St. Patrick Episcopal Church 232 East Main Street Lebanon, Ohio 45036

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1 St. Patrick Episcopal Church 232 East Main Street Lebanon, Ohio Sunday Worship Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. The Rt. Rev. Thomas E. Breidenthal Bishop of Southern Ohio The Rev. Jacqueline Matisse, Rector Nancy Smith, Vestry, Senior Warden Bill Lasher, Vestry, Junior Warden Damian Stout, Choir Director Jack Hasty, Organist Marjorie Donovan, Music Director Emeritus Vestry Jeff Lane, Financial Secretary Trischa Goodwin Vestal Hipp Wayne Spary, Treasurer Steve Belknap Jill Lane Bill Lasher, Stewardship Matt Lang Linda Powers Gretchen Hautzinger, Office Manager Harry Pritchard Jill Lane, Children s Education Our Mission: To take the love of Christ into the World For a church our size we engage in a good deal of ministry. I ve written recently about the Greenhouse, Inc and about the school we are connected with in Brendan House. I will address other ministries in upcoming Shamrocks. Today I write about our most important ministry, communal worship. Every Sunday, we gather as a community to do liturgy. I wonder if you think about it in that way - to do liturgy. the word liturgy originates from two Greek words meaning work and public. It means doing the work of prayer for the public. It is a work by the people for the people. Sometimes it is quietly contemplative, sometimes ordered, sometimes spontaneous, sometimes musical, sometimes boisterous. No matter the style, it is our work as people of faith. Just like work, sometimes we will receive joy as we worship, sometimes it may feel rote or even boring. Liturgy was never meant to please all the people, all the time. It is meant to serve the world. And our world needs our prayers. It needs us to do liturgy. Our Episcopal liturgy helps us move through the rhythms of our lives. We gather, we listen to God s wisdom and a preacher s contemporary interpretation of those ancient words. We use music to move the words into our souls, beyond our intellect, because music does that. We pray for the world in the prayers of the people, we confess our broken endeavors to love well, we receive God s forgiveness and we offer each other piece. We come to the table together to be fed by a love greater than our own and we move out into the world to pass these rhythms on. That s our Sunday liturgy. Other times we practice liturgy without coming to the eucharistic table. On Wednesday evenings this fall a few of us have been gathering to pray very specifically for different people and places in the world. We pray for about thirty minutes. I relish this time. It is satisfying work for a world whose needs often leave me not knowing what to do. We can pray and we can trust that the Holy Spirit, the connecting power of God, moves in our liturgy in ways beyond our understanding and carries our prayer energy and heart into the world in ways far beyond our understanding. Not all in our community are able to gather every time we practice liturgy. We all have numerous demands on our time. So those who do gather pray on behalf of the entire community. If you need to be somewhere else on a Sunday morning, I ask that you take a moment wherever you are to join in Spirit with those of us doing liturgy on the corner of East and Main Streets. Pray for the Holy Spirit to connect us all and to send our prayer into the world as God wills. Practice liturgy with us as you can. God bless you all. It is good we are the church! (Jackie continued )

2 I encourage you to read the latest addition of the Diocesan Connections on Tradition. If you aren t receiving Connections from the diocese please let me know and I will see you get on the mailing list. I will be leading an adult class during the Sundays of Advent on how we practice liturgy. Please consider being a part of that discussion. We will meet in Brigid House after breakfast from 9:30-10:15. Jackie PET BLESSING We will bless pets in St. Patrick s parking lot this Sunday, Oct. 1 at 3pm. All pets are welcome as long as they are under control. This blessing service usually takes about 30 minutes. People sometimes bring a photo of a pet if the pet isn t able to participate! HOMEWORK CLUB Thank you, Danielle Weaver, for leading our homework club ministry again this year. We will begin Tuesday, October 3. We meet from 4-5 and the more tutors the better. The Lebanon schools continue to provide bus service to the church because they have seen the fruits borne of our work with these children. All the children live in Shadowlake Trailer Park in Lebanon. Jackie Just Around the Corner by Bill Lasher At times, I think we re all chasing the present time through history. We look for what was once there, and for what might be there next year or the year after. This pursuit has always affected my job, because languages never stop changing. Every time a child learns English, another, slightly different, version is born. That always makes for interesting questions, like the couple who wrote that their marriage depended on my answer to this question: Is it pronounced Cincinnatuh or Cincinnatee? I wrote back that the -uh pronunciation was used on the West Side of the city, and the ee was common everywhere else. They never wrote back about their marriage, and the rules I described keep changing. In a very different direction, I think about the electric cars that came along early in the life of the automobile. A few years ago they came back, made by the Tesla electric car. We visited their showroom in Santa Monica and enjoyed sitting in a modern electric car, although we couldn t afford to buy one. The surprise here is a recent promise from automakers in a number of countries to begin work on their own electric cars, to cut down on pollution and increase fuel economy globally. There is one more surprising change to consider: in 1965, just after the Surgeon General s report on the dangers of cigarette smoking, a full 43% of American adults were smoking regularly. This year, a recent report put that number at 15%--nearly a two-thirds reduction! When you consider the savings in lives, in costs, and family disruption alone, this is a huge change for the better. I wanted to talk about change for the better first, before taking up our most common response to change: I don t like it. Different is not better. If you sometimes think that way, consider this little problem: take the numbers 9, 5, 2, 6, 1, 7, 3, 8, 4, in any order you wish, and add them together. We d all like to write the sequence 1, 2, 3..., of course, but that would have no effect on your answer. Change doesn t have to be for good or bad it can just be. No two children learn exactly the same version of English, but that will be just a small hiccup in their understanding each other. If we have more than one billion speakers of English on our planet, there may be larger hiccups or even misunderstanding. Those are more a result of distance and dialect than anything else. In fact, change is just another word for a full life: if you embrace it, you re growing, and if you don t, you re not. The Bible we use expects us to change as part of our growth in the church, as do our schools and our military corps. My favorite idea of change is that it is fitting us to the world, while we are trying to fit the world to us.

