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Dear Parish Family and Friends, I have been pondering the relationship between art and faith after one of our parishioners recently asked me, “When did we start putting pictures of paintings on the cover of the Sunday bulletin?” Those who have been at St. Stephen’s for some time will remember when we used the pen and ink drawing of the church and parish hall every week. It is a lovely sketch and it still appears on the bulletin cover from time to time, but we began using other images several years ago – starting with occasional bits of clip art, and then turning to the treasure trove of art, both ancient and modern, which can be found on the Internet. Sometimes we use ancient mosaics or icons, while at other times we find the work of “old mas-ters” or well-known eighteenth and nineteenth century artists to be most fitting. Some is strictly representational, while other works are impressionistic or abstract. Occasionally we use more modern, even contemporary works, but in all cas-es, we look for connections between the art and the message being proclaimed in the scripture readings for the day. The connections between these works of art and our faith can turn out to be unexpected and profound. Searching for the right image often leads me into a world of meaning or interpretation that is new, fascinating, sometimes troubling, and always enriching. Through their work, artists share an appreciation for the beauty and drama of the worlds they explore or imagine. Their art revolves around making truth visible through revelation, insight, and expression that are intensely personal, created in a particular context and experience, yet speaking beyond words to the heart and the spirit across time, space, language, and culture. That artistic vision—expressed in tangible form— raises questions for me, challenging my settled thoughts, and prompt-ing reconsideration or further exploration. Such questions may leap out at me directly from the image. Sometimes they creep up in the middle of the night or nag at the edges of my consciousness until I pay attention. We are invited to make room for an appreciation of profound truth on its own merits. Actively engaging with the art itself influences my preach-ing and the way the scriptures speak to me. A number of parishioners have reported a similar experience, as do those who preach and are responsible for the particular selection each week. This little exercise has become one of the gifts that St. Stephen’s gives me, a gift multifarious and unexpected, which changes the way I see the world and experience God’s presence. It not a job, but a joy, and one that I get to share with others. Thus, I find it altogether fitting that the theme of our annual fall pledge campaign is GIFT – Growing In Faith Together. Through such a seemingly small thing, my life is enriched, my soul is fed, my faith is renewed, and I am grate-ful. Some come, engage, draw a breath, and take a look. God’s spirit speaks to us in a multitude of ways and St. Stephen’s provides many different opportunities to experience it. Come, share who you are what you have, and find God’s abun-dance made manifest. Keep the faith. Share the joy. See you in church. Faithfully,

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 82 Kimberly Drive, Durham, NC 27707

From the Rector

November 2017

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From the Music Director

At the 10:30 service on October 29 children will join the adult choir to sing “Look at the World” by John Rutter. Our church’s choir school choir, appearing for the first time this Fall, will also sing a shorter anthem by themselves. As be-fits the Sunday service closest to Halloween, the postlude will be the imposing Toccata from Boёllmann’s Gothic Suite, and the prelude will include Buxtehude’s equally imposing and equally Gothic Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV 149 (a favorite of Tom Kenan).

Two days later, Lewis Moore, conductor of the Raleigh Convocation Choir and now director of music at St. Phillip’s, will, once again, provide music for the All Hallow’s Eve Service. The service begins at 7:30pm in the Teer Chapel, but is followed by a candlelit procession to the Memorial Garden for the Reading of Names.

All Saints’ Sunday

The 10:30 service on All Saints’ Sunday, November 5, will have special meaning for our adult choir because of the death earlier this year of Lorraine Reid, a faithful, longtime member of the choir’s soprano section. During Communion the choir will sing Thomas Matthew’s beautiful setting of the 23rd Psalm, which was sung at the funeral of another for-mer choir member, Mary Clyde Bugg.

The Introit has also been chosen with Lorraine and Mary Clyde in mind. Written by Thomas Campion (1567-1620) its text is as follows: NEVER weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore,

Never tirèd pilgrim's limbs affected slumber more, Than my wearied sprite now longs to fly out of my troubled breast: O come quickly, sweetest Lord, and take my soul to rest! Ever blooming are the joys of heaven's high Paradise, Cold age deafs not there our ears nor vapour dims our eyes: Glory there the sun outshines; whose beams the Blessèd only see: O come quickly, glorious Lord, and raise my sprite to Thee!

