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Trinity Cathedral

The Carillon for October 2014

The Carillon is the monthly newsletter of Trinity Episcopal

Cathedral

Sara Calkins, Editor

www.trinitysj.org

Dean’s Desk Page 2

Canon’s Corner Page 3

Opportunities & Outreach Page 4

Music Muse Page 5

Concerts at Trinity Page 6

Internet Insights Page 7

Celebrations! Page 8

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Trinity Cathedral Staff The Very Rev. David Bird, Ph.D.

Dean and Rector

Mr. Michael Joyce

Music Director

Ms. Heike Merino Cathedral Administrator

Mr. John Davis Sexton

Volunteer Staff

The Rev. Canon Randolf J. Rice, J.D.

Canon Residentiary

The Rev. Canon Lance Beizer, J.D. Canon Vicar

The Rev. Jerry W. Drino, D.D. Priest Associate, Sudanese Ministries

The Rev. Lee Barford, Ph.D. Deacon

The Rev. Penelope Duckworth

Stuart Johnson Artists in Residence

Mr. Paul Archambeault

Treasurer

Graciela Velazquez Coordinator for Latino Ministries

“Build my church.” God’s words to Francis of Assisi immediately bring to mind our

dual understanding and use of the word “church.” In the New Testament it means

primarily the people who are called out by God for service. This has lead evangel-

ists to proclaim the church is what is left after the building has burned down.

Yet the building itself often has its own particular magnetism. Somehow the wor-

ship of centuries, the dedication of its worshippers, and the unceasing commit-

ment of at least a proportion of its membership to good works and community

outreach make the church a holy place where people can sense the spirit and pres-

ence of God.

Trinity is such a place. At a recent community meeting people from our neighbor-

hood gathered to discuss the proposed new building which will flank Trinity on two

sides--those which are not open to the street. The comments of our neighbors

about their love for our historic building were eye-opening. For many residents

around St James’ Park we are not only an historic building, but also a spiritual pres-

ence and a place of service to the local community.

At that meeting representatives of the forthcoming development not only spoke of

their awareness of the church but promised verbally to provide us essential Sunday

parking from 7.30 am until 3.30 pm within their parking garage. The contract has

yet to be completed, but there should be forty spaces reserved exclusively for Trin-

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October 2014

Trinity

Episcopal Cathedral

“A place at God’s table for everyone”

Diocese of El Camino Reál

The Right Reverend Mary Gray-Reeves, Bishop

Dean’s Desk

Trinity Cathedral Established 1861

81 N 2nd Street, San Jose CA 95113-1205

24-hour phone 408 293-7953 Fax 408 293-4993 E-mail: trinicat@pacbell.net Web site: www.trinitysj.org

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I’ve sometimes heard churches referred to as “God’s House,” as

if we can encounter him only in church. But when he was speak-ing with the Samaritan woman at

Jacob’s well, Jesus made it very plain that God is not to be wor-shipped only in one specific

place, but instead “in spirit and in truth.” In other words, unlike the pagan notion of a god or

goddess who has particular shrines, which you must travel to if you want to worship him or her, you can wor-ship the God of Israel anywhere. Indeed, I suppose that

the obvious corollary is that, if you can worship God any-where, you should worship him everywhere and always.

To understand the full implication of what Jesus meant, you need to know something more about Samaria, a re-

gion in the Holy Land that lay between Galilee and Israel proper, where Jerusalem was to be found. It was, in Jesus’ day, inhabited by folks who had come back to the Holy

Land after their Assyrian captivity and had blended what they recalled of the Judaism they had known before their captivity with what they had assimilated from their cap-

tors. Thus they were only sort of Jewish. Instead of using the temple as the center of their religion, where the Jew-

ish priests sacrificed birds and animals to God, they had their own temple on Mt. Gerizim, which actually lies within today’s Palestine. Believe it or not, there are still

followers of their religion today, although now numbering fewer than a thousand people. Because of their history

and religious deviance the Samaritans in Jesus’ day were considered religious half-breeds, and Jews were, generally speaking, contemptuous of them. As for the Jews them-

selves, of course, by the time that John’s Gospel was writ-ten there was no longer a temple in Jerusalem to serve as the center of their religion. So what it reported Jesus as

having said about there not being a special place one would have to go to in order to worship God made not

only good theology but was certainly practical as well. If Jews could only worship God at the temple, they’d be out of luck for the next two millennia.

