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Diocese of Kentucky News & Information

March 25, 2011

In This Issue
Lenten Reflections
Ways to Help
Calendars
Anglican Covenant Input Wanted
Holy Week Liturgies
Worship, Music, Workshops and More
Diaconal Discernment Days
Vigil for Japanese
DOK Spring Assembly
Cathedral Arts, Great Easter Vigil
Norton Seminar
Small Church Conference
Music Conference
Book Review
Episcopal Radio
News from the Wider Church
Episcopal-Lutheran Communion; Video of Elizabethtown Service Available
Same-Gender Blessings Discussion
Sewanee Scholarships
Churchwide Survey
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Lent: A Season

for Reflection

Lent graphic on website home page 2011 

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to resources  


A Place to Begin

graphic to cover page of St. Matthew's meditation booklet
'Listening to God'

   

 

Ways to Help
Our Neighbors 

 

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Help the Diocese of Haiti Rebuild Its Church



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Help the Anglican Church in Japan relief efforts through Episcopal Relief & Development

Logo for Christchurch Cathedral in New Zealand 

Help rebuild earthquake damaged cathedral and churches in  New Zealand   

 

Weekly Prayer Calendar  

 

March 27: Pray for the Dioceses of Mount Kenya Central, South and West (Kenya) in the Anglican Communion; for the Spring House of Bishops in the U.S.; and for Home of the Innocents in the diocese.

 

April 3: Pray for the Diocese of Multan (Pakistan) in the Anglican Communion, and St. Mark's Church, the Rev. Charles Hawkins, rector.  

 

April 10: Pray for the Diocese of Nagpur (North India) in the Anglican Communion, and for Trinity Church, Owensboro, the Rev. Pat Connell, rector.

 

April 17: Pray for the Bishop of Jerusalem in the Anglican Communion, and for the Kentucky Council of Churches in the diocese. 

 

April 24: Pray for the Anglican Communion, and for the Diocese of Kentucky, the Rt. Rev. Terry White, bishop. 

 

Events in the Diocese and Beyond  

 

March 23-30: Spring House of Bishops Meeting, Kanuga Conference Center, Hendersonville, N.C.

 

April 2: Diaconal Discernment Day, St. Mark's Church, 2822 Frankfort Ave., Louisville. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (EDT). A second one will be held May 21 at St. Mary's Church in Madisonville.    

 

April 3: Bishop Visitation: St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 2822 Frankfort Ave., Louisville. 

 

 Looking Ahead  

 

April 8-9: School of Ministry, All Saints Conference Center, 833 Hickory Grove Road, Leitchfield.  

 

April 9: Episcopal Church History, class by Dr. Robert Prichard, Virginia Theological Seminary, All Saints Conference Center, 833 Hickory Grove Road, Leitchfield. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (CDT). 

 

April 9:All Saints Board Meeting,  All Saints Conference Center, 833 Hickory Grove Road, Leitchfield.

 

April 10Bishop Visitation, Trinity Church, 720 Ford Ave. Owensboro.   

 

April 12: Clergy Renewal of Vows & Blessing of Oils, St. Mary's Church, 163 N. Main St., Madisonville. 11 a.m. to  2 p.m. (CDT).

 

April 13: Clergy Renewal of Vows & Blessing of Oil, Christ Church Cathedral, 421 S. Second St., Louisville. 11 a.m. to  2 p.m. (EDT).   

 

April 15-16: Daughters of the King Spring Assembly, St. Luke's Church, 1206 Maple Lane, Anchorage. Board meeting and dinner, 5:45 p.m. (EDT) April 15. Full Assembly, 9-3 p.m. April 16 with registration 8:30 -9 a.m. (EDT). Bishop Terry White will present April 16 program, beginning at 9:45 a.m., on ""Model of Servant Ministry-Sister Emily Cooper." 

 

April 17: Palm Sunday. Bishop White will celebrate and preside at Christ Church Cathedral, 421 S. Second St., Louisville. Sunday services at 8:15 and 10 a.m. (EDT). 

 

April 21: Maundy Thursday. Bishop White will celebrate and preach at Christ Church Cathedral, 421 S. Second St., Louisville. 6:30 p.m. (EDT). 