3 ALTAR SERVERS & PEOPLE OF THE WEEK OCTOBER 1 OCTOBER 22 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. C Dana C Dana BB Kacee BB Adam US Brian Gluntz & Skip Scruby US David Johnson & Norman Bucher P Jon & Joey Hansted & Family P Gretchen & Dan Hautzinger & Family T Nelson & Smith T Simonton & Smith G Carol G Linda A Caroline, Leo, & Jill A Molly & Kay OCTOBER 8 OCTOBER 29 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. C Marshall C Marshall BB Christiana BB Kacee US Dick Wolford & Trish Simonton US Brian Gluntz & Skip Scruby P Bill & Jenny Hardie & Family P Margaret & Gene Hawkins T Lane & Wolford T Smith & Hasty G Ruth G Gloria A Kathy & Janet S. A Lisa & Trischa OCTOBER 15 NOVEMBER 5 10:30 a.m. 10:30 am C Brady C Brady BB Maria BB Christiana US Graham Bale & Larry Benning US Kevin O Brien & Graham Bale P Jack & Kay Hasty P Bill & MaryEllen Haynes T McLaughlin & Johnson T Nelson & McLaughlin G Trish G Carol A Jan D., Leo, & Molly A June & Vestal A = Altar Guild BB = Book Bearer C = Crucifer G = Greeter P = Persons of the Week T = Tellers US = Ushers LAY READER TEXT OCTOBER The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost October 1 8:00 a.m. Dan Berger 10:30 a.m. Brian Gluntz Becca McLaughlin Exodus 17:1-7 Psalm 78:1-4,12-16 Philippians 2:1-13 Matthew 21:23-32 The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost October 8 8:00 a.m. Earl Edmonds 10:30 a.m. Steve Belknap Nancy Smith Exodus 20:1-4,7-9,12-20 Psalm 19 Philippians 3:4b-14 Matthew 21:33-46 The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost October 15 8:00 a.m. Trischa Goodwin 10:30 a.m. Becca McLaughlin Brian Gluntz Exodus 32:1-14 Psalm 106:1-6,19-23 Philippians 4:1-9 Matthew 22:1-14 The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost October 22 8:00 a.m. Dan Berger 10:30 a.m. Jean Benning Stuart Bale Exodus 33:12-23 Psalm 99 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 Matthew 22:15-22 The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost October 29 8:00 a.m. Pat George 10:30 a.m. Nancy Smith Steve Belknap Deuteronomy 34:1-12 Psalm 90 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 Matthew 22:34-46 All Saints Day November 5 8:00 a.m. Earl Edmonds 10:30 a.m. Dana Davis Becca McLaughlin Revelation 7:9-17 Psalm 34:1-10,22 1 John 3:1-3 Matthew 5:1-12

4 October 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday :00 p.m. Men s Dinner Remigius 8 9 George Kennedy Allen Bell John Raleigh Mott 10 Francis of Assisi 11 William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale Henry Melchior Muhlenberg William Dwight Porter Bliss and Richard Theodore Ely 15 Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 16 Vida Dutton Scudder 17 Philip Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky Teresa of Avila 22 Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley 23 Ignatius 24 Saint Luke the Evangelist 25 Henry Martyn William Carey Saint James of Jerusalem Alfred the Great Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles James Hannington and his Companions John Wyclif Paul Shinji Sasaki and Philip Lindel Tsen

