By Mary W. Cox, editor A t Diocesan Convention last Novem- ber, Bishop Leo Frade called for a time of reflection and re-visioning for the diocese in order to “be pre- pared to be more nimble in the ways we serve as the Body of Christ in this 21st Cen- tury.” The bishop announced that he would be forming a workgroup of representatives from around the dio- cese to begin the work of reviewing existing diocesan structures and operations and proposing possible changes. This group was convened on Feb. 3, and charged with examining three basic areas of our common ministry — Organizational Structure, Finance and Demographics — in a process the bishop has called “Discovering Our Future.” Under the guidance of fa- cilitator Charles Fulton III, retired director of Congre- gational Development for The Episcopal Church, the workgroup is now gathering information from indi- viduals, congregations, ministries and communities around the diocese. Interim reports were presented for discussion at a meeting on March 28. The assigned task of the Organizational Structure Group, chaired by Fr. Bob Taylor of Good Shepherd, Tequesta, is “to review and analyze all units of our diocesan structure through the lens of how nimble, ef- ficient and effective each unit is, flagging where it works well and where there are opportunities for im- OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE DIOCESE OF SOUTHEAST FLORIDA www.diosef.org Volume 43 No. 2 April 2012 Discovering Our Future See DISCOVERING OUR FUTURE, Page 2 Workgroup begins process of review, re-visioning of diocesan structures Building Together Photo by Mary W. Cox Teams of students in the science session at the Diocesan Academic Festival were challenged to build a ge- odesic dome from toothpicks and gumdrops. See p. 7 for Festival coverage. Go to www.diosef.org There will be a live webcast on the topic of General Convention 2012 on May 9 at 1 p.m. (Eastern) at www.episcopalchurch.org. Participants will be: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jef- ferts Schori; House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson; Executive Officer and Secretary of the General Convention, the Rev. Gregory Straub; and Bishop Cather- ine Waynick of the Diocese of Indianapo- lis, the host diocese. Information about General Conven- tion, to be held July 5-12 in Indianapolis, IN, including schedules, resolutions, com- mittee membership and publications, is posted at www.generalconvention.org.
Transcript
By Mary W. Cox, editor
At Diocesan Convention last Novem-
ber, Bishop Leo Frade called for a
time of reflection and re-visioning
for the diocese in order to “be pre-
pared to be more nimble in the
ways we serve as the Body of Christ in this 21st Cen-
tury.”
The bishop announced that he would be forming a
workgroup of representatives from around the dio-
cese to begin the work of reviewing existing diocesan
structures and operations and proposing possible
changes.
This group was convened on Feb. 3, and charged
with examining three basic areas of our common
ministry — Organizational Structure, Finance and
Demographics — in a process the bishop has called
“Discovering Our Future.” Under the guidance of fa-
cilitator Charles Fulton III, retired director of Congre-
gational Development for The Episcopal Church, the
workgroup is now gathering information from indi-
viduals, congregations, ministries and communities
around the diocese. Interim reports were presented
for discussion at a meeting on March 28.
The assigned task of the Organizational Structure
Group, chaired by Fr. Bob Taylor of Good Shepherd,
Tequesta, is “to review and analyze all units of our
diocesan structure through the lens of how nimble, ef-
ficient and effective each unit is, flagging where it
works well and where there are opportunities for im-
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE DIOCESE OF SOUTHEAST FLORIDAwww.diosef.org
Volume 43 No. 2 April 2012
Discovering Our Future
See DISCOVERING OUR FUTURE, Page 2
Workgroup begins process of review,re-visioning of diocesan structures
Building Together
Photo by Mary W. Cox
Teams of students in the science session at the Diocesan Academic Festival were challenged to build a ge-odesic dome from toothpicks and gumdrops. See p. 7 for Festival coverage.
Go to www.diosef.org
There will be a live webcast onthe topic of General Convention2012 on May 9 at 1 p.m. (Eastern) atwww.episcopalchurch.org. Participantswill be: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jef-ferts Schori; House of Deputies PresidentBonnie Anderson; Executive Officer andSecretary of the General Convention, theRev. Gregory Straub; and Bishop Cather-ine Waynick of the Diocese of Indianapo-lis, the host diocese.
Information about General Conven-tion, to be held July 5-12 in Indianapolis,IN, including schedules, resolutions, com-mittee membership and publications, isposted at www.generalconvention.org.
provement.”
The group has begun its work by:
� Reviewing the national and diocesan canons todetermine what they specify as to the role and func-
tion of specific diocesan structures;
� Obtaining job descriptions for each of the fif-teen diocesan staff members, including the bishop, to
determine if there is overlap among duties or if staff
members carry out tasks not in their job description;
� Using Survey Monkey to survey volunteerswho serve on diocesan committees to ascertain what
motivates them to serve, their cost in time and money
and what they like best (and dislike most) about serv-
ing their diocese;
� Reviewing Church Canons and the liturgy forthe Ordination of a Bishop to develop an overview of
what the role of a diocesan bishop is intended to be,
in order to shape a vision for the future leadership of
our diocese; and
� Assessing the committees and commissions ofthe diocese for gender, ethnic, age and regional bal-
ance, as well as balance among clergy, lay and staff
participation.
The Finance Group, chaired by Fr. Bob Trache of
St. Mark’s, Ft. Lauderdale, is charged with reviewing
and analyzing diocesan income and expenses, pro-
jecting the trends of the current budget to 2015 and
drafting several proposals for balanced budgets,
showing both expanding and static income.
In his report at the March meeting Trache said that
after review of diocesan budgets from 2007 to the
present, the group “does not foresee any significant
change in diocesan income in the near future.”
He said the group will prepare three draft budgets:
The first will reflect a three percent decline in total
revenue; the second will reflect no change in total
revenue; and the third will reflect a three percent
gain.
The group has begun a preliminary analysis of
parish income, and has found a number of congrega-
tions whose income falls below the $200,000 per year
level estimated by the Episcopal Church to be neces-
sary for the support of fulltime clergy leadership.
“The financial piece is what’s going to make peo-
ple the most nervous,” Trache said.
The Finance Group will continue its analysis of
parish budgets and creative possibilities for the “at-
risk” congregations, and is also expected to review
trends in diocesan expenses and look at alternative
assessment formulas.
Its final report is expected to include, in addition
to documented financial trends of our diocese and the
effect assessment changes would make on income
and expenses, a five year projection report of congre-
gations that are able to sustain a full-time priest, those
which will likely move to alternate forms of priestly
ministry, and those which have already moved to al-
ternate forms of priestly ministry.
The Demographics Group, chaired by the Rev.
Maribeth Conroy of St. Philip’s, Coral Gables, has
been gathering data on the profiles of the people and
congregations of the diocese. This data will be com-
pared with a professionally developed demographic
report for the geographic area comprising our dio-
cese, along with data from business and municipal
planning departments.
The final report from this group is expected to
capture the rich diversity of our area and our diocese
now and into the near future, and to include the impli-
cations and challenges for our future ministry.