 

April 22: Good Friday, Diocesan Office Closed. 

 

April 23: Great Easter Vigil. Begins at 8:30 p.m. (EDT) at the Cathedral of the Assumption, 433 S 5th St., Louisville, and proceeds to Christ Church Cathedral, 421 S. Second St., where Bishop White will celebrate Eucharist and preach. 

 

April 24: Easter Sunday. Christ Church Cathedral, 421 S. Second St., Louisville. 10 a.m. (EDT). Bishop White will celebrate Eucharist and preach. 

 

April 25: Choral Arts Society Concert, St. Francis in the Fields Church, 6710 Wolf Pen Branch Road, Harrods Creek. 8 p.m. (EDT). 

  

April 26: Commission on Ministry, St. Francis in the Fields Church, 6710 Wolf Pen Branch Road, Harrods Creek.

5-8 p.m. (EDT).


April 28: Norton HealthCare "End-of-Life Care" seminar for clergy, 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. (EDT), Crowne Plaza Hotel, 830 Phillips Lane, Louisville.



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Leaders of The Episcopal Church seek input  

from members on proposed Anglican Covenant     


All congregations in the Episcopal Church were invited last year to study the proposed Anglican Covenant and share their insights with their diocese's bishops and convention-bound deputies before the next General Convention, meeting in 2012 in Indianapolis.  The time is near to share those responses, if possible by April 24. The Church's Executive Council has asked for responses from the bishops and diocesan deputations by that date in order to "reflect the Church's initial response to the final draft of the Anglican Covenant, and to be included in Executive Council's Blue Book Report to the 77th General Convention."  

 

As the highest legislative authority of The Episcopal Church, the General Convention is the body that will ultimately decide The Episcopal Church's position with respect to participation in an Anglican Communion Covenant.


Responses may be sent directly to gcoffice@episcopalchurch.org  


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We want to see and hear from you 

Diocese launches online media library      


With this announcement, the Diocese of Kentucky has launched, in conjunction with Ourchurchvideos.com, a digital media library for promoting and publishing videos, audios and photos of note produced by and about our congregations and ministries.    

 

Visit our new media center to view the handful of digital publications that have been uploaded to date.  Our goal is to publish a short video about each of our churches and, additionally, to offer space for them to share their videos, audio files and photo albums about  special programs and services.    Read more 

   

News briefly

 


 Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music issues statement on inconsistencies in Holy Week liturgies
By The Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs

[March 24, 2011] The Episcopal Church Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (SCLM) has issued the following statement concerning inconsistencies between the Revised Common Lectionary and the Holy Week Liturgies of the Book of Common Prayer.  Read more 

 

Episcobits  


New worship service time at St. Francis in Fields  

From St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek

St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church announces a new service time at 11:15 a.m. (EDT) on Sundays. This is a casual service in a relaxed atmosphere, featuring The Field Hands Band in Graves Hall. This Sunday, March 27, the Barbershop Quartet Pay It Fourward will perform.

St. Francis in the Fields is located at 6710 Wolf Pen Branch Rd., at the new corner of U.S. 42 and Wolf Pen Branch, and offers services at 8:00, 9:00, 11:00 and 11:15, with classes for all ages at 10 a.m. (EDT). For more information, visit our website at www.stfrancisinthefields.org or contact Cheryl Brandreth, Family Ministry Coordinator, in the parish office at 502-228-1176, or via email to Cherylb@stfrancisinthefields.org.

Join St. Thomas youth "virtually" on April mission trip; donate today -- really -- to their Gulf Coast fund 

From St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Louisville

The youth of St. Thomas Episcopal Church have invited you to "virtually" join them on their 2011 mission trip as they visit the Gulf Coast to help restore the area that was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina almost six years ago.  Read more

St. Thomas' new rector is welcomed by church,  hosts Lenten program 


On Sunday, March 20, St. Thomas Episcopal Church officially welcomed their new rector, the Rev. Anne Vouga, at the 10 a.m. service.  A reception in her honor was held afterwards.

The congregation is reviewing the book "An Altar in the World" by Barbara Brown Taylor as part of its Lenten program this year.  The program begins with a light meal in the fellowship hall at 6 p.m. (EST). It is followed by the class, led by the rector, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. (EDT). 