The Procession Hymn, of course will be “For all the saints” by Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Recessional Hymn will be “Ye holy angels bright.” “I sing a song of the saints of God” is often the Sequence Hymn on All Saints’ Sunday, but this year we will sing a hymn linked to the Offertory anthem.

The first line of the Sequence Hymn is the title of the choir anthem, “O what their joy and their glory must be.” The anthem, composed by William Harris (1883-1973), is an elabo-rate version of the hymn for four part choir and organ in the best English cathedral tradi-tion. The text comes from a seven stanza Latin hymn written for Saturday vespers by the brilliant philosopher, theologian, and teacher Peter Abelard (1079-1142), whose love affair with his student Héloïse is one of history’s most passionate and romantic true love stories. J. M. Neale (1818-1866) is the person responsible for the English translation of Abelard’s text.

Organ Recital

The current season of the St. Stephen’s Concert Series got underway on September 24 with a spectacular recital by the 22 year-old pianist, Alexander Beyer. His program included two major works by Rachmaninoff and shorter works by Bach and Shostakovich. After a standing ovation, he played as encore Rachmaninoff’s transcription of The Flight of the Bumble-Bee.

The emphasis on young talent continues with the next concert, the annual Frank Hawkins Kenan Memorial Organ Recit-al, which will be given by 20 year-old Raymond Hawkins.

Raymond is a third year student in the college program at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studies organ with Dr. Timothy Olsen. When Raymond first came to the school as a high school student, Olsen was so impressed with Raymond’s “talent, dedication, and passion for the organ” that he made Raymond his assistant at Augsburg Lutheran Church in Winston-Salem. Raymond became the church’s first Music Intern.

Generously endowed with organist genes (courtesy of his father, a grandfather, and a great-grandfather), Raymond’s prize-winning ways began early. At the SCISA Music Festival in Columbia, SC he received gold medals in organ five years in a row, starting at the sixth grade. At the 2014 High School Organ Festival he won both the $2,000 Thomas S.

Abelard and his pupil Heloise by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1882.

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In Memoriam

My sisters and I thank you all for being here. My sister Jennifer and I want to thank Jill for so many years of hard work and care on behalf of my mother. We feel very lucky to have the perfect older sister.

My mother was alive through so many decades. In her last year, during the election season, my sister Jennifer help up her iPhone so my mother could see it, and said, “Look, Mother, a woman is running for President.” My mother, who was born three years before women in this country were granted the vote, looked at the photograph and said: “Is she kind?”

My sisters and I thank my mother for being so alive in so many decades—for relishing so many things, being alive in so many ways. For showing us what that means. For growing and changing and becoming to the very last.

She came to North Carolina in 1955 when my father ac-cepted the job of Chairman of the German Department at Duke. She loved the South and she loved being a South-erner. (A Southerner by way of New York, Wisconsin and Iowa.) She was a huge booster of Durham, she thought there was no better place on earth to live. She orchestrated the writing of a book by local artists and thinkers called Brighter Leaves, a history of the arts in Durham, which was published when she was 91.

My mother loved Hope Valley. She loved St. Stephen’s. She loved and served the Episcopal church. (Even though she did interview the Catholics in Buffalo extensively be-fore making her choice as a teenager.) She loved Duke, where she rose from being Secretary to the Head Librarian Ben Powell in the 1950’s to Administrator of Canadian Studies when she retired. She loved Canadian Studies. She loved and served her PEO sorority.

My mother knew a lot, she read a lot. I remember a phone conversation with her late in her life when she was taking a Classics course as part of the Continuing Education pro-gram at Duke, and they were reading a new transla tion of The Iliad. She told me, “This is the best book I’ve ever read.” I thought that was a wonderful thing to say when you’re in your eighties.

She traveled a lot, she accomplished a lot. She was a lot. She had friends of every age. She loved her grandchildren, Mary, Caitlin and Liam.

