Are you new to All Saints' and/or the Episcopal Church? Or do you just want to find out more about our faith tradition? 

Join Bonnie and others for a whirlwind tour of the Anglican/Episcopal tradition, and what it might mean to be people of faith in our own time.

Our first session will be from 8:15-9pm on Ash Wednesday, March 9 (following the 7pm Ash Wednesday liturgy). We'll then gather onWednesdays, March 16th, 23rd and 30th and April 6th and 13th at 7pm for a simple soup supper and our weekly session, ending promptly at 8:30.

ALL are welcome. Please RSVP, so we know how many people to plan for. Questions and RSVPs can be sent to Beau in the Parish Office at beau@allsaintschicago.org or 773-561-0111.

Volunteers are needed to help with all aspects of this event- shopping, cooking, serving, decorating, and clean up, etc. To volunteer, fill out the form here or contact Liz at liz@ravenswoodcommunityservices.org. Opportunities are available the week leading up to the event, on the day before the event and for the event itself.

Sunday, March 13, 10:15-11 in the Parish Hall: 

Ashes to Ashes: A Body-Centered Faith"

Rev. Bonnie Perry will ground our series with theological reflection on a Christian faith that is lived in and through our bodies.

 

Sunday, March 20, 10:15-11 in the Parish Hall:    

Caring for Ourselves and Others, Body Mind and Soul

Rev. Fran Holliday will facilitate a discussion about how we care for ourselves in a world where we have so many resources available and yet so many people cannot access these services or do not for a variety of reasons.  We will look at some of the health care struggles of people with and without means. The discussion will also look at biblical mandates and theological issues around caring for ourselves and others.

 

Sunday, March 27, 10:15-11 in Parish Hall:  

"Violence and Healing: In Scripture and In Our World"

 Rev. Carol Reese will reflect on Jesus' healing narratives in light of her experience as a chaplain at Stroger Hospital's Trauma Department working with patients who are victims of violence.

 

Sunday, April 3 at St. James Cathedral, 65 E. Huron St.:

A Life-Affirming, This-Worldly Christianity, Hidden in Plain Sight

with Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Parker
Evensong, "God as Beauty:" 4 pm
Lecture: 5 to 6 pm; Book Signing and Reception: 6 to 6:30 pm
St. James Cathedral, 65 E. Huron Street, Chicago.     

For the first millennium of the faith, no images of Jesus dead existed in Christian art. Instead, churches filled their spaces with images of the risen Christ who hosted the Eucharist feast of abundant life and paradise in this world. Join Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Parker to explore how early Christian communities understood salvation and shaped themselves as the body of Christ that fed the hungry, healed the sick, and resisted imperial violence and oppression. More information about this event here: http://www.seabury.edu/events/parker-brock-lecture-chicago.html

 

Monday, April 4 at Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park:

Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of this World for Crucifixion and Empire 

with Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Parker

 

Monday, April 4; 10 am to 3:30 pm 

Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinios 

How did Christianity go from love of this world as God's paradise to atonement and Holy War? The imperial violence of the 9th-12th centuries changed Christianity's understanding of salvation and recast the Eucharist as a ritual with sacred violence at its heart. In doing so, the Western church justified launching holy wars of conquest and the African slave trade. But by understanding history, we can recover Christianity's vision of a life-affirming, this-worldly, justice-seeking faith whose rituals of baptism and Eucharist appreciate beauty and attune people to the Spirit in creation.  More information here:  http://www.seabury.edu/events/saving-paradise-chicago.html

 

Saturday, April 9:  Time and location TBA:  

Walking the Labyrinth

Join others in our congregation as we experience the ancient spiritual practice of walking the labyrinth.

 

Sunday, April 10, 10:15-11 in the Reading Room:

Exploring Body-Centered Prayer  

Join us for body-centered prayer and an exploration of our own potential to foster healing in our loved ones.  We will learn and practice simple, hands-on healing techniques for balancing the body's energy and supporting a sense of well-being.  

How Much is Enough: Rethinking Money, Faith and Well-being 
with Douglas A. Hicks
Lecture: 6 to 7 pm; Book signing 7 to 7:30 pm 

Amid economic turmoil, it is easy to obsess over money-and the lack of it. And globalization has made it seem that we have very little control over our own economic lives, let alone the capacity to make financial decisions that can help our loved ones, neighbors, or others in need. Despite these difficulties, the Christian tradition and other moral teaching provides us ways to understand and live faithful economic lives. This lecture shows how this task becomes possible when we-individually and corporately-shape our everyday practices to reflect our best values. Here is a link to more information:  http://www.seabury.edu/events/rethinking-money.html

March 24, 2011
Our Unfolding Encounter with Christ
with the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold
Reception, 5:30; Lecture 6 to 7 pm 
St. James Cathedral, 65 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinios

Bishop Griswold discusses the tension between truth and certitude, as well as the place of paradox, in our ever unfolding encounter with Christ. He explores how the question, "What would Jesus do?" transforms itself into "What is the Risen One up to?" and becomes a lifelong journey of discovery and spiritual growth. Find more information about this event here:  http://www.seabury.edu/events/griswold.html.

For our prayers
Pat Lester, John Ford, Jerry LaTuillippe, Ms. Camille, Cathy Gammon, Lynne Fischer, Carmen Julian, Michael Cullen, Violet, and the Repchic family, Andrew Mauro, Ms. Holliday, William J. Goins, and his sisters Jean, Becky, and Glada, Debbie and Carl, Dominic Lester, Rev. Joan McPherson, Rhys Nicholas Burke, Alice Callerman, Mickey Grossman, Bob Donovan, Stan Strickland, Jeanne Knepper & Marcia Hauer, Rae and Melanie, Nikki Seger, Doris Muramatsu, Daisy Druhl, Gene Boese, John Wojciechowski, Harlan Shropshire, Art Mannon, Julie Ann Villa, Debbie Smart, Carolyn Cooney, Charles Simokaitis, Sr., Connie Wilson, Margaret McHugh, Tom

Pope, Shawn, Susan and Finneus Wicks, Marissa Heirich, Cynthia Reynolds

And also
For all individuals and families in our city affected by violence

For our brothers and sisters in Southern Sudan

The people of the Middle East

The people of St. Luke's, New Orleans

The people of the Diocese of Renk, Sudan, especially St. Peter's, Geiger

The people of the Diocese of Southeast Mexico, especially Santa Maria Virgen, Xalapa

Blessings 
Congratulations to Nikki Seger, former All Saints' co-warden, who was recently admitted to the Master of Divinity program at Bexley Hall Seminary.

Birthdays

3/7-      Allan Quiaoit 

3/8-      Benjamin Black 

3/9-      Addison Fawley, Caleb Libretti

3/10-    Anneliese Gallagher, Andy Zone

3/11-    Jack Garland 

3/12-    Russell DeAngelus, Jane Schaefer 

 

Anniversaries

3/12-    Mary Roberts and Alison White

 
For Those Who Have Died

We remember Cindy Waldron, mother of Hilary Waldron, who died 5 years ago on March 8.

 

In thanksgiving for the life and ministry of Richard L. Shimpfky, rector, Christ Church Ridgewood and Bishop of El Camino Real, but mostly a Christian of profound faith and humor.

We remember all of the people killed in Southern Sudan this week.

We remember all of the people killed in Iraq and Afghanistan this week.

May their soul and the souls of all the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.