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Trinity Cathedral

The Carillon for December 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

Advent/Christmas Schedule Page 4

Opportunities & Outreach Page 5 & 6

Music Notes Page 7

Concerts at Trinity Pages 8 & 9

Internet Insights Page 10

Celebrations! Page 12

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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

Mr. Paul Archambeault Treasurer

Graciela Velazquez Coordinator for Latino Ministries

The Rev. Penelope Duckworth, M.F.A. Mr. Stuart Johnson Artists in Residence

Professor Brent Walters Scholar in Residence

Dean’s Stewardship Letter

2015 promises to be a pivotal year for Trinity. The city wants to revitalize St James Park and make it family friendly again. We anticipate a new development around us and an influx of new city dwellers. This can only bring greater life and stability to our surroundings, as well as provide Sunday parking for us. The dynamics of St James Park will change. A new restaurant will grace St John Street, bringing posi-tive life and energy to the street and to Trinity. We are already recognized as the oldest building of our historic neighborhood. We can expand our outreach and mu-sical programs and contribute to revitalizing downtown.

At this time in the year we ask members and friends of Trinity to pledge time, tal-ent and treasure to God’s work. The keynote of our pledge drive this year will be the theme of generosity: “God so loved the world,” we are told, “that God, gave his only begotten child that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

Our lives are a gift from God and the more generous we are the more our lives are transformed. We are therefore changing our approach to stewardship. We shall not ask you to pledge to a budget but rather to God. If we pledge to certain as-pects of a budget we still feel somewhat in control of our giving. But that isn’t giv-ing nor generosity. It’s donating. Compare what we say at church on Sunday: “All things come from You, O God, and of your own are we giving You.”

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December 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

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And specially from every shires ende Of engelond to caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

In modern English, the “holy, blissful martyr” that is being

sought by the pilgrims depicted in Chaucer’s marvelous Canterbury Tales is the subject of this month’s com-memoration from Holy Women, Holy Men: Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry II, who had once been his close friend, but whose complaint about him, loudly conveyed, led eventually to his martyr-dom. Becket’s is a fascinating story, retold in modern times by—among other productions—the short play by T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, and the movie Becket. Eliot’s play is worth considering at some length in this col-umn, but we need first to look at what we know about the life and death of the real Becket. Born to a well-to-do Norman family in 1118, a half a cen-tury after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Becket received a fine education before, as a young man, beginning service to the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Theobald, who sent him to the continent to study canon law. Upon his return, his position and his talents brought him into a close relation-ship with the young king, Henry II. This re-lationship became friendship, a conse-quence of which resulted in Henry appoint-ing Becket as his chancellor, a position he filled with both distinction and panache, appearing to the world, as described in the Penguin Dictionary of Saints, as “the court ecclesiastic of extravagant worldly tastes and brilliant abilities.” In 1162, however, things changed dramati-cally. At that time, although he had been ordained as a deacon, Becket was not yet even a priest. With the concurrence of the Pope, and therefore the necessary ordina-tions to priest and bishop, over his friend’s objections Henry appointed Becket to be-come the Archbishop of Canterbury, the

highest ecclesiastical post in the land. That changed things—both personally for Becket and also in the rela-tionship between the two men. Becket expressed it this way: he changed from being “a patron of play-actors and a follower of hounds, to being a shepherd of souls.” He devoted himself to his new duties, both in a personal manner (presiding over the daily distribution of alms to the poor) and also by overseeing the life of this most im-portant cathedral and office. It has been reported that this once most worldly of men even took to wearing a hair shirt. And then began his conflict with his once close friend, the king. Two issues in particular festered between them. The first was the king’s determination to tax church property. The other issue, more destructive to their relationship, was the question of whether it was the Church or state that should have jurisdiction over crimes committed by clerics. Should the clerics be subject to trial in civil courts, as asserted by Henry, or in Church courts, the position of Becket? Things got so heated between the two, who had once been so close (and between Becket and the king’s powerful supporters as well), that for some six years Becket exiled himself to the continent. The exile failed,