She enjoyed herself enormously. And that’s the only regret we have today—that she can’t be here for the kind of gath-ering at which she’d have had so much fun.

My mother was also a poet and a lover of German litera-ture. In her honor, I’d like to read this poem by the Ger-man poet Rilke.

What will you do, God, when I die? When I, your pitcher, broken, lie? When I, your drink, go stale or dry? I am your garment, the trade you ply, you lose your meaning, losing me. Homeless without me, you will be robbed of your welcome, warm and sweet. I am your sandals: your tired feet will wander bare for want of me. Your mighty cloak will fall away. Your glance that on my cheek was laid and pillowed warm, will seek dismayed, the comforts that I offered once— to lie, as sunset colors fade in the cold lap of alien stones. What will you do, God? I am afraid.

But we’re not afraid, Mother. We’re joyful. Thank you, Mother.

Marion Salinger, a Founding Member of St. Stephen’s, passed away on August 28, 2017. We are grateful to her and to her family for their contributions to our parish over the past 58 years. Marion’s daughter Wendy Salinger deliv-ered the following tribute at the funeral on September 25.

From the Music Director (continued)

Kenan, III First Prize and the $350 John and Margaret Mueller Hymn Prize. That same year, as a winner in the Senior Division of the Peter Perret Youth Talent Search, he performed Guilmant’s Symphony No. 2 with the Winston-Salem Symphony.

Raymond’s recital will be held on SATURDAY (not Sunday!), November 11, at 4:00PM. A TV camera located in the balcony and a screen at the front of the nave will allow the audi-ence to see Raymond and his stop assistants in action. A reception will follow the recital. There will be no Pre-Concert Discussion.

Raymond’s eclectic program will feature Mendelssohn’s fourth organ sonata, Alain’s bril-liant show-piece Litanies, Buxtehude’s E major Praeludium, and Daquin’s Noёl Suisse. Words by Bach, Brahms, and Vierne will round out the program.

On October 29 Raymond is scheduled to perform much the same program at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco.

Joe Kitchen

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Christian Education and Programming

To the St. Stephen’s family: One of the things I get asked about quite frequently is whether I have resources and/or recommendations for various topics, seasons, etc. Advent is high atop that list. With that in mind, I have chosen to dedicate this month’s newsletter article to sharing some of my favorites for individuals and families to use throughout the season. Even though Advent does not start until December this year, waiting until the December newsletter is really too late to acquire these items in time for the start of the season. Advent is largely about preparation, after all. (Also, Advent was originally longer than four weeks, the vestiges of which are still reflected in the rather apocalyptic nature of the Gospel readings for mid-late November).

1. The Season of the Nativity: Confessions and Practices of an Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany Extremist (Sybil MacBeth) – Several of you are familiar with MacBeth’s popular series, Praying in Color. This colorful, playful volume has ideas for a wide range of activities for all ages, including ways you can be more mindful about long-standing practices you probably already engage in (like decorating a tree or setting up a crèche). I adore this book. It’s thoughtful, yet fun. I could not recommend it more highly.

2. Love Life, Live Advent (Paula Gooder & Peter Babington) – This book has simple daily practices that families can do together. (**Copies of this book will be available to pick up on the first Sunday of Advent along with the materials for making Advent wreaths.)

3. Your Light Gives Us Hope: 24 Daily Practices for Advent (Anselm Grün, OSB) – This is a brand new book, and it is similar to the preceding one. However, it is much more detailed and is largely for individuals or families with older children/youth. There is a devotion and a practice related to the content of that devotion for each day of the season. Many of these practices are meditative and encourage mindfulness throughout the season.

4. Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (various) – This anthology also has daily readings, but these are more lengthy excerpts from classic and contemporary authors. This is not easy reading, but I find it quite enriching and challenging, both intellectually and spiritually.

5. Light upon Light: A Literary Guide to Prayer for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany (Sarah Arthur) – I have men-tioned the series to which this book belongs in the newsletter before, but I just can’t get enough of this book. There are poetry readings and fiction excerpts for each week of the season. The connections are not always obvi-ous at first, but the selections invite deep reflection and spark new ideas about faith in ways that other “devotionals” do not.