 

Worship, music, workshops and more 


Feeling call to become a deacon?

The Diaconal Discernment Days, cosponsored by the Diocese of Kentucky's Logo for the School of MinistryCommission on Ministry and the Diocesan School of Ministry, will be held April 2 in Louisville and May 21 in Madisonville. They are intended to provide information for individuals discerning a call to the diaconate and for spouses/partners to learn more about ordained ministry.

There is no cost for the conference. Fill out the  online application form  and have it signed by your rector/vicar. Return it one week prior to the discernment day that you plan to attend.

 

Vigil, fundraiser set April 3 for victims of earthquake, tsunami 

By Interfaith Paths to Peace

Interfaith Paths to Peace and other Louisville organizations will hold a vigil and concert Sunday, April 3 to honor the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan  and to raise funds for their assistance.

All proceeds will directly benefit victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Read more
Bishop to speak at DOK assembly
Graphic of the Daughters of the King Cross and logoRegistration is underway for the Daughters of the King Spring Assembly, which will be held April 15 and 16, 2011, at St. Luke's Episcopal Church  in Anchorage. Presentations will be given by Bishop Terry Allen White and the Rev. Ellen Morrell, rector of St. Peter's Church in Louisville.  Read more

 

Picture of cathedral by Donald Vish

At the Cathedral

 

Cathedral Arts' concert

A Concert of Early Music with Weiland Kuijken, viola da gamba, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. (EDT)

Thursday, March 31.  Christ Church Cathedral 

is located at 421-425 S. Second St., Louisville.   

 

Great Easter Vigil

The Very Rev. Mark Bourlakas and the cathedral congregation invite all congregations in the Diocese of Kentucky to join them and Bishop Terry White for the Great Vigil of Easter on Saturday evening, April 24.  A note from the bishop about the service follows.  Read more 


Seminar for clergy on "End-of-life Care" next month   

by Norton Health Care
Clergy, ministers, chaplains and seminarians are invited to a seminar sponsored by the Norton Healthcare Office of Church and Health Ministries on "End-of-life Care: A Perspective for Clergy." 

The seminar will be held Thursday, April 28, 2011, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 830 Phillips Lane, Louisville (40209). Registration will begin at 8:30 am. and the program at 9 a.m. (EDT). It will end 3:45 (EDT).  Read more 

Registration underway for Province IV congregational development conference
by Gene Willard, Province IV Administrator
The Episcopal Church' Province IV Congregational Development & Evangelism ministry network will be hosting a conference May 12-14 at Dubose Conference Center at Monteagle, Tenn.  The conference, "Leadership Marks to Create and Grow Vital Congregations," is aimed at representatives from small parishes.

Visit http://www.prov4cde.org/Content/Marks_of_Leadership.asp for additional information and a registration form. Conference planners need to know by March 31 whether you and/or your colleagues will be attending.  Read more

Registration being taken for July music conference
Dubose Conference Center near Sewanee

DuBose Conference Center


The 61st Sewanee Church Music Conference will be heldMonday, July11,through Sunday, July 17, 2011. Featured lecturers include Episcopal priest and author the Rev. Barbara Cawthorne Crafton and the Rev. Dr. Susanna Metz, director of the Center for Ministry in Small Churches at the University of the South's School of Theology.
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Reviews for y/our consideration 


Book Review 

Music for vital congregations

By Janet Irwin, Episcopal News Editor Emeritus

Music and Vital Congregations: A Practical Guide for Clergy by William Bradley Roberts 129 pp Church Publishing New York 2009
Dr. Bill Roberts is well known in the Diocese of Kentucky not only for the work he did during his tenure as minister of music at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Louisville, but also for the many lectures and workshops he has given across the country while holding posts in California, Arizona and Washington, DC, and now as professor of church music at Virginia Seminary.

In this little handbook, Roberts offers guidance to both clergy and musicians in ways they can work together to better meet the needs of their congregation. "Give them great music and great preaching, and they will come," he quotes from the words of an African American Baptist preacher. Both preaching and music are needed for effective worship, but too often, due to their diverse backgrounds and training, clergy and music leaders have difficulty working and planning together.  Read more

Resources for y/our consideration  


Church plans to debut radio network this summer  

By ENS staff, March 17, 2011

The Episcopal Church Office of Communication will launch Episcopal Web Radio Network during the summer of 2011.