however, to heal the growing rift, and things reached such a state of mutual hos-tility that at one point Becket for a short time actually issued a writ of interdict, which effectively excommunicated not only Henry but all of his subjects as well. Finally, in exasperation, although the specific words are in dispute, Henry, who was in France at the time, with Becket once again in his cathedral, is reputed to have ex-claimed something like the following: “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" Four knights, it appears, took these words to mean that Henry wanted someone to assassinate Becket; so they crossed the channel and made their way to Canterbury, where they found Becket in the cathedral in the afternoon of December 29, 1170, and hacked him to death with their swords between two altars. It is that scene with which Eliot’s play concerns itself—that and the temptations faced by Becket to com-

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Canon’s Corner

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Advent/Christmas Schedule at Trinity

November 30 - Advent 1 8:00am Holy Eucharist, Rite I

10:30am Holy Eucharist, Rite II

12:30pm Spanish Eucharist, Rite II

December 7 - Advent 2 8:00am Holy Eucharist, Rite I

10:30am Holy Eucharist, Rite II

12:30pm Spanish Eucharist, Rite II (Our Lady of Juguila)

December 12 - Feast Day 7:00pm Our Lady of Guadalupe Service

December 13 7:00pm Concert - Winchester Orchestra

December 14 - Advent 3 8:00am Holy Eucharist, Rite I

10:30am Lessons and Carols Service (no sermon)

12:00pm Christmas Pageant and Potluck

1:00pm Spanish Eucharist, Rite II

December 19 7:30pm Concert - Winterdance, Celtic Christmas Show

December 21 - Advent 4 8:00am Holy Eucharist, Rite I

10:30am Holy Eucharist, Rite II

12:30pm Spanish Eucharist, Rite II

December 24 - Christmas Eve 5:00pm Carols and Communion Family Service*

10:30pm Christmas Music and Carols

11:00pm Choral Eucharist*

*The Very Rev. David Bird preaching

December 24 - Christmas Day 10:00am Carols and Communion Service

Brent Walters preaching / no childcare - all chil-

dren are welcome to attend the service

December 28 - Christmas 1 8:00am Holy Eucharist, Rite I

10:30am Holy Eucharist, Rite II

12:30pm Spanish Eucharist, Rite II

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Opportunities and Outreach

Trinity at The Villages

Trinity Cathedral is holding Episcopal services at 8:30am every Sunday at The Villages Golf and Country Club in Ev-ergreen. This congregation of around 25 people has been associated with St. Philips since the early 1970's. Through a thoughtful and prayerful discernment process lasting several months, The Villages’ worship community voted to realign with Trinity Cathedral.

Lunch for People Who are Homeless For the first of two meals in November, a big group of 15 volunteers, including two new 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 Sandy Dilling, who shopped for all the groceries earlier in the week and loaded them into the refrigerator for us to use on Saturday. (Thanks in advance to 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, to returning volunteer Joanne Pengosro, and to Karen Gillette, who were our chefs this morning. They shared slaving over the hot stove, creating the delicious meat sauce and cooking the pasta to perfection. All of the volunteers pitched in wherever needed to prep 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, along with friends of the parish Susan Parks and Ben White, all the sausages for the sauce and later helped wash, chop, and grate the veggies for the salad. Thanks also to new volunteer, Lucy Amador, who, along with friends of the parish, Sarah Biesterveld and her dad, Dan, comprised the garlic bread team and produced a half dozen loaves of steamy hot, and delicious, garlic bread. Later, Kimberly Fong, bringing mom, Michelle, ar-rived to earn community service hours and helped with washing and cutting veggies for our green salad. Raj An-thony, along with his wife, Suseela, and their young boys, Benson and Jose also arrived to help. Joining us for the first time was new parishioner, Nuria Fernandez, who along with Suseela, jumped right in and helped with washing and slicing veggies for the salad and helped keep all our cookware clean and sanitary by washing dishes. At Cecil White Center, Michelle, Joanne, Karen, and Kim-berly served the pasta, garlic bread, and salad, while Roger and Suseela served the ice cream sundaes and slices of cake and pie. At the beverage counter, Raj and his boys and Susan poured glasses of ice cold milk and fruit drink. 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 tossed the salad and, at Cecil White Center, arranged the fresh fruit and helped served the desserts. 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 Ben for arranging, picking up, and delivering the baked goods. Next month’s lunches will be held on two Saturdays, De-cember 13 and 20, 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 required, just a desire to help those less for-tunate than ourselves. There is a sign-up sheet on the bul-