6. I Witness: Living Inside the Stories of Advent & Christmas (Kate Moorehead) – A unique seasonal devotional, to be sure. Moorehead is an Episcopal priest who writes about the Advent and Christmas stories through the eyes of the witnesses (think Zechariah, Elizabeth, the shepherds, etc.), inviting us to think about our own perspectives of the events. (**Copies of this book will also be available to pick up on the first Sunday of Advent.)

7. God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas (edited by Greg Pennoyer & Gregory Wolfe) – The title is a bit misleading. This book has material for Advent through Epiphany. If you love visual art, then this is the seasonal book for you. Each week of the season has reflections and prayers written by a different author and is replete with art related to the reflection and the Scripture readings. Unlike most books of this type, it also has en-tries for many of the other Feast Days that are part of the season (Feast of St. Stephen, for example). This is a beautiful book that you can easily return to time and time again. I certainly do. (A note of caution: A Reader Ver-sion of this book is available now, but it does not contain the artwork. The original version that I refer to here is unfortunately out of print, but used copies can easily be acquired online. It’s worth searching around for it.)

If you would like to look at any of these books more closely before purchasing, please stop by my office, and I’d be happy to show them to you. I also have recommendations for picture books for younger children and on the other end of the spectrum, more academic treatments of the season. Faithfully,

Jeremy

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From the Priest-in-Residence

Youth Activities

To the family and friends of children and youth, Things in Sunday School are progressing well as we strike a balance between music and Biblical tales. Affording chil-dren and youth time to sing not only provides sufficient occasion for Christmas pageant preparation, but it helps keep participants engaged by presenting different opportunities to participate. Furthermore, combining some of the age groups for half of Sunday School enables different age groups to be exposed to one another and subsequently form new friendships. Additionally, we are already witnessing guidance of our younger learners as older students lead both by example and by direct assistance. When the youth emulate appropriate Sunday School behavior, listen and follow directions, and participate fully, the others imitate appropriate class conduct. Currently in Sunday School we are working through The Action Bible, focusing specifically on how these stories relate to our own real world experiences. Recently we reflected on the stories of Cain and Abel as well as Jacob and Esau. These have been wonderful teaching moments as all of our youth have firsthand experience with the struggles of being a sibling. We are able to discuss how it can be tempting to wish your siblings ill, but in the end, working through your resentments and frustrations is the best course of action. Plus, no matter how heinous your brother or sister may act, at least they did not coerce you into giving up your birthright for soup! The stories are short and to the point, providing more time for discussion and allowing us to cover more than one story in a class. My hope is that by the end of this programming year, we are able to discuss common motifs in the Bible, understand how something as old as the Bible can continue to be relevant to our lives, and have a general overview of the Bible. I look forward to continuing this journey together. Yours faithfully,

Stephanie

Dear Friends,

Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, in whom his world rejoices; Who from our mother’s arms hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.

I love the late fall, the traditional time of harvest and of blessing. As the earth yields up its beauty and its bounty, we become more aware of how much we have received. The shortening days remind us of the preciousness of life. The fall colors fill us with awe at the beauty that sur-rounds us. We instinctively raise our hearts and voices to God in songs of gratitude.

The hymn above is one of my favorites for that happy purpose. It encourages us to express our gratitude to God not only with our words, but genuinely from our hearts. It suggests that we put our gratitude into action, using our hands (and our time and our smiles and our resources) to serve others and to give back in thanksgiving to God, who is generosity itself and the source of our deepest joy.

The most vivid line of the hymn proclaims God as the one “who from our mother’s arms hath blessed us on our way.” What a tender and cherished notion that is to us. We were each sprung into this world, a sputtering, star-tled, quivering bundle of needs, who was cared for and nourished “on our way” by the one(s) who served as our mother. Because of them we have been able to engage in life and face whatever we have encountered. They are deeply embedded in us as one of God’s most personal gifts.

Our mothers are expressive of the depth and riches of God’s other “countless gifts of love” to each of us. Those include not only “the splendor of the whole creation,” “the wonder of life,” and “the mystery of love,” but also the “setting us at tasks which demand our best efforts” and even “those disappointments and failures that lead us to acknowledge our dependence on [God] alone” (Book of Common Prayer, p. 836).

