MARCH 2016 A publication of Holy Spirit Episcopal Church
Gather together for our Holy Week services Journey through the worship services of Holy Week with us here at Holy Spirit
To Our Church Family, On behalf of my beloved wife Fadwa, myself and our family I send you my deep gratitude and heartfelt thank you for the love and support you afforded us during Friday’s memorial service for Fadwa on 2/12/16. Your generosity of Spirit and tender care filled my heart and gave me strength to persevere through this difficult time. Over the years, Fadwa and I felt a sense of family with you, the congregation, and your loving support at the service confirmed our genuine feelings towards you.
This year I invite everyone to make an extra effort to gather together for worship during the services of Holy Week, the week of March 20th, particularly Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil on Saturday, and Easter Sunday (see specifics elsewhere in this newsletter). Come and experience both the tradition and the power of these liturgies, designed to deepen our experience of the sacred story so that the Spirit may reveal its message anew in us now. These are services open to all ages, and Gretchen
Strohmaier, our Spiritual Formation Director, has a wonderful booklet available to help families (and anyone) better understand and enter into Holy Week services (see the cover below). Accept the invitation. Clear the schedule. Come to as much as you can. Experience the difference. And may God bless you anew during this sacred season as we follow the way of Jesus, the way of life! – FAITHFULLY, TERRI +
Entering Holy Week Together Understanding Our Traditions and Enriching Our Experience
In humble appreciation, Fouad Haddad
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OUR STAFF Clergy: The Rev. Terri Ann Grotzinger, Rector
[email protected] The Rev. Judy Anderson, Pastoral Assistant The Rev. Doug Anderson, Prison Ministry The Rev. Myrna Chaney, Director of School for Deacons The Rev. Anita Rognas Organist/Choir Director: Dr. Nancy Cooper Director of Spiritual Formation: Gretchen Strohmaier
[email protected] Youth Director: Lindsay Iudicello
[email protected] Nursery Caregivers: Katie McDonald & Andee Peck Parish Administrator: Judy Parock
[email protected] Office Assistant/Bookkeeper: Elizabeth Serviss
[email protected] Sexton: Lori Cordis
NEWSLETTER Paraclete, from the Greek meaning ‘Holy Spirit,’ is published monthly, September through May, by Holy Spirit Episcopal Church. All material is due by the fifteenth of the month preceding the month of publication.
Sign up to be a part of the Maundy Thursday prayer vigil Devote an hour or more to prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane with Jesus on the Thursday of Holy Week, March 24th. Starting immediately after the Maundy Thursday Service and continuing until 7 a.m. the next morning on Good Friday, parishioners will sign up for an hour at a time to sit in the church and pray. Bring a journal, a reflection book or even an instrument, and sit with others as we “stay awake with Jesus.” Look for the sign-up in the parish hall.
We need to have two people for each hour. The church doors will be locked and opened when you knock on the door for your time. Those who have done this in previous years have found this to be a moving and spiritual time. Consider inviting a friend to join you in your shift. Please call Holly Swartz at 542-1978 if you have any questions. ̶ HOLLY SWARTZ VIGIL COORDINATOR
Help us celebrate Easter with flowers Easter flower donors needed
130 South 6th Street East Missoula, MT 59801 406.542.2167
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One of the most vivid and beautiful symbols of the Easter tradition is the return of flowers to our altar and church. Along with joyous music, beautiful liturgies, and the return of Alleluias, flowers herald the arrival of light and warmth and the promise of renewed life. To make the special services come alive with the color, scent, and beauty of these flowers, extra donations are needed and greatly appreciated. Please contact Myrna Chaney, Flower Chairperson, at 728-1941, or the church office at 542-2167, if you would like to give toward the Easter flowers. Any amount is most welcome. Gifts can be sent to the church office, and special prayers and memorials will be listed in the Easter bulletin. In order for your memorial to appear in the Easter bulletins, we need to hear from you by 9 a.m. on Monday, March 7. Thank you in advance for your special help with the Easter flowers. www.holyspiritmissoula.org
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Children experience a hands-on approach to Holy Week Children won’t want to miss this opportunity to EXPERIENCE Holy
Week. On Sunday March 20th, during Church School, classes will rotate through different Holy Week stations as they experience the Last Supper in our very own upper room, the crucifixion, the discovery of the empty tomb (at a special undisclosed location within the church), and the walk to Emmaus (outside as weather permits). This hands-on experience of Holy Week will be a rich opportunity for our children to experience and understand the events of Holy Week in a meaningful, kid-friendly way. ̶ GRETCHEN STROHMAIER DIRECTOR OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION
T-Shirts needed Church School is seeking donations of used adult size t-shirts. The more design and color on the shirt, the better. The children will be repurposing the t-shirts and creating
reusable grocery shopping bags. Please drop off your t-shirts at the church office or in the designated box in the parish hall. T-shirts are needed by March 6th.
