tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16115988292691948672024-02-07T09:40:18.142-08:00All Our Voices<i>Whoever you are, wherever you find yourself <br>on your journey of faith, you are welcome here.</i>Jeff Martinhaukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12661661035034398206noreply@blogger.comBlogger1389125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-81204404807714440932020-08-23T09:05:00.001-07:002020-08-23T10:02:11.610-07:00The blog is moving!<p><b><span style="font-size: xx-large;"> Notice!<br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: xx-large;">The Blog with all its content is moving to a news site linked to our website at </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><a href="http://www.stpaulcathedral.org">www.stpaulcathedral.org</a><br /><br />We will update this notice with the exact link shortly. <br /><br /><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">This site will no longer be updated.</span><br /><br /><br /></span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-1959903438318497432020-08-20T06:00:00.001-07:002020-08-20T06:00:05.476-07:00We are all in this together <p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='600' height='498' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwhdZvGGs_PmnVz1Lw-ge0-YxLOW6ZIq086Mg-8hryvKfdA1qdUAWN2KEblQ45PmHC2TXTpDD4r2ADbb_y8dg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Hello St. Paul’s,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The other day I sent an email to a couple of my chamber music friends, just to check in. We haven’t been able to play together since February, and I have been strangely reluctant to pick up my viola and practice it during the pandemic, although I have, strangely, been playing the piano. I was curious to know how other musicians were coping. My friends responded that they too have been neglecting their instruments, or, in the case of one multi-talented individual, some of his instruments. All of us have remained healthy and haven’t suffered economically, so it’s a bit of a mystery why we would stop doing something that gives us so much joy, just when you might think we would have lots of extra time to do it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I know how well off I am. Each morning I thank God for another day of health and another day of opportunities to work with people I love. Nevertheless, I confessed to my friends that I have ups and downs, and one responded with dismay, because he has only ever seen me being cheerful and upbeat.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I think a lot of us have been putting on a brave face for many weeks, and I have to wonder how much longer we can keep it up. I’m noticing some frayed tempers and increasing crankiness in our community. I think there’s a lot of pent-up suffering out there, whether the cause is a lost job, or a delayed surgery, or terror of getting sick. And there are people who are just angry: angry about having to stay home, angry at having to wear a mask, angry at losing a vacation or an income, angry at the roller-coaster of closures and reopenings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I get it: believe me, I get it. We’ve been trying to launch our outdoor worship, and every time we are ready to go, something happens and we have to change it again. We are trying to plan for the future, but every plan has to be hedged around with conditionals, like “in the event of” and “Unless…”. And then there is the pressure to feel and express compassion and outrage for other terrible things that are happening, like police brutality, or extreme weather. I wonder if you feel as exhausted as I do when people demand strong reactions. I know I’m not alone in sometimes wanting to say, “I wish I could care more, but I only have room for so much caring, and I’m pretty full up right now.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So, what do we do about this frustration, this anger, this depression, this compassion fatigue? We are people of faith. We trust in the promises of God. We have a treasury of tradition to fall back on. We have familiar prayers and Scripture passages that we can recite together or alone. The Psalms provide for expression of every emotion known to humanity. And we have each other. Maybe we can dare to let someone know what we are feeling. Maybe we can invite a friend to share their burden, not with any expectation that we can fix it, but with the assurance that we are all in this together. Let’s be kind to each other and offer a listening and confidential ear.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And meanwhile, for our own comfort, here’s a slightly modified prayer from the Prayer Book: Be present, O merciful God, and protect us through these times of frustration, sadness, and impatience, so that we who are wearied by the changes and chances of this life may rest in your eternal changelessness.; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">See you on Sunday.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-91414973438628731592020-08-13T06:00:00.004-07:002020-08-13T06:00:01.359-07:00Hearing the Word<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='600' height='498' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwmYa2RrRZRrpWC6WGqyetExDHh1UevDJwmC2fid-sbclrxLM8wkPIW4wNPVJaP3Z5WrG0sX0gd682VYs9DYw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p> Hello, St. Paul’s.</p><p>One of my favorite Collects goes like this: “Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life …” We hear it on the Sunday before Thanksgiving every year.</p><p>Hear, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest: the Church seems to be telling us that we should first HEAR the Scripture, and only then read and study it. In ancient times most people didn’t have access to written materials, if they could even read, and so they encountered the word of God by hearing it. In our literate age we tend to depend heavily on written texts, even to the extent, sometimes, of being critical of someone reading aloud when they deviate from the text by a single syllable.</p><p>While I don’t encourage anyone to offer extemporaneous translations of Scripture in church, I do think that we can keep in mind that these are not just translations but paraphrases of ancient material, and sometimes we can lose sight of the power of Scripture if we get too bound up with the script. When I used to serve regularly as deacon I sometimes enjoyed memorizing the Gospel and telling it as a story, with no book between me and my listeners. It was striking how many people started off following word for word in the bulletin but soon put down the paper and became fully engaged in the story.</p><p>Where am I going with all this? Well, I want to invite you, in our Zoom and streamed worship, to let go of the bulletin a little and allow Scripture to speak to you. We have a roster of excellent lectors, and with online worship everyone has a front seat, so you should have no trouble understanding the reader. You might try closing your eyes and imagining the scene the reader describes. At other parts of the 10:30 service, we will soon include a shot of Cherie Dean providing a simultaneous translation into American Sign Language. If you’ve ever noticed Cherie signing during a service you know how beautiful and graceful it looks.</p><p>To start with, Cherie will simply be signing some of the fixed parts of the service, such as the Lord’s Prayer and the Creed: these can be pre-recorded and replayed every week so as not to abuse Cherie’s gift of time. Earlier in the summer Cherie offered a forum in which she started to teach us how to sign the Lord’s Prayer: she will continue with this on Sunday. Now we have a great opportunity to expand our reach to those whose first language is ASL, by both incorporating it into our services and by learning the basics ourselves. When we return to cautious, in-person worship, signing the Peace will be a helpful alternative to physical contact.</p><p>So, this Sunday, try hearing the Scripture before you read it: it may come alive for you in new ways. And thank you, Cherie, for sharing your gift with us.</p><p>See you on Sunday.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-20364952724078100892020-08-09T10:02:00.003-07:002020-08-09T10:02:43.516-07:00The Sunday Sermon: the Grace Margin
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOqo3jv2Un0EATA627bViYArDYXRAcEwy1hlPIc34SQu9yZkSp_ctoCPLbKyXU5jnEiOiZDvQFhhBuE8099H7VejaNf_DoitXMfGSpIvar5rZvb1fliyN8vgF-fMIVQn7UZDXOt-RaJpU7/s2048/Homecoming-1827.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1639" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOqo3jv2Un0EATA627bViYArDYXRAcEwy1hlPIc34SQu9yZkSp_ctoCPLbKyXU5jnEiOiZDvQFhhBuE8099H7VejaNf_DoitXMfGSpIvar5rZvb1fliyN8vgF-fMIVQn7UZDXOt-RaJpU7/w256-h320/Homecoming-1827.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>In our lesson from the Hebrew scriptures today, Elijah is tired. He has performed mighty and spectacular acts to show that the God of Israel is a living God. He has thrown down the altars of competing gods. He has killed 450 prophets of the god Baal. The signs Elijah has demonstrated have been excessive: big, showy signs of strength and power.<br /><br />
Elijah has just performed a particularly spectacular ritual that involved bulls, water, and fire. Jezebel, with her prophets decimated, threatens to kill Elijah. He gets scared, and he flees. He runs about 300 miles by foot into a cave, where we find him in this morning's reading.
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Elijah has worked hard for God. I imagine him to be tired, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
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God comes to Elijah. But God does not come in the way God has shown up for him in the past. While Elijah's past works with God have involved elaborate and ornate displays of power, this time God is not to be found in the wind, in the earthquakes, nor in the fire.
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This time God is found in the sheer silence. And it is hard news. Elijah is being decommissioned. Elijah will always be a favored and treasured part of God's history with God's people, but it is time for a new way. A new prophet is being called- one that works differently than Elijah. There will not be as many spectacular shows of power as there were in Elijah's past. This new prophet will be less showy and work more subtly.<br /><br />
Frequently in the scriptures the people of God are challenged to change, to grow into a bigger understanding of God. Time and again, from the story of the exodus to Elijah to the story of the exile to the story of Jesus calling Israel to grow into to the way of love, it has been hard for the people of God to trust in the unfolding of God's love in bigger ways than we can imagine for ourselves.
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Right now many of us are tired like Elijah. I am tired. I do not want to hear about change, much as I imagine Elijah did not. I would much have preferred to write a very comforting sermon, to feel somehow validated that we are ok for feeling adrift in a world that seems to have come loose from its moorings, to yearn to return to stable ground.
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But I think both things are true-- that it is ok to feel adrift, and the story of the people of God asks us to embrace change. The gospel story this week is helping me with that.
