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25 July 2010 Saint James the Apostle If you are visiting or new to Saint Ignatius, we hope that you will feel welcome and at home. Please join us after Mass for Coffee Hour downstairs in the Parish Hall, and, if you will, fill out a visitor’s/newcomer’s card so that we can keep in touch. Infant & Toddler Nursery is located just adjacent to the Parish Hall downstairs, please ask an usher to show you where to go. We have professional child care avaialble and parents are welcome to come and go throughout the service. I have felt for some time that there is really no good place in our liturgy for announcements. The least disruptive would be before Mass begins, but as some people arrive a little late, this would not be effective. In many parishes announcements are made between the Peace and the Offertory, but as our liturgy does not have this natural break at that point, we have for some time been having the announcements right before the Sermon. This has its own problems as it disconnects the proclamation of the Gospel from the Sermon. As an experiment, therefore, this summer we will have announcements between the post-communion prayer and blessing. I welcome your comments and reflections. — The Rector We have moved to our Summer Schedule with a single Sung Mass at 10:00 a.m. The Parish Evensong Choir will lead the music of the Mass throughout the summer. Our Organ Campaign, launched in February, is now well under way. As you know, this Campaign coincides with the work being done to restore the organ following the flooding of the instrument last fall. With about just over $41,000 from the Church Insurance Corporation we are reparing the pipes and wind chests that were damaged by the water. This work has begun and most of our organ’s pipes and windchests are now in Pennsylvania being restored. The Campaign itself has sought to raise an additional $31,500 to provide funds for long overdue repairs and upgrades to the instrument, specifically to the fabric of the organ chamber, to the 16-foot pipes on the front of the organ case, to the console, and the replacement of the blower. In short, a few crucial pieces of additional work would render the instrument better that it was when it was installed in 1966. Many of you have already noted the presence in the back of the church of the vintage 1981 Gres-Miles organ console, built by our own Organist and Choirmaster Douglas Keilitz for the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Winona, MN and acquired by us with donations to the Campaign. The new silent blower has been ordered. I am really pleased to announce that we have surpassed our goal and have received just under $36,000 from 48 individuals, families, and organisations. This is indeed most impressive and we are so grateful to those who have donated to the campaign thus far. What is really important to me and to the wardens and vestry is that we get close to 100% participation from the members of our parish family. It matters not whether you give $5 or $5,000 to the campaign. Each dollar from each person matters because we want everyone in the parish to be involved in this important effort, be included in helping to ensure the health and performance of our organ well into this new century. Additional monies will be able to cover any cost over-runs that are inevitable in such a project and support the maintenance of the organ going forward. We hope that everyone who loves music at Saint Ignatius will be able to join in this effort. If you have not yet received your letter, or would like more detailed information about the project and how to contribute, please be in touch with the Rector, one of the Churchwardens, Treasurer Charles Knapp, or Mr Keilitz. We have a full year of opportunities for adults and children. The Sunday School The Sunday School will resume on September 12th. Children’s Resource: We now have a wonderful new resource for children to use during the Mass, both as an aid to their own devotion and for their pure enjoyment: The Sunday Paper Junior. These coloring sheets, the creation of Connecticut Episcopal priest Gretchen Wolff-Pritchard, are now available (along with crayons) in the back of the church. New each week, they relate specifically to the lessons appointed for the day in the Lectionary. In Mother Pritchard’s words, The Sunday Paper is “informal, whimsical, faithful to Scripture, and in dead earnest. It is not condescending or cute. It helps children to acquire a vocabulary of crucial Scriptural images, and to relate the Gospel to the Old Testament, the life of the Church, and their own lives.” We hope you and your family will enjoy them. Sunday Adult Christian Education For more information about any of these offerings, please speak with the Rector, Deacon Kahn (Adult Programs), William Farris (Adult Programs), or Lucy Yates (Children’s Programs). Also watch this space and the Christian Formation section of our website for further details. Sunday, October 17, 2010 will be an important day in the life of our parish. We will both celebrate our Patronal Feast and we will welcome the Rt. Rev’d Catherine Roskam, our Bishop Suffragan, on the occasion of her formal Episcopal Visitation. We will have a single Mass at 10 a.m. so that the whole parish can celebrate together (and so the Bishop does not have to do the whole thing twice!). An Episcopal Visitation is an opportunity for us to connect with the whole of the Church in the person