Church School plans for March Sunday March 6th
Regular Children’s Worship and Class Time Curriculum Focus: Transfiguration Kids have opportunity to create reusable shopping bags.
Sunday March 13th
Regular Children’s Worship and Class Time Curriculum Focus: Be ready! The Son of Man is coming
Sunday March 20th
Palm Sunday Children participate in Palm Sunday procession. Children rotate through Holy Week story stations during Church School time.
Sunday March 27th
Youth Group prepares for Holy Week with Seder Meal In March, youth ministry is joining the parish-wide Lenten focus on "This Fragile Earth, Our Island Home." QUEST will be exploring this theme with a creative art project. On March 13th our Confirmation Class and Youth Group will participate in a Passover Seder Meal as a way to prepare for Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Emmaus Campus Ministry, St. Paul Lutheran, First Presbyterian, and UCC will join us for this special event as we hear the Passover story and connect this great journey of liberation with our lives and calling. If you would like to help with this event, please contact me. Volunteer support would be greatly appreciated! Also, mark your calendars! On April 30th we'll be joining the Clark Fork River Clean-Up. This is a great way to pitch in for the river we love and practice what we explored in Lent about caring for This Fragile Earth, Our Island Home. Thank you for your support of youth ministry! – LINDSAY IUDICELLO YOUTH DIRECTOR
Easter Sunday No children’s worship or class time. Worship with your whole church family.
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Lenten Program 2016
Our Lenten focus on This Fragile Earth Our Island Home continues
Explorations: Opportunities to cultivate, challenge and live our faith
Join us on Wednesdays for a potluck beginning at 6:30 p.m. and speakers in the church starting at 7:15. Speakers are followed by a short Compline service, ending at 8:30 p.m. Childcare and homework support are provided downstairs for children.
have the opportunity or ability to advocate for themselves. She has worked in many arenas since arriving in Missoula in 1994, including wildlife conservation, conflict resolution, organizational development and connecting children with nature.
Wednesday March 2nd Katie Deuel and Jesse Jaeger present: Home ReSource: Reuse for the planet and for piety Join Home ReSource Executive Director Katie Deuel and learn about reuse practices and other programs offered by Home ReSource of Missoula. Hear from our own parishioner, Jesse Jaeger (board member at Home ReSource), as he reflects on the connection between his commitment to building materials reuse and his faith. With Master's degrees in Environmental Science and Social Work, Katie Deuel has been working to build community and provide opportunities for all beings that may not
Wednesday March 9th Dr. Dan Spencer presents: The Roots of Creation Care in the Christian Tradition In this conversation, Dan Spencer will discuss the roots of honoring and caring for creation in the Christian Tradition. Starting with a photograph— meditation on Genesis, together we’ll explore the foundations for care of the earth in Scripture, church tradition, and contemporary church teachings. We’ll look at the ambiguous legacy of creation care in Christianity, what theologian Elizabeth Johnson has termed “Losing and Finding Creation in the Christian Tradition.” We’ll discuss Continued on page 5
Has this Lenten series piqued your interest? Here are other ways to get involved:
Participate in Transition Streets Missoula, a 7-week course that helps your household reduce its carbon footprint. Learn about actions to conserve energy and water, reduce waste and save money. Contact Gretchen if you’re interested in a course like this at Holy Spirit.
