addition to time at St. Catherine's." Read the original iSeek article... we are led, and serve you as
gladly in privation as in
power; through Jesus Christ
  our Lord, who lives and reigns
  with you and the Holy Spirit,
ShowMe St Louis (KSDK-TV) profiles Strings one God, to the ages of ages.
Amen.
Attached at St. Stephen's in Ferguson
Video and full text online at KSDK.com. Innocent of Alaska [August 27,
1797-March 31, 1879] Apostle to
Alaska. Born Ioann Veniaminov
As of late, St. Stephens Church is Ferguson is to a poor family in Russia, he
making a lot of noise. "St. Stephens the Church paid for his seminary education
by learning clock-making. He
is like a lot of these churches that are having a and his wife came to Alaska
hard time growing," said Steve Lawler. Inspiration after his ordination where he
worked tirelessly among the
for Episcopal priest Steve Lawler to start a new Aleuts, often traveling in a skin
page. "We realized the traditional arts community kayak from island to island. He
also translated the liturgies and
and cultural community in St. Louis doesn't always serve North County." And catechism and parts of the Bible
realizing the power of music, Lawler started a guitar program open to for them. He persuaded them to
be vaccinated for smallpox and
children and young adults. "This is really our kept scientific journals of flora
attempt to put the guitar and music lesson and fauna in the area, and built
churches with his own hands.
and all of that in the hands of kids who might Finally, he became the first
not be able to have this opportunity." Orthodox bishop in the New
World. When the cathedral in
Sitka was built, Innocent made
its clock. He also helped
  establish English as a liturgical
language in the Americas before
  he was made Metropolitan of
Newsline Moscow in 1867.

Last Episcopal Fish Fry this Lent! Fridays, March 26, 2010, Christ Church The resolution to General
Cathedral (in Schuyler Hall, on the fourth floor, 1210 Locust St., Saint Louis, Convention which contains the
suggested additions to Holy
MO 63103.) Come for Lunch, 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m., or Dinner, 5–7 p.m., or Women, Holy Men is available
have your meal to go. Choice of cod or catfish—plus spaghetti, green beans, online as a large pdf file. The
edited and official version will be
applesauce, a beverage, and a dessert for $8 for adults and $5 for children. published and available next
Video from last year’s inaugural fry. year.

DIOCESAN PUBLICATIONS
"Having a Job, Living a Vocation: finding the way to making your
work, your life's work."  April 17, 9am - 1pm. The Rev. Steve Lawler, Publisher
The Rt. Rev. Wayne Smith
rector of St. Stephen's, co-founder of Bounceback St Louis, and Faith and Bishop of Missouri
Spirituality advisor for the GO! Network will be the leader. Contact him at
swl@lawler.org for more information. Editor
Beth Felice
Director of Communications
Eden Seminary brings Phyllis Tickle and Diana Butler Bass to speak on Episcopal Diocese of Missouri
bfelice@diocesemo.org
"Church Next" at Spring Convocation, April 6 & 7. For details or to register, 314-255-1387
visit Eden's website. 314-398-2209 (cell)

A man’s hat & coat were left on the rack after the diocesan Leadership IN THIS EDITION
Conference at St. Martin's. Yours? Please call Janet Theiss, l Prayer Vigil
Parish Administrator at St. Martin's to claim. 636-227-1484. l HOB on El Salvador
l Bart Ehrman
  l Egypt
l Strings Attached-St.
Stephen's
l Newsline

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