Henry Martyn, the man from our book, Holy Women, Holy Men, whom we celebrate this month, was a marvelous

demonstration of the importance of that lesson. He was a young man with an incredible gift for languages. When I

say that he was young, I mean it most literally, since he

died at the age of 31. He studied at Cambridge University, initially as a law student, but was persuaded while he was

there to go instead into the clergy, specifically into mis-sionary work, traveling in that capacity in 1806 to Calcutta as chaplain of the East India Company. In his five years

there he preached, established private schools, and founded churches.

What truly distinguished him, though, is the fact that, in addition to his public religious work, he managed to learn

Hindi well enough to translate both the New Testament and the Book of Common Prayer into that language. And if that feat weren’t incredible enough, he also studied

Persian, what we today call Farsi, and translated the New Testament into that language as well. In 1811 Martyn even traveled to Persia to engage Muslim scholars in

theological discussions.

Still not satisfied, however, Martyn longed to travel to Arabia and translate the New Testament also into Arabic. It was while en route to complete that work that he died

in the city of Tokat, where the Armenian citizens of that city recognized his greatness by burying him with the for-mality they would have accorded one of their own bish-

ops.

This then was Henry Martyn, priest, scholar and visionary, a man with a marvelous facility for languages, but, most of all, a man for whom even the world of the early 19th

Century—before the industrial revolution, before world-wide communication, when it took months, not hours, to

travel from England to India—was not so large that he couldn’t dream of uniting it into one faith. Worship was neither restricted to one site nor even only to westerners.

Martyn had much the same spirit of adventure and mis-sionary zeal as was shown by the Apostle Paul himself. Furthermore, since he didn’t have the advantage, as Paul

did, of a common language in which to communicate with those he encountered, he learned the languages of the

people to whom he ministered, seeking to make the Bible and Book of Common Prayer accessible to them in their own languages. The natural consequence of his work is

that we now recognize the descendants of those he con-verted, either directly or through his translations, as brothers and sisters in Christ.

If our world is to survive, it is respect for the cultural dif-

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Opportunities and Outreach

Road closures for the Rock and Roll Half Marathon on Sunday, October 5

The best way to get to the church on October 5 is still:

1) Use I-87

2) Exit at Taylor Street, head westbound on Taylor

3) Turn left on Coleman Ave 4) Turn left on St. James or St. John

5) Turn right on 2nd St to get to church.

Lunch for People Who are Homeless For the first of two meals in September, 5 volunteers

gathered on Saturday morning to make and serve a lunch to residents of both the Cecil White Center and the nearby Julian St. Inn. We served a resident favorite; pasta

with meat sauce, garlic bread, and green salad, along with milk and juice, ice cream sundaes, and an assortment of pies and fruit.

Many thanks go to Leslie Barr for her menu idea and to

Lindy Hayes, who shopped for all the groceries earlier in the week and loaded them into the refrigerator for us to use on Saturday. (Thanks in advance to Doreen and Marc

Volcere who will do the shopping for next Saturday’s lunch at the San Jose Family Shelter.) Thank you to Darryl Parker who was our chef this morning. He slaved over the

hot stove, creating the delicious meat sauce and cooking the pasta to perfection.

All of the volunteers helped prep every course of the meal. Thanks to parishioner Roger Lobbes who got an

early start and brought to boil the big pot of water for the pasta as well as cleaned and sanitized the counter top. He then prepped all the sausages for the sauce and later

helped wash, chop, and grate the veggies for the salad. Thanks also to Karen Gillette who helped prep the garlic

bread and joined Roger in cutting the veggies for the salad. At Cecil White Center, Karen single-handedly served the pasta, garlic bread, and salad, while Roger had

lots of fun serving the ice cream sundaes and slices of cake and pie.

