MINISTERS FOR SUNDAY

Assisting

Deacon Wagner

First Reading

Alison Mitchell

Second Reading

Tray Hamil

Intercessor 

Carolyn Jeffers

Chalice Bearers

Bob Israel, Leland Moore

Oblationers

Lucy and David Brady

Crucifer

Janie Chow, Annabelle Ramo

Acolytes

Jordan Chow, Charlie Ramo, Julianna Ramo,

Ellie Grehan, Yates Grehan

Children's Chapel

Skip Archer, Rose Elliott

Altar Guild 

Barbara Archer, Jennifer Grehan,Donna Moree, 

Martha Ann Stafford

Flower Guild

Lucy Brady, Sage Bolt

Ushers

Robby McClure, Sonny Irvine, Banks Ladd, Chuck McKay

CATHEDRAL NOTES

STEWARDSHIP INGATHERING SUNDAY 

This Sunday ends our month-long stewardship drive. 

BUILDING OUR MISSION: STEWARDSHIP 2015 

If you have not done so, please return your pledge today. Additional forms are available on the ministry table. Please place your pledge envelope in the basin in front of the pulpit as you go up to communion. 

Many thanks to our speakers for this year's drive. The message Building Our Mission: Stewardship 2015 was outlined by our vestry leadership: John S. McClelland, Jr., Senior Warden and Robert Israel, Junior Warden. 

ALL SAINTS' SUNDAY CATHEDRAL CELEBRATION 

Please join us after the service this Sunday for a Cathedral Celebration in the garden. 

MORNING CIRCLE 

Monday, November 10 at 10:30 a.m. 

At the home of Happy Grehan (257 Dilston Lane). Leader: TBA For information or directions, call Carolyn Stephenson at 342-5637. 

YOUNG ADULTS SUPPER CLUB 

Thursday, November 13 at 7:00 p.m. 

At the home of Mary Carol and Banks Ladd (106 Levert Avenue). B.Y.O.B., a small appetizer, and a canned good. RSVP to Mary Carol at mcladd@comcast.net or 680-7476. 

DIACONATE ORDINATION AND RECEPTION 

Saturday, November 22 at 10:00 a.m. 

This year we will ordain six seminarians to the Diaconate. 

Staffing Needs: 

 Stand-up Breakfast: 7:30 a.m. until 9:45 a.m. Purchase, preparation and serving of a stand up breakfast. 

 Reception: 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 a.m. Purchase, prepare and serve cheese straws, nuts and mints, and beverages. 

 Greeters: 9:00 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. We will need 10 to 12 greeters stationed around the campus. 

 Ushers: 9:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. We will need four ushers to hand out bulletins, assist during the service and help prepare the church for Sunday. 

If you can help, please contact the Cathedral office at 438-1822 or office@christchurchcathedralmobile.org or sign-up on the form on the ministry table. 

CATHEDRAL MUSIC  

Music notes for this Sunday:

All Saints Sunday is a time when we remember those who have gone before us in life and in faith. We remember them at every Eucharist, but especially on All Saints. The celebration of saints and ancestors has been popular throughout history for many reasons with one being our desire to identify with their humanity. It is easy to say that God is perfect and all good, but it really "brings it home" to have human examples of Godly living. The All Saints celebration conjures images of light, peace, rest, intercession, invocation, and hope. Composers of music have dealt with these themes throughout the whole history of documented music. Indeed, all of us grapple with questions concerning the nature of death and the afterlife at some point in our lives. This Sunday, we will have several examples of music that expresses these issues in various ways.

Firstly, I'd like to draw your attention to this week's offertory and communion music from Gabriel Fauré's Requiem in d minor. Fauré (1845-1924) premiered the requiem in Paris in 1888 at the Church of the Madeleine, where he was organist. Amusingly, the priest of the church called the work a novelty and asserted that it was unnecessary because the church had a rich enough repertoire already! Regardless, as director of the Paris Conservatoire (the most famous music school in France) and widely considered the most advanced French composer of his generation, Fauré had a long and fruitful career playing, teaching, and composing music in many diverse genres such as chamber music, opera, choral works, organ music, piano music, orchestral music, and more. Sunday, the choir will offer the Introit and Kyrie from Fauré's Requiem, and our special guest violoncellist, Dr. Guo-Sheng Huang, will play the Pie Jesu during communion.

The history of the Mass for the Dead, also known as the Missa pro Defunctis and often as a Requiem Mass, is long and complex. However, it is sufficient for our purposes to understand that it is a service that commemorates a deceased person or persons and contains numerous prayers for the repose of their soul(s). The term "Requiem Mass" comes from the first Latin word of the introit antiphon, "Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine . . . " Recalling last week's music article, you may remember that I wrote about the Propers of the Mass - the antiphons and psalms that are appointed for the entrance, offertory, and communion portions of a given service. A setting of a Requiem Mass is in fact a setting of the Propers for that service, just like any other service. However, it is interesting to note how many more composers have set the Propers for the Dead to music versus Propers for other services. Our human fascination with death and the afterlife is indeed strong. We search for answers, and in doing so, we create. The text for Fauré's setting of the entrance (introit) and Kyrie (Lord, have mercy) is a follows (translated into English): Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. A hymn becomes you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall a vow be repaid in Jerusalem. Hear my prayer; to you all flesh shall come. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Fauré himself said of his own work, "[The Requiem] is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest. It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that I see death: as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience . . . As to my Requiem, perhaps I have also instinctively sought to escape from what is thought right and proper after all the years of accompanying burial services on the organ! I know it all by heart. I wanted to write something different."