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That passage begins where we left off last week- with Jesus and the disciples tired and exhausted, grieving and reeling from the tragic news of the death of John the Baptist. As they sought a place to grieve and adjust to the change, they unexpectedly met a crowd. Jesus, rather than giving the disciples a day off because it had already been a long day, asked them to serve. To give. They fed the crowd, with miraculous results.
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And now, even more tired, they seek refuge. So Jesus sends them ahead on a boat.
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ao1BG5njQbWQ30M2Da_3jSYUjfUZxHAMUYNs0r3j3yn9HlAuvEngzpfobXz1qmyoQp0MBKTlhkba8ncF9PoFgOl1Yz307xhcsocGHNEV1jZ4L-0bzSiDfcIHpsMSZmFjttq_xjQlwuOp/s2048/32401360057_2711c13a35_k.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ao1BG5njQbWQ30M2Da_3jSYUjfUZxHAMUYNs0r3j3yn9HlAuvEngzpfobXz1qmyoQp0MBKTlhkba8ncF9PoFgOl1Yz307xhcsocGHNEV1jZ4L-0bzSiDfcIHpsMSZmFjttq_xjQlwuOp/w320-h213/32401360057_2711c13a35_k.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>A boat or ship is a metaphor for the church. It has been so long since we have gathered in the building, I want to show you a part of it. We call the space where we gather the nave. Nave is a word that means ship. Often the building, as with our own, is designed to call to mind that metaphor, to remind us, the Church, that we are on this voyage together. The Church is not the building. But the building reminds us of who we, the Church, are called to be. We will weather the storms together. We will keep going. The buttresses of the beautiful Notre Dame cathedral that burned recently are said to symbolize oars. We are each called to take an oar on this metaphorical ship and row together to a destination. We row forward, to wherever God is calling us. To someplace new; to new life; to the yet fully unknown kingdom of God we hope and pray for.
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This boat in our gospel story has been battered by waves, it faces strong winds. It is a hard journey. I think we can relate to that. But Jesus comes to them. He will arrive at the boat and lead the boat through.
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Peter, always the eager one, decides he wants to leave the boat.
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Jesus does not object, but the experiment is not exactly successful. It is the safety of the boat that leads through the storm. Jesus arrives in the boat, calms the storm, and leads the journey on safely. We are in this together. It is not by anyone jumping out and running ahead that the boat moves forward. It is by Jesus calming the storm that we can listen in the silence, grab an oar, and heed the direction of our navigator.
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Many of us begin this month the anti-racism work of Sacred Ground. The work of anti-racism has always been a spiritual practice for me as a white person; a model for the white church- the whole church- to heed. It should be obvious that racism itself is evil. But the practices of anti-racism are central to the Christian faith: listening, valuing the other, being mindful of one's power and how it is used: the theme of wrestling with complacency and privilege as God calls us into something bigger than ourselves.
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White privilege is always insisting that it is my right to jump out of the boat. That I deserve to meet Jesus first, or that this faith journey is only personal- it is private between Jesus and me. White privilege lies and says that like Peter, I should leave the other disciples behind in the boat, because there is something extra-special about me that makes it ok for me to abandon them. But Peter can't do it alone. Neither can we. Those reminders of humility, to listen, to stay connected: to be in the boat, valuing my traveling companions- those are some of the reasons why anti-racism are, for me, intricately connected to my faith.
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I cannot love my neighbor if my faith is primarily an exercise in my own self-interest; if faith is a personal matter. The God I follow loves each and every one of us just as fiercely as he loves me. I cannot then develop a faith that ignores my impact or connectedness to any of those around me - to do so is the heart of privilege.
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Whether you are participating in Sacred Ground or not, I want to offer this model developed by Eric Law as a template for being church.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="798" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilhT0pmERiG4iwsnRnhww8i9GyEJNVGJO2Xd72cWAxu_8BSTLoB3RGBpBSJ9Q2LJKBab7TYeVqz5cjER3pJMmk1hNmfqbmh4_f7BhvryuAtx5s5qHwbDOdC7Q1zRbmhwSBAL-ouUnf8fH_/w320-h253/gracemargin.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">See below for larger version</span></i> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /><br />
Many consider the church to be a safe place; a kind of haven for personal healing. Certainly it is that, but that is only an entry point. The mission of the church is to change the world, to reconcile humanity with God and each other. If we stay in this comfort zone of personal healing, personal growth, and inward direction, we fail to live into the mission God gives us in the world. Congregations with large comfort zones tend to have large percentages of people who are the same age, the same race, or the same class. In this zone we can become complacent; we can stop listening to God's dream of living into a bigger vision for the world than our own minds can contemplate. We need varied voices to live into God's dream. None of us have claim on God's vision on our own. Without engaging difference we fall into complacency.<br /><br />
Conversely, if we have an 'anything goes' attitude-- if we truly embrace anyone, let's say, someone openly carrying a weapon in worship-- that may push us into a fear zone. It is hard to truly grow to know the other in this zone when we feel threatened. Navigating what is fearful requires an honest conversation. We all have different boundaries. "Whoever you are and wherever you find yourself on your journey of faith you are welcome here" is aspirational, and I love that and use it often. But while we may want everyone to feel welcome, there are limits to who actually feels welcome and who we actually welcome when they show up. Being honest about those limits is important when negotiating what this fear zone boundary is. Is it using non traditional music in worship? Maybe it is the use of Spanish language in principal services? Where the boundary lies is not nearly as important as striving to be gentle, open, and aware that there is a boundary so that we are not disingenuous in our welcome to those who fall outside of it. Westart not by trying to move the boundary, but by naming it so that we can create a grace margin.
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And that is the sweet spot, this middle spot, the grace margin. Congregations with big grace margins are comfortable with making safe, brave, and courageous space. There are intentions set in that kind of space-- it is less about who my friends are than it is about how I make space for people I would not normally associate with at coffee hour. In this space we make room for those assumptions to be named out loud, to give room for courage and vulnerability. St. Paul's has done a particularly good job of creating a large grace margin for those who live outside, and our hospitality for that group has been established carefully and thoughtfully over the years. We just negotiated a larger grace margin for children in worship with the prayground this winter. Where are our other opportunities?
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Some congregations have thin grace margins. Others have large grace margins. If the expectations are not set well, we will retreat to the comfort zone when someone who does not fit the norm comes in from the fear zone. We retreat, like Elijah and so many others in our tradition, to retreating to what has worked for us in the past- but risk becoming closed to what God is doing now. In the grace margin, we set intentions to listen carefully, not for the wind, nor the earthquake, nor the fire that so rattle the world around us. Instead, in the grace margin, we act with intention to listen in the stillness to where God might be leading us in this great ship of the Church, together.<br /><br />
Right now we are in the process of growing our grace margin around race. That requires care, and thought, and deliberation. It requires thought and care to our group norms, liturgical practices, and customs: what pushes us into fear, and what draws us into complacency as a congregation? How shall we be intentional in a time of change about staying present to ambiguity, neither being fearful of change nor attempting to return too quickly to what is comfortable?
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We are in this boat, my friends, and the waves and the winds are high. But Jesus comes to lead us to still waters, if we have the courage only to stay on this voyage, together- and be led by hope into something bigger than we can ask or imagine.