Thank you, once again, to Rick Hawes, for donating the veggies for the salad, several jugs of juice, a big bag of

fruit, a cheese cake, and some fruit pies. He also helped

cut up the veggies and, at Cecil White Center, arranged the fresh fruit and cut up the sweet, juicy watermelons

that he brought. Thanks again to Lucky supermarket, at the corner of Sara-

toga and Pruneridge Avenues in Santa Clara, and espe-cially managers, Andrew and Reuben, and bakers, Ernie, Amina, and Sandy for their continuing support. They do-

nated a dozen loaves of hot and fresh French bread for our garlic bread and many mouth-watering cakes and pas-

tries. Another big thank you goes to Darryl for arranging, picking up, and delivering the baked goods.

The next lunches will be held on Saturday, October 11 & 18, 2014. About 10 volunteers are needed for this local mission activity so if your schedule allows please consider

coming and helping. We meet to prepare lunch at 10:15 am in the kitchen of the Parish Hall. No experience is re-

quired, just a desire to help those less fortunate than our-selves. There is a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board in the Parish Hall. If you have any questions, please ask any

of the volunteers or Fr. Bird. - Alan Fong

Support Trinity Cathedral

Help Trinity raise money. Shop at amazonsmile.com. It is the same as the Amazon you know, except now 0.5% of

your purchase goes towards Trinity Cathedral. Just use the link provided and start supporting Trinity. http://smile.amazon.com/ch/94-1156841. Thank you!

Acolytes and Ushers Urgently Needed

We are in need of acolytes and ushers to help at the Sun-day services during the 8:00 am (Ushers) and 10:30am

(both) services. If you or your child (for acolytes boys or girls, ages 9 and up), Ushers (ages 12 and up) is interested

in these fulfilling ministries please contact the office at trinicat@pacbell.net or 408-293-7953.

Bible Workbench

Meetings are on Wednesdays from 10am to noon in the parish hall. Classes are ongoing and all are welcome. Fee per unit is $10.

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ity and a few additional spaces which will be available to

the general public. This will replace the parking we have

graciously been granted by the Ropers Majeski law firm

for over twenty years. Once the agreement is signed it

will be a godsend to Trinity and be a great help in ensur-

ing the future ministry of our parish.

In addition, we will provide parking validations pur-

chased from the city, for use in certain parking ga-

rages. These parking validations are for people engaged

in outreach activities, such as preparing food for the

homeless, which we do currently on two Saturday morn-

ings twice a month. We cannot provide parking valida-

tions for worship itself nor for church meetings.

- David

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Dean’s Desk, continued

Best autumnal wishes to each and every one of you! We are busying ourselves in getting the choir season underway – as we have in the last few weeks. We welcome all of our returning choir members and some new folk we hope to intro-

duce to you next month here. DEANERY CHOIR FESTIVAL: The second annual, Deanery Choir Festival will be held on October 19th at St. Mark’s Episco-

pal Church in Santa Clara, at 3:00pm. The choir entrants will each perform two selections and the grand finale will be two selections presented by the massed choirs. The new addition this year will be a children’s choir and they will be incorporated into the last massed selection. Please come on out on that Sunday afternoon and enjoy yourself.

JUNIOR CHOIR AT TRINITY: We hope to begin meeting with our junior choir members as we begin to prepare the an-

nual Christmas Pageant. The Junior Choir will present two selections at the Christmas Eve Liturgy. Please follow the an-nouncements.

We also hope to present our second Evensong on November 2nd, Feast of All Souls. More about this will be posted in your parish announcements. Our Winchester Symphony friends will kick off their season on Saturday evening, October 18th at 7:30pm. Works to include, Mozart’s “Jupiter Symphony, Sibelius’ “Finlandia” and Dimitri Shostakovich “Piano

Concerto #2” with Amir Khosrowpour, pianist, all under the direction of the orchestra’s new conductor, Michael Digia-cinto, .

Coming in November, on Friday, the 14th at 7:30, Stuart Johnson is presenting a piano recital at Trinity. Just two days later on the 16th – Sunday at 4:00pm a delightful program of music for the holidays for Harp and Organ will be pre-

sented by the Bay Area Harp Guild at Trinity.

So, Trinity continues to be one of the concert venues in downtown San Jose. Come on out and support these groups and individual’s activities.