5 NANCY S MEMORIAL GARDEN APPLE PIES As I write we are baking pies for Lebanon s Feast and Fall-y. Tuesday night we baked 123 pies!! Who knows what our final count will be after two more nights of baking. The church smells wonderful and we have a lot of fun. Community is built as people work together who have not met. So many thanks to all who do the behind the scenes work. Thank you, Lisa Cronin, for making all the arrangements this year, The Langs for, once again, making mountains of pie crust dough beforehand, Sarah Huckeby for making sure pies are wrapped and labeled, Dan Berger for apple crisps and bread puddings, for too many bakers to name individually and for all who will sell on Saturday. May the fruits of our work be a blessing. DIOCESAN CONVENTION AND EXODUS Bishop Breidenthal just sent out a notice inviting people to attend diocesan convention. He is wanting to grow the base of people who are exploring what it means for us to be moving out of some of the ways of being church we have known in the past into a new and promised land. This is the work that has prompted the diocesan study of Exodus. Convention this year will be held on November 10 and 11 at the Hyatt Regency in Cincinnati. I encourage you to attend if possible and also encourage you to be a part of the Big Read of Exodus. There is a schedule to help you read through the book of Exodus on the Diocese of S. Ohio website. Commentaries to supplement your reading and my preaching are on the table in Brigid House. Please read them at church so they can be shared by all. Jackie Last month Margaret Johnson gave us some background on Nancy's Garden, our Memorial Garden for the scattering of ashes (cremains) of parishioners and family. This garden was established by the Vestry to be perpetual. We have a committee to not only oversee the care of the garden itself but carry out other associated tasks. We have depended upon Margaret and a few others to maintain the beauty of the garden. It has come time to make some changes to ensure the perpetual nature of the garden; not only the direct care of the garden itself but also the paper work, the record log, the funding and the passing on the garden's history to the next generations. The past committee has done a great job getting the garden to where it is. We are reorganizing the committee and are looking for those who have an interest in working with us. We will be contacting those who might have such an interest. This group may include those who have been past committee members, have family scattered in the garden or have expressed an interest. If you have a skill you can share or are just interested in being a member of the committee, please let Margaret Johnson, Tom Campbell or Jackie know. We will then contact you. MEN S DINNER We have continued going to the Barrel House for the men s group dinner. For October, we will meet again at the Barrel House. The Barrel House is a sports bar specializing in craft beer. They have 26 brands of beer on tap and also serve from a simple menu. They are located in the old Mios place on Broadway across from the Berry School. We meet on each Thursday of the month. There is no planned program but just sharing a time together, eat and chat. All men are welcome at any time; plan to join us Thursday, October 5 at 6:00. Tom Campbell

6 John Raleigh Mott Evangelist and Ecumenical Pioneer, 1955 RUTHIE-FEST 2017 Please join us to celebrate our fabulous Ruth Lokey s 90 th birthday on Saturday, October 28 th. We ll gather for an open house with Ruth and her family in Brigid House between 2:00 and 4:00. No gifts please the pleasure of your company is gift enough. Please join us for this fun birthday party. Everyone is most welcome. Elizabeth O Leary IN-REACH MINISTRY Do you need help or know of other church members who need temporary assistance with transportation, meals, child care, yard work, household chores, etc? If so, please contact Theresa Norris, October In-Reach Ministry coordinator. Her contact information can be found in the Church Directory or by calling St. Patrick s John Mott was born in Livingston Manor, New York in 1865, and moved with family to Iowa in September of that same year. After graduating from Cornell University in 1888, Mott became student secretary of the International Committee of the YMCA and chairman of the executive committee of the Student Volunteer Movement. In 1895 he became General Secretary of the World Student Christian Federation, and in 1901 he was appointed the Assistant General Secretary of the YMCA. During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson appointed him to the National War Work Council, for which he received the Distinguished Service Medal. His ecumenical work was rooted in the missionary slogan The Evangelization of the World in this Generation. Convinced of the need for better cooperation among Christian communions in the global mission field, he served as chairman of the committee that organized the International Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910, over which he also presided. Considered to be the broadest gathering of Christians up to that point, it is from this Conference that the modern ecumenical movement began. Speaking before that Conference, Mott summed up his view of Christian missions: It is a startling and solemnizing fact that even as late as the twentieth century, the Great Command of Jesus Christ to carry the Gospel to all mankind is still so largely unfulfilled The church is confronted today, as in no preceding generation, with a literally worldwide opportunity to make Christ known. Mott continued his involvement in the developing ecumenical movement, participating in the Faith and Order Conference at Lausanne in 1927, and was Vice-President of the Second World Conference on Faith and Order in Edinburgh (1937). He also served as Chairman of the Life and Work Conference in Oxford, also held in In 1946 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in establishing and strengthening international organizations which worked for peace. The World Council of Churches, the founding of which was largely driven by Mott s efforts, elected him its life-long Honorary President in Mott died in O God, the shepherd of all, we give you thanks for the lifelong commitment of your servant John Raleigh Mott to the Christian nurture of students in many parts of the world; and we pray that, after his example, we may strive for the weaving together of all peoples in friendship, fellowship and cooperation, and while life lasts be evangelists for Jesus Christ, in whom alone is our peace; and who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen. (Holy Women, Holy Men: Celebrating the Saints)