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<i>The Rev. Canon Jeff Martinhauk<br />
Proper 14A, August 9, 2020<br />
St. Paul's Cathedral, San Diego<br />
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Hello St. Paul’s,<br />
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When bad things happen, we look for explanations. It’s part of the amazing curiosity and drive of the human species that we seek answers to all the mysteries of the universe, and that includes the mystery of illness. Why does one person get terribly sick or die from COVID but not another? And, on a much larger scale, why is humanity being afflicted with this awful virus? The scientists seek answers in epidemiology, and the politicians seek scapegoats and imagine conspiracies, but there’s a strand of human nature, going back millennia, that attributes misfortune to sin.<br />
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We see it over and over in the Hebrew Scriptures: in Psalm 78, which we read this week in morning prayer, we hear it put quite succinctly: “they went on sinning and had no faith in [God’s] wonderful works. So he brought their days to an end like a breath and their years in sudden terror.” (vss 32-33). In other books, when the people of Israel were driven into exile they attributed their suffering to their lack of fidelity to the God who had brought them out of slavery.<br />
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This bad theology survives today in those who preach that America is suffering because of a cultural current or a political direction, or those who suggest that rape happens because a woman somehow asks for it. But as Christians we know better. We know that natural disasters are nobody’s fault, that there is no justification for violent assault. We know that Jesus didn’t deserve to suffer a horrendous death. We believe in a God of love, not in a God who extracts terrible vengeance or who causes suffering.<br />
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So how do we explain this to ourselves and each other? How do we make sense of our world in this time? People are getting sick and dying prematurely. Businesses are going bankrupt. Individuals are losing their savings and their livelihoods. Whatever we may think about government policies, the source of all this hardship is a virus that has no consciousness and no agenda. We cannot blame a virus for doing what viruses do.<br />
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Our species is incredibly resilient. We can and have adapted to the most challenging circumstances and have not only survived but thrived and advanced in understanding, technology, and wisdom as we have come through pandemics, wars, famines, totalitarian regimes and everything else that either nature or humanity’s worst instincts could throw at us. We live in an age when mystery is suspect and the internet tells us that everything is explainable, but as people of faith we accept that there are some things we will never understand. We can look back through three millennia and see how our ancestors overcame hardship, and we can look to the teachings of Jesus to lead us forward in spite of all the challenges, confident that the future belongs to our loving God.<br />
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Assigning blame and focusing on negativity doesn’t help anyone’s emotional health. Instead, join me in rejecting the bad theology; let’s embrace a theology of the beloved community, knowing that with God, everything is possible, and that life abundant is still the promise.<br />
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See you on Sunday!<br />
PennyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-38046909377619264332020-08-05T14:19:00.002-07:002020-08-05T14:19:40.595-07:00The Sunday Sermon: You Give them Something to Eat<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzi87wkZs2Us2LiN5CZC9Hf26V1QqqBlgNsV5FDUyfDL0_yaqMjA8Tkt5t5_Xq__YsTZpN2jM79QRE9egXfmfRM_0hf56jpffIzImct_Q8TMIXNXXVRfGlAjdazOSTh9W9LJJyid8ZJl1n/s2048/Sermon-2997.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1639" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzi87wkZs2Us2LiN5CZC9Hf26V1QqqBlgNsV5FDUyfDL0_yaqMjA8Tkt5t5_Xq__YsTZpN2jM79QRE9egXfmfRM_0hf56jpffIzImct_Q8TMIXNXXVRfGlAjdazOSTh9W9LJJyid8ZJl1n/w256-h320/Sermon-2997.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the name of the
holy Trinity, one God. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When I was a child in
Ireland in the 60’s, my mother had a credit account at the butcher’s, the
baker’s, the pharmacy, and the grocer’s. Each shop was small and specialized,
and didn’t offer a wide array of choices. The advent of supermarkets changed
our shopping habits, and when I came to the US and walked for the first time down
a store aisle solely devoted to varieties of breakfast cereal, I was flabbergasted.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Much more recently, I
have learned the term “food desert”- a neighborhood, typically in a city, where
there are no choices at all, where the only place within walking distance where
you can buy food is the 7-11 or the tiny ethnic market. Both of these – the
cereal aisle of 100 choices and the food desert – co-exist in our nation. And
something about that seems wrong to me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The passage we heard
from Matthew’s Gospel picks up just after the death of John the Baptist. You
might remember that he was imprisoned by King Herod for telling truth to power,
and subsequently murdered in jail when Herod’s teenage stepdaughter demanded John’s
head as her reward for entertaining the king’s guests. We know that Herod
hesitated but then gave in because he was unwilling to lose face in front of
his powerful friends. The prophet was killed, essentially, on the whim of a
despotic ruler in order to preserve his fragile ego. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What a terrible waste
of a life. No wonder Jesus wanted to go off on his own to grieve the senseless
loss of his cousin. The juxtaposition of these two stories is significant.
Herod throws a lavish feast for the rich and powerful, with an outcome leading
to death; and then Jesus throws a party for hungry people and offers them
abundant life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The miracle of the
loaves and fishes is very familiar, and with good reason: the story is told six
times in the four Gospels. It’s the only miracle told by all four Evangelists,
and Matthew and Mark both thought it was good enough to tell twice. It is
clearly one of the most important stories about Jesus that we have.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus wants to grieve
in peace, but the crowds won’t leave him alone. They are hungry, starving for
good news. They are oppressed, afraid, voiceless, ruled by leaders they cannot
trust, regarded as barely human by the occupying forces, seeking a word of
comfort, of encouragement, yearning to be fed w</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ith God’s word, God’s love. And,
by the way, they are people of color. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Jesus, even in
his grief, cannot deny them. He is the word of God incarnate. The whole purpose
of his life on earth is to embody God’s love. He is moved in his very being by
the needy people before him. He has compassion for them – you might remember a
few weeks ago when our preacher talked about that word compassion, and how the original
term means a twisting of the guts, a visceral compulsion to reach out in
solidarity to those who are suffering. Jesus cannot help but love these people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But evening comes and
the shadows lengthen, and the disciples realize that they have a huge problem:
five thousand men, plus women and children, in a deserted place, as dinner time
looms. They are in a food desert, not even a Quik-Mart in sight. How are these
people going to be fed? Send them away, they tell Jesus. This is beyond us. But
Jesus shocks them with his response: YOU give them something to eat. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oof: that one landed
right between my eyes. YOU give them something to eat. YOU take care of these
crowds in food deserts both physical and spiritual, these people who cannot
feed their families with a full-time job, these people who are hungry to hear
God’s word and feel God’s love. YOU offer hope to those who suffer from
injustice, YOU offer comfort to those who fear losing their privileged place in
the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The disciples turn
out their backpacks and come up with a few snacks. Jesus takes the bread and
blesses it in front of the crowd. Perhaps he uses the words of our Psalm:
Blessed are you, Lord God: “the eyes of all look upon you and you give them
their food in due season. You open your hand, satisfying the desire of every
living thing.” As he reminds his listeners of their relationship to God the
open-handed giver of all good things, they think of what they have in their
pockets. How can it be right to eat my picnic when the person next to me has
nothing? And a miracle happens, and people are fed, community is created, and
God is present. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When everyone pitches
in, when we all empty our pockets and open our hands to pool our resources,
there is plenty for everyone. Some of you have donated your COVID subsidy to
the church or to other non-profits, because you don’t need it. Some of you have
made special donations with the money you could have spent on vacations or
eating out. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Loaves and fishes.
This is the true miracle of faith, when human beings overcome our fear of
scarcity and our tendency to hoard, and instead share freely what we have with
those who have less. Our national myth of rugged individualism has corrupted
our sense of communal responsibility. It is act</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ually a blessing to have enough
to be able to share: that’s where we are blessed by God, not by building bigger
barns like the rich fool in Luke’s Gospel. In the wealthiest country in the
world, people go to bed hungry. This is a scandal and a sin, but it’s one that
we can mend, if we work on it together.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If we were sharing
the Eucharist today, this Gospel would be an obvious lead-in to the sacramental
part of our worship. As it is, we are fed by God’s word alone in this season,
while we witness the growing hunger of our neighbors in the face of an
ever-worsening economic catastrophe. What can we do with our meager resources? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Perhaps we have more
than we realize. We have a rich and vital community, coming together online
every day of the week to pray, to read Scripture, to learn and grow together.
