Sunday, October 9:  10-11 am, Parish Hall:  Curious on how to upgrade your Facebook status to sainthood?  Come join the 10 a.m. adult forum to talk about the origins of saints in the early church, how saints are commemorated in the Anglican communion, and how you might qualify.  Led by Lionel Edes.

 

Sunday, October 16, 10-11 am, Parish Hall:  "The Blessing of Memory" will invite us to reflect on the gift of remembering our deceased loved ones, even as these memories may evoke feelings of loss and sadness.  Prayer flags will be available for recording the names and legacy of these loved ones, as we together prepare for our annual feast day.  Led by Pam Palmentera, bereavement counselor.

After 27 wonderful Cafes, we are in need of new team members. We need chefs and other folks who can take on a leadership role in the kitchen with prepping food, shopping, creating menus and kitchen set-up. We are at a crossroads as we seek out new team members. 

If you are interested in helping the Cafe continue, then please attend this meeting with your ideas. We need your input. We need your help.

 

Saturday night, October 22

7 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.

1757 W. Wilson Avenue, Chicago

 

Tickets:              

$25 Hunger Rock 5 (and HR5 After-Party)

$10 HR5 (After-Party Only)

 

7 p.m.            

Early evening features specialty cocktails, savory appetizers, unique performers, fabulous auction items, celebrity photo ops, and a few surprises. Your $25 ticket also puts you on the hipster-heavy A-list and past the line for the HR5 after-party and DJ requests. Come celebrate and support RCS. 

Purchase your $25 Hunger Rock 5 ticket here or visit ravenswoodcommunityservices.org.

 

9 p.m.              

Just want to dance 'til you drop? You got it: the HR5 after-party and DJ dance. There'll still be plenty of celebrity photo ops and fun for the fashionably late. Come celebrate and support RCS. 

Purchase your $10 HR5 After-Party ticket here. or visit www.ravenswoodcommunityservices.org.

 

Last year RCS volunteers hosted more than 18,000 food pantry visits and served almost 6,500 meals to hungry people in our community, and the need is growing. HUNGER ROCK! helps raise funds to support RCS' local hunger relief programs.  Join us for the fun, and help feed your hungry neighbors.

 

For more information about Hunger Rock 5 call RCS at 773-769-0282 or email at info@ravenswoodcommunityservices.org

On Sunday, October 30, All Saints' will celebrate both All Saints' and All Souls' days with festivity, New Orleans-style music, and reverence.We invite you to invoke the spirits of and pray for departed loved ones by writing their names, your prayers, or whatever you desire on the colored paper available at the back of the church or by submitting your offerings electronically here. Your offerings will be incorporated into colorful strings of Mexican paper banners that will be arrayed throughout the sanctuary. 

You are also invited to create an ofrenda- an offering or altar- in honor of a loved one.  It can be as simple as a framed photo or it can be a more elaborate tableau that includes the favorite food, drink, and other worldly icons that evoke the departed. Ofrendas can be brought to the church between now and October 30 and will be displayed around the sanctuary on that day.

About Day of the Dead

In Mexico, November 1, All Saints' Day, and November 2, All Souls' Day, are a joyful time of remembrance known as Los Dias de los Muertos, the Days of the

Dead. During this time, the souls of the dead return to earth-the spirits of los angelitos (children) on All Saints' Day and the spirits of adults on All Souls' Day. On October 31, families go to the graveyard to clean tombs and gravestones and to construct altars that honor their loved ones.  These altars are bedecked with candles, gifts, flowers, photographs, the favorite food and drink of the departed, and candies and toys in the shapes of skulls and skeletons symbolizing the promise of resurrection, rather than decay and death. Profuse displays of marigolds and chrysanthemums are common.

 

St. James Cathedral will open its doors, inviting all into a sacred space to look, listen, learn, contemplate and act. The exhibit is open Wednesday through Saturday from noon until 6 p.m. and Sundays between 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. (closed on Mondays and Tuesdays).

 

Click here to listen to (or read) NPR's story about this moving exhibit:   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125299636  

 

Or go here for more information about the exhibit: 

http://vimeo.com/28835693

 

The Cathedral is seeking volunteers who care about the issue of hunger to serve as hosts.  Volunteer hosts will staff an information table near the entrance/exit to the exhibit, and will be invited to share information with guests about how they can help address the issue of hunger.