Those countless gifts of love are not finished yet. As they say, “There is plenty more where that came from!” And that, not only in whatever time remains for us on this earth, but even more lavishly in the life to come, “No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him” (I Cor. 2:9).

In this month of November, when we are privileged to pause as a nation and to celebrate together the feast of Thanksgiving, let us truly “thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices.” Let us acknowledge in word and deed the God “who from our mother’s arms hath blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love.” Let us put our faith in, and find our joy in, the God who “still is ours today” and will be forever. Faithfully,

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Library News

One Pilgrim’s Progress

According to C.S. Lewis, “It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old one to every three new ones.” Lewis is talking about the value of read-ing old theological works and not just modern commentaries, but I suggest that we expand on his idea about the worth of old books. We have plenty of old books in the parish library, and we have recently received one from Marian Tyson, one that de-

serves reading—or re-reading.

It’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. Many peo-ple think of it as a nature book since it’s the story of a year of explorations along a creek in Virginia’s Roanoke Valley, drawing inspiration from the examples of Darwin and Thoreau. But the author herself says it’s not a nature book; it’s a book of theology. And the word pilgrim con-notes a religious journey to a sacred place.

Dillard writes as an “invisible narrator” (her words) and the result is a book that blends observation and introspec-tion, knowledge and mystery, in a way that reaches read-ers on many different levels. Published in 1974, it won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1975 when Dillard was 30 years old. She had already gained the attention of the literary world when Pilgrim was re-viewed soon after publication by the well respected Mis-sissippi author, Eudora Welty, who had won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972 (when she was 63).

In a New Y ork Times review titled “Meditation on See-ing,” Welty lets the young writer introduce herself: “I am not a scientist but a poet and a walker with a background in theology and a penchant for quirky facts.” Later Welty again makes use of Dillard’s own words, calling attention to the last paragraph of the book:

''And then you walk fearlessly like the monk on the road who knows precisely how vulnerable he is, who takes no comfort among death-forgetting men, and who carries his vision of vastness and might around in his tunic like a live coal which neither burns nor warms him, but with which he will not part. The giant water bug ate the world. And like Billy Bray I go my way, and my left foot says 'Glory,' and my right foot says 'Amen': in and out of Shadow Creek, upstream and down, exultant, in a daze, dancing, to the twin silver trumpets of praise.''

Parish News

Lay Pastoral Care: If you have a prayer request for a loved one or yourself and would like to be included in the Prayer Network’s daily prayers, please contact Holly Lat-ty-Mann, Martina Gardner-Woods, Claire Doerschuk (cmd@med.unc.edu) or the Church Office. For prayers in the Sunday service’s Intercessions (Prayers of the People), please contact Claire, Father Bob or the Church Office. To request a Eucharistic visit or other needs for yourself or loved one, please contact Claire or Father Bob.

St. Stephen’s Stitchers will meet Wednesday, Novem-ber 29 at 3:00 p.m. in the Davis Room. Needle crafter s of all types are invited to join us. Still learning? The Stitchers will be glad to assist you. Please contact Bobbie Nielsen at 919-452-4751, rjnielsen39@gmail.com with questions.

St. Stephens Episcopal Church and St. Stephen's Preschool are sponsoring a food ingathering for the Durham Rescue Mission from November 5 to 19, in time for the Thanksgiving meals. Most needed items include canned vegetables (especially beans and corn), canned meats, pasta, rice, canned fruit, sugar and flour, with no donated items in glass containers. Donations may be brought to the Church narthex or the reception area. Preschool children will have their own donation boxes. The Durham Rescue Mission serves over 400 people meals three times a day. The Mission is North Carolina's oldest and largest long-term homeless shelter, providing food, clothing, permanent supportive housing, vocational train-ing, Biblical counseling, job placement, education, account-ability, and much more 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Over 4,000 guests are fed at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

What follows is from Welty, who has a way with words herself:

“And that's the way Annie Dillard goes. Is the Pilgrim on her right road? That depends on what the Pilgrim's desti-nation is. But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble.”

