St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 501 E. Wallace Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho 83814 THE GURU’S CAT “When the guru sat down to worship each evening the ashram cat would get in the way and distract the worshipers. So he ordered that the cat be tied up during evening worship. After the guru died the cat continued to be tied up during evening worship. And when the cat expired, another cat was brought to the ashram so that it could be duly tied up during evening worship. Centuries later learned treatises were written by the guru’s scholarly disciples on the liturgical significance of tying up a cat while worship is performed.” The story above is from a collection in The Song of the Bird by Anthony de Mello. It provides an interesting insight into how a tradition can grow out of the simplest beginnings and take on serious overtones. I am privileged to serve with Anne Salisbury, Kristen Lahner, Al Ladhams and Father Pat on the “Liturgy Task Force” which will be offering a broadening perspective on the liturgy currently used in worship and also on alternative formats that are used by others. We will begin with an Instructed Eucharist, which consists of brief explanations of the different parts of the service so that each element might be more fully understood and experienced. This will happen over a period of services to avoid “information overload” and an overly extended service. Written materials will also be available. The second portion of the offering will be use of liturgies used in other Episcopal/Anglican churches, both within the United States and abroad. We are hoping that people will provide their responses to this effort to shape our communal worship at St. Luke’s. The very least that may come from this is learning more about each element of our liturgy so that we may come to understand why “we tie up the cat!” Ernest Warner
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St. Luke’s Episcopal Church501 E. Wallace
Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho 83814
THE GURU’S CAT
“When the guru sat down to worship each evening the ashram cat would get in the way and distractthe worshipers. So he ordered that the cat be tied up during evening worship.
After the guru died the cat continued to be tied up during evening worship. And when the catexpired, another cat was brought to the ashram so that it could be duly tied up during eveningworship.
Centuries later learned treatises were written by the guru’s scholarly disciples on the liturgicalsignificance of tying up a cat while worship is performed.”
The story above is from a collection in The Song of the Bird by Anthony de Mello. It provides aninteresting insight into how a tradition can grow out of the simplest beginnings and take on seriousovertones.
I am privileged to serve with Anne Salisbury, Kristen Lahner, Al Ladhams and Father Pat on the“Liturgy Task Force” which will be offering a broadening perspective on the liturgy currently used inworship and also on alternative formats that are used by others. We will begin with an InstructedEucharist, which consists of brief explanations of the different parts of the service so that eachelement might be more fully understood and experienced. This will happen over a period of servicesto avoid “information overload” and an overly extended service. Written materials will also beavailable.
The second portion of the offering will be use of liturgies used in other Episcopal/Anglican churches,both within the United States and abroad. We are hoping that people will provide their responses tothis effort to shape our communal worship at St. Luke’s.
The very least that may come from this is learning more about each element of our liturgy so that wemay come to understand why “we tie up the cat!”
Ernest Warner
Birthdays09/13 Chad S09/15 Madeline H09/16 Jane F09/16 Brendan G09/17 James A09/17 Jerry N09/17 Stephen B09/19 Bob L
Healing & Support
Don Albee, Maggie Ann McLachlan
Deployed Military Personnel
September 12th & 13thSixteenth Sunday
After PentecostProper 19
Proverbs 1:20-33Psalm 19James 3:1-12Mark 8:27-38
Prayer Requests
Wedding Anniversary09/14 Jim & Susan L09/14 Milton & Helen P
Joe S. Jr, Steve H, Curt C, Brian S, Dave O, Howard M, Joe M, Jason C, Chelsea, Violet H,
Evelyn C, Sandy D, Mike M, Connie P, Cheryl, Victoria B, Bob H, Elizabeth, Manny F, Lori T,
Glenn C, Peggy, Elaina Mc, Pearl H, Nolan R, Debbie K, Jean Mc,Virgil H, Eloise S, Bobbi, Chad,
Becky L, Dianne H, Jack & Ann O, Norman Mc, Tava C, Vick K, Jack S, Emily H, Tony I, John P,
Jim H, Joanne R, Dennis
Anniversary of Death09/15 Glen Whitesel09/16 Betty Owens
10:00 a.m. Painting with a Friend1:00 p.m. Blankets for Kids4:30 p.m. Foundation mtg6:00 p.m. CDA Art mtg
Fri 18th Office Closed
Sat 19th
5:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist II7:00 p.m. Young People of AA mtg
Orientation Classes
This Week
They’re not just for newcomers!
Father Pat will conduct orientation classes over the
next couple of Sundays at 9 a.m. in the Alison
Room. They’re designed to introduce the Episcopal
Church to newer parish members but are definitely
open to all. Maybe you have some unanswered
questions about “Basic E” or feel you might benefit
from a refresher. If so, you are cordially invited to
join other church members, including newcomers,
on September 13, and 20.
We would like to challenge the other St. Luke’smembers, and perhaps the various groups, of St.Luke’s to join in sup-porting the FamilyPromise of NorthIdaho’s 8th AnnualCardboard Box City(CBBC) to be held onOctober 9th. FamilyPromise affiliates around the country hold CBBCevents as their major fundraiser. The goal thisyear is $20,000 to cover operational expenses as-sociated with helping the guests acquire sustain-able housing.