Final reports from all three groups will be pre-
sented in June, in preparation for the next three
phases of the process, which will broaden participa-
tion to involve as many people as possible.
Phase two will bring the information gathered by
the workgroup to the clergy of the diocese at the an-
nual Clergy Conference in September.
The third phase will involve a larger part of the
diocese in the visioning process through two daylong
gatherings of approximately 50 diocesan leaders
called the “consultative group”. Using a process
called “scenario planning,” this session will involve
exploring how our future ministry might evolve in re-
sponse to a number of variables. The consultative
group will be asked to consider all of the information
gathered by the workgroups to identify potential re-
sources and challenges, and to envision how our dio-
cese would do ministry in a variety of circumstances.
From the work of the two-day consultative group
of diocesan leaders, progress reports will go out to
the entire diocese for further reflection and dialogue.
These diocese-wide discussions will be an integral
part of the dialogue at the diocesan convention.
The fourth phase will continue with detailed re-
view, dialogue and implementation in 2013.
“Select committees have a horrible history,” Ful-
ton told the workgroup at its March meeting. That’s
why this initial group is fairly large, he said, and is
comprised of laity and clergy, men and women, repre-
senting various ethnicities and regions of the diocese.
Equally important to the process, he said, is that
the workgroup is designed to “open out into concen-
tric circles of people around you” and to “give them
some good questions to struggle with along with
you.”
It will be relatively easy to make technical
changes, like the number and composition of commit-
tees or even the assessment formula, he said, but
added that “adaptive change” — changing the values
and behavior of congregations and parishioners —
will be the challenge for the diocese.
The “Discovering Our Future” process, Fulton
said, reminds him of the words of Psalm 137: “How
shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?”
The future will be a “strange land,” he said, but
we can create structures that will help us to continue
“singing the Lord’s song.” �
Watch for reports from the workgroup — and in-formation on how you can become involved in theDiscovering Our Future process — to be posted atthe Discovering Our Future link on the diocesan web-site, www.diosef.org.
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DISCOVERING OUR FUTUREfrom Page 1
Discovering Our FutureWorkgroup
Organizational StructureChair, Fr. Robert Taylor, Good Shepherd, Tequesta
Dean Debra Andrew Maconaughey, St. Columba, Marathon
Fr. Greg Mansfield, St. Bernard de Clairvaux, N. Miami Beach
Fr. Andrew Sherman, St. Gregory’s, Boca Raton
Canon Winston Wright, Grace, West Palm Beach
FinanceChair, Fr. Robert Trache, St. Mark the Evangelist, Ft. Lauderdale
Maritere Carreras, Holy Comforter, Miami
Canon Tom O’Brien, Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach
Canon William “Chip” Stokes, St. Paul’s, Delray Beach
Laura Walker, St. Thomas, Coral Gables
DemographicsChair, The Rev. Maribeth Conroy, St. Philip’s, Coral Gables
Isela Gonzalez, St. Margaret’s, S. Francisco de Asis, Miami Lakes
Whittington Johnson, Incarnation, Miami
Fr. Smith Milien, St. Paul et les Martyrs d’Haiti, Miami
Gustavo Rodriguez, Todos los Santos, MiamiKathleen Walker, Incarnation, Miami
The new youth center and gymnasium at St.
Mark’s, Palm Beach Gardens, completed last year,
has made possible a brand-new ministry: “Hearts
of Palm.”
The parish describes “Hearts of Palm” as an in-
terdenominational mission site for teens and young
adults, providing a home base for week-long mis-
sions among migrant workers, immigrants and oth-
ers who struggle with poverty and homelessness in
the shadow of the affluence of Palm Beach.
The mission work week will be Monday-Thurs-
day; groups will arrive Sunday afternoon and leave
on Friday morning.
The facility includes a safe, clean, state-of-the-
art youth center and gymnasium with air condi-
tioning and on-site showers; separate sleeping
areas for boys and girls; and secure indoor and
outdoor athletic facilities. Dinner on the first night
and all breakfasts and lunches are included in the
As work continues on therestoration of our historiccathedral, Bishop Leo Frade hasdesignated Trinity Sunday, June 3,as Trinity Cathedral Sunday, andasks that all congregations receivea special offering that day to go tothe preservation of this importanttool for our ministries. For moreinformation on the restoration workand how to help, contact Friends ofTrinity Cathedral [email protected] or go towww.trinitymiami.org and click onthe “restoration” link.
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August pilgrimage to Cuba planned
Bishop Leo Frade and his wife, Diana, will lead a
group of pilgrims to Cuba in August.
The Aug. 1-6 pilgrimage, like the trip led by the
Frades last November, will focus on opportunities to
meet Cuban Episcopalians and see first-hand the min-
istries of the Episcopal Church in Cuba.
In a note about the pilgrimage posted on the
diocesan website Frade says, “This is the tenth time
that Diana and I have visited the Cuban Church. We
rejoice that at present there is more freedom for the
church and that a revival is taking place all around
the island. The Episcopal Church is alive and well
and growing under the leadership of Bishop Griselda
Delgado.”
The trip will include visits to churches in Carde-
nas, Santa Cruz del Norte and Bacuranao, and the
Theological Seminary in Matanazas, as well as sev-
eral days in and around Havana. On Sunday, Aug. 5,
the group will worship at La Santisima Trinidad Epis-
copal Cathedral in Havana.
The cost is $2,555 for a double room and $2,850
for a single room. Full payment must be received by
May 1.
The Frades plan to lead a second pilgrimage Nov.
21-26.
Complete details are posted on the diocesan web-
site, www.diosef.org or at www.bishopfrade.com.�
New bishop of Jamaica attendedcursillo in SE Florida in 2010
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Howard Kingsley
Ainsworth Gregory, who was elected on Mar.
27 as the 14th bishop of Jamaica and the
Cayman Islands, is known to the Cursillo
community in Southeast Florida as a candidate
on Men’s Cursillo #87 in October 2010.
Gregory, 61, has served as suffragan bishop
of Montego Bay since 2002, and since the
beginning of this year has been serving as
Canonical Administrator for the diocese.
He succeeds Bishop Alfred C. Reid, who
retired on Dec. 31, 2011, after 11 years as
diocesan bishop.
In addition to degrees from the University
of the West Indies and the United Theological
College of the West Indies, Gregory earned a
Master of Sacred Theology degree from the
Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria,
Va., and the degree of Doctor of Sacred
Theology from Columbia Theological
Seminary in Decatur, Ga.
His enthronement as bishop of Jamaica will
take place in the Cathedral of St. Jago de la
Vega, Spanish Town, at a date to be
announced.�
The Net honored with second Polly Bond Award of Excellence
At this year’s Polly Bond Awards given by
Episcopal Communicators, The Net received
the Award of Excellence for a newspaper; the
judge specifically cited the February 2011
issue.