We have a depth of tradition on which to draw, teaching us that all are
welcome. We have hearts for service and for generosity, demonstrated by those
who donate clothing and who regularly make gifts to our pastoral needs fund. We
have 100 people who want to learn how to dismantle the injustices of racism. We
have much to offer to this hungry world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“You give them something to eat,” says Jesus. Yes, let’s do that. Let’s
share what God has given us, and we will all be blessed. Amen.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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</i><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Very Rev Penelope Bridges</span></i></p><i><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You Give Them
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I am very grateful that our staff are willing to participate in this program, and especially grateful to Kathleen Burgess for serving as our facilitator. We all have plenty to do and giving two hours in the middle of a busy week is a significant commitment, especially when we have deadlines (such as recording for Sunday morning) that do not yield. </span><span class="EOP SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Sacred Ground encourages us to share our emotions, so it isn’t just an intellectual exercise. We are </span><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">invited to share our tender feelings, to express our grief at the crumbling of cherished myths, to examine the ways we</span><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> have unconsciously</span><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> enjoy</span><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">ed</span><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> privilege and to critique them. It is going to be challenging </span><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">work, but</span><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> work that I believe is central to our call to follow Jesus. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I enjoyed our time together</span><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> this week</span><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> and </span><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I </span><span class="TextRun SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">look forward to future sessions.</span><span class="EOP SCXW187400897 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<b>Declaring Support for Decisions of The Rt. Rev. Susan Brown Snook to Suspend or Otherwise Restrict In-person Worship</b></div>
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<b>Whereas, </b>in the current time in which authorities have instituted policies that restrict in-person gatherings in order to limit the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, and our Bishop has prayerfully made the difficult decision to restrict in-person and/or indoor worship until such time as such worship is permitted and deemed to include acceptable safety measures, the Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul wishes to demonstrate support for our Bishop’s decisions and to give thanks for her leadership.</div>
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<b>Resolved: </b>That the Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul expresses its support and gratitude for decisions Bishop Susan has made to prohibit in-person, indoor worship and gatherings at churches during the present public health crisis, and further expresses its support for our Bishop as she faithfully and lovingly discerns best practices regarding policies aimed at trying to limit the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-58875156868263987702020-07-23T06:00:00.000-07:002020-07-29T11:16:59.424-07:00Finding Joy<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are coming up on five months now since our lives changed so dramatically. I am grateful for the fact that, so far, very few of our cathedral family members have been sick with the COVID virus and only one has died from it. I’m also deeply grateful for being able to work from home, especially in a home that gives me access to the outdoors and where my workstation is set up by the window. But I have to confess that I have moments, and they are coming more frequently as the weeks wear on, when I am just sick and tired of this COVID way of life. There are nights when it’s hard to get to sleep, and days when I want so badly to break out: to go to the mall or a movie theater or, and especially, to participate in a glorious liturgy in our cathedral, to sing with the choir, and to see the nave filled with all of you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even though the world seems to be more deeply broken than ever, there are things that can give us joy. We are blessed to live in a place where the sun shines almost all the time, making the outdoors reliably inviting and brightening our days. I look forward to picking up my mail, daily at home and about every 2-3 weeks at the cathedral, and finding notes and cards from many of you. I love it when someone drops a bag of zucchini or tomatoes on my doorstep. Even the many, many Zoom meetings are a joy, because I get to see your faces and hear your voices. When I write thank-you letters and pastoral notes, I am lifted up by thinking about you. When we pray together each morning it doesn’t matter that we are scattered all over: we are joined together by our love of God and our common commitment to this extraordinary community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The work of the church doesn’t stop just because we cannot gather in our beautiful building. Our Sunday forums on Waking Up White have engaged well over 100 people, and over 80 people have committed to a Sacred Ground circle. Reconciliation is the mission of the church – you can look it up in the catechism – and our work right now as a church and as a country is the work of racial reconciliation and the healing of 400 years of unjust social structures. I am so encouraged to see your energy and willingness to be transformed: it gives me hope for our world and for the future that lies beyond this pandemic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hang in there, and take note of the things that give you joy. See you on Sunday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Penny</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-39631442944549163412020-07-16T06:00:00.000-07:002020-07-16T06:00:03.119-07:00Letter to Legislators <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="TextRun SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">Dear </span><span class="TextRun SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW46228682 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">California</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> Legislative Leaders:</span><span class="EOP SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46228682 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW46228682 BCX0" paraeid="{f5feb524-255e-42bd-9912-4e53684360d8}{3}" paraid="1557082598" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">We, the Deans of five Episcopal Cathedrals across the state of California, write to you out of our Christian concern for the well-being of the most vulnerable of God’s children. We lead flagship churches of the Episcopal Church which has about 119,400 members across the state.</span><span class="EOP SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">We applaud the efforts already taken by state and local government to keep Californians housed and sheltered during the Covid-19 epidemic. We know that additional measures will be needed in the weeks and months to come and </span><span class="TextRun SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">we </span><span class="TextRun SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">advocate for these to be implemented quickly. We also know that it is those communities already hardest hit by endemic racism and poverty who face the greatest challenges in these times. Acting to support rent and mortgage relief is a very real and practical way of showing that Black Lives Matter.</span><span class="EOP SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW46228682 BCX0" paraeid="{f5feb524-255e-42bd-9912-4e53684360d8}{27}" paraid="475725125" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">The moral imperative for our religious communities is to attend first to people with the least resources and greatest hardship. While we are mindful that tenants, landlords, homeowners, developers, financial institutions, and government are tied together in a web of economic relationships we ask for low income residential tenants and homeowners to be given especial protection. This may be achieved through suspending eviction and </span><span class="TextRun SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">foreclosure, granting payment extensions, direct grants, indirect subsidies, incentives, credits, or other means. </span><span class="EOP SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW46228682 BCX0" paraeid="{f5feb524-255e-42bd-9912-4e53684360d8}{39}" paraid="599938457" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">We are calling on the members of our congregations and other faith communities to exercise charity and forbearance in their own dealings with tenants, borrowers, and so forth.</span><span class="EOP SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW46228682 BCX0" paraeid="{f5feb524-255e-42bd-9912-4e53684360d8}{49}" paraid="1032392212" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">The people with the greatest need can’t afford to wait for benefit programs that have a long lead time, depend on funding that is not yet available, or have burdensome documentation and qualification procedures. We have been supportive of temporary measures such as suspending legal proceedings as a stopgap measure. As relief efforts extend further into the future, we encourage measures with clear and simple entry points, integration with existing housing access and social service programs, and incentives for lenders, landlords and local agencies to implement in low income neighborhoods without delay.</span><span class="EOP SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW46228682 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
<div class="Paragraph SCXW46228682 BCX0" paraeid="{f5feb524-255e-42bd-9912-4e53684360d8}{59}" paraid="1034165591" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">The personal misfortunes and financial hardship caused by the Covid-19 epidemic will be long lasting. Housing concerns attributed to Covid-19 will converge with the long-term challenge of housing access for all Californians. We encourage initiatives that have the potential to be incorporated into current and emerging solutions to the problems of housing and homelessness in our society.</span><span class="EOP SCXW46228682 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="font-family: "cambria" , "cambria_embeddedfont" , "cambria_msfontservice" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-63476235394086538592020-07-13T11:58:00.001-07:002020-07-13T11:58:28.134-07:00Flexible Seating in the Nave: Q&A <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">From the Dean:</span><span class="EOP SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">For some years I have been posing the question about replacing</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> our fixed pews with more flexible seating</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">. Here are my reasons:</span><span class="EOP SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">The flexibility afforded by chairs will allow us to create different formats for worship and concerts. It will also </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">open up</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> the possibilities for bringing non-ecclesiastical activities into the cathedral, such as galas or art shows, expanding opportunities </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">to bring new people into our space</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">, serve our community more fully, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">and hopefully</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> offset declining attendance.</span><span class="EOP SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">The</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> European</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> cathedral tradition is to have an open nave with flexible seating. The medieval cathedrals were used for agricultural fairs, political events, hospitals (St. John the Divine in New York City was able to offer hospital overflow space during this pandemic), and places of refuge in times of war. They were regarded as the central gathering place for the city. In the USA, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2 SCXW172531580 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a number of</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> Episcopal cathedrals, including St. Paul’s, started life as parish churches </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">in the 19</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun Superscript SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-fontsize="12" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> century </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">with a closed membership: renting pews to families was the chief source of revenue, so pews were important. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW172531580 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Of course</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> this also restricted membership to those who could afford to rent pews. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">We would be embracing our cathedral identity </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">and our mission statement </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">more fully if we cleared the nave</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> of that reminder of our </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">less welcoming</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> past.</span><span class="EOP SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">About 40 years ago, church scholars around the world started to warn us that the church would have to make profound changes in order to survive. We were seeing the beginning of a sea change in “how we do church”, and the pandemic has both accelerated the need for change and provided an opportunity to re-envision and </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">refresh the ways we bring the Gospel to the world.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="EOP SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">With all the uncertainty created by the pandemic, there is more urgency now around ways to diversi</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">fy our appeal and broaden our reach in the community</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> (part of our strategic vision going forward)</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">. </span><span class="EOP SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">Once we resume in-person worship, we </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">will </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">need a way to limit seating and spread it out so that people feel relatively safe in worship. Removing the pews and initially providing </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">(for example) </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">seating for only 100 </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">gives us an easy way to limit attendance and will be less work for the cleaning crew, who</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> will</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> have to clean every surface after every service.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">If we retain the </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW172531580 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">pews</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">we will be challenged to clean them adequately while preserving the wood: the current finish won’t stand up well to repeated disinfection</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">.</span><span class="EOP SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">In short, if we are going to make the change, t</span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">his is probably the best time, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2 SCXW172531580 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">provided that</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> we can do it with minimal cost to the cathedral. </span><span class="EOP SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="EOP SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="EOP SCXW234944638 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="TextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I know this subject matter came up in the past. Was any formal decision ever made as to whether we keep the pews or replace with chairs? Is it a matter of “when” rather than “if?”