 

Ravenswood Community Services is partnering with the Cathedral to provide volunteer hosts at the exhibit.  Volunteer shifts are available Wednesdays through Saturdays each week in October from noon until 2 p.m., 2 o'clock until 4 p.m. and 4 o'clock until 6 p.m; and Sundays from 12:30 p.m. until 3 o'clock. There is a particular need for volunteers on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.  If your schedule allows, please consider volunteering for a few shifts throughout the month to tell curious guests about your work at RCS.

 

All volunteers are invited to a reception with Michael Nye on Thursday, October 6 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at St. James Cathedral.  Meet the artist, meet others who care about hunger and learn more about this powerful exhibit.

 

To reserve your volunteer shift, please contact Susan Rex at hunger@saintjamescathedral.org.  Be sure to mention that you are volunteering on behalf of Ravenswood Community Services, as any donations collected at the exhibit will be shared among participating partner agencies to support their hunger relief efforts.

 

Please note:  St. James Cathedral is located near the Red Line (Chicago Avenue stop).  Discounted parking is available for $9 at the Millenium Centre Parking Garage at 33 W. Ontario (entry on either Ontario or Ohio).  But sure to ask for a discount parking ticket at the Cathedral.

It's apple season! Ladies, please join us for October's ECW gathering. On Saturday, October 15 at 2:30pm we will meet in the All Saints' kitchen as parishioner Angie Schlater shares her love of canning and teaches us how to whip up some easy applesauce. Please RSVP to ecw@allsaintschicago.org and plan on bringing your own paring knife, cutting board, 8-12 apples and a couple of lidded mason jars. Come on by for some Fall fellowship!

Do you love Halloween as much as Polly and Clyde do? Want to help make this year's Fright Fest even more fun and spookier than last year?  The youth group has already stared planning for this year's Haunted Undercroft/Patio.  But Polly and Clyde need your help to come up with more games and decorations for the parish hall.   How about devil ducks from the black lagoon?  And someone is going to need help to build the maze out of cardboard boxes for Frankenstein's lair. We will of course have the witches back to tell oh so mysterious fortunes again.  The Fright Fest is scheduled for the week-end of the 29th along with the Sunday Celebration of Day of the Dead and All Saints' Day.  You can help a little or a lot - just talk to Polly Tangora or Clyde Propst or email polly@allsaintschicago.org.

Join hundreds of friends from across our Diocese for dinner, dancing, and fun at the 52nd Annual Episcopal Charities Ball on Friday, November 4th, at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago.  The black-tie-optional gala will raise more than $60,000 for the Diocese's social outreach through Episcopal Charities and Community Services.  Tickets are $250 per person. Silent & Live Auctions, and new this year, a Wine Auction! For more information, please contact our parish representative:  The Rev. Bonnie A. Perry, bonnie@allsaintschicago.org or 773-561-011, or Anne Sawkiw at ECCS: (312) 751-6721 or sawkiw@eccsonline.net or www.eccsonline.net.

 

Carolyn Cooney, Margaret McHugh, Michael Krause, Brian Meyer, Meredith's Brother, Carol Smith, Randy Davis, Pat Ford, Madeline, Andrew and Owen, The family of Steve Pocztowski, Jennifer Christy, Steve and Ann Walk, Jane and Bryan, Judy Jones, Marian, Bart Hanson, Judy Monaghan, William J. Goins and his sisters Jean, Becki, and Glada, Debbie & Carl, Rev. Joan McPherson and family, France Mahar Driscal and family, Carolyn Mattson, Darryl Handcock, Reynold Frutkin, Judy Traverso

 

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 

Birthdays

10/2-      Clara Lyons 

10/3-      Janet Davies, Katie Donnelly, Mary Jones 

10/4-      Torin Kavanagh

10/5-      Daniel Morgan, Faye Simokaitis 

10/7-      Chris Means 

 

Anniversaries

10/2-      Anneliese Gallagher and Erin Marshall; Annie Logue and Rik Lantz 

10/3-      Jennifer Keller and Mark Ortlieb

 

For Those Who Have Died

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.