This is the second time our diocesan
newspaper has been honored with the Award
of Excellence. In 2001 the award was given in
the category of “newspapers with over 12,000
circulation;” with fewer dioceses,
congregations and institutions publishing
newspapers in print, the circulation categories
have been dropped, and all newspapers
submitted are considered for the same awards.
The judge praised the paper for layout
editor Catherine Kohn’s “very strong layout,”
as well as for “strong use of photos,” “strong
variety of stories,” and “reflection of
diversity.”
The Net also received three awards for
individual photographs: an Award of Merit
(second place) for a picture of Presiding
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori releasing a
sea turtle, and Honorable Mention awards for
pictures of worshipers at the 9/11 memorial
service at Trinity Cathedral and a baptism at
St. Mark’s School in Palm Beach Gardens.
The first two award-winning photos were by
editor Mary W. Cox, and the baptism picture,
by Kelly Tkaczow.
The annual Polly Bond Awards, named in
memory of a founding member of Episcopal
Communicators, were established in the mid-
1970s to recognize excellence and
achievement in the ministry of church
communication. Since 2000 our diocesan
communications ministry has received 41
Polly Bond Awards. �
Frade signs letter calling for justice in shooting of Trayvon Martin
Bishop Leo Frade and Archdeacon Fritz Bazin
were among the signers of a Mar. 21 letter issued by
the Florida Council of Churches, calling for “justice
to be pursued” in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon
Martin and expressing condolences to his family.
Signers also included Bishop Edward R. Benoway
of the Florida-Bahamas Synod, Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America; Bishop Timothy Whitaker,
Florida Area Resident Bishop of the United
Methodist Church; and the Rev. Willie Israel of the
Moravian Church Southern Province, Florida Dis-
trict. All three are leaders of denominations with
which the Episcopal Church is in full communion.
“Trayvon’s death was unwarranted,” the letter
says. “Florida should be a place where a person of
any color can walk in a neighborhood without fear of
violence or being presumed a suspicious threat.
Florida should be a place where the use of deadly
force is rare and uncommon. Florida should also be a
place where the misuse of deadly force is not toler-
ated.”
The letter also urges that the investigation into
Martin’s death “proceed swiftly without racial bias so
that the matter is not continually tried in the media.”
For the complete text of the letter, go to
www.floridachurches.org. �
By Mary W. Cox
On Ash Wednesday there were plenty of
people standing or kneeling at altar rails
around the diocese, receiving a smudge of
ashes on their foreheads as a mark of repentance and
commitment to the journey of Lent.
But there were also people who received their
ashes in the midst of their journeys in the world — at
two Broward Tri-Rail stations and a Key Largo bar.
“Ashes to Go,” taking the Ash Wednesday liturgy to
the people, is becoming part of our Lenten tradition
in Southeast Florida.
This was the second year that the Rev. Rosa Lin-
dahl-Mallow, priest-in-charge of St. Ambrose and
Centro Hispano de Todos los Santos, Ft. Lauderdale,
assisted by members of the New River Regional Min-
istry, stood at the Ft. Lauderdale Tri-Rail Station with
bowls of ashes, offering commuters a holy moment at
the beginning of a work day.
Last year nine people requested ashes, but this
year there were 16, she said — including the conduc-
tor of one of the trains, who asked the group to come
up to the train so he could step off long enough to re-
ceive ashes.
Another Broward priest, Fr. Mark Andrew Jones,
priest-in-charge of St. Nicholas, Pompano Beach, was
at the Tri-Rail station in Pompano, where he gave
ashes to 43 people between 6:30 and 9 a.m.
At the Caribbean Club, a popular “watering hole”
in Key Largo, the presence of Fr. Charles Cannon,
rector of St. James the Fisherman, Islamorada, is not
entirely unfamiliar; St. James has held a “Mass on the
beach” in front of the bar twice in the past six
months.
On Ash Wednesday, though, Cannon stood at the
bar with a shot glass full of ashes balanced on his
prayer book. From noon to 2 p.m. he offered ashes to
the bar’s patrons, and 55 people accepted the offer,
reverently bowing their heads as he prayed the collect
for Ash Wednesday and traced a cross of ashes on
their foreheads.
Some wanted to tell him the story of their lives;
some wanted healing prayers; two wanted to confess
their sins.
“What was truly a blessing was the time spent af-
terward with each person,” Cannon said.
“I’ll tell you the truth: I wasn’t really ready for the
depth of despair I encountered,” he added. “Several
were in obvious physical addiction, one had cancer
and three wanted me to pray for loved ones. I trust
the Holy Spirit, but there were times I felt disori-
ented, lacking the safety and security of the church.”
“I left exhausted, but glad I ventured out of my
Anglo-catholic comfort zone. I am glad I took the
risk.” �
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“Ashes to Go” takes liturgy to the people“Remember that you are dust...”
Fr. Mark AndrewJones of St.Nicholas, PompanoBeach, gives AshWednesday ashes toLudis Alvarez at thePompano BeachTriRail station.
Photo by Joe Cavaretta, Sun-Sentinel
On Sunday, Mar. 18, the Duncan
Center continued its celebration
of completion of the swimming
pool, the first phase of the “Frade Oasis.”
Bishop Leo Frade blessed and dedicated
the pool in a small ceremony on Dec. 21, but
the March event included a Eucharist fol-
lowed by swimming — for some guests, in-
cluding retired Bishop Calvin O. Schofield,
Jr. — and a barbecue dinner.
The Duncan Center’s Annual Fund Cam-
paign this spring is focused on replacing the
carpet in the Austin and Marta Weeks Build-
ing, which is in almost constant use for
meetings, seminars, conferences, luncheons
and even weddings.
Instead of installing a roll of carpet, the
plan calls for carpet squares, which can be
easily replaced individually when damaged
or stained. It will take 220 carpet tiles to
cover the floor, and parishioners in the dio-
cese are invited to participate in the “Magic
Carpet Ride” by buying one (or more) tiles
at $50 each.
For more information go to www.dun-
cancenter.org or call the Duncan Center at
561-496-4130. �
Duncan Center celebrates ‘Oasis’ and begins ‘Magic Carpet Ride’
Glenda Sanchez of Latin Portuguese Ministry helps Anthony Garcia, son of Fr. Rafael Garcia,sail a paper boat in the Duncan Center pool at the Mar. 18 celebration of the “Frade Oasis.”
Photo by Mary W. Cox
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By Mary W. Cox, editor
“Tear down all walls!” Bishop Eugene Sutton of Mary-
land told the congregation at the 27th annual diocesan Absa-
lom Jones Service.
Held this year at Holy Family, Miami Gardens, on Feb.
18, the service not only commemorates the life and ministry
of Absalom Jones, the first Episcopal priest of African de-
scent, but also celebrates the many gifts of the African dis-
apora to the Church and to our society.
Absalom Jones was born into a world in which walls
were built around him, Sutton said, but the former slave
taught himself to read and bought his wife’s freedom, then
his own.
The Episcopal Church in Jones’ lifetime had more slave
owners than any other church, Sutton noted, but Jones was
“determined to go to the seat of power and demand free-
dom…He made them ordain him…he made them tear down
that wall.”