</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="EOP SCXW172531580 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="EOP SCXW234944638 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">No formal decision has been made, but there has been periodic conversation about it</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and Chapter is now </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">open</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to considering it</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW88683171 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. In my view it’s a matter of “when”.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW88683171 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW186063883 BCX0" paraeid="{a0a0dc26-2f47-47bb-b627-c64d46704e69}{191}" paraid="1533567852" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">Has the congregation given us any indication as to their thoughts on replacing pews with chairs? Was a formal survey ever conducted?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Paragraph SCXW186063883 BCX0" paraeid="{a0a0dc26-2f47-47bb-b627-c64d46704e69}{191}" paraid="1533567852" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">A formal survey has not been conducted; the generally positive response</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">, including as I mentioned above the conversion of several vocal opponents, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">to the empty nave for the Gala 150 is the strongest indication to date. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="color: red; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW186063883 BCX0" paraeid="{a0a0dc26-2f47-47bb-b627-c64d46704e69}{205}" paraid="1320877600" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">What costs are involved with disposing of the pews and do we have funding available this year to do this?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">We may be able to use a salvage company for this; they may pay </span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW186063883 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">us</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> or we may have a consignment arrangement with them. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW186063883 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> there is a good possibility that it won’t cost us anything. If there is a </span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">cost</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> it can be absorbed by the facilities budget.</span><span class="EOP SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">Was the suggestion made by a parishioner/group of interested parties/the reopening committee/other to replace chairs with pews at this time?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Paragraph SCXW186063883 BCX0" paraeid="{a0a0dc26-2f47-47bb-b627-c64d46704e69}{227}" paraid="1991503343" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">This is something I have wanted to do for years, and this may be the best time to do it.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> A generous parishioner reopened the conversation by saying</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> “I would like to buy chairs to replace the pews”.</span><span class="EOP SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">How open would the donor be open to waiting until the pandemic is over? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">Not known at this time; however, if we were going to do it, this would be the best time for reasons stated above.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="EOP SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">Do we need to make that room/flexibility in the cathedral itself or will we gain that space once the new building is completed?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">The cathedral itself is a unique space with extraordinary acoustics which </span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">would likely be extremely desirable as </span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">a</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> venue for all kinds of events.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> Flexibility in all our spaces is desirable.</span><span class="EOP SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">Acoustics? What does Martin say, and what do our AV folks say, about potential effects on acoustics. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">When we took out the pews in December the musicians generally liked the effect on the acoustics.</span><span class="EOP SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">Is the donor also going to cover the extensive floor makeover? </span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW186063883 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Of course</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> we have to strip & recoat to fill the holes where the pews were bolted down. What about grinding out differences in floor texture/level, flat under the pews and cut elsewhere to create a faux tile effect?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">This wasn’t an issue when we took the pews out in December.</span><span class="EOP SCXW186063883 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19145855 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">A lot of our facilities projects seem to be initiated by anonymous donations. Of course, it is wonderful that we are benefiting from this generosity. However, I think there are a couple of risks associated with this process. One is that it creates confusion about our financial situation. Even though it is carefully communicated that a </span><span class="TextRun SCXW19145855 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2 SCXW19145855 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">particular project</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW19145855 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> is funded by a specific donation, I have still had people ask me "why are we doing this if we are barely able to balance </span><span class="TextRun SCXW19145855 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">the budget?" </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19145855 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">When renovations of </span><span class="TextRun SCXW19145855 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">my former</span><span class="TextRun SCXW19145855 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> church resulted in removing some pews, they were auctioned off and raised a pretty decent sum. I wonder if there might be similar interest at St. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW19145855 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">Paul’s?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW19145855 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19145855 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19145855 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US">I doubt if we could sell the large pews: they are very unwieldy. However, the small side pews might be </span><span class="TextRun SCXW19145855 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none;">sale-able</span>, and we are talking with salvage companies as mentioned above.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW19145855 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":120,"335559740":240}" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">How will elderly and infirm parishioners manage if they cannot hold onto the pew or chair in front for stability as they sit and stand?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The flexible seating will typically be arranged in rows, so there will be something in front for them to hold onto.</span><span class="EOP SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Is there any kind of market study that tells us who might be interested in using the Cathedral as an event space?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why can't the existing pews be refinished? Why can't they be cleaned effectively? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We are researching the potential refinishing if the pews with material we could easily clean without damaging the finish. Early stages of research currently. </span><span class="EOP SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">How much time would sextons need to set up and remove chairs for services?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Time required for set up of chairs in the nave will depend entirely on the chairs chosen. It will depend on how/if they interlink/interlock, their roll out carts, etc.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> Unless we decide to rotate chairs in and out instead of cleaning them, moving the seating will not be something that happens all the time.</span><span class="EOP SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The Cathedral in Garden City, Long Island, recently took delivery of a new, flexible, stackable seating system to replace their pews. Photos follow.</span><span class="EOP SCXW19764211 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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July 9, 2020<br />
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Hello St. Paul’s,<br />
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The governing board of the Cathedral, the Chapter met this week, as we do every month, and when everyone checked in at the beginning of the meeting, it was evident that life during COVID hasn’t stopped: there is still plenty going on for many of us. I am very grateful for our Chapter members who find time in their busy lives to help our Cathedral community move forward in mission and ministry. This week’s Chapter meeting included several important topics.<br />
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As you know, the construction of the new building is well under way, and when it is done we will have some 16,000 square feet of new space. That’s a lot of space to fill! While our cathedral finances are currently in good shape, thanks to all of you, we don’t know what the future holds. So it behooves us to plan for maximum flexibility and security as we look ahead. After a great deal of thought and prayer, the LLC that will own the new building proposed to Chapter that we adjust our plans to permit leasing a portion of the first floor to a commercial tenant. This would be on the side facing Fifth Avenue.<br />
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A leasing arrangement will save us a lot of money, as we will not have to finish and furnish that portion – about a quarter of the square footage – and we will gain rental revenue going forward. That will free up more funds for the LLC to provide to the Cathedral in support of our operating budget. We will be working with an experienced commercial realtor to find the best possible tenant. This is a change of direction, after we went through those conversations a couple of years ago to discern good uses for that part of the building, but that was then and this is now: the world has changed in the last four months, and Chapter and the LLC agree that this is a prudent move.<br />
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In a similar vein, Chapter discussed the possibility of replacing our old, fixed pews with more flexible seating options. I mentioned this in my letter a couple of weeks ago, and Chapter came up with many good questions, which we addressed one by one. A document with my case for the change and all those questions and answers, along with some pictures, is in the cathedral blog for your reference. Given the restrictions that we will live with post-Pandemic, and the uncertainty of the economic outlook, it seems good to Chapter to consider making this change now, to maximize the possibilities for putting our beautiful space to work on behalf of the community. So this letter is a step towards a wider conversation with you all. There are many questions still to be addressed before we make any decisions: how will we select the right seating? Will it be padded, or have kneelers? Will we keep some of the pews for families to enjoy? We know that we want movable, stackable furniture that is comfortable, sturdy, easy to keep clean, and in keeping with our architecture. And the biggest question of all – how will we pay for it – has fortuitously been resolved by a generous parishioner who wishes to remain anonymous and who approached me earlier this year, unsolicited, saying that they want to buy chairs for the nave. (See attachment <a href="https://www.stpaulcathedral.org/files/7515/9425/2261/flexible-seating-discussion.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>, Q&A for Flexible Seating in the Nave).<br />
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As I just mentioned, the economic outlook is uncertain. It’s nothing short of miraculous that our finances have continued thus far to be healthy. I am very thankful that we completed our project to right-size the budget last year, and even more thankful for all you generous people who have continued to pay your pledges and even give above and beyond during the pandemic. As you might imagine, our fall pledge campaign this year will be quite different from recent years when we focused on in-person gatherings. The Stewardship Committee is developing a great plan though.<br />
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As we try to plan strategically for an opaque future, Chapter and staff are working hard to recognize and create opportunities for innovative mission. Our forum focus on racial reconciliation, our strategic reaching out to community leaders in Bankers Hill, the leasing option for part of the new building and even the seating question are all part of this effort. But we are a collaborative community, and everyone’s voice matters. So please plan to attend our Zoom Community Life Council on July 23 at 4:30 pm, when we will address all of these topics and we will be listening for what you have to say.<br />
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I’m excited about all these signs of life at St. Paul’s. As the song goes, we are marching in the light of God.<br />
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See you on Sunday.<br />
<br />Jeff Martinhaukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12661661035034398206noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-1513631453331692912020-07-01T15:11:00.000-07:002020-07-01T15:11:00.128-07:00Construction Update July 1<br />
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<li>The Courtyard landscaping will be taken on by SPC, rather than engaging Greystar’s vendor.</li>
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<li>Kathleen & Bob are working with volunteer landscape architect, Robert Mayberry, on a plan for the greenery in the Courtyard.</li>
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<li>Resurfacing of the Queen’s Courtyard will progress this week: patching first, then resurfacing. There’s a fence across the courtyard so entry to the Cathedral campus is either on 6th near the construction trailer, or through the Nave.</li>
<li>Discussed the progress of the construction on the new building site:</li>
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<li>Learned that there are forms there are forms on the center elevator/stairwell tower that the cement get poured into, hydraulics push the forms up then they progress up the tower, floor by floor.</li>
<li>The first slab on grade has been poured</li>
<li>The walls are being waterproofed and then concrete for the walls</li>