Until next month, PEACE! Mike Joyce

Music Muse

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Canon’s Corner, continued

ferences between us that will help it do so, and it is ef-

forts of people like Henry Martyn and, indeed, the woman at the well, that may accomplish that goal, for the story of the Samaritan woman does not stop with Jesus

telling her that God is to be wor-shipped in spirit. It continues with her going back to tell her fellow villagers

about her encounter with Jesus, as a result of which many Samaritans be-

lieved in him because of her testi-mony. They then asked him to stay on, and he did so for a couple of

days, as the result of which more were converted, as they told the woman: “It is no longer because of

what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we

know that this is truly the Savior of the world.” Nevertheless, had it not been for her initial witness, their con-

version could not have occurred.

In other words, in essence the Samaritan woman became the first missionary to non-Jews and, because of her testi-

mony, her fellow Samaritans entered into their own rela-tionship with Christ. That is the same work that Henry

Martyn was engaged in, work that we should all, in our own, perhaps less extraordinary, way consider engaging in. Martyn’s story teaches us that there ought to be no

inhibitions in our telling of our own encounter with God through Jesus Christ because of any ethnic or cultural

differences. May we tell it well. —Lance

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Concerts at Trinity

Winchester Orchestra on Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 7:30pm

Season Opener Saturday, October 18, 7: 30 p.m.

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

Sunday, October 19, 3:00 p.m.

West Valley College Theater

14000 Fruitvale Ave., Saratoga

Program: Jean Sibelius: Finlandia Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"

Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 Amir Khosrowpour, soloist Conductor, Michael DiGiacinto (debut)

Tickets: General-$20.00

Seniors (60 and older): $15.00 Students: $10.00 12 and under free with paying adult

Tickets are available at the door or you may purchase them below at PayPal. Information: (408) 866-5302

winchester@pacbell.net

Stuart Johnson Piano Concert on Friday,

November 14 at 7:30pm

Christmas Concert of Harp and Organ music on Sunday,

November 16 at 4:00pm

Please join us for these upcoming concerts in October and November at Trinity Cathedral

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Contact Jerry Drino at jdrino@sbcglobal.net for more in-formation.

Columbarium Packets Available

Information packets for the Columbarium at Trinity are available at the back of the church, with information on the columbarium, pricing, and applications. If you have

any questions you are welcome to contact Sue Hood at sue.hood@trinitysj.org or Heike Merino at trini-cat@pacbell.net.

Donations Donations made for birthdays and other celebrations will go into the Dean’s Fund on Ministry.

Gifts of pantry food items donated at this service will be

distributed by the San Jose Family Shelter, to those fami-lies transitioning out of the Shelter and into their own apartments and to the needy in our congregation and

community.

Choir News You are invited to become part of the Adult Choir at Trinity. There

are exciting liturgies ahead in this season, like the Lessons and Car-

ols, Christmas Eve, the deanery Choir Festival and the Sunday lit-urgies with exciting anthems each

Sunday. Become a part of this most meaningful ministry.

Rehearsals are at 7pm Wednesdays and 9:30am Sunday mornings in the Choir room in the office building or in the

Church. Bring your gift of music and offer it to the Lord and the Trinity community.

Contact Mike Joyce at mjoyce182@gmail.com for more information.

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Opportunities and Outreach, continued

Internet Insights

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves:

the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

-Ivan Illich, philosopher and priest (1926-2002)

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Celebrations!

Sara Calkins 10/2 Leslie Bailey 10/5 Ryan Dionne 10/5 Sarah Nunes 10/6

Patricia Anderson 10/7 Mike Joyce 10/7 Jim Nelson 10/8 Gary Hull 10/8 Jack Beasley 10/11 Dagm Teklu Aklilu 10/13

- Tesfaye Micah Dionne 10/13 Lee Barford 10/14

Dorothy Berry 10/17 Thomas Estruth 10/18 Dolores Laconico 10/20 Peter Gillette 10/24

Margo Estruth 10/24 Darryl Parker 10/24 Marge Lobbes 10/24 Janice Paull 10/25 Tina Margason 10/26 Doreen Volcere 10/27

Mary Jo Melia 10/28 Daniel Nelson 10/28 Steve Franke 10/30

“O God, our times are in your hand: Look with favor, we pray,

on your servants as they begin another year.

Grant that they may grow in wisdom and grace,

and strengthen their trust in your goodness all the days of their lives;

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”

Kathryn and Joel Fellis 10/3

Rita and Mark Knudsen 10/17 Michelle and Alan Fong 10/24

Happy Anniversary!