Sutton asked the congregation to read the first questions
in the Catechism, calling their attention to:
Q. What does it mean to be created in the image of God?
A. It means that we are free to make choices: to love, to
create, to reason, and to live in harmony with creation and
with God.”
“If you’re not free, you can’t love,” Sutton said.
He urged the congregation to remember their God-given
freedom and “not to be enslaved by old doctrines (and) old
ideas.”
The offering at the service was designated for the
Theodore R. Gibson Chapter of the Union of Black Episco-
palians (UBE) as “seed money” for making a recording of
Gospel music and spirituals, sung by choirs from congrega-
tions in the diocese. Proceeds from the sales of the CD will
go to a UBE scholarship fund.
The UBE-sponsored luncheon following the service was
a celebration of the achievements and contributions of
women. A highlight was a pageant of African queens, pre-
sented by Maisie McNaught, a fashion designer whose
Miami Gardens shop, Kulture Klothes by Isis, features cloth-
ing inspired by African cultures and traditions.
Such well-known queens as the Godess/Queen Isis, the
Queen of Sheba, Nefertiti and Cleopatra took the stage in
their royal regalia, along with several of the powerful
women leaders in African history whose stories may not be
as familiar: Yaa Asantewa, Nandi and Nzinga.
In a tribute to present-day women leaders, the UBE pre-
sented the “Spirit of Absalom Jones Award” to four women:
church and community leader Thelma Gibson; the Rev. Bar-
bara Baptiste-Williams, the first black woman to be rector of
a parish in Southeast Florida; Leome Culmer, historian of
Historic St. Agnes, Miami; and Miami historic preservation
activist Dorothy Pinkney. �
Absalom Jones observance celebrates faith, heritageAfrican royalty
We’re marching to Zion...
Above: A parade of Africanqueens took the stage in ClintonBrown Hall at Holy Family, Miami
Gardens, at the Absalom JonesLuncheon. Left to right are Queen
ECSEFL offers second year of‘Outreach University’ workshops
By Mary W. Cox, editor
Led by the Saint Andrew’s School Pipe
Band, a procession with banners from 10
diocesan schools filed into the Chapel of
Saint Andrew, Boca
Raton, on the morn-
ing of Mar. 3 for the
30th Diocesan Aca-
demic Festival.
More than 400
students and their
teachers participated
in the day of learning,
fun, competitions,
performances and ex-
hibitions that began
with a Eucharist cele-
brated by Bishop Leo
Frade.
In a homily illus-
trated with balloon
animals, the Rev.
David Taylor, Saint
Andrew’s School
chaplain, told the stu-
dents to remember
three points: Have
fun; see what you and
Jesus can do; and be
the person you were created to be.
“Don’t be afraid of breaking something,” he said.
“Jesus can handle brokenness…”
“You are the ‘new wine’…Take your gift and fan
it into flame.”
The young people had a chance to meet and enjoy
teamwork with students from other schools in two
workshop sessions that gave each of them an opportu-
nity to focus on two different academic disciplines.
Subjects included art, creative writing, community
service, drama, problem solving, science, Spanish,
technology and a “Trivia Bowl.”
Students wrote stories; made mobiles based on the
shapes of body parts of insects; learned about the out-
reach ministries supported by Episcopal Charities;
competed to build the tallest possible tower out of
three sheets of paper; took photographs and created
videos; and constructed geodesic domes from tooth-
picks and gumdrops (see photo, p.1).
Young musicians who had been given music to
practice at their individual schools came together for
rehearsal as diocese-wide ensembles: chorus, brass,
woodwind, guitar, strings and for the first time, per-
cussion.
Along with the drama group in an improvised skit
using hats that each actor had been asked to bring, all
of the music ensembles performed in the festival’s
closing program. �
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Photo by Mary W. Cox
Students in a combined chorus from ten diocesan schools sing at the closing program of the DiocesanAcademic Festival.
Harmony
Academic Festival celebrates diocesan schools
Participating schoolsAll Angels Academy,Miami Springs; PalmerTrinity School, PalmettoBay; Saint Andrew’sEpiscopal School, BocaRaton; St. Joseph’sEpiscopal School, Boyn-ton Beach; St. John’sEpiscopal School,Homestead; St. Mark’sEpiscopal School, Ft.Lauderdale; St. Mark’sEpiscopal School, PalmBeach Gardens; St.Philip’s EpiscopalSchool, Coral Gables;St. Stephen’s EpiscopalDay School, CoconutGrove (Miami); St.Thomas EpiscopalParish School, Coral
St. Columba, Marathon, which celebrated the
50th anniversary of its church building in
December 2010, can now boast the first
“Florida Heritage Site” designation in the middle
Keys.
On Sunday, Mar. 25, retired Bishop Calvin O.
Schofield, Jr., joined Dean Debra Andrew Ma-
conaughey, St. Columba’s rector, to bless and dedicate
the Florida Historical Marker designating the church’s
stained glass windows as a Florida Heritage Site. Local
dignitaries and a Boy Scout color guard took part in the
celebration.
The text on the cast aluminum marker in front of the
church includes the dates of the congregation’s found-
ing and the construction of the present building, as well
as the significance of the windows, their narratives and
the faceted glass technique used in their construction.
The subjects of two of the nineteen windows are men-
tioned: the large portrait window of St. Columba in the
parish hall and the Loch Ness Monster window in the
church. (According to legend, St. Columba stopped the
creature from attacking and devouring a swimmer.)
A portion of the marker’s cost was funded by a grant
from the Bureau of Historic Preservation of the State of
Florida.
The State of Florida recognized the historical impor-
tance of the stained glass windows at St. Columba in
October 2010, when the members of the Florida Histori-
cal Marker Council of the Department of State”s Divi-
sion of Historical Resources voted unanimously to
approve St. Columba’s application for a Florida Histori-
cal Marker and declared the parish’s remarkable stained
glass windows a Florida Heritage Site.
The application to the state was prepared by
parishioner Peter J. Sehlinger, who has published an
illustrated history of the windows, Resplendent Radi-ance: The Windows of St. Columba Episcopal Church.
�
St. Columba’s windows receive ‘Heritage’ designationHeritage site
St. Columba’s parishionerPeter J. Sehlinger (right)reads the State of Floridadesignation of the parish’swindows as a Florida HeritageSite, as retired Bishop CalvinO. Schofield, Jr., Boy ScoutDuncan McCarty and cruciferAnne Morkill await their partsin the ceremony dedicatingthe Historical Marker.
Photo byNoval Smith
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� On Mar. 18 three new members of Daughters ofthe King — Kathy Butcher, Faith Englund and Dr.
Rosemarie Valentine — were admitted to the order at
St. Mary’s, Stuart, bringing the total in the chapter to
19. Diocesan DoK President Helen Bhagwandin and
North Palm Beach Deanery Coordinator Andrea V.
Bourne-Hintzen took part in the ceremony.
� Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach, was listedamong the 100 best buildings in Florida by the Florida
chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Results
of an online poll ranking the buildings in the top 100
will be published online at aiafltop100.org. “I think it’s
a great way to remind people that our life of faith is
beautiful, since everything that we do is immersed in
God’s love,” Bethesda’s rector, Fr. James Harlan, told
the Palm Beach Daily News.
� Members of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew chap-ter at St. Joseph’s, Boynton Beach, assisted in the Jan.
22 renewal of the chapter at St. Paul’s, Delray Beach.
Toby Grace, Orville Clough, John Putnam, Gary
Shusas, Fr. William “Chip” Stokes, Roy Talbot and
Ken Taranto were installed as Brotherhood members,
and these new members were installed as officers: Buff
Miner, director; John Cvinar, vice-director; William
Hurd, treasurer; and Ken Miller, secretary.
� Members of the baseball team from St. Alban’sSchool in Washington, DC, returned during their spring
break for a second year of volunteering at Holy Re-
deemer, Lake Worth, where they helped expand the
church garden last year. This year they provided garden-
ing help at the home of the advisor to the church gar-
den, who is battling a brain tumor.
� Fr. Andrew Sherman, rector of St. Gregory’s,
Boca Raton, was cheered by members of his congrega-
tion as he and his running partner Vanessa Vinik Frost
completed the Ft. Lauderdale A1A Marathon, 26 miles
from Ft. Lauderdale to Pompano Beach, on Feb. 18. It
was Sherman’s first marathon run.
� About 75 parishioners from St. Nicholas, Pom-
pano Beach, and the Latin Portuguese Ministry
(based at St. Nicholas) marched in a Good Friday pro-
cession through the streets near the church, following a
young member of the congregation carrying a rough-
hewn wooden cross he had made. Along the route the
group stopped at 14 locations as Fr. Mark Andrew
Jones, priest-in-charge of St. Nicholas, and Fr. Jose de
Jesus Sanchez of the Latin Portuguese Ministry, along
with multilingual parishioners, read the Stations of the
Cross in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
� The Ancient Spanish Monastery Foundation of St.
Bernard de Clairvaux, North Miami Beach, held its
second annual Ancient Spanish Monastery Legacy Gala
on Apr. 14. The evening, which included dinner, live
jazz performances and dancing under the stars, honored
five outstanding local leaders. All proceeds will go to
support the preservation of art, antiquities and architec-
ture St. Bernard’s historic building, the Ancient Spanish
Monastery, which is thought to be the oldest building in
North America.
� Church of the Resurrection, Biscayne Park,
will celebrate its 65th anniversary with a May 19 Gala
at the Miami Airport Marriott, and a festive Eucharist
on May 20 with Bishop Leo Frade as celebrant and re-
tired Bishop Frank Cerveny of the Diocese of Florida
preaching. Cerveny was ordained to the priesthood in
1958 at Resurrection, where he was then an assistant.
� St. Thomas Episcopal Parish School, CoralGables, held its First Annual Alumni 5K Fun Run on
Saturday, Feb. 11. Two St. Thomas alumni, Annie Valls
and Alex McDowell, now sophomores at Ransom Ever-
glades High School, planned the race as a way to bring
alumni back to St. Thomas — and an opportunity to
raise funds not only for the school, but also for a cause
beyond the school. The race succeeded with both goals:
There were more than 400 participants, and proceeds
came to over $21,000, half of which was donated to
Breakthrough Miami, a program which supports and
mentors students in underserved communities in Miami
Dade.
� The Rev. Jennie Lou Reid will be instituted asrector of St. Faith’s, Cutler Bay, on Apr. 22. When St.
Faith’s became a self-supporting parish last fall, Reid,
who had been serving as priest-in-charge, was formally
called to be rector.
� Proceeds from the annual Spring Bazaar and CraftFair at St. Matthew the Apostle, Miami, on Mar. 24
will completely cover the cost for the parish’s Vacation
Bible School program in June, so there will be no fee
for children to participate.
Elevator blessing
Photo by Rene Loredo
New ministry
Palm Sunday
Thurifer Marcial Roman and acolyte Maria Jose Figueroa lead members of Holy Cross/Santa Cruz, Miami, in aPalm Sunday procession along North Miami Avenue beside the church building.
Photo by Libby Reed
Fr. Chris Todd (center), priest-in-charge at St. Francis in the Keys,Big Pine Key, blesses a child at thealtar rail during communion atneighboring Lord of the SeasLutheran Church, on Mar. 11, whenhe was formally installed as thatcongregation’s interim pastor. To theleft is Lutheran Deacon WayneHulting and at right, Pastor PaulLutze, Assistant to the EvangelicalLutheran Bishop of the Florida-Bahama Synod of the ELCA. The twocongregations have frequently heldjoint services on special occasions,and now they will share more of theirministries as Todd pastors bothchurches.
Visiting bishop
Bishop Leo Frade and acolyte LauraGiron step out of the elevator at theSenior Housing center at Holy Com-forter, Miami. The 40-year-old elevatorwas recently renovated; it had becomea hazard for residents, often out of serv-ice and sometimes trapping people be-tween floors, but has now been broughtup to code and is computer-operated.On Mar. 25 Frade blessed and dedi-cated the newly modernized elevator,so needed for the safety and comfortthose who live in the building.
Photo by Lily Rudolph
The Rt. Rev. David Bailey, bishop of Navajoland, confirms Paul Kane at St. Mary Magdalene, Coral Springs on Feb. 19. In ad-dition to confirming and receiving 13 people that day, Bailey spoke on the previous afternoon to a group of more than 30 mem-bers of the Navajoland Mission Partnership team, as well as others interested in that ministry. The Mission Partnership wasstarted over 11 years ago by members of St. Mark the Evangelist, Ft. Lauderdale, and is led by Saint Mark's and Saint MaryMagdalene. Team members have come from six parishes in the diocese, a Methodist church in Margate and churches in Ohio,Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
Photo by Nilson Rapalino
‘Foot-washing Friday’
This is not a Maundy Thursday picture. At St. George’s Center, Riviera Beach, clients wait to have their feetwashed on Feb. 10 at the dedication of a new foot-washing area at the Center. At St. George’s foot-washing is aservice provided to homeless clients every Friday; for people who live on the streets with little access to basic hy-giene, foot care is essential—and often unavailable. Thanks to a grant from an anonymous foundation and dona-tions from a local Lutheran church, St. George’s was able to expand its kitchen facilities and create the specialarea for the foot-washing.
Photo by TonyMagnana
Tithes expected
A February excursion for the “Golden Circle,” the retirement club at Holy Family, Miami Gardens,took the group to the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood. Much to everyone’s amusement, incase any of his flock had played—and won—Holy Family’s rector, Fr. Horace Ward was waiting infront of the church when the bus returned with a large basket to receive “tithes” of the winnings.