As a big fan of both these writers, I can’t add much. May-be just another Glory and one more Amen.

Ellen Baer

Post Script: Billy Bray was a 19th century Methodist preacher known for his generosity and for his exuberant sermons that often included spontaneous bursts of singing and dancing. William James called him “an excellent little illiterate English evangelist.”

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Financial Update

A Note from Father Bob: The financial picture at the end of the third quar ter is following a pattern similar to years past. On the revenue side, we are relying on a combination of several year-end pledges (yet to be paid), parishioners' continued generous contributions, and our fall fund-raising event on November 18 to bring our income up to the level anticipated in the Growth and Sustainability Plan. On the expense side, we see excellent cost control across the board, and have begun to realize savings from operational changes both in Facility Management and in Business & Administration. Nevertheless, we remain in a deficit position, so our fourth quarter performance needs continued attention to remain in line with expectations. Bringing pledges up to date or making annual gifts or payments early (while the stock market is still at historic highs) would be greatly appreciated.

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Thursday Saints: Saint Andrew the Apostle

In September, I wrote about St. Matthew, and this month, we’re going to take a look at another apostle, St. Andrew. Much like Matthew, what little we know about Andrew is from the Bible. Andrew is described as the brother of Pe-ter (likely part of the reason why we do not remember Andrew as much, given how often he is overshadowed by this brother in the narrative). Both Andrew and Peter were fishermen, and they are part of the wonderful story where Jesus calls them as disciples and tells them they will be “fishers of men”—which is perhaps more accurately ren-dered: “Follow me, and I will make you fish for peo-ple” (Matthew 4:19). Interestingly enough, the Gospel of John depicts Andrew as first being a disciple of John the Baptist. When John proclaims that Jesus is the Lamb of God, Andrew follows Jesus. Moreover, in John’s account, it is Andrew who convinces his brother, Peter, to also be-come a disciple. The other story with which Andrew is closely associated is the feeding of the five thousand, as Andrew is the disciple who brought the boy who had the loaves and fishes to Jesus (John 6:8). In the early Church (and still today), the bishop of Rome was considered to be the apostolic successor of St. Peter, and the bishop of Constantinople was considered to be the apostolic succes-sor of St. Andrew. The bishop (or Patriarch) of Constanti-nople is the head—or first among equals—of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Like most saints, there are quite a few stories, legends, and traditions associated with them. One of the ways in which those associations are captured is through art. Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) created a sketch of a design for a stained glass window of St. Andrew. What is unique about this image is that it contains all four of the most common characteristics of portraits of St. Andrew: wild hair, long beard, a cross, and a book. The reasoning behind the hair and beard is unclear. Tradi-tion holds that Andrew was crucified on an X-shaped cross, or cross saltire, because he felt unworthy to be cru-cified on a t-shaped cross like that upon which Jesus was crucified, though this was a late-developing tradition. Pri-or to the medieval period, he is depicted with a proces-sional cross or a traditional, t-shaped cross. What is com-mon across the sources is the story that he was crucified for his beliefs. The book tradition is related to the cross, in that, just before he died, Andrew is said to have ex-claimed that he wished for “the purity of contempla-tion.” (For more on the Holbein image and the traditions associated with it, see http://www.christianiconography.info/andrew.html)

-Submitted by Jeremy

Image: Wikimedia Commons

November 2: Commemoration of All Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day)

November 9: Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome

November 16: Margaret, Queen of Scotland

(No Service on November 23)

November 30:Saint Andrew the Apostle

Solutions for October’s William Tyndale Puzzle LET THERE BE LIGHT!

SEEK, AND YE SHALL FIND PASSOVER

SCAPEGOAT MY BROTHER’S KEEPER THE POWERS THAT BE GAVE UP THE GHOST

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Dates to Remember Prayer Requests

For restoration of body and spirit:

and also for friends and family members of St.

