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The Carillon — October 2016
The Carillon is the monthly
newsletter of Trinity Episcopal
Cathedral
Sara Calkins, Editor
www.trinitysj.org
Dean’s Desk Page 2
Canon’s Corner Page 3
Concert Flyer Page 5
Music Notes Page 6
Outreach & Opportunities
Internet Insights Page 7
Celebrations Page 8
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Trinity Cathedral Staff
The Very Rev. David Bird, Ph.D. Dean and Rector
Mr. Michael Joyce Music Director
Ms. Heike Merino Cathedral Administrator
Mr. John Davis Sexton
Volunteer Staff
The Rev. Canon Randolf J. Rice, J.D. Canon Residentiary
The Rev. Canon Lance Beizer, J.D. Canon Vicar
The Rev. Lee Barford, Ph.D. Deacon
Vacant Treasurer
Graciela Velazquez Coordinator for Latino Ministries
The Rev. Penelope Duckworth, M.F.A. Mr. Stuart Johnson Artists in Residence
Professor Brent Walters Scholar in Residence
Rather than a column from me this month I believe it more appropriate to share with you our presiding bishop’s Election Message.
- David Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Election Message This November we will gather together as a nation to vote not only to elect a new president but to elect governmental leaders on a variety of levels. We are blessed. We are blessed as a nation to be able to do so as citizens of this country. This is a right, an obligation, and a duty. And indeed the right and the priv-ilege to be able to vote is something that was won through an American revolu-tion. Something that was won even more through civil rights and women’s suffrage. A right and a privilege that was won for all. So I encourage you to please go and vote. Vote your conscience. Vote your perspective. But vote. But it’s not just simply a civil obligation and duty. Voting and participation in our government is a way of participating in our common life. And that is a Christian obligation. Indeed, we who follow in the Way of Jesus of Nazareth are summoned to participate actively as reflections of our faith in the civil process. In the thirteenth chapter of Romans, sometimes a chapter that is debated among scholars and among Christians, St. Paul reminds us that we have a duty and an obli-gation to participate in the process of government, “For that is how our common life is ordered and structured.” And at one point he actually says, “For the same reason,” going on, he’s expanding, he says, “For the same reason you also pay tax-
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When I was a college student in the late ‘50s I participated in two week-long summer programs pre-sented by the “Institute on Reli-gion in an Age of Science,” which took place at a wonderful little island off the coast of New Hamp-shire, Star Island, one of the Isles of Shoals. The organization, then
only a couple of years old, still exists today, and still has summer conferences on Star Island. I was attending a Unitarian church in those days; indeed, I learned of the program because of that fact, as the island conference center is jointly operated by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ. One of the speakers whom I met while attending one of the insti-tute’s programs was a bishop of what was then called the Czechoslovak Church. Since he represented that his religious orientation was rationalistic and Unitarian ra-ther than Trinitarian, I was both amazed and, frankly, amused to learn that his title was “Bishop,” since it was hard for me to imagine a Unitarian bishop. In any case, that encounter led me to a recent bit of re-search on his Church—research that has become consid-erably easier in this age of Internet access. What I found leads to the name of this month’s offering from Holy Women, Holy Men, John Hus. Hus lived from 1372 to 1415, his life ending at the stake, a victim of what ap-pears to have been an over-zealous determination to shut off any dissention within the Church of the day, which was in the middle of what is called the Great Western Schism, a period in which there were three claimants to the papacy. As you might guess, he backed the wrong claimant. Backing the wrong claimant, however, is not what has ultimately led to Hus’s inclusion on our Church’s calen-dar. The story really goes back a half century or so to another, English, theologian, John Wycliffe, who was a professor at Oxford. Hus very much admired and agreed with much of what Wycliffe espoused. Although opposi-tion to the Roman Church’s practice of indulgences is usually associated with Martin Luther, Wycliffe’s public disdain for them very much predates Luther’s. There were also many other positions that Wycliffe took that the Church found objectionable, perhaps the most im-portant being his belief that the Bible ought to be availa-
ble to people in their vernacular languages. Therefore he undertook to translate it into what was then the vernac-ular for those around him—middle English, the language we mostly think of in context of Chaucer and the Canter-bury Tales. Other objects of Wycliffe’s attacks included the veneration of saints and the immorality and osten-tatious living styles of the clergy, even of the papacy it-self. The specifics of Wycliffe’s teachings, however, and the fact that Hus promulgated many of them himself in his own preaching and his writings, are still not what brings Hus to our column this month, although they are per-haps the first expression of what become the Protestant revolution. Nor is it that Hus stood firmly against the imposition of Church doctrine and discipline by the Holy Roman Emperor in Germany. Nor is it that Hus’s writings have remained admired as classics of the Czech language (He even had an influence on its orthography). No, I think what has really earned Hus a place on the calendar of the Episcopal Church is that he became a martyr for his beliefs as the result of a despicable act by Sigismund, King of Hungary and Germany, who became the Holy