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 During Jackie s sabbatical we will have a guest author. This month, Earl Edmonds is sharing with us. 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, Vestry, Senior Warden Todd Rockstroh, Vestry, Junior Warden Damian Stout, Choir Director Damian Stout, Organist Marjorie Donovan, Music Director Emeritus Vestry Jeff Lane, Financial Secretary Trischa Goodwin Kellie Snigar 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 On October 10 th I was invited to speak to the 2019 Senior Class of Loveland High School. I was asked by Catherine Belknap who teaches math at the high school to talk to the seniors about community service. It was an honor for me to address the students on a subject that is extremely important to me. As one of the Youth Group leaders in our church, I have had the honor of taking a number of mission trips with our Rite 13 and Y2A youth over the past many years. This gave me the opportunity to talk about service and the incredible experiences that I have had with our kids, Carlotta Owens, Mary Lasher, Chris Carey, and Jackie. I started my talk by asking them to think about what service means and how it impacts the society that we live in today. I emphasized how the need is all around each of us, and how kindness, love, care, and giving of your time is the core of service. When we think of service we become others centered rather than self-centered. I shared with them the experiences we have had in our two trips to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina as well as the many trips we have made to the mountains of North Carolina. I expressed to them the tremendous impact this last trip to North Carolina had on each of us who went on this trip. I talked about the feelings of making a difference in someone s life, and this feeling was felt by all of us on this last trip to Madison County. The thank you we received from the grandmother whose family had experienced such a terrible tragedy only a few months before we came to her home was life changing for all of us as we finished our work project at her home. I will never forget that feeling. The Loveland students, about four hundred of them, were wonderful and attentive during my presentation. In my experiences with high school students, I have found them to be extremely caring and sensitive to helping people. I am so glad that schools in the area are really making service an important part of each student s education. This was a great experience for me and an honor to be asked to talk about such an important subject. Earl Edmonds

2 DOORS AND LOCKS It has come to our attention that many non- and former parishioners have keys to our kitchen door. As part of our efforts to insure the security of the church, we will be changing the lock in early December. If you need a key, please talk to or leave a note for or Todd Rockstroh. We also had an incident recently that a door was left open and a person came in and startled Gretchen. Please be very careful to keep the doors locked, even when you are still in the church. STEWARDSHIP LETTER By now, you should have received the 2018 Stewardship brochure. Please carefully consider how much you can contribute for next year and return your pledge card as soon as possible. We will consecrate the pledges on Sunday, November 18. We base our yearly budget on the pledges we get in November so having a good number to work with is very important. DAY OF CHANGE Sunday, November 4 is the day of change. Please remember to set your clocks FORWARD so you don t miss the service but also remember to bring any loose change. We always donate this money to Interfaith Hospitality Network! DID YOU KNOW? National Donor Sabbath will be observed Friday, November 9 th Sunday, November 11. This is an interfaith celebration of life and thanksgiving. Nationally, nearly 120,000 men, women and children are waiting for a life-saving transplant and each year more than 6,000 people just in the US die while they wait for their second chance at life! You can find more information at Choose life so that you and your descendants may live. --Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Just Around the Corner by Bill Lasher Today you can travel from Boston to Los Angeles, by air, in less than six hours. In 1833, when Richard Henry Dana made the trip by sea, it took less than six months! Dana s book, Two Years before the Mast, came out in The book was a strange but popular one: Dana, a Harvard student, had taken off two years from college to sail down to the tip of South America and then up to Los Angeles, a part of Mexico in those days. He was paid ten dollars a month to serve as an able seaman, and certainly widened the base of his education! I mention this book because it deals with three kinds of control issues: how the Mexican government dealt with Americans in California, how the captains dealt with their sailors, and how everyone on board tried to deal with the wind! First, the Mexicans did not officially recognize an American man unless he married a Mexican woman; then he could buy land, build a house, and open his own business. The captain never spoke to the seamen (unless the were in very deep trouble), but instead told the First Mate, who relayed the message to the sailors. Their work was dangerous, backbreaking, and often continuous. Controlling their power source the wind was the greatest challenge of all. A really fierce storm could rip every sail on the boat and make it unusable, and a lack of wind could strand a boat in one place for many days. We ve solved all these problems with coal, gas, and oil to power our vehicles on land and sea. Right now, half of the research on alternative sources of energy is on solar power, the rest on wind and water power. We really have more control than we realize. Each choice makes a difference, whether it is a personal choice or a governmental one. Heavy smoking has declined from more than half of our adults to just 14 percent in the last fifty years a result of some government encouragement and individual choices. On a very different front, we have a great deal of control in our church. We choose where and when to contribute our time, we choose how much money we will give to the church, and, as Vestry, we can make more specific choices about how the church will spend the money. It is, in fact, a church of our own.