<li>The first elevate deck pour will encompass most of the dirt that is left in the hole.</li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our regathering survey closed on Saturday, with 334 responses, 12 of them in Spanish. 254 respondents completed the survey. Thank you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The information you shared is extremely helpful as the Regathering Task Force, consisting of the executive staff and cathedral officers, discerns how best we can offer ministry as this pandemic continues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are some highlights of the survey data:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A large majority indicated that you would be at best unsure if not very unlikely to attend worship services in person with the restrictions currently in force.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">About a third indicated that you might be interested in a new, non-traditional service, possibly outside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More than half of you would be willing to make an advance reservation in order to attend a service.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of you indicated that you would continue to attend our online services for the time being.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of you indicated that you would consider returning to in-person activities only when an effective vaccine or treatment is available and/or there have been no new cases reported locally for several months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The top worship factors that are most important for you in returning, for those who completed the survey, are the resumption of the Eucharist, then choral singing and congregational singing, and then the relaxation of restrictions. If you include partially completed surveys the relaxation of restrictions jumps to the top spot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we asked you what non-worship activities would be a priority for you, outreach and especially Showers of Blessings were top of the list, followed by adult formation including forums and then Women Together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are just starting to draft our plan for regathering, but these data, combined with the recent bump in COVID cases in our county are guiding us to be extremely cautious about setting a date for returning to in-person worship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I feel confident in saying that we will continue our online offerings indefinitely, even if ultimately we have to reduce the number of online services that we offer on Sundays. When we do start to worship in person, we will likely offer one very simple prayer service on a Sunday, and depending on how that goes, we will then think about offering the Eucharist. I’m happy to say that we have already resumed a limited outreach ministry, with donations of clothing being received and distributed every Monday morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m still hopeful that we will be able to offer a couple of low-impact in-person events in the next month or so. We want to give you an opportunity to say hello, pick up a prayer book and hymnal to use at home, and also pick up some holy water for your personal devotions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One other thing: many of you have heard me speak of the desirability of permanently removing the pews from our nave and replacing them with more flexible seating options. You’ll remember how spectacular the nave looked without pews last December when we celebrated our 150th anniversary. Here are a couple of photos to jog your memory. [share screen]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This question has come up again in part because of the need to limit capacity in the nave and the cleaning requirements: as they stand, the pews are not in good shape to withstand regular soakings of disinfectant. With the longterm changes that are being forced on us by the economic consequences of the pandemic, we must seriously consider how we can best use our beautiful space to support our mission and that may well mean providing much more flexibility. Chapter is thinking and praying about this, and I welcome your thoughts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile I look forward to seeing you on Sunday, when we will continue our forum on Waking Up White and also enjoy a Greatest Hits version of the choir’s annual Spring Concert.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stay well and wash your hands!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blessings,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">How interested would you be in attending one of our live services on campus with the restrictions listed above in place? - Comments</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW125157804 BCX0" paraeid="{b294efd6-f32d-4613-a7aa-bd762da03587}{13}" paraid="405356481" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We are over 65. Are the guidelines saying that we should never attend in-person worship?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW125157804 BCX0" paraeid="{b294efd6-f32d-4613-a7aa-bd762da03587}{23}" paraid="1911313862" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The guidelines strongly discourage people in high-risk groups from attending. The government has given over-65 as a blanket definition of being high-risk. Those over 65 are not prohibited, and I shrink from the thought of asking parishioners to be enforcers at the door, but I would beg you to consider not only your own health, but the guilt that a fellow parishioner would suffer if they inadvertently made an older friend sick.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">To many restrictions. I understand masks and temp checks. I understand no touching. But no bells or smells? No </span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">vestments ?</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> No </span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">choir ?</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Not sure if this is a rhetorical question, but just to be sure, we would be doing a minimalist liturgy so as to involve as few people as possible at the altar, allowing for more people to attend within the maximum number, and the less equipment we use such as </span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">thuribles</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> or vestments, the less there is to clean after each service.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">For those of us who will chose not to attend worship in person, will </span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">there</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> electronic alternatives? In real time?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre !important;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We would resume the live-streaming at 10:30 that we have been doing for three years. However, creating a mosaic of online services and live services would increase staff workload.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Evensong, as opposed to plain Evening Prayer, involves a choir and hymns. If you remove the singing element from Evensong it is no longer Evensong.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW125157804 BCX0" paraeid="{b294efd6-f32d-4613-a7aa-bd762da03587}{97}" paraid="2021256210" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Small masses only less than 50 people or even smaller should occur with no communion.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Paragraph SCXW125157804 BCX0" paraeid="{b294efd6-f32d-4613-a7aa-bd762da03587}{97}" paraid="2021256210" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre !important;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">This would mean adding services, with just two priests under 65 to lead them. It’s quite tiring to preach and preside twice or three times in a row, which we do now: it’s comparable to the stress of performing a play or a concert. Adding more services is a daunting prospect.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">It seems like a lot of work for the cathedral to track all these requirements. We have limited priest to serve and if we went back to cathedral there is even more cause to be careful as now there is more exposure to them and the rest of the congregants.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre !important;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Yes – we have two priests under 65. The more we are exposed, the more chance of us becoming sick.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">if there is a face mask requirement and proper distance - why the prevention in no group responses?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The group recitation restriction comes from the government.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The precautions are cumulative: the more we do the safer we are. We are not looking for the minimum that we can get away with, but for the safest possible conditions.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We are planning to loan out the prayer books and Hymnals in the pews so that families can take one or more home, use them for online services, and bring them to church with them when the time is right.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We may also</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> provide comprehensive orders of service that will be used once and then discarded.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Will need directions on how Ushers can be most effective and how many are required</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Agreed.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW125157804 BCX0" paraeid="{b294efd6-f32d-4613-a7aa-bd762da03587}{191}" paraid="867455524" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I miss communion. Why can't we bring our own cracker, raise it while the priest consecrates it, then eat it?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW125157804 BCX0" paraeid="{b294efd6-f32d-4613-a7aa-bd762da03587}{201}" paraid="393896188" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">You are in good company with this question! I have raised it with the Bishop. The rubrics, or directions, in the prayer book, require the priest to hold or lay a hand on the bread (and wine) when we consecrate. Our bishop interprets this to mean that we must touch the container. It is above my pay grade or hers to change that requirement.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">It would be purely to feel the sacred space.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW125157804 BCX0" paraeid="{b294efd6-f32d-4613-a7aa-bd762da03587}{217}" paraid="980890144" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Yes, this is important to many of us. We are working on non-worship events that will allow us to spend time in the cathedral.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">It w</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">ill be later because of the cleaning requirements and staff time limitations</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">: we need to focus first on making the church available for larger numbers of people.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun EmptyTextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">With no Eucharist no reason to attend.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="Paragraph SCXW125157804 BCX0" paraeid="{b294efd6-f32d-4613-a7aa-bd762da03587}{241}" paraid="1431032150" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">For many, the opportunity to be in community, to pray together, and to spend time in the sacred space of the cathedral are equally compelling reasons to attend</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. </span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Honestly, these restrictions seem draconian to me and go way beyond common sense. A very low percentage of those who are sick with this virus die.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW125157804 BCX0" paraeid="{b4fd3434-a74a-4eaa-9cd2-972718e1d16e}{12}" paraid="1994682970" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The restrictions are placed on us by civic and church authorities. Following them is the only way we will be able to open at all.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW125157804 BCX0" paraeid="{b4fd3434-a74a-4eaa-9cd2-972718e1d16e}{18}" paraid="1225892950" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">How likely would you be to attend in person if there was a new service, possibly outdoor, with the safety measures in place but not structured the same as our traditional worship? - Comments</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I understand no </span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">choir</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> but could we sing if we are outside</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="Paragraph SCXW125157804 BCX0" paraeid="{b4fd3434-a74a-4eaa-9cd2-972718e1d16e}{28}" paraid="2128682215" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Unlikely, as the aerosol effect of breathing is multiplied by singing.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Would it [an outdoor </span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">service] have</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> all of the above restrictions? If the outdoors allows for music, responses, and/or additional element</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">s.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">All restrictions, except for the maximum attendance number, would still apply. Being outside simply adds another layer of protection.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> If we are worshiping outdoors in order to add a layer of safety, why would we zero out the benefit by adding a risky activity? From the county’s guidelines: “Activities such as </span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">singing</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> and group recitation negate the risk-reduction achieved through six feet of physical distancing.”</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Would you attend a service you had to make a reservation for? - Comments</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Not clear. What do you have in mind? [re reservations]</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCXW125157804 BCX0" paraeid="{b4fd3434-a74a-4eaa-9cd2-972718e1d16e}{80}" paraid="1801314490" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The purpose is to ensure that people don’t arrive only to find that the max attendance has been reached. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Sign up in advance by phone or online. Once the limit of 100 is reached, no more reservations would be accepted. We would reserve a few spots for visitors.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> How interested would you be in continuing to attend our services online in lieu of in-person services for the foreseeable future? -</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">It would be great to have it originate in the cathedral space, if possible.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre !important;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Our priority is to keep everyone as safe as possible; that includes the clergy and staff. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW125157804 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> we are staying home to protect ourselves and each other, especially those over 65. Secondly, we have been broadcasting worship from our homes rather than allowing ourselves to be in the church because it doesn’t seem fair for clergy to enjoy a benefit that the congregation cannot. We are all </span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">in this together. Third, the cleaning requirements </span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">before and after every service </span><span class="TextRun SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">would mean added work for staff, just so that the clergy could broadcast from the church.</span><span class="EOP SCXW125157804 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-36592089558180178362020-06-11T08:45:00.001-07:002020-06-14T15:39:38.992-07:00Updates<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those who have not yet taken the Regathering Survey <a href="http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07eh4sr4f5kb2ew8ks/start" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To participate in the "Zoom Audience" of the Play Reading on Saturday, June 13, 1 PM <a href="mailto:weadie6@cox.net" target="_blank">CLICK HERE to email Bill</a>.<br /><br />Text: </span><br />
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Hello St. Paul’s,<BR><BR>
Thank you to everyone who has completed our regathering survey: there has been a terrific response! The survey is still open so I don’t have anything to report to you yet: next week I hope to be able to share the main learnings with you. If you haven’t had a chance yet, please do complete it as soon as possible. The link to the survey is elsewhere in this post.<BR><BR>
While we are discerning and planning our eventual reunion, we will of course continue to offer worship, formation, and fellowship activities online. This Saturday, the 13th, I am looking forward to participating in a Zoom reading of Dylan Thomas’s play Under Milk Wood. There’s still time for you to get the Zoom link and be part of the audience: you can email Bill Eadie at weadie6@cox.net for the link. We will probably be able to make a recording available for a short time after the event, but it won’t be broadcast.<BR><BR>
Next month’s social event will be an actual in-person gathering in Balboa Park. We are still working out the details, but I hope you will come, masked of course, and take the opportunity to see your cathedral friends “live”. I have missed you all and I’m really looking forward to seeing you. Of course, if restrictions are tightened up in the event of a resurgence of the virus, we will move the event online.<BR><BR>
We’ve had a tremendous response to the publicity for our upcoming forum series on race. I am encouraged by the level of interest in this conversation. We can each do our bit to better understand the role of race in the past and present of this country, so that we can work to change social dynamics and bring God’s Kingdom a little closer to reality. If you missed the sermon last Sunday by Bishop Mariann Budde, I recommend it: you can find it on the Youtube channel of the Washington National Cathedral.