On Sunday, in addition to Fauré's Pie Jesu, we will hear the Pie Jesu by Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948). As the composer of so many musicals such as The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Jesus Christ Superstar, Webber needs no introduction! However, I would like to share the English translation of the Latin text of this piece in the hope that it will aid your enjoyment. The translation is as follows: Faithful Jesus, who takes away the sins of the world, give them rest. Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, give them rest, everlasting rest.

Throughout history, musicians have composed music that strives to understand the meaning of life. While this may be a more interesting or pressing question for some than for others, we are all fortunate to have beautiful music with which to celebrate our faith and our striving toward heavenly mysteries. As we celebrate those gone before us we also celebrate our final goal: eternal rest in perpetual light.

NOTE FROM EDITOR: Listen to Christopher W. Powell improvise during a demonstration of the Hook&Hastings/Steiner-Reck pipe organ at Christ Church Cathedral in Mobile, AL on Oct. 05. 2014.   

CLICK HERE   

WE PRAY FOR:  

Members: 

Brink Brinkley, Dunn Chandler, John Wade Thurber, Nick Nichols, Butch Trawick, Billie van der Giessen, Peter van der Giessen, Patti Biel, Alice Carwie, Raymond Fields, The Rev. Ellis Wilkins, Lisa Williams

Friends & Family: 

Janie Houser, Leland Moore, Sr., Deborah Beverley, Peggy Naughton, Gary Davis, Harrison Leff, Michael Cameron, Nancy & Don Cameron, Rob & Amy Archer Ellis, Dottie McCord, Joyce Lee, Davis Nelson, Michael Sumrall, Sheri Neely, Gwen Cook, Alfred Showers, Michael Daves, Michael Sumrall, Jim Elia, Anne Brown, Mark Brown, Harriett Lillich, Bonnie Orillion, Dave Carlyn Block, Scott Craver, Rachel McClanahan, Beverly Schubert, Tom Cunningham, Francis Grace Hirs, Anna Laura Plovanich, Norma Beazley, Curtis Bullock, Valerie Boatman, Brian McArdle, Ann Jones, Hank Wozniek, Lisa Thompson, Stella Phillips, James Thomas, Ted Fraiche, Mark Miles, Susan Guilian, Rhett Travis, Tot Swanson, Art Swanson, Chris, Anne & Philip Gill, Hayden Jenkins, Maggie Jenkins, Betty Ruth Patek, Carolyn Pryor, Merle Findley, Louise Douglas, Shirley & Dunlap Peeples, Steve Harris, Sandy Fortner, Carole Graf, Johnny McLeod, Marian Macpherson Currie, Jim & Dianne McCall, Mary Lou Peake, Bill Goodloe, Kit & Roger Geil and the Geil family, Marie Harrison, Angel & Larry Torres, Kathy Boucvalt, Bill Stevens, Mancil Lee, Ginger Simpson, Carrier Yankie, Karen Sentilles, Melody Williams, Lila Fisk, Kendall Stanton, Tracey Johnson, Joe Lowrey, Viva Weeks, Temple Webber, Celeste Hall, Joel Hopper, Betty Browder, David Lannie, The Rev. Mark Wilson, The Rev. Keith Talbert, Allan Tucker, Wyatt Ison, Sallie Jackson, Curt Kennington, Kathy Sanders, Davis Sarrett, Willie Stanton, Clarise Waters, Glenn Hill 

For Those Serving in the Military: 

Darrien Gibson, Kelley Hood, Evan Sizemore, Robert McNeil, The Rev. Bowen Woodruff, Daniel White-Spunner Reed, Jonathan Duralde, Ron Lansong, Sam Garcia, Chris Marslender, Jerry Olin, Abby Hutchins, Tyler Gamble, Jean-Michael Lemieux, Albert Robinson IV, Michael Nassar, Josh Power, Ryan Anthony Thomas, Randy Johnson, Susan Reniewicz, Brian Caselton, Brian Hudson, Keith Moss, Ryan Walker, Tyler Oubre, Brian Pennell, John Snyder, Louis Coggin, Jason Norris, Conner Thigpen, Zack Miller, Parker Hollinghead, Todd & Jordana Mouthaan 

Birth: 

Charles Pollard Van Antwerp, son of Hayley and Bragg Van Antwerp, grandson of Gypsie and Tom Van Antwerp 

Anglican Cycle of Prayer: 

The Episcopal Church of Cuba 

Cathedral Cycle of Prayer: 

St. Thomas, Citronelle, Alabama; the ministry of Sara Phillips, Pastoral Leader, St. Mary's, Coden 

Ecumenical Cycle of Prayer: 

The Church in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda and for Regency Church of Christ, Mobile 

Prison Ministry Cycle of Prayer: 

Butler County Correctional Facility, Greenville, Alabama