Roman Emperor. Given that there were writings that the Church deemed heretical—so much so that at one point the entire city of Prague was placed under an interdict (that is, all of its citizens were denied the taking of com-munion by the Roman Church)—and given the instability created by the schism, Sigismund called for a Church council to settle the various issues. The council took place in the German city of Constance over a period of four years beginning in 1414. There, finally, the schism ended with the forced abdication of all of the various claimants and the election of a new pope, Martin V, in 1417. The doctrinal issues involving the teachings of Jan Hus were dealt with by Sigismund, who sent him a letter guaranteeing him safe passage to come before the coun-cil to defend his teachings. The letter said that Hus was so safe that even had he murdered the king’s sister he could be assured of his safety. Not true. Hus traveled to Constance, but was not at first permitted to speak, alt-hough with the intervention of some Czech nobles even-tually he was permitted to refute some of the charges. In the end, however, the council condemned him to the stake despite Sigismund’s promise. He was allowed to
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Canon’s Corner
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Dean’s Desk, continued
es for the authorities are God’s servants, busy with everything.” That’s probably very true. “Pay to all them that is due them. Taxes to whom taxes are due. Revenue to whom revenue is due. Respect to whom respect is due. Honor to whom honor is due.” Now he’s talking about the role of government as helping to order our common life. But here’s what I want you to really hear. He continues and says: “So owe no-one anything except to love one another. For the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The com-mandments ‘You shall not commit adultery’, ‘You shall not murder’, ‘You shall not steal’, ‘You shall not covet’, any other commandment, they are all summed up in this word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’. Love does no wrong to a neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.” For St. Paul, the way of love, the love of neighbor, is the fulfilling not only of the moral law of God, but the way to fulfill the civil law. Go and vote. Vote your conscience. Your conscience informed by what it means to love your neighbor. To participate in the process of seeking the common good. To participate in the process of making this a better world. However you vote, go and vote. And do that as a follower of Jesus.
- The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry
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recant, but that he would not do. He was, therefore, brought to the stake, where it is said that he turned to those who were there to watch his demise with the observation that “Your goose is cooked,” a pun that depended on the fact that, in German, his name actually means “goose.” It is also said that as the flames rose about him he sang in Latin: “Christ, thou son of the living God, have mercy upon me.” There are really two Churches in today’s world that trace their origins to Hus. One, of course, is the one I spoke of at the beginning of this column, which today is no longer Uni-tarian in theology, but which is truly tiny, not unexpected in a country that is perhaps the least religious in the world. The other is the Moravian Church, which in this country is in full communion with both the Episcopal Church (TEC) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA). Appropriately, given Hus’s fate for his disagreements with the Roman Church, the motto of the Moravians is, in English, “In Essentials, Unity; In Nonessentials, Liberty; In All Things, Love.”
- Lance
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Music Notes
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Music Notes
Greetings! THE ORGAN PROJECT: The Music Ministry and associates have been busy with “The Organ Project” in ascertaining what exactly would be the best avenues and fiscally appropriate channels in which to engage. For your Music Director, this has been highly educational and a huge learning experience. Our organ is in need of some serious maintenance, but overall, is in remarkable shape for the projects it has undergone – many uncompleted – and the age of many of the components. As many of you know, the organ was purchased from Trinity Church up in San Francisco (1925) and installed at Trinity around 1927. Thus a very colorful, at times very sad, history of our instrument began. Ranks of pipes have been re-moved and replaced, a sturdy, new console (1937) from the Austin organ company. There is much more to our organ’s history, blowers, flooded divisions of pipes, new façade pipes – the list is extraordinary. Many of the projects were un-finished due to lack of funds or a rush to completion. Suffering most right now is the basic racking of pipes, regulation of pipes, some modifications in the console and a refinishing. The organ has presented many recitals by highly notable organists of the period some of whom were – Virgil Fox, E. Power Biggs, Carl Weinrich and Alexander Schreiner (of Mormon Tabernacle fame). I do not want to go further in ex-planation here, but as the organ stands today, there are myriad dead pipes, poor functioning ranks, particular prob-lems appear more in the bass and mid-range of a lot of the stops. In case anyone is wondering, the organ is an instru-ment of 37 voices and 47 stops. The façade pipes would easily bring $100,000.00 – the overall cost of replacing our instrument would be in the neighborhood of $1,443,00.00! (This past Saturday was the celebration of the installation of the Schoenstein organ at St. Timothy’s in Mountain View, purchase in 1986 was approximately $89,000.00 – and is now valued today at well over a million dollars! – Important to note