While we are worshiping online, we have the opportunity to hear some excellent preachers who are not local. This Sunday our preacher is the Rev. Canon Andrew Green, and next Sunday the Rev. Lorenzo Lebrija, both of them joining us from their homes in the desert. On the 28th we will have the honor of hearing the Rev. Canon Harold Lewis, Rector Emeritus of Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh and incidentally father of Chapter member Justin Lewis. And mark your calendar for Pride Sunday, July 18, when our preacher will be the Rev. Naomi Washington Leapheart.<BR><BR>
If you’ve wondered what happened to our strategic planning effort, it has gone through some changes but is still moving forward. I’ll tell you more in a future bulletin.<BR><BR>
I know that online gathering is not at all the same as seeing each other in person, but I am grateful that we can continue to use this option until we feel safe coming to church. Now that we are several weeks into reopening the local economy we are starting to see an increase in the COVID 19 numbers, and I urge you to continue taking every precaution. Don’t feel pressured to leave your mask at home or to join in large groups. Keep washing your hands! I know that, for some of us, there is a real tension between our desire on the one hand to join in protests and gatherings related to the current outcry against racist practices, and on the other to be as safe as possible. Each of us will have our own threshold for risk and that is OK. I’ll end with a prayer for these times: a prayer for the oppressed (BCP p.826).<BR><BR>
See you on Sunday.<BR>
Your sister in Christ,<BR>
PennyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-30726322347696851352020-06-04T06:00:00.000-07:002020-06-04T06:00:07.366-07:00Living through these times<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-53377427505409846362020-06-02T12:07:00.001-07:002020-06-02T12:07:27.990-07:00The Sunday Sermon: The Surprising Joy of Pentecost <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The flames of the Acts story seem particularly appropriate today, after another night of protests and looting in cities across this land. But the John story resonates too, with its dynamics of fear, being in lockdown, and the intimacy of breath that can carry either life-giving Spirit or death-dealing virus. And Oh, how we need that peace that passes all understanding, in the midst of this time of rage and grief over the unjust and cruel treatment of people of color. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is the birthday of the Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery. We have learned over these last months that Church is not a building. Church is an intentional community of people who would act as the hands and feet of Christ in the world, joined together by their love of God and neighbor, committed to reconciliation, peace, and justice for all of God’s creation. That is what we celebrate today, and what we hope for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I love about both of our Pentecost stories is the surprise element. In Acts, the disciples are surprised to hear the Gospel in different languages coming out of their own mouths, while the people around them are stunned to hear good news in words they can understand. In John, the last thing the disciples are expecting on Easter night is for Jesus, whom they have just seen dead on the cross, to show up in their midst, living and breathing and commissioning them to do the work he had been doing, work of healing and forgiveness on God’s behalf. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our God is the God of surprises. Again and again in Scripture it’s the youngest or the least likely who is called to carry the promise forward and to do great things for God. Jacob, younger twin, morally challenged, becomes the patriarch of the twelve tribes. Joseph, 11th of 12 sons, saves Israel from famine. Ruth, a childless widow from a foreign land, becomes the grandmother of David. David himself, just a boy who watches the sheep, becomes king. Mary, a teenager in a backwater of an occupied territory, is called to bear the son of God. And now a bunch of uneducated would-be revolutionaries receive the gift of tongues and are sent out to preach the Gospel in the language of the people, even to the ends of the earth. If there’s one thing we can count on, it’s that the Holy Spirit will surprise us, will stretch our imagination, will challenge our comfort levels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in our own time, who could have imagined a year ago that 100,000 Americans would die from a newly-hatched virus, that the global economy would shudder to a halt, that we would have to adapt our faith practices to online platforms? Who could have imagined even a week ago that protests over police brutality would erupt into violence, just as we were starting to hope that the pandemic might be past its worst. Our world is as deeply broken today as it has even been. While the virus still ravages cities and nations, the forces of division seek to stir up hatred and prejudice; black Americans continue to meet horrendous and undeserved deaths; the poor continue to get poorer, and refugees continue to suffer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And yet the Holy Spirit abides with us. Our church experience these past three months has been just as dramatic as that of the disciples on the first Pentecost. We have found ourselves preaching the Gospel in ways we never dreamed of, reaching people far beyond the walls of the church building, bringing prayer into people’s homes, even through locked doors of fear and anxiety. And as we let go of expecting people to come to church, instead bringing church to the people, we bring Jesus with us, and we hear his voice all over again, saying, “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” Jesus has gifted us with the Holy Spirit and commissioned us to be the church in the world, to learn new languages, to open the locked doors of fear, to make peace, and to allow God to speak through us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The message of God’s love, once we accept it, is an irresistible source of joy. If we allow Jesus into our locked hearts, we will discover the new gifts that lie dormant within us. If we allow the Spirit to guide our steps we will have a treasure to offer that our neighbors desperately need: a community of love that communicates in every possible language that God is with us, that God is the source of all knowledge and all wisdom, that God desires for us all to be free of fear and live abundantly, to be the beloved community, to embrace all people and create a kinder, more connected, and more loving world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Very Rev. Penelope Bridges </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-9770321720547277732020-05-31T12:30:00.000-07:002020-05-31T12:30:00.977-07:00A Statement from Dean Penny on Riots, Civil Unrest, and Racism<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PlHLPZqaaDI?controls=0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Jeff Martinhaukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12661661035034398206noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-2660270458938609892020-05-28T06:00:00.000-07:002020-05-28T06:00:05.826-07:00What Comes Next?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-88106820648948109022020-05-27T05:00:00.000-07:002020-05-27T05:00:02.899-07:00Construction Update May 27<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Courtyard chair lift will be installed by Thursday/Friday. Inspection comes in about two weeks.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Samples for the finishes of the courtyard are TBD. Reviewed the first color test and were not happy with the brown color vs. red tone of the pamphlet sample.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We need to touch base with our landscape architect since Greystar is contracted to complete the area they constructed in and “disturbed” for the plantings and the edging barrier.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The “mat” which handles much of the load stress (if I got that right….) for the building is being completed this week. There’s a ton of steel rebar going in, then concrete will be poured in after inspections are completed. Anticipate this weekend for the cement pour as long as the permit comes in on time.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When asked about how the crane installation went, Rocky advised that it went smoothly, set up was done sooner than expected, and that they were very happy with the way things went.</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-15524715324916087362020-05-21T06:00:00.000-07:002020-05-21T06:00:09.369-07:00How online church happens <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-67547853254342458582020-05-18T16:00:00.002-07:002020-05-18T16:00:52.326-07:00The Sunday Sermon: The Unknown God<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmEyxo28Krl_WyRcALC__6KkuHZXRvKfI6kfCaQ5xSVT6mMiRIeG8DnSuT9S8gUddgHWvD-MmtfXFuIAu4WyrbND5s5dUR-nycAdvATcheQtQ7v5f3kyDblW-aogPNk2HyGr8ingjMbDno/s1600/Sermon-0596.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1281" data-original-width="1600" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmEyxo28Krl_WyRcALC__6KkuHZXRvKfI6kfCaQ5xSVT6mMiRIeG8DnSuT9S8gUddgHWvD-MmtfXFuIAu4WyrbND5s5dUR-nycAdvATcheQtQ7v5f3kyDblW-aogPNk2HyGr8ingjMbDno/s320/Sermon-0596.jpg" width="320" /></a>
Have you heard the one about the extraterrestrial visitor who landed in one of our cities? They saw the shopping malls crowded and the churches empty and reported back to the mother ship that the shopping malls housed the object of worship for our species. Well, today both the malls and the churches are empty, and an extraterrestrial visitor would have a hard time finding a crowd anywhere. <br />
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But we can imagine the apostle Paul arriving in Athens, the intellectual capital of his world, as a first-time visitor from a faraway place, noticing the statues and shrines on every street corner, and quickly figuring out what was important to the locals. It was evident to Paul that the Athenians believed in God – in many gods. The Greek pantheon comprised some 25 major gods and goddesses. Each one had his or her own portfolio: Poseidon oversaw the oceans, Athena was the patron of wisdom and strategy, Ares was the god of war and Aphrodite the goddess of beauty, love, and desire; and so on. They all had some things in common: they lived within the created order, not above or beyond it; they exhibited all the qualities, good and bad, of humanity; and they seemed to regard human beings as playthings, to be used or discarded at will. Athenians would make offerings to the altar of the god who seemed most likely to solve a particular problem; so sailors would pray to Poseidon, lovers to Aphrodite. <br />