Episcopal Web Radio will begin with Spanish language programming, called Cadena Episcopal de RadioWeb, according to a press release from the Office of Public Affairs, and will be available on the Episcopal Church website.

Cadena Episcopal de RadioWeb will broadcast via radio, web radio and podcasts with Spanish programming from the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, the release said. Among the programming will be offerings by the Rev. Alberto Cutié of Miami, an author and well-known television and radio host who is in the Diocese of Southeast Florida. Read more


 

News from the wider church


Episcopalians, Lutherans in North America plan full-communion commemoration  


[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church and the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of America will on May 1 join with their Canadian
counterparts - the Anglican Church in Canada and the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Canada - to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the
churches' full-communion relationship.

"Called to Common Mission," the full-communion agreement between the
Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and
"The Waterloo Declaration" between the Anglican Church of Canada and
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, both took effect in 2001. Read more 

[Editor's Note: The Diocese of Kentucky's bishop and the bishop of the Indiana-Kentucky Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America celebrated the joint ministry of Lutherans and Episcopalians in Elizabethtown earlier this year. A video of the service with interviews by the bishops and members of the congregation is now available online. Click here


 

Deputies leave historic meeting eager to discuss same-gender blessings with wider church  

General Convention will consider Episcopal Church's next steps

By Mary Frances Schjonberg, March 21, 2011

[Episcopal News Service - Atlanta] Nearly 200 members of the Episcopal Church House of Deputies left a historic March 18-19 churchwide consultation on same-gender blessings here promising to tell their colleagues and their dioceses about the work they did in preparation for the 2012 General Convention.

The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music invited one lay and one clergy deputy from each of the church's 109 dioceses and three regional areas to hear about and reflect on its work to date on the mandate given to it in General Convention 2009 Resolution C056.  Read more 


 

Sewanee gets scholarship grant for African student
Episcopal News Service, March 17, 2011

The J. Christopher Flowers Foundation has given $80,000 to the University of the South's School of Theology to fund a scholarship program for an African student. "I am deeply grateful for this commitment to support an African theological student at the University of the South," the Very Rev. William Stafford, theology school dean, said in a press release. "The benefits of this are transformative for all parties as it can open up an American student body to un-dreamed realities and it almost always strengthens the leadership of the African churches. The resulting relationships are very welcome in a time of institutional fracture."

The release said the gift will cover the cost of a two-year seminary education for an African student -- either a priest or a very advanced ordinand -- in the master of arts degree program. The grant will cover tuition, books, room, board, personal expenses, health insurance, and transportation, including a summer back in the student's home, according to the release.  Read more 

 

Survey shows congregations increasing digital use; two-thirds of churches face financial difficulties
By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Church congregations are more and
more turning to the internet and social media in particular to
communicate with their members and their communities, according to a
just-released summary of a nationwide survey of faith communities.

Results for Episcopalians in the Faith Communities Today Survey (FACT)
show that 95 percent of congregations surveyed report that they use
email to communicate with members and 86 percent have websites. The
latter is an increase from 81 percent in 2008 and 76 percent in 2005.
Forty-one percent report having used Facebook or other social media in
2010. Congregations frequently reported using electronic newsletters,
text messaging and Twitter, the survey said.    Read more

 

Dear Readers,   

If you or your church or organization  have news of interest to Episcopalians, especially Lenten programs and services, please send us your stories and, if possible,  photos for possible publication online and in the E-blast.  Preferably, the articles will be sent as Word documents by email to maryjane@episcopalky.org

      

SPECIALREQUEST A Special request 

With our Lenten journeys underway and Easter just weeks away, we want to make it easy for people searching online for Holy Week services to find them in our diocese. If you would like to see your church's services included in our list, please send us the times and dates of your Holy Week services and include your church's street address, city and website address.     

 

Faithfully,

Mary Jane  

 
 
Mary Jane Cherry 
Communications Director
Diocese of Kentucky
502-584-7148 or 1-800-222-DIOC(3462)
maryjane@episcopalky.org