3 ALTAR SERVERS & PEOPLE OF THE WEEK LAY READER TEXT NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 4 NOVEMBER 25 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. C Danielle C Danielle BB Christiana BB Kacee US Dick Wolford & Brian Sandlin US Norman Bucher & Skip Scruby P Sueann Stacy P Kevin & Veronica Strevel & Family T Smith & Wolford T Lane & Johnson G Trish G Carol A June & Trischa A Rosemary & Dianne NOVEMBER 11 DECEMBER 2 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. C Brady C Brady BB Maria BB Christiana US Trish Simonton & Larry Benning US Dick Wolford & Trish Simonton P Damian Stout P Karl & Donna Summers T Simonton & Morris T Smith & Morris G Linda G Ruth A Caroline, Leo, & Jill A Ginny & Molly NOVEMBER 18 10:30 a.m. A = Altar Guild C Dana BB = Book Bearer BB Adam C = Crucifer US David Johnson & Brian Gluntz G = Greeter P Rho Stout P = Persons of the Week T Summers & Smith T = Tellers G Gloria US = Ushers A Lisa, Trischa, & Donna All Saints Day Observed November 4 8:00 a.m. Earl Edmonds 10:30 a.m. Bill Ubbes Steve Belknap Isaiah 25:6-9 Psalm 24 Revelation 21:1-6a John 11:32-44 The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost November 11 8:00 a.m. Pat George 10:30 a.m. Dana Davis 1 Kings 17:8-16 Psalm 146 Hebrews 9:24-28 Mark 12:38-44 The Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost November 18 8:00 a.m. Dan Berger 10:30 a.m. Becca McLaughlin Brian Gluntz Daniel 12:1-3 Psalm 16 Hebrews 10:11-14(15-18)19-25 Mark 13:1-8 The Last Sunday after Pentecost, Christ the King November 25 8:00 a.m. Trischa Goodwin 10:30 a.m. Stuart Bale Jean Benning Daniel 7:9-10,13-14 Psalm 93 Revelation 1:4b-8 John 18:33-37 The First Sunday of Advent December 2 8:00 a.m. Earl Edmonds 10:30 a.m. Steve Belknap Jeremiah 33:14-16 Psalm 25:1-9 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 Luke 21:25-36

4 November 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 2 6:00 p.m. Men s Dinner 9:30 a.m. Silent Saturday All Saints 8 All Faithful Departed Richard Hooker William Temple 13 Willibrord 14 Philip Leo the Great 17 Martin Hilda Christ the King James Otis Sargent Huntington 18 Charles Simeon Elizabeth Isaac Watts Edmund Samuel Seabury 21 William Byrd, John Merbecke, and Thomas Tallis Kamehameha and Emma Francis Asbury and George Whitefield 22 Thanksgiving Day Cecilia Clive Staples Lewis Margaret Clement Saint Andrew the Apostle Hugh, and Robert Grosseteste 24

5 WHERE IN THE WORLD IS JACKIE? Jackie arrived in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, October 18. By the time you read this, she will have visited parts of Jerusalem and on the 21 st she will have journeyed to Petra, Jordan with the Cincinnati Diocesan Group. She will be back in Jerusalem on the 23 rd. She will be spending the next 8 days with the Telos Group. We will try to keep you updated on her adventures. Remember to keep her, and the people she is with, in your prayers! MEN S DINNER We have continued going to the Black Horse Tavern for the men s group dinner. For November we will continue to do so. The Black Horse Tavern has a special beer and burger menu Thursday night as well as a limited menu. We meet on each first Thursday of the month. There is no planned program but just sharing a time together, eat and chat. We generally have between 8-12 men, but we have no limit. If you are late come on in anyway. We will slide chairs around and make room for you. All men are welcome at any time; plan to join us Thursday, November 1at 6:00. Tom Campbell 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, November In-Reach Ministry coordinator. Her contact information can be found in the Church Directory or by calling St. Patrick s. William Temple Archbishop of Canterbury, 1944 William Temple was born October 15, 1881, and baptized three weeks later, on November 6, in Exeter Cathedral. His father, Dr. Frederick Temple, Bishop of Exeter and then of London, became Archbishop of Canterbury when William was fifteen. Growing up at the heart of the Church of England, William s love for it was deep and lifelong. Endowed with a brilliant mind, Temple took a first-class honors degree in classics and philosophy at Oxford, where he was then elected Fellow of Queen s College. At the age of twenty-nine he became headmaster of Repton School, and then in quick succession rector of St. James s Church, Piccadilly, Bishop of Manchester, and Archbishop of York. Though he never experienced poverty of any kind, he developed a passion for social justice which shaped his words and his actions. He owed this passion to a profound belief in the Incarnation. He wrote that in Jesus Christ God took flesh and dwelt among us, and as a consequence the personality of every man and woman is sacred. In 1917 Temple resigned from St. James s, Piccadilly, to devote his energies to the Life and Liberty movement for reform within the Church of England. Two years later an Act of Parliament led to the setting up of the Church Assembly, which for the first time gave the laity a voice in Church matters. As bishop and later as archbishop, Temple committed himself to seeking the things which pertain to the Kingdom of God. He understood the Incarnation as giving worth and meaning not only to individuals but to all of life. He therefore took the lead in establishing the Conference on Christian Politics, Economics, and Citizenship (COPEC), held In 1940 he convened the great Malvern Conference to reflect on the social reconstruction that would be needed in Britain once the Second World War was over. At the same time he was a prolific writer on theological, ecumenical, and social topics, and his two-volume Readings in St. John s Gospel, written in the early days of the war, rapidly became a spiritual classic. In 1942 Temple was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and reached an even wider audience through his wartime radio addresses and newspaper articles. However, the scope of his responsibilities and the pace he set himself took their toll. On October 26, 1944, he died after only two and a half years at Canterbury. O God of light and love, who illumined your Church through the witness of your servant William Temple: Inspire us, we pray, by his teaching and example, that we may rejoice with courage, confidence, and faith in the Word made flesh, and may be led to establish that city which has justice for its foundation and love for its law; through Jesus Christ, the light of the world, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. (Holy Women, Holy Men: Celebrating the Saints)