Donations in support of the sponsorship can bemade out to St. Luke’s; please write CBBC on thememo line. For more information on FamilyPromise and CBBC, go to www.familypromiseni.org.
Thank you in advance – AndyParoni and Mary Robinette, FPNIBoard members
Andy will be staying overnight –probably in her van not a card board house.
St. Luke’s Family and Children’s Sunday Services
The Wel lA family service for young childrenSundays at 9:15 am in the Parish Hall
The JordanA family service for school-aged children
Sundays at 9:00 am in the Alison Library
Pl ease j oi n us on Sundays to enhance the spi r i tual exper i ence and educati on ofour youth at St. Luk e’ s par i sh. Al l chi l dren and fam i l i es are wel com e!
Each Sunday , par ti ci pants i n The Jordan servi ce j oi n The Wel l for Euchar i st.
A Fam i l y Soci al Hour i m m edi atel y fol l ows the servi ces.Al l par i shi oners are i nvi ted to com e to spend ti m e wi th our
youngest par i shi oners and thei r fam i l i es!
Rev. (15.8-29)
HEADS UP!125th Anniversary of Fall UTO Ingathering
Saturday/Sunday OCT. 17 & 18, 2015
FYI: St. Luke’s Mother’s Day ingathering netted $479.
Grateful thanks for your daily participation in the United Thank Offering program. Remember,the Lord never tires of our thanksgiving and boasting of His mercy. Our daily prayers and thanksgivingschange lives. The prayer on the UTO box is usually out of sight in my home but it is telling.
Source of all creation, all love, all true joy,accept we pray, these outward signs of our profound
and continuing thankfulness for all of life.Bless those who will benefit from these gifts
through the outreach of the United Thank Offering;and keep each of us ever thankful for all the blessings
of joy and challenges the come our way;through Him who is the greatest gift and blessing
of all, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.Amen
The Diocese of Spokane has received a UTO grant used to build the beautiful docks at Camp Cross. It isone of many, . Our daily prayers, thanksgivings and change - bless others.Thanks for every cent you offer the UTO program.
Marty Gustafson UTO Chair
Farewell Reception October 4
Mary Beth Jorgensen and Bob Runkle have been such a blessing to us at St Luke’s and the largercommunity for the twelve plus years they’ve been here.
Reverend Jane recently preached on the Epistle of James 1:17-27 Be Doers of the Word, Not ListenersOnly. Instead of judging others and focusing on religious rules, we should go out into the world and doGod’s work - feed the hungry, protect widows. Indeed Mary Beth and Brother Bob have done justthat .. actively spreading God’s love in so many ways.
We send them off to the next chapter of their lives knowing they will continue to live out James’Epistle.
Our Farewell Reception will be in the parish hall after the Oct 4 10:30 service. You’re welcome to put afree-will offering in the basket at the reception, or earmark a check for them (put this in the alms plateor leave in the office by Sept. 30th.)
OLD WORDS AND PHRASES REMIND US OF THE WAY WE WORDby Richard Lederer - Submitted by Bob Gustafson
[Recently] I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorablemarch of technology. These phrases included "Don't touch that dial," "Carbon copy," "You sound likea broken record" and "Hung out to dry." A bevy of readers have asked me to shine light on morefaded words and expressions, and I am happy to oblige:
Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib and tucker and straighten upand fly right. Hubba-hubba! We'd cut a rug in some juke joint and then go necking and petting andsmooching and spooning and billing and cooing and pitching woo in hot rods and jalopies in somepassion pit or lovers' lane. Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumpin' Jehoshaphat! Holy moley! Wewere in like Flynn and living the life of Riley, and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being aknucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!
Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell? Swell hasgone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddleshoes and pedal pushers. Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.Like Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Kurt Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim, we have become un-stuck in time. We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, "I'll bea monkey's uncle!" or "This is a fine kettle of fish!" we discover that the words we grew up with, thewords that seemed omnipresent as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tonguesand our pens and our keyboards.
Poof, poof, poof go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone,evanesced from the landscape and wordscape of our perception, like Mickey Mouse wristwatches,hula hoops, skate keys, candy cigarettes, little wax bottles of colored sugar water and an organ grind-er's monkey.
Where have all those phrases gone? Long time passing. Where have all those phrases gone? Longtime ago: Pshaw. The milkman did it. Think about the starving Armenians. Bigger than a bread box.Banned in Boston . The very idea! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grass-hopper. Turn-of-the-century. Iron curtain. Domino theory. Fail safe. Civil defense. Fiddlesticks! Youlook like the wreck of the Hesperus. Cooties. Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don'ttake any wooden nickels. Heavens to Murgatroyd! And awa-a-ay we go!
Oh, my stars and garters! It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carterhad liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff, this winking out of the words of our youth, these wordsthat lodge in our heart's deep core. But just as one never steps into the same river twice, one cannotstep into the same language twice. Even as one enters, words are swept downstream into the past,forever making a different river.
We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeful times. For a child each new word is like ashiny toy, a toy that has no age. We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage ofremembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted theirhour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It's one ofthe greatest advantages of aging. We can have archaic and eat it, too. See 'ya later, alligator!
