Please join us for our monthly baby gathering! We will be laying out blankets in the reading room after the 9am service on Sunday, October 23rd. If your family has a little one, and you'd like to connect with other families that do here at All Saints, please feel free to stop on by!

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 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

Come join the All Saints' Justice Circle at an event sponsored by United Power to address healthcare reform in Illinois, on Sunday, October 16 at 3 PM at Temple Sholom--3480 N. Lake Shore Drive. Governor Patrick Quinn and other elected officials will be there!

 

Public transportation and carpools are recommended.  For anyone interested in going, several of us will have brunch after church and head there from All Saints.  Please respond to Jack at jack@allsaintschicago.org by Monday the 10th so we have a head count.

 

All Saints' Justice Circle welcomes Bishop Christopher Senyonjo of Uganda on Tuesday, October 18, at 7 p.m. to All Saints' Episcopal Church as he offers a talk to the congregation and community during his Compass to Compassion tour.

 

An outspoken advocate for LGBT people in Uganda and the African continent, Bishop Senyonjo has been fearless in confronting the "Kill the Gays" movement in his country. This tour is designed to educate the Scottish and American public on the difficulties facing LGBTQ people in Uganda and in 75 other countries where homosexuality is criminalized.

 

If you have questions or want to RSVP, please contact Matty at matthewzaradich@gmail.com. You can also RSVP via the Facebook event here.

 

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!

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. 

We also invite you to create an ofrenda- an offering or altar-in honor of a loved one. It can be as simple as a framed photo or a more elaborate tableau that includes the favorite food, drink, and other worldly icons that evoke the departed. If you own a glue gun, you can make an ofrenda! (And if you don't own a glue gun, it's high time you did!) See the samples arrayed at the back of the sanctuary for inspiration. Or check out these websites:

 

 http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/altar/ 

 http://www.inside-mexico.com/ofrenda.htm 

 http://www.squidoo.com/ofrenda

 

The dollar store is a great source of colorful fake flowers, pillar candles encased in glass, and other shiny things (note that all lit candles have to be in glass, as All Saints' is a highly flammable church).  Check out the scrap booking section at Target or Michael's.  Old photos can be scanned and sized on your printer, or simply reduced on a photocopy machine. 

 

Drop off ofrendas on Friday evening, October 28, between 6 and 8 or on Saturday, October 29, between 10 and 1.  It's nice to include a card or statement that indicates who the loved one is, and who you, the creative and loving parishioner, are.  

 

2011 has been a time of great change and upheaval at Santa María Virgen.  

The departure of Padre Cesar at the end of 2010 left the people traumitized and divided.  Padre Byron Chanchavac arrived to a disheartened and bitter congregation.  He has been working ever since his arrival to heal, reconcile and empower his people to trust in God's loving grace to triumph over adversity and grow spiritually and as a community.  Padre Byron's work and the spirit of God was apparent to us during our visit this summer.  We observed how a community coming together to paint a church can create a miracle.  

 

Want to know more?

• Click here to read more, including a translated summary of a report that Padre Byron sent us after our return to Chicago.  

• Check out the new photos in the hallway between the church and the sacristy.

~Dave and Karen Howe

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.

 

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.

Help "Connect People with Possibilities" by joining friends from across the Diocese for dinner, dancing, and fun on Friday, November 4th, at the 52nd Annual Episcopal Charities Ball at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago.  This black-tie-optional gala will raise more than $60,000 for the Diocese's social outreach through Episcopal Charities and Community Services (ECCS).  Every year ECCS helps bring abundant life to thousands of women, men, and children through the work of its ministry partners and its own initiatives.  Tickets for the Episcopal Charities Ball are $250 per person. For more information, contact Beau Surratt at beau@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

10/9-      Mark Ortlieb 

10/10-    Angelica Flint, Jennifer Rangel

10/11-    David Fawley, Helen Johnston, Michelle Mayes, Liz Morris, Christine Simokaitis 

10/13-    Calvin Caceres, Connor Caceres, Anjali Mathew, Harlan Shropshire, Julia Stuenkel

10/14-    Julie Partyka, Henry Zone

10/15-    Lora Walsh

 

Anniversaries

10/11-    Fran Holliday and Eileen Flynn; Margaret and Bob McCamant 

10/12-    Tony and MaryBush Ginn; Eric Futran and Laura Molzahn; Beau Surratt and Steve Wiant

10/14-    Bart and Kirsten Hanson 

10/15-    Trevor and Jill McOmber

 

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.