Check out the Episcopal Ecological Network at eenonline.org and learn about what the national church is doing on environmental issues.
Be inspired by the work being done in the Anglican Communion. Learn about projects across Africa. Visit greenanglicans.org. ̶ GRETCHEN STROHMAIER, DIRECTOR OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION www.holyspiritmissoula.org
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Ukrainian Eggs & Open Studio September 2013 Join Barbara Morrison on Saturday March 12th from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the parish hall for Ukrainian egg decorating. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Bring two room temperature eggs. Registration required. Contact the church office 542-2167 or
[email protected] to sign up.
Continued from page 4 biblical and theological sources to support active care for creation and a range of contemporary practices congregations can engage. Dan Spencer teaches Environmental Studies at The University of Montana. His teaching and research interests include religion and ecology, liberation and feminist theologies, ethical issues in globalization, ecological ethics, and ethical issues in ecological restoration. Wednesday March 16th Father Joseph Carver presents: Laudato Si: Entering the Conversation of Ecology and Spirituality Join Father Carver, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church, as he shares about Pope Francis’s recent Encyclical on Care for Our Common Home. Learn about what the Pope said and why it is
important for all of us. Fr. Joseph Carver, SJ completed an advanced degree in Ecology and Ignatian Spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara. Born and raised on a farm in rural New York, his interest in our relationship with creation has deep roots. Fr. Carver sees the Incarnate Christ as not only the spiritual but also the physical center of the universe. He is currently the pastor of St. Francis Xavier in Missoula, Montana and recently returned from presenting on this topic in Manresa, Spain at an Association of Jesuit Schools gathering. − GRETCHEN STROHMAIER DIRECTOR OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION
A call for art and essays! We are inviting members of the parish, both children and adults, to consider creating a piece of art or writing a poem or essay about our Lenten theme, This Fragile Earth Our Island Home. Work will be showcased during the last Lenten potluck on March 16th. Please contact Gretchen if you are interested in this opportunity. You can reach Gretchen by email at
[email protected] or by phone at 542-2167. – GRETCHEN STROHAMIER, DIRECTOR OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION
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Forty items for Lent Yes, it's Lent and it's also the time to prepare for Holy Spirit's 2016 Rummage Sale. The sale comes early this year, Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30. For each day of Lent, place a no longer needed item into a box marked "HSP Rummage Sale 2016." These items could include clean and in good repair clothing, shoes, bedding and linens, jewelry, toys, house wares, tools and small appliances, books, vinyl records, CDs and DVDs. If your storage space is tight, just bring your labeled and boxed items to church any Sunday and set them by the coat rack outside the Parish Hall. We'll store them until the sale. More information to come in the weeks ahead. Questions? Call Mary Tromly at 549-8233.