Stephen’s parishioners:

Alton, fr iend of Alice and Jeanne

Angie, Peggy Thomas’ niece

Anna and family, niece of Kathy

Edwin, Clyde Stephens’ brother

Fagan-Solis family, relatives of Kate

Grace, mother of Craig

Iris, mother of Jeanna

Jane, niece of Scott

Jon, grandson of Scott

Kathleen, fr iend of Pr iscilla & Derek

Leslie, great-niece of Derek

Marc, son of Lucy

Meghan, niece/goddaughter of Nancy

Nicholas, fr iend of Sue

Owen, step-brother of Tom

Pieter, fr iend of Wendy

Ruth, fr iend of Ginger and Sally

Virginia, sister of Scott

Walt, father of Julie

Worrell & Gwendoline, parents of Wendy

In the diocesan cycle of prayer:

Week of November 5: Kanuga Conferences; St. Mary’s School; UNC-Charlotte/ Central Piedmont/ Johnson & Wales University Campus Ministry

Week of November 12: Davidson College Campus Ministry; Elon Campus Ministry/ LEAF; Episcopal Cen-ter at Duke University

Week of November 19: Episcopal Campus Ministry-Raleigh; Greensboro Colleges and Universities/ St. Mary’s House

Week of November 26: UNC-Chapel Hill Campus Ministry; Wake Forest/ Salem/ Winston-Salem State/ UNC School of the Arts Episcopal Campus Ministry

Kara Watson 11/1 Benson Mangum 11/1 Caroline Rose Masella 11/1 Chris Gratian 11/2 Grant Thomas 11/3 Garry Bressler 11/4 Ann Barlow 11/5 Julie Simons 11/5 Lucien Roughton Jr. 11/5 Suzy Goree 11/7 Karen Fitzhugh 11/8 Sally Hunsucker 11/10 Kitt Butler 11/11 Sally Markham 11/13 Dr. Holly Latty-Mann 11/13 Julie Kitchen 11/13 Carolyn Gard 11/14 Carson Cajka 11/14 Vivian Watson 11/14 Joe Vicars 11/15 Jeanna Tiller 11/15 Maggie Silton 11/16 Albert Gard 11/17 Ralph Hawkins 11/18 Nancy Hall 11/20 Johnya Sasso 11/20 Michelle Wolff 11/21 Jack Graham 11/21 Ebet Stevens 11/21 Bill Kennon 11/22 Summer Burgess 11/22 Jack Hughes 11/24 Dean McCumber 11/25 Sydney Culp 11/26 Liz Godwin 11/26 Taylor Grau 11/26 Robert Frey 11/27 Linda Cushman 11/28 Issac Freel 11/28 Cole Brewer 11/28 Phyllis Dowd 11/29 Boyce Huckabee 11/29 Maya Almasy 11/30

Pat & Dr. Donald Serafin 11/5 Mary & Nick Galvez 11/9 The Rev. Gail Davis & Jeffrey Stephens 11/16 Amy & Chris Mangum 11/28

Andrew

Araba

Benji

Bob

Doc

Dottie

Ed

Helen

Jimmy

JoeAnne

John

Julie

Katherine

Lyn

Noah

Peggy

Susan

Uriel

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Ministers All Saints’ Sunday

November 5

The Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost

November 12

The Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost

November 19

Christ the King November 26

8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist: Rite I 8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist: Rite I 8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist: Rite I 8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist: Rite I

Celebrant Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor Robert k. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams

Preacher Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor Robert K. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams

Eucharistic Minister

Claire Doerschuk Bradley Varnell Stacie Burley Nancy Ciaffone

Reader Bobbie Nielsen Stacie Burley Sally Markham Matt Breuer

Intercessor Nancy Ciaffone Libby Whitaker Jack Graham Bill McPherson

Usher(s) Louise Pannill J. Page Wilson Matt Breuer Linda & Chuck

Cushman

10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite II 10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite II 10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite II 10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite II

Celebrant/Officiant

Robert K. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams Derek Shows Robert K. Kaynor

Preacher Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor Robert K. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams

Assisting Priest

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Deacon ———- ———- TBD TBD

Subdeacon (Server)