Photo by Ken Sims
Do you realize that our diocese was
created more than four decades ago
— and that our form of operation
has remained the same ever since
the former Diocese of South Florida
was divided into three dioceses, Central, Southwest
and Southeast Florida?
For as long as we can remember we’ve been
“doing it that way” — the way our brand-new diocese
organized itself in late 1969, which was very similar
to the way dioceses had been structured for most of
the 20th Century. But in the past few years the struc-
ture that served us so well through our first decades
has begun to be obviously inadequate; we need to be
more nimble as we move into the rapidly changing
realities of a new century.
During our last Diocesan Convention I called the
diocese to a time of prayer, examination and reflec-
tion. In my address I said:
“Many of the ways we organize ourselves to do
the necessary business of the Church as an organiza-
tion and to share our resources have been with us for
well over a century; I am sure that you will agree that
we must be prepared to be more nimble in the ways
we serve as the Body of Christ in this 21st Century...
To respond to these challenges I am calling for a
workgroup composed of representatives from around
our diocese to begin analyzing our existing diocesan
structures and proposing (opportunities for change)...
We need to look at what has worked in the past and
what may serve us in the future, and also proceed to
begin implementing those changes.”
I am calling this process “Discovering Our Fu-
ture.” Now I am not talking of working with a crystal
ball or a Ouija board for predictions of what the fu-
ture will bring. Instead, I am talking about the hard
work of prayer, examination and reflection that will
help us discern the deeper realities of ministry to
which God has called us and the structures that will
best help us to respond to this call.
The process is based on the following assump-
tions:
� God is calling us to a nimble, mission based fu-ture;
� We are looking toward the future, not just to thepast and the present;
� We desire the healthy and creative involvementof our diocese in this process with a minimum of con-
flict;
� We are concerned about the good stewardshipof people and money;
� We are continuing to build a strong, informed,and committed diocese;
� We are looking for the profound questions forour future, not the easy answers.
I have asked the Rev. Charles Fulton, III, to assist
me in organizing and implementing my dream of pro-
viding a more creative and effective means of doing
our common ministry.
In the first phase of Discovering Our Future,
which has already begun, I have established three
areas of inquiry into the way we do ministry, business
and planning: Structure, Finances and Demographics.
Each of these three groups is headed by a convener,
working together with lay and ordained leaders of our
diocese in a careful review of these areas that affect
our ministry.
Under Charles’ leadership each group will gather
insights and experiences from throughout the diocese.
Their interim progress reports will be made available
after each of their three scheduled meetings: March,
May and June. Their final report will be available the
end of June.
The second phase of the process will be the work
of the Clergy Conference in September. The third
phase will involve the whole diocese in a visioning
process. At Diocesan Convention in November we’ll
hear an interim report of all three phases. My hope is
that this will provide us the opportunity for further
prayer, discussion and reflection during convention in
preparation for gradual implementation in 2013 of the
systemic changes that will empower us to be more
nimble and effective in accomplishing God’s call to
our beloved diocese.
You know the old joke: The seven last words of
the Church are, “We’ve always done it that way.”
My sisters and brothers, we will not let those “last
words” become an obituary for our ministries! I still
believe, as I told you nearly a dozen years ago, that
we are called to share the Good News of the resur-
rected Jesus with all of our neighbors “from the
sharks to the alligators,” and indeed, throughout all
the world. We serve a God who is continually making
all things new, and trusting in his grace and guidance,
we will find new ways to follow his call.
I ask for your prayers and your active participation
in the exciting work that lies ahead.
+Leo Frade
Discovering Our FutureWhat’s beyond ‘we’ve always done it that way’
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The Net, April 2012 11THENETPoints of View www.diosef.org
By Gregory Mansfield
Shrove Tuesday at St.
Bernard de Clarivaux
was almost a disaster.
About 1 p.m. Mario Al-
berto called to say he had
the flu and wouldn’t be able to cook for
the Pancake Supper. Mario is a chef.
Last year he created amazing pancakes
from scratch—with cinnamon and
vanilla. He grated fresh orange rind
into the batter and poured in Grand
Marnier. He made amazing toppings
— he made a raspberry coulis, added
Chambord (a raspberry liqueur), set it
on fire and poured the flambé mixture
over the pancakes as we all “ooh-ed”
and “aah-ed”.
Within 30 minutes of Mario’s call,
Denise DeMore called to say that she
and her husband Rich spent last night
in the emergency room. Rich was fine,
but on pain medication and doctor’s or-
ders for rest, so he and Denise would
not be there to help cook.
An hour later I learned that
Medardo Figueroa wasn’t feeling too
lively and he, too, probably wouldn’t
make it.
During the afternoon all eight mem-
bers of the prep and cooking team for
the pancake supper pooped out. (One,
literally — she had diarrhea. TMI, I
thought!)
Then Isabel Flores and Blanca
Figueroa arrived to clean the kitchen
and set-up the tables. “But who is going
to cook?” I thought.
Willie Pierce, our sexton, called in
sick because his son needed to go to the
eye doctor.
Then we discovered that the switch
on Bingo machine that pops out the
numbers had a broken switch.
I called Pat Burgess and she said
she’d come over and help.
I was already starting to get a
headache when they told me that the
gas pilot on the oven wasn’t working
and no one knew how to light the oven.
By this time 40 or 50 people had al-
ready arrived.
Kim Walker offered to call and
order pizzas. Several others suggested
we just cancel the evening.
But then Nelva Duque managed to
light the stove. Carol Bigio said she
could make the pancakes, Penny Hard-
ing started cutting up fruit, and Yolanda
Bacon-Green joined her. Then Sheila
Morrison walked in and offered to do
whatever needed to be done and started
serving the hot pancakes as they came
off the griddle. Maggie Pierre-Louis
and her husband Eric Mackey took over
passing out the butter and syrup. Bob
Burgess set-up the milk and juice.
Martha Nwaobia made the coffee and
put out the creamer and sugar.
Eugene Dwyer got a basket and
started collecting money. Medardo
Figueroa came with his tools and ran to
buy a new switch and replaced the bro-
ken one on the Bingo machine. Joan
James’ grandson, Malik, and Kim and
Mike Walker’s son, Quinn, both offered
to help pass out pencils and Bingo
cards.
Then Maida Delmar blew in and
made everybody laugh, reminding us
that what was really important is that
we were all there together, and we were
going to have fun, because we were all
together and little problems were not
going to spoil our evening.
And just like a family at home when
problems arise, we as a church family
pulled together — people started laugh-
ing and cutting up fruit and making
pancakes and we pulled it off. Not one
person in the kitchen was on the origi-
nal committee, but it all got done: By
7:15 we were serving pancakes!
At one point I marveled at this well-
oiled machine and I realized no one
was complaining — there was not one
negative comment, only laughter and
camaraderie. Oh, sure, it would have
been better organized if the original
crew of eight had all arrived at 4 p.m.
as planned; but I found myself sur-
rounded by friends who all pitched in
and offered to do whatever was needed
and we all had a good time together. I
realized my headache was gone.