Holy Spirit Spring Rummage Sale Friday, April 29 9 am – 3 pm and Saturday, April 30 9 am – 1 pm
Choir sings Shaker music for Lent This Lenten season, the choir is singing new music—anthems written by Shakers and recently arranged by composer Kevin Siegfried. The Shakers were members of a sect that came to America around the Revolutionary War, and now has dwindled to four members, currently living in the Shaker community in Sabbathday Lake, Maine. At its heyday, before the Civil War, there were over 6,000 Shakers living in 19 communities throughout the United States. Thousands of pieces of Shaker music have been languishing in archives at the various communities, perhaps due to a unique notation system developed by the Shakers which is not easily decipherable. Kevin Siegfried has spent time in these archives, and is working to
arrange many of the tunes into fourpart anthems; all were originally composed for unison a cappella singing. Although some Shakers acknowledged composing music, others said their songs were "received," and that they were acting as "instruments" for transmitting these "gift songs" to the community. Some songs include syllables in a spirit language; some artwork (such as the "tree of life" used at the beginning of this article) was also "received" as a "gift drawing." The music and texts are beautiful additions to American sacred music repertoire, and the choir is having a wonderful time learning them. – DR. NANCY COOPER ORGANIST AND CHOIR DIRECTOR
Join us for Compline Our monthly Compline service will be held Sunday, March 6, at 9 p.m. in the church. Come and experience the beauty and quiet of our contemplative tradition. The service lasts no longer than half an hour and is a wonderful way to start your week. Music will be provided by members of the Holy Spirit Choir. www.holyspiritmissoula.org
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On a Diaconal Journey
The Lord’s Prayer in the mirror A recent assignment for fourth-year Education for Ministry students timed well for our Lenten journey. In making our way through Diogenes Allen’s book, Theology for a Troubled Believer, one sentence in a chapter on resurrection stood out for me: Jesus’ life, ministry, and death could not be properly understood until after his resurrection, and then only with a considerable expansion of one’s horizon. (Ch. 13, pg. 134) Lent gives us a chance to look inward and see where we might be carrying too narrow a view of God’s love and forgiveness for our horizon. For this particular class, I was asked to reflect on a personally challenging situation from the past few weeks. I picked a troublesome relationship with someone who I felt was setting up intentional hurdles for me, an “enemy”. While I pictured myself face to face with this person, the vision changed when a mirror was raised between us, leaving us to now look at ourselves rather than one another. I was faced with considering who or what might be the enemy within – fear, doubt, unfamiliarity – that was standing in the
way of my seeing God’s love and forgiveness in the people and places on my horizon. My reflection was to conclude by writing a prayer, which I offered up as The Lord’s Prayer in the Mirror Our Father, You invite us to reflect heaven’s light on earth. Hallowed be Your Kingdom, Your will. Your bread is our strength To forgive and walk with enemies, Within and without. Temptation and sin are here, are real. Deliver us to a new reflection Of your grace and glory. Amen. May the love, forgiveness and hope we find again and again in Jesus’ resurrection expand how we see the people and places on our horizon. – DORCIE DVARISHKIS CANDIDATE FOR HOLY ORDERSDEACON
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The Butterfly has returned to HSP The Social Concerns Committee (SCC) sincerely appreciates the positive response to our Butterfly Grants in 2015. Parishioners submitted grant proposals that ranged from the development of musical CDs for care at the end of life, to small libraries, to gift cards for individuals released from prison to leveraging $300 into $900 to clothe children without appropriate winter wear (the entire list can be read in the annual report). Thank you for your varied and creative proposals. Your SCC reviewed the program and have enthusiastically endorsed it for the year 2016. We have $1800 which we have committed to the Butterfly Grants. The deadlines for submitting proposals are April 1, August 1 and November 15. The grant proposal form is available in the office and on the website, www.holyspiritmissoula.org. We look forward to reading the proposals from all the caring and gifted individuals who occupy the pews of Holy Spirit Parish. Thank you again. – SOCIAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE www.holyspiritmissoula.org
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Holy Week and Easter Schedule of Services Palm Sunday, MARCH 20 8 a.m., Blessing of the Palms, reading of the Passion and Holy Eucharist 10:15 a.m., Blessing and Procession of the Palms (begins in parish hall), reading of the Passion and Holy Eucharist Maundy Thursday, MARCH 24 7 p.m., Liturgy of Maundy Thursday, in the church, followed by the Maundy Thursday Prayer Vigil Good Friday, MARCH 25 Noon, Liturgy of Good Friday, in the church, followed by the sharing of soup and hot cross buns in the parish hall after the service Easter Eve, MARCH 26 7:30 p.m., The Great Vigil of Easter, in the church, followed by the sharing of “milk and honey” in the parish hall Easter Day, MARCH 27 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., Choral Eucharist; Coffee Hour follows both Sunday services www.holyspiritmissoula.org
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