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Opportunities and Outreach, continued

letin board in the Parish Hall. If you have any questions, please ask any of the volunteers or Fr. Bird.

- Alan Fong

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.

Gather South Sudanese Into Your Christmas Giving While you are “checking your list and counting it twice” please include a student of Hope With South Sudan. Our children in Kenya and Uganda are looking forward with hope for the holidays where they will probably get only one gift. That will be from Hope With South Sudan. We try to send each student $75 to buy their dress and play clothes and shoes and a mattress for the year. All kids grow rapidly. Our students in Kenya and Uganda have long outgrown the clothes they received in 2013. Help make their Christmas a happy one. $40 will buy clothes; $20 will buy a new foam mattress; $15 will buy new mosquito netting; $35 will buy new shoes. Go on line to www.hopewithsouthsudan.org and make your dona-tion using the secure PayPal tab under donate, pick up an envelope and ornament in the Great Hall at the Cathe-dral, or send your donation to Hope With South Sudan, 81 N. 2nd Street, San Jose, CA 95113. Give a gift in honor of someone and they’ll receive a card of acknowledgement from Hope With South Sudan. All gifts are tax deductible

Bible Workbench The Bible Workbench will relocate to St. Francis,

Willowglen December 10, 2014 The pending construction around the Cathedral and the increased cost of street parking has caused the Bible

Workbench seminar to move to St. Francis, Willowglen. Beginning Wednesday, December 10 the Bible study group will meet at 1205 Pine Avenue, San Jose at the regular time 10-12, with plenty of free parking. Following the class St. Francis offers a Eucharist and healing service for those who choose to participate. The move hopefully will draw more people from around San Jose to the join the study group which already has participants from Trin-ity, St. Francis, St. Philip’s and the Unitarian Church. For more information go to www.trinitysj.org or contact Fr. Drino at jdrino@hopewithsouthsudan.org

This Month in the History of Trinity Cathedral – 154 Years Ago

December 1, 1860, marked the First Sunday of Advent. It also marked the first Sunday that a band of Episcopalians gathered with their new priest, Sylvester Smith Etheridge. The gathering was held at the firehouse on Market which housed the mayor’s office and court room on the second floor. The mayor was skeptical about the prospects of the Protestant Episcopal Church taking hold, but when he saw that crowd with some very prominent members of the San Jose community in attendance, he offered the court-room on the second floor for subsequent gatherings. A Sunday School has been meeting in homes for several years prior to this gathering. A portable melodium – pump organ was brought in for the occasion. The parish would be organized in February 1861 comprising the whole of Santa Clara County.