Then we all played Bingo (all ex-
cept Pat Burgess who stayed in the
kitchen to wash all the pots and pans.)
In between calling out the numbers I
told dumb jokes, and people won
prizes: a bracelet from the Gift Shop, a
Samsung digital camera donated by
Brandsmart, a pewter keychain and the
$50 cash prize.
Later, as I stood in the parking lot
watching the palm fronds burn to ashes
that I would smudge on foreheads at
next day’s liturgies, I was reminded
that ashes are a biblical sign and sym-
bol of repentance and mortality. We
know how fragile life is. We’ve seen
how lives change in an instant. We are
all too aware that life is a precious,
fleeting gift.
On the night before the first day of
Lent, I remembered that we are called
to journey together, and I thanked God
that he called me to journey as part of
this wonderful community of people. �
Fr. Gregory Mansfield is the rectorof St. Bernard de Clairvaux, NorthMiami Beach.
A Shrove Tuesday saga: Pulling together to salvage the Pancake Supper
By Lisa Barrowclough
At the end of a long Tuesday
marked by more complain-
ing than I’d like to admit to
doing, I opened an email that would
immediately throw all things both awry
and into perspective at the same time.
The Episcopal School of Jacksonville’s
much-beloved head of school, Dale
Regan, had been shot and killed in her
own office, by a Spanish teacher who
had been dismissed just that morning.
He also took his own life.
My heart broke and my thoughts
and prayers turned first to her family
and his, and then to the students, fami-
lies, faculty, and alumni, and especially
to my new friend, their senior chaplain.
What a senseless tragedy – and what an
incredible need for healing!
Within twenty-four hours, I was on
the interstate headed north.
“This is what we do,” I kept telling
people. In Episcopal schools we care
deeply for one another and, in love, do
whatever needs to be done for our
brothers and sisters who need us.
The next morning I was joined by
my friend and colleague from St. An-
drew’s School in Boca Raton, the Rev.
David Taylor, and together we stepped
on to a campus that would never be the
same. I’m not sure what I expected, as I
am blessed to say I’ve not found my-
self in this situation before, but what I
experienced was as much a powerful
witness to the healing and wholeness
that we receive as a spiritual grace, as it
was a terribly sad example of our bro-
kenness in the face of an act of evil.
“God is in this place,” is all I felt I
needed to write home to St. Mark’s in a
simple email.
Throughout the day, David and I sat
in stillness or walked the campus with
countless souls touched, each in their
own ways, by the life and ministry of
Dale Regan, and by her tragic death. I
quickly found myself wishing I had
known this woman (beyond a casual
conference conversation 18 months
ago) as I heard beautiful stories of her
integrity, poise, courage, strength, and
encouraged her loyal students to honor
her legacy by living as faithfully as she
did.
Aboard an emotional roller coaster I
met grateful alumni who are now ac-
complished educators because of the
influence and impact of Dale’s teaching
many years ago, and then prayed with
faculty uncertain about how they will
ever be able to make children feel safe
again.
“Intense” hardly begins to describe
the experience! And yet, all day and in
every place, there was an overwhelm-
ing sense of the Spirit of God moving
over the campus, giving us the words
folks needed to hear and ultimately
placing words such as “hope” and
“peace” and even “forgiveness” on the
lips of students.
I smiled at the heavens … “a little
child shall lead them.” �
The Rev. Dr. Lisa Barrowclough isthe chaplain at St. Mark’s EpiscopalSchool in Palm Beach Gardens.
‘This is what we do’ Finding grace and wholeness in the face of evil
Community: Being the Body of ChristMemorial Stones
Students and faculty at the Episcopal School of Jacksonvillepainted 4,000 river rocks for distribution at the memorial service formurdered school head Dale Regan. Regan was known to refer to herown collection of such rocks as “stepping stones in life’s journey,” asshe shared their encouraging words with those who needed them. Shewould also build them into cairns, to teach students about strong foun-dations in life.
Photo by Lisa Barrowclough
12 The Net, April 2012THENET www.diosef.org Our Diocese
Ordinations, receptions add six new diocesan clergy
February and March saw six new clergy added to the
Diocese of Southeast Florida with the ordinations of
one priest and three transitional deacons and the recep-
tion of two priests from the Roman Catholic Church.
On Feb. 25 the Rev. Todd Hoover was ordained to the priest-
hood at St. Mary Magdalene, Coral Springs, where he serves as
an assistant rector, assisting with liturgy and preaching, as well
as pastoral care.
One of his specific ministries, which he began as a deacon, is
the establishment of a teenage LGBT suicide prevention group, a
collaborative effort with the nonprofit Broward Sun Serve Or-
ganization. The group meets weekly with a social worker at the
church.
Hoover, who was a leader in outreach ministry as a layperson
at All Saints, Ft. Lauderdale, also now acts as a ‘bridge” between
St. Mary Magdalene and New River Regional Ministries, based
at All Saints.
Amanda Williams Lippe was ordained to the diaconate on
Feb. 26 in the church where she grew up serving as an acolyte,
St. Ambrose, Ft. Lauderdale. Lippe, a 2011 graduate of the
School of Theology at the University of the South (Sewanee),
currently serves as a chaplain at Presbyterian Hospital in Albu-
querque, NM. She has been released by our diocese to seek a call
in another diocese.
On Mar. 25 Dr. Pierre Gabaud was ordained to the diaconate
at St. Paul et les Martyrs d’Haiti, Miami. Also a 2011 graduate of
Sewanee’s School of Theology, Gabaud served for six months as
a lay assistant at All Saints’, Jensen Beach, and since December
of last year has been assisting at St. Paul et les Martyrs d’Haiti.
By agreement between Bishop Leo Frade and Bishop Jean Zaché
Duracin of our companion Diocese of Haiti, Gabaud, who is also
a medical doctor, will return to his native country to serve as a
priest there.
Two Roman Catholic priests, Fr. Ronald Hayde and Fr.
Thomas Graf, were received last month as Episcopal priests,
Hayde on Mar. 21 and Graf on Mar. 27. Both men grew up in
New York, both attended the Cathedral College in Douglastown,
NY, were ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic
Church, later became Episcopalians — and didn’t reconnect until
after they were both received.
“I looked at the name Ron Hayde,” Graf said, “and thought
— could that be? We were roommates our first year at the Cathe-
dral College!”
Hayde continues to serve St. Mark the Evangelist, Ft. Laud-
erdale, in positions he has held for several years: director of
music for the church and chaplain to St. Mark’s Episcopal
School.
Graf assists at St. Faith’s, Cutler Bay, and is a chaplain with
Hospice Care of Southeast Florida.
Michael Picou, who was ordained to the diaconate at St.
Stephen’s, Miami, on Mar. 30, first became associated with the
Coconut Grove parish in 2006, when he was a priest of the Old
Catholic Church. Bishop Orlando Lima of the Independent Old
Catholic community in Miami had received permission from
Frade for his congregations to arrange with St. Stephen’s to hold
services there.