of our Bishop. It is a chance for us to show our Bishop the vitality of our congregation and share with her news of our common life. An Episcopal Visitation is also an occasion for people to be Confirmed and Received into the Episcopal Church. In Confirmation, we publicly reaffirm, in the presence of our local community and the Bishop (whose presence represents that of the whole Church), the promises we made—or which our parents made on our behalf—at baptism. Those who have been previously Confirmed by the laying on of hands of a bishop in another communion of the Catholic Church, may be Received into the Episcopal Church. In anticipation of the Bishop’s visit, and beginning in August, the Rector will be offering a class for adults who whish to be Confirmed or Received. Please be in touch with the Rector in the coming weeks if you think you are interested in participating. Families with teens who wish to be confirmed should also speak to the Rector. Memorial and Commemorative Gifts Given the times we are living in, I want to encourage parishioners to think about memorial and commemorative giving in new and different ways. Of course, if people wish to give altar flowers in memory of someone or to commemorate a special occasion, they are most welcome. Those wishing to sponsor flowers should simply call the parish office. At the same time, I would like parishioners to consider sponsoring a day or week-end of service in the Soup Kitchen ($75 or $150). Likewise one might wish to sponsor a portion or all of the liturgical music on a Sunday (gifts starting at $125). These ministries, our work in outreach and our music program, are both funded from our limited operating budget and are yet two of the most important ways in which we reach out to people in our communities. Sponsors would be listed in the weekly leaflet in the same way as those who sponsor flowers and you would have the satisfaction of knowing that you were contributing to the ongoing work of ministry here at Saint Ignatius. Those wishing to make donations should contact the parish office. The weekly deadline for donations to appear in the Sunday Leaflet is the previous Wednesday at 12 Noon. — Fr Blume Toiletries for Soup Kitchen Guests We would like to give our guests bags of toiletries. If you have collections of shampoo and soaps from your travels, or could pick up small toothpastes and hand lotions, we have a basket at the back of the church to drop them in. We will be giving them to our guests any Saturday when we have enough. — Lucy Kuemmerle St Ignatius Recycles: Blue recycling bins for beverage cartons, bottles, and cans are now located by the West End entrance, outside the Library door, and in the Choir Room. Recycling bins for paper and cardboard may be found outside the Library door, and in the Choir Room. Environmental stewardship is an essential part of our Christian vocation. Please join us in recycling! Summer Schedule: The Parish Evensong Choir will lead the music of the Mass. TODAY: Sunday, July 25th — Saint James the Apostle Sunday, August 1st — The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost. Friday, August 6th — The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Sunday, August 8th — The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost. Sunday, August 15th — Saint Mary the Virgin: The Feast of the Assumption. Prayer List: The weekly intercessions list is found in the Sunday Leaflet. The entire list of those for whom our prayers for healing are offered, which you will find on the next to last page of this Leaflet, will always be prayed in full on our Wednesday evening healing Masses. If you wish to place yourself or someone else, whether a member of the parish or not, on the prayer list, please contact the office either by or phone (212-580-3326). Please do let us know if you or a member of your family or a friend is sick and would like either our prayers or a visit from one of the clergy. In these days of strict privacy laws we will not know you or a member of your family is in the hospital or ill unless you tell us. Names will be placed on the list for six weeks, after which time they will be removed, unless renewed. Please contact the parish office to place names on the list. Names submitted by Wednesday 12 Noon will appear in the following Sunday Leaflet. Soup Kitchen Volunteers are Needed: Saturdays from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Mondays from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Please contact David Holkeboer at 212-874-1050 for information. Parish Care: Did you know that there is a group of your fellow Ignatians who are ready to help out if you are ill or are having a family emergency? We can help with cooking, shopping, household chores, doctors’ visits, or just by being a listening friend. Please contact the Parish Office so you can be referred to the Parish Care Group. Parish Newsletter: Copies of the Summer issue of The Ignatianmay be found in the back of the church and online. Submissions are welcome. The About Us column shares small and large news items from members and friends of the parish, both current and past. Please share your news with us either by sending an email to or to Gwendolyn Chambrun in the . Next Week’s Readings (Proper 13): Ecclesiastes 1:12-14; 2:(1-7, 11) 18-23; Psalm 49; Colossians 3:(5-11) 12-17; Luke 12:13-21 Office Hours: This week the Parish Office is open Monday through Friday, 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. |