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Holiday Greetings! The wonder and hectic pace for the holidays has begun! I see Christmas-In-The-Park being unpacked and setup, so that for sure must mean that the holidays are coming. However, there are other indications. Trinity has already presented a holiday concert and the music ministry is making awesome Advent and Christmas sounds to usher in the Christmas spirit through the preparation for His coming and commemoration of His arrival on Christmas Eve and Day. The music ministry will be heralding His coming with vari-ous traditional texts and settings to mark this holy and exciting season. A solo and chorus from the Messiah, tra-ditional Gregorian chant and Anglican chant tunes will be heard. We have recently married a French teacher who has consented to coach us on pronunciation of “Il est ne le divin Enfant – He Is Born, the Divine Christ Child” and we are dusting off a selection found in the Trinity choral files, “Noel X – Noel We Sing” – a delightful setting ar-ranged by Robert DeCormier and E. Power Biggs, origi-nally composed by Louis Nicholas-D’Aquin of 17th century France – when I saw it in the files, my mind rushed back to my childhood when I sang this as a young chorister with the Pontifical Choir of Immaculate Conception Ca-thedral in Kansas City, Missouri. As a young guy, I rushed out and bought the Columbia recording – so, I looked all over on the internet to find the recording and I was drawn to E-bay where I found three copies available. My partner Martin is working this week to transfer it to CD and I hope to bring it to the choir’s rehearsal in that form. Incidentally, the copy I bought was still in cellophane wrap! Glad that I’m not a collector of such things because acquiring these recordings could be addictive! I want to thank the Silicone Valley Harp Guild for the “Christmas Sampler” which we presented at Trinity last Sunday. What a delightful way to commemorate the be-ginning of the holiday season! I was honored to accom-pany Debbie Hicks and the renown Linda Woods-Rollo, who was the former spouse of the late Dale Woods, well-known composer and arranger of music for keyboards, handbells, harp and choirs – he was a former Organist-Choirmaster of St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church up in San Francisco. We all had a delightful time presenting to program and thanks go to Martha and Lynn Bailey for co-ordinating the effort.

There are a couple of musical offerings coming our way in the month of December: December 13th – Saturday – 7:30pm: The Winchester

Symphony will present their Holiday offering in the Trinity Sanctuary.

December 14th – Sunday – 10:30a.m. Service – The Music Ministry and friends will be offering the annual Ceremony of Lessons and Carols in the sanctuary.

December 19th – Friday evening – 7:30pm in the Trin-ity sanctuary: The not-to-be-missed annual Celtic Winter Dance. Tickets are going fast – give the Trinity office a call to get those hot items!

LAST AND CERTAINLY NOT LEAST: December 24th – Christmas Eve liturgy at Trinity – Mu-

sic to start at 10:00pm We will be sharing choral set-tings of Christmas tunes and also asking you to join us in song throughout the evening. We will be joined by brass and woodwinds – experience awesome musical prayer for the Blessed Season.

Finally, I want to thank our choristers who help with the musical enhancement of our Sunday liturgies and lend their musical talents to achieve those goals!

M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S T O A L L ! ! ! ! !

From Mike Joyce, Music Director

Music Notes

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Winchester Orchestra Concert

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Winterdance Celtic Christmas Tour

The Winterdance Celtic Christmas annual Tour offers an enthralling evening of yuletide music, song and dance, pre-sented by regional Celtic American Phenomenon Molly's Revenge, starring David Brewer, John Weed and Stu Mason and special guests, stunning vocalist Christa Burch of the Syncopaths, and the award winning Rosemary Turco Irish Dancers. As always, the Winterdance Concert includes Christmas songs both old and new from many lands, played with a Celtic, 'Mollified' twist along with featured brand new material. You'll have an opportunity to join in and sing some of your favorite carols, and our dancers will surely set your toes tapping. Like last year, the California portion of the Winterdance Tour closes at the wonderful Trinity Cathedral, 81 North 2nd Street, Downtown San Jose on Friday, December 19th at 7:30 PM., with a fundraiser sponsored by the San Jose Dublin Sister Cities Program. This special performance includes an extra bonus - an opening set from the exciting duo of Kyle Alden and Susan Spurlock, performing original and folk songs, including new folk songs crafted from W.B.Yeats poetry, along with lively traditional Irish tunes played on fiddle, mandolin and guitar. Tickets $20 in advance on Eventbrite, or $24 at the door with cash or credit card : winterdance2014san-jose.eventbrite.com. Get them while they are available - this show sold out last Christmas! Check the Trinity Cathedral website at www.trinitysj.org or call at (408) 293-7953. The San Jose performance is made possible in part by the Harold R. Hayes fund and the proceeds benefit SJD'Ss Pat McMahon Scholarship Programs. Artist sites and sounds: www.mollysrevenge.com, www.christaburch.com and www.kylealden.com.