As Lima’s health failed, Picou found himself not only leading
the Old Catholic congregation, but also becoming involved in the
life of St. Stephen’s. Finally, in 2008, he obtained permission
from Lima to request to be received into the Episcopal Church
with the understanding that he would begin the process to be-
come an Episcopal priest.
Some branches of the Old Catholic Church are in full com-
munion with the Anglican Communion, but Picou’s congregation
was not one of those; he could not be received as a priest, but
needed to go through a more extensive process.
He has completed course work at the School of Theology at
Sewanee and is now working on his thesis for the S.T.M. degree
in Anglican Studies.
As a deacon, he has returned to assist at St. Stephen’s. �
Bishop Leo Frade prepares to ordain Todd Hoover to the priesthood as the congregation asSt. Mary Magdelene, Coral Springs, sings “Come, Holy Ghost.” Left to right are Fr. Mark AndrewJones; Fr. Rick Effinger; Hoover’s son, Justin Hoover (partially visible behind Effinger); RichardReed, a parishioner at All Saints, Ft. Lauderdale, who read the Gospel in French; and to the rightof the bishop, Dean Mark Sims, rector of St. Mary Magdalene.
Photo by Jack Gillis
Bishop Fradepresents DeaconAmanda Lippe to thecongregation of St.Ambrose, Ft.Lauderdale, at herordination on Feb. 26.
Photo by Tom Haman
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New Deacon Pierre Gabaud, ordainedMar. 25, reads the Gospel in French atthe Chrism Eucharist at TrinityCathedral on Tuesday in Holy Week. Atleft Deacon Michael Picou, ordainedMar. 31, waits to read the samepassage in English.
Photo by Mary W. Cox
Photo by Lily Hoyt
Photo by Glenda Sanchez Photo by Robin Lawrie
Above right: The Rev. Willie Allen-Faiella (right),rector of St. Stephen’s, Miami, is happy to have DeaconMichael Picou as part of the parish family again, now asone of the clergy.
Above left: At the noon Eucharist on Mar. 27 at TrinityCathedral, where he was received as a priest, Fr. TomGraf, assisted by Dean Douglas McCaleb, celebratesthe Eucharist.
Left: Fr. Ron Hayde assists Bishop Leo Frade at thealtar at the Mar. 21 service at St. Mark’s School, Ft.Lauderdale, in which Hayde, the school chaplain, wasreceived as an Episcopal priest.
By Mary W. Cox, editor
“Church” began with small groups of persecuted
people, gathering secretly in homes to pray together
and share the presence of the Risen Christ in the
sacrament of bread and wine. This is still the experi-
ence of the Church in many parts of the world today.
During Lent this year, Fr. Charles Browning, asso-
ciate rector at Holy Trinity, West Palm Beach, led a
group of young adults in a Lenten Worship Caval-
cade, a pilgrimage through the experience of “the
Church as an alternative community,” recalling the
practice of the ancient Church and sharing solidarity
with today’s persecuted Christians.
“It [was] all about looking at the Church from a
different perspective,” Browning explained.
Every Thursday in Lent a small group — usually
fewer than 10 people — gathered in someone’s home
for snacks and wine, worship and study.
“Our liturgy was an intimate re-presentation of the
Prayer Book liturgy,” Browning said. “A coffee table
or dining room table served as our altar. Music has
been strummed on guitar and sung without accompa-
niment. Clay vessels and real bread were used. Em-
phasis was placed on listening to the words of the
Eucharistic Prayer, rather than reading along (Prayer
D was used, read from an iPad).
The aesthetics were built around the notion that
holiness can happen anywhere; vestments were a
stole worn over plain clothes.”
Sermons were a “conversation” among partici-
pants, he said.
The journey began with discussion of the Church
in its infancy, persecuted and ostracized, considering
reasons why people would still gather in spite of the
threat of violence. This led to reflection on the
Church as an alternative community, and what it
might mean to live out our citizenship in the King-
dom of God in today’s world.
“Maria O’Carroll, one of our participants, noted
that Americans tend to fight in order to remain com-
fortable,” Browning said, leading to discussion of
whether the Church is simply living for its own com-
fort now, instead of focusing on God’s new creation.
The group also discussed the Church at the height
of it secular power and influence after Constantine
established Christianity as the official religion of the
Roman Empire, and the effect of “Christendom” on
how Christians live their call to alternative citizen-
ship.
The series concluded with the Maundy Thursday
liturgy with its call to humility and love.
Browning sees the community formed during the
Lenten series as a way to begin building a young
adult group in the parish. Most of the people who par-
ticipated were people associated with Holy Trinity, he
said, but some of them were “people associated with
me,” people he described as “de-churched — people
who probably grew up in a church but have fallen
away, people who haven’t found a way to plug in.”
“It’s been pretty cool to have this eclectic group
— borderline ‘cradle Episcopalians’ engaging these
people who are new to it.”
“The Lenten Worship Cavalcade has been an in-
credible blessing,” he said. �
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Photo by Jeremy Froyen
Lenten series offered experience of ‘Church as an alternative community’
KeelanO’Carroll’smusic sets thetone for quietreflection atone of HolyTrinity’seveninggatherings inthe LentenWorshipCavalcade, ledby Fr. CharlesBrowning(right).ParishYouthDirector SarahLidinsky is atleft.
Lenten worship
CORRECTION
The name of Fr. Denrick Rolle, rector-elect ofHistoric St. Agnes, Miami, was incorrectlyspelled as “Dendrick” in the February 2012issue of The Net. The correct spelling is“Denrick.”
When Bishop Leo Frade visited St. Mary’s,Stuart, on Palm Sunday for confirmation, healso took part in a liturgy of thanksgiving forfive retired clergy who are part of the life andministry of the parish. Together they representnearly 200 years of ordained ministry. Left toright, front row, are: Fr. John Coffey, Fr. DavidHopkins, Canon Richard Hardman, and Fr.Steve Fregeau; on the back row with Fradeare the Rev. Peggy Sheldon and St. Mary’srector, Fr. Todd Cederberg.
Honoring senior clergy
Photo by Thomas Winter
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Diocesan graduates to be honored on Trinity Sunday at Trinity Cathedral
On Trinity Sunday, June 3, high school graduates of
the Class of 2012 from around the diocese will be honored
at a High School Graduation Recognition service at Trin-
ity Cathedral, Miami.
This new event is sponsored by the Broward and South
Dade Deaneries and diocesan Young Adult Ministry.
Following the 10 a.m. service there will be a reception,
after which members of the diocesan Young Adult Min-
istry will join the graduates for lunch and a mini-confer-
ence to help them prepare for the transition to work,
college and the responsibilities of adult life. Workshop
topics will include: maintaining Christian values in the
dorm; staying connected to your church family; moving
from youth to young adult ministry; and connecting with
campus ministry and local Episcopal parishes near your
college. There will also be a workshop for parents.
For more information or to register for this event,
email the graduate’s name, current school, future plans
(job, college, military service, et. al.) and the number at-