Kate Fagan-Solis Lizzie Almasy Kate Fagan-Solis Lizzie Almasy

Eucharistic Ministers

Priscilla Shows Norm Woods

Sue Kaynor Norm Woods

Pat Serafin Bradley Varnell

Sue Kaynor Priscilla Shows

Acolytes

Ama Mensah-Boone Will Culp Evie Freel

Morgan Freel

Stacie Burley Elizabeth Hayward

Bradley Varnell

Will Culp Cameron Hayward Elizabeth Hayward

Anna Preston

Cameron Hayward Elizabeth Hayward

Anna Preston

Lector (1st Lesson)

Frank Goodwin Ann Barlow Johnya Sasso Megan Carlson

Lector (Psalm)

Stacie Burley Drayton Virkler John Spitznagel Lori Hawkins

Lector (Epistle)

Hazel Freel Elizabeth Hayward Cameron Hayward Anna Preston

Intercessor Bob Stevens Tony Hawkins Priscilla Shows Jack Watson

Ushers Stacie Burley

TBD Sally Hunsucker

Ian Shearer Garry Bressler

Drayton Virkler Dick Boyd Ian Shearer

Altar Guild Margy Pless

Carolyn London Leigh Ballou

Margy Pless Susan Griffin Leigh Ballou

Margy Pless Susan Griffin Leigh Ballou

Bobbie Nielsen Cindi Easterling

Judy White

Greeter(s) Martina Gardner-Woods Martina Gardner-Woods Martina Gardner-Woods Martina Gardner-Woods

12 Stephen’s Window November 2017

Non-Profit Organization US Postage

PAID Durham, NC 27705

Permit No. 59

Return Service Requested

St. Stephen's is a parish within the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, part of the world-wide Anglican Communion.

www.dionc.org

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman Bishop Diocesan

The Rt. Rev. Anne Hodges-Copple Bishop Suffragen

St. Stephen’s Staff

The Rev. Robert K. Kaynor

Rector bob.kaynor@ssecdurham.org

The Rev. Stephen J. Elkins-Williams

Priest-in-Residence stephenj.ew@gmail.com

The Rev. Dr. Derek Shows

Priest Associate

The Rev. Maggie Silton Deacon

mksilton@gmail.com

Dr. Joseph Kitchen Music Director and Organist

jwkitchen@earthlink.net

Dr. Nathan Leaf Choir Director

njleaf@ncsu.edu

Jihyun Park Children’s Music Director

ms.kimj@gmail.com

Jeremy Godwin Director of Christian Education jeremy.godwin@ssecdurham.org

Stephanie Metzen

Youth Director stephanie.metzen@ssecdurham.org

Burke Raper

Business Manager burke.raper@ssecdurham.org

Susan Steel

Membership & Stewardship Coordinator susan.steel@ssecdurham.org

Tamiko Sanders

Preschool Director tamiko.sanders@ssecdurham.org

Catherine Oakley

Parish Administrator catherine.oakley@ssecdurham.org

Angelica Jackson Parish Secretary

office@ssecdurham.org

Kevin Kelly Sexton

kevin.kelly@ssecdurham.org

Clyde Stephens Parish Life and Staff Assistant

The 58th

Vestry and Officers of St. Stephen’s

Kate Fagan-Solis, Senior Warden Russ Tiller, Junior Warden Jim Stewart, Treasurer

Bob Bullock, Assistant Treasurer Megan Carlson, Clerk Ellen Baer Dick Boyd

Matt Breuer Michael Brewer Sally Bugg Wendy John Ben Maynor Lucien Roughton, Jr.

St. Stephen’s Fall Fundraiser

Auction and Dinner

Tickets $25 - to include Hors D’oeuvres, Buffet Dinner, Dessert

Coffee/Tea, a Glass of Wine or Beer

Cash Bar Silent and Live Auction

For more information, please contact Susan Steel–

susan.steel@ssecdurham.org or 973-570-6756

To donate items to the auction please contact:

Cindi Easterling – ceasterling2@nc.rr.com, 919-489-6221 or

Megan Carlson – megan.carlson@ssecdurham.org

Baby Sitting Service will be available at Church