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promise in his opposition to the king or to aggrandize himself in martyrdom. In that regard, it is especially im-portant to understand the context of the play as it was written in the midst of Hitler’s rise to power in the ‘30s. In very important ways, given its raison d’être, the play is more important for our consideration than the actual facts of Becket’s conflict with Henry. It is a significant meditation on what, for example, the German clergy must do in response to the increasingly ugly regime of the Na-zis. In real life, it appears that both Henry and Becket were afflicted with the sin of pride and both obstinate, not given to compromise. But Eliot frames the conflict around the fulcrum of the temptations—clearly a nod to those faced by Jesus in the wilderness. There are four tempters. The first suggests that Becket’s most important concern should be his own physical safety. The second tempts him with the notion that he could accomplish more of what he would like to accomplish if he could only be more willing to compromise with the king. The third offers the possibility of a degree of freedom for England

through an alliance with the barons against the king. But it is the fourth temptation that is the true philosophical concern of all who face martyrdom as they confront evil and unbridled power. Those whose fate appears to be death by martyrdom may feel a sense of pride that they have thus been chosen for immortality. Eliot’s response, though, as spoken by Becket, serves as a stark corrective:

Now is my way clear, now is the meaning plain: Temptation shall not come in this kind again. The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

—Lance

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Internet Insights

Canon’s Corner, continued

Phillips Brooks, 1835-1893

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What Are The Three Gifts?

Dean’s Desk Continued

and treasure Diane and I have followed for thirty-five years. We made decisions about who would do what in the household and, since our contributions to the church might seem in my best interest, Diane should determine our pledge. That remains the situation to this day and I find out what we have given only when the end of the year total comes from the treasurer for our tax return.

Our model has been one of proportional pledging. First we decide how much we want to give (i.e., what proportion of our income) then we see if we can make it. If not, we set that as a goal and try to increase toward that goal each year until the proportional raising (or the attempt to raise) of our pledge is second nature. We both believe that we cannot expect serious committed pledging to God by any parish unless we first make that commitment. We do that whether we agree with the budget or whether our personal hopes are fulfilled in the budget or not. Generosity involves uncon-ditional giving to God without the need of incentives. Generous giving becomes part of one’s life style and it is life-transforming.

Soon you will receive an official letter from The Vestry requesting a pledge. I trust you will make your decision prayer-fully and in thanksgiving for God’s love for us all. Faithfully yours in Christ,

The Very Rev. David Bird

Dean and Rector

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While participating in a church Christmas

pageant many years past, I had the good

fortune to be chosen as the narrator.

Each rehearsal went off well and then on

the night of the show, I, in a loud and

penetrating voice announced the gifts of

the Magi as "gold, Frankenstein and

myrrh."

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Celebrations!

Lucille Hayes 12/6

Leslie Barr 12/8

Purisima Laconico 12/8

Tanner Hughes 12/8

Dan Hanasaki 12/12

Harold Clay 12/14

Samantha Laconico Parker 12/15

Edna Barrow 12/15

Jeanell English 12/15

The Very Rev David Bird 12/16

Deanna Peck-Hull 12/16

Jessica Bristow Trisnadi 12/18

Chinazom Anyanwu 12/20

Rita Welsh 12/20

Karla McLarney 12/21

Nahida Amireh 12/22

Ramon Laconico, Jr. 12/24

Karen Gillette 12/27

Kelechi Anyanwu 12/27

Sandra Dilling 12/27

Rowan McCauley Carnes 12/29

Art Domingue 12/29

Paul Robertson 12/31

Chi Vuong 12/31

“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.”

Racheal Atem and Bol Deng Bol 12/10

Amanda and Dylan Starbird 12/27

Elizabeth and Darryl Parker 12/29

Happy Anniversary!