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And then there were the shrines to the Unknown God: this was a kind of religious insurance in case there was a deity out there who wasn’t getting his or her due. The gods could be petty and vindictive, and you didn’t want to offend them. You might know that feeling, when you start to thank a list of people and then you forget that one person who gets so offended that they were left out. That’s what the Greek gods were like. <br />
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So Paul, as a brilliant evangelist, starts his speech where the Athenians already are: I see that you are very religious with all your gods; I see that you even acknowledge the existence of a God whom you don’t yet know. Paul builds on the faith the Athenians already have, and then he invites them to expand that faith, to make their notion of God bigger, more cosmic, more embracing – less … human. God isn’t a marble statue, God isn’t the emperor, God isn’t a mischievous sprite: God is something greater than we can even imagine, in whom we live and move and have our being. God is continuously revealing new aspects of God’s self to us, continuously calling us to new creation, new life. And this God, this mighty, cosmic, creator God, loves us human beings as a mother loves her children. This God has no portfolio and no agenda except to love us and to love the whole creation.<br />
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And that’s what Jesus is all about. If you love me, he says. If you love me, you’ll keep my commandments. And do you remember what his new commandment was? To love each other as he has loved us. As our presiding bishop likes to say, if it’s not about love, it’s not about Jesus. Everything we do as followers of Jesus should be fueled by love: how we relate to each other, how we read the news, how we observe social distancing, how we spend our money, how we will use our new building. I’ve recently had the blessing of conversations with parishioners who shared their stories, witnessing to their own vulnerability and their willingness to be transformed by love. That’s what it means to be part of the Jesus movement: a willingness to be transformed by love. Jesus says that if we love as he has loved us, the Holy Spirit will abide in us, not just in each of us individually but in the midst of our community of love. The disciples don’t understand, of course: the Advocate, the one whom God sends to abide in them, is a new revelation of God, named by Jesus just as the Unknown God was named by Paul. There is no unknown God when we know the God of love. There are different faces of God: the loving parent, the obedient and self-giving Son, the fiery Spirit, all one God, the God who made heaven and earth, and who is with us now.<br />
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We have a lot in common with those ancient Athenians. We are well-educated and intellectual; we seek and grope for God in any number of places; and we have our many idols. I wonder, what are your street-corner gods? What are the fickle deities that you are afraid to offend? Maybe the god of financial security. Maybe the god of family harmony. Maybe the god of expectations, or of professional achievement, or of youth. When you hear Paul naming the unknown God as the God of love who created all things and loves all things into being, are you able to turn away from those smaller gods and follow where Jesus leads us? And are you able to embrace the new ways in which God is being revealed to us in this particular time? We are not alone on this journey to abundant life: the Holy Spirit, comforter and guide, abides among us. In this unsettling and anxious moment, with conflicting messages and little clarity about the way ahead for our world, we can let go of our fears and rest in God’s unfailing love. Remember what we heard in the Psalm? “Bless our God, you peoples, make the voice of God’s praise to be heard; who holds our souls in life and will not allow our feet to slip.”<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611598829269194867.post-91505245835557860332020-05-14T06:00:00.000-07:002020-05-18T15:57:54.022-07:00Already and Not Yet<div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXW88584762" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847); cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Although it may seem like we are just staying home, this is actually a traumatic experience: we are all grieving some aspect of life or relationship that is out of our reach right now; we are anxious about the possibility or reality of ourselves or loved ones getting sick with the virus; we are hearing about celebrities that we admire, some of them young, succumbing to their illness; some of us are experiencing financial hardship; and we don’t know when this will definit</span><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">iv</span><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">ely be over. This is a daunting list of challenges to be facing all at once. It all adds up to a condition where our brains are not functioning at their best, it’s hard to be creative, and it’s hard to find motivation for daily tasks. </span><span class="EOP SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I am experiencing all of this myself and I’m frustrated by the conflict between the reality of this trauma and my desire to keep us moving forward, to feel and project hope, to give you all good news and cast a vision of a bright future. With the installation of the construction crane last weekend we are about to start seeing the new building rise, and the developers tell us that we might be able to move in at the beginning of 2022. The pressure is mounting to come up with firm plans for how the building will serve us and our community</span><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. At the same time, we don’t know what church will look like in two years: will we be able to use large gathering spaces? Will the community ever want to come together in crowds? Will our online ministry become a permanent and prominent part of our mission?</span><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> Will our future income support our dreams?</span><span class="EOP SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Chapter initiated a strategic planning effort several months ago, and of course the COVID crisis has affected that work. We cannot simply keep ploughing on with goals and objectives as if nothing has changed. I doubt that we will ever go back to the old normal, and we don’t yet know what the new normal will be. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW88584762 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml; background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> I ask for your patience as we discern where God might be leading us in this new reality. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I’ve said this before and I will keep saying it: we need to be kind to ourselves and others, making allowances for the need to grieve, understanding when we accidentally displace our anxiety onto each other.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> There is Biblical guidance, or at least precedence, for a time like this. Not only does Genesis describe the chaos that precedes new creation, but in the New Testament we are taught to live in the “already but not yet”, to live fully in the now while maintaining hope for a bright future that is </span><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">as yet</span><span class="TextRun SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> undefined. This is what it means to live into the Kingdom of God, and God is guiding us. Whatever church will look like in the future, it will be God’s beloved community and we can focus, day by day, on living the way of love, whoever we are and wherever we find ourselves in this journey of faith.</span><span class="EOP SCXW88584762 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The current crisis has had the effect of taking us back to the Anglican tradition of Morning Prayer, not only on weekdays but also on Sunday mornings while we are unable to offer Communion. Those who have joined the Episcopal Church in the last 40 years may find the Morning Prayer service quite unfamiliar, but those of us who grew up in an Anglican Church before the late 70’s may be enjoying this revival of a liturgy that was part of our early formation. In the first church I served as Rector, there was a parishioner who, about every six months, would ask me if we couldn’t go back to having Morning Prayer at least some Sundays each month. He knew my answer would always be no, and after about 5 years he gave up asking. Isn’t it funny how things work out? While I remain faithful to the Eucharistic theology of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, when it became necessary for us to do something other than Eucharist, I was very grateful that we had a longstanding and beautiful tradition of Morning Prayer to fall back on. Now, those who have come to our tradition since 1979 have an opportunity to experience one of the treasures of the Prayer Book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morning Prayer with music is also known as Mattins, just as Evening Prayer with music is known as Evensong. If you attend Evensong you know that some of the greatest liturgical music was written for the canticles that accompany Morning and Evening Prayer, but you may have never heard settings of the morning canticles such as the Jubilate or the Te Deum. Now, thanks to our talented musicians and audio-visual engineers, we are hearing some of these glorious pieces on Sunday mornings. This past Sunday our virtual choir treated us to CV Stanford’s setting in B flat of the Jubilate (Psalm 100, a traditional introduction or “invitatory” for the morning Office). I was struck by the fact that the “Glory be to the Father” verse at the end is the same setting as that which we hear at Evensong when the choir sings the Stanford Evening Service in B flat: it was a comforting moment of familiarity. The 1979 Prayer Book has greatly expanded our selection of canticle texts, but the classic musical settings were composed for the traditional canticles: the Jubilate, the Te Deum, the Benedicite (a Song of Creation), and the Gloria (which we sing in the context of the Eucharist).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The texts of these Canticles are a mixture of Scripture verses and songs from the early days of the church: besides Psalm 100, the Te Deum dates back to the 4<sup>th</sup> or 5<sup>th</sup> century AD and was thought to have been composed by St. Ambrose for the baptism of St. Augustine; the Benedicite is attributed to the three young men whom Nebuchadnezzar thrust into a fiery furnace in the story of Daniel (look for the book The Song of the Three Jews in the Apocrypha, or, in Catholic Bibles, in chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel); and the Gloria dates back to the 4<sup>th</sup> century and is traditionally attributed to St. Hilary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The canticles are just one example of hitherto hidden gems in our Book of Common Prayer. Rediscovering them is one manifestation of God’s grace in this difficult time.</span></div>
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