here, is that this instrument is about 1/4 the size of Trinity’s instrument.) So, we move forward with making plans to bring our instrument up to current organ construction standards. Your sup-port would be greatly appreciated. HAYES CONCERTS – There’s one coming in November 20, 2016 - a very talented pianist, Dante Lorenzo Dilanni – who assisted us with Lessons and Carols two years ago and presented a concert here under the auspices of Silicon Valley Concert Association. More information will be following. LIMITED INVOLVEMENT MUSIC MINISTRY: We are always looking for new singers in the choir. If you thought, I would love to sing for this or that, then why not? I would be more than happy to work out a temporary arrangement with you and give you rehearsal times, etc. to facilitate your preparation. Just give me a call: (408) 250-4988. Deanery Choir Festival: October 16th, 2016 – at St. Thomas Church in Sunnyvale (231 Sunset Ave.)– 4:00pm. A num-ber of choirs from the Northern Deanery of the Diocese of El Camino Real, including Trinity’s, will be performing two selections each from their repertoire and all participating choirs and members of other choirs in the deanery will com-bine to perform three selections. Admission is free, but a free will offering will be received for Santa Maria ministries of the diocese. Best Autumn Wishes! Mike Joyce
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Internet Insights
Outreach & Opportunities
Lunch for People Who are Homeless
For the first of two meals in September, a small but expe-rienced group of 7 volunteers, including two returning volunteers, gathered on Saturday morning to make and serve a lunch to residents of both the Cecil White Center and the nearby Julian St. Inn. We served a resident favor-ite; pasta with meat sauce, garlic bread, and green salad, along with milk and juice, ice cream sundaes, and an as-sortment of pies and fruit. Many thanks go to Leslie Barr for her menu idea and to Sandy Dilling, who shopped for all the groceries earlier in the week and loaded them into the refrigerator for us to use on Saturday. (Thanks in advance to Lindy Hayes, who will do the shopping for next Saturday’s lunch at the San Jose Family Shelter.) Thank you to Darryl Parker, who was our chef this morning. He created the delicious meat sauce, cooked the pasta to perfection, not to mention also concocting the delicious garlic butter spread for our garlic bread. Thank goodness for the help of two returning volunteers, Philip Chu and his dad, Harrison. They helped everywhere with the meal preparation. Joining parishioners Karen Gillette, Joan Rayment, Michelle Fong, the volunteers prepped all the sausages, celery, and onions for the sauce, produced a half dozen loaves of steamy hot, and delicious, garlic bread, and later helped wash, chop, and grate the veggies for the salad. A special thanks to Joan for washing most of the cooking utensils and pots and pans – a big task indeed!
Thank you, once again, to Rick Hawes, for donating the veggies for the salad, several jugs of juice, a big bag of fruit, a cheese cake, and some fruit pies. He not only or-ganized the salad making, he also helped cutting and grating the veggies and tossed it. At Cecil White Center, Karen and Joan served the pasta, garlic bread, and salad. At the beverage counter, Rick poured glasses of ice cold milk and fruit drink. Joan and Rick also helped serve the ice cream sundaes and slices of cake and pie, which always manages to make the lunch-ers smile. Thanks again to Lucky supermarket, at the corner of Sara-toga and Pruneridge Avenues in Santa Clara, and espe-cially managers, Andrew and Reuben, and bakers, Ernie, Amina, and Sandy for their continuing support. They do-nated a dozen loaves of hot and fresh French bread for our garlic bread and many mouth-watering cakes and pastries. Another big thank you goes to Ben for arranging, picking up, and delivering the baked goods. Next month’s lunches will be held on two Saturdays, Oc-tober 8 and 15, 2016. About 10 volunteers are needed for this local mission activity so if your schedule allows please consider coming and helping. We meet to prepare lunch at 10:15 am in the kitchen of the Parish Hall. No experi-ence is required, just a desire to help those less fortunate than ourselves. There is a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board in the Parish Hall. If you have any questions, please ask any of the volunteers or Fr. Bird.
- Alan Fong
We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being.
The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the
past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
-Karl Popper, philosopher and a professor (28 Jul 1902-1994)
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Celebrations!
Sara Calkins 10/2 Leslie Bailey 10/5 Sarah Nunes 10/6 Patricia Anderson 10/7 Jim Nelson 10/8 Dagm Teklu Aklilu 10/13 Lee Barford 10/14 Dorothy Berry 10/17 Mike Joyce 10/17 Thomas Estruth 10/18
Dolores Laconico 10/20 Peter Gillette 10/24 Margo Estruth 10/24 Philip Hanasaki 10/24 Darryl Parker 10/24 Marge Lobbes 10/24 Janice Paull 10/25 Doreen Volcere 10/27 Mary Jo Melia 10/28 Daniel Nelson 10/28 Steve Franke 10/30 Roger Lobbes 11/8 Lois Brown 11/10 Todd Minson 11/12
John Morrison 11/14 Alison Collins 11/14 Matthew Garbarino 11/20 Owen Heckman 11/21 Natalie Garbarino 11/22 Melissa Elfar 11/22 John Davis 11/27 Rachel Nelson 11/27 Patience Hayes 11/27
“O God, our times are in your hand: Look with favor, we pray,
on your servants as they begin another year.
Grant that they may grow in wisdom and grace,
and strengthen their trust in your goodness all the days of their lives;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”
Happy Anniversary!
Michelle and Alan Fong 10/24 Mary Jo and Pete Melia 11/8 Margaret Wylder and Robert Lopes 11/11 Sarah and John Nunes 11/16 Janet and James Haddad 11/22 Marge and Roger Lobbes 11/23 Rachel and Jim Nelson 11/25
