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The Cathedral of All Souls
Biltmore Village, Asheville, NC 28803
October 2014
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St. Francis Day
Blessing of the
Animals
9:00a.m.
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Stewardship Ingathering
Kairos West Cuba Party (see p. 9)
7:45, 9:00, 11:15 a.m.
October Calendar
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Dean’s Sabbatical
Report
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
(see p. 3)
5:
Blessing of the Animals
12: Planned Giving Gathering
18: EYC Halloween FUNdraiser for Kanuga
19: Stewardship Ingathering
19: Dean’s Sabbatical Report (p. 3)
19: Community Breakfast
21: AMICIMUSIC Concert (p. 4)
22: Senior Lunch Bunch Group Meeting (p. 3)
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Annual visit of Bishop
Taylor
23: Service of Healing and Holy Eucharist (p. 10)
25: Margaret Harvey Art Workshop (p. 4)
26: Annual Visit of Bishop Taylor
27: Book Group discusses Sailing Home (p. 6)
31: Kerstin McDaniel Art Exhibit (p. 4)
All Souls is a eucharistically centered cathedral whose life is formed by scripture, the baptismal covenant and our engagement with the world about us.
It is a community where all are welcome, trust is present, risks are taken, and where our gifts and graces enable us to be who God knows us to be.
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Adult Forum
Sundays at 10:10 a.m., Zabriskie Hall
Oct. 5: No Adult Forum
Blessing of the Animals at the 9:00a.m.
Eucharist.
Bring your animals large and small to be
blessed at the 9:00am Eucharist for our annual
St. Francis Day Blessing of the Animals.
Beginning Sunday, November 16 we will host up to a dozen
women for the week and provide safe lodging, home-cooked
evening meals, bag lunches, transportation to & from AHope,
and hospitality - lots of hospitality and welcome. This has long
been a staple opportunity for our parish outreach. If you are
unfamiliar with RITI, or its parent organization Homeward
Bound, please refer to the website www.hbofa.org for more
information.
Oct. 12: New Developments with
Homeward Bound of Asheville
There are other small signs of welcome we like to provide.
Usually a friend of the progam offers chair massages. Do
you know someone who might offer hair trims? What about
manicures or pedicures? Could we organize a Game Night?
Perhaps you have a few paperback books you could bring? A
thoughtful note in a lunch bag one day? We have seen them
get very excited over jewelry to choose an item. Let us know
your ideas.
Oct. 19: Community Breakfast
Look for the sign-up sheet early in November on the church
porch for Sunday services or in the cathedral office during the
week. You may also call Susan/Mike Stevenson at 254-5227
([email protected]) for more information.
Homeward Bound plays a significant role in
reducing the number of people who are homeless in Asheville. Emily Ball, Director of
Community Engagement, will join us to talk
about changes in their work and how we can
play a role in them.
Come catch up with your friends and meet
new ones.
Oct. 26: Bishop’s Visit
Having swapped our annual May visitation
date with another parish this year we welcome
Bishop Taylor who will be discussing places of
hope and our signs of life as a diocese.
Clothes Closet
Needs
Church of the Advocate
The Clothes Closet most urgently needs blankets
and quilts, jackets, hoodies, sweatshirts, anything
that can help keep people sleeping out warm.
We're also completely out of men's white socks,
sneakers, boots, belts, jeans, and low on T-shirts.
Our women only need casual dresses (we have
none and they're constantly requested), sneakers,
bags, and jackets. As nights get colder your
donations to our homeless congregation are
especially appreciated.
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Room in the Inn
Returns to All Souls
Senior Lunch Bunch
October 22: Matt Kern from the WNC
Nature Center
The Senior Lunch Bunch Group will meet on
Wednesday, October 22, at 12:30 pm, in Zabriskie
Hall. Our featured speaker will be Matt Kern, he Board
President of the Western North Carolina Nature
Center. Matthew Kern spent his early years in the
Appalachian Mountains and has lived in Asheville for
more than fifteen years. The Nature Center, owned by
the City of Asheville, welcomes over 100,000 visitors
annually and features animals native to the Southern
Appalachians which include river otters, black bears,
red wolves and cougars. As a non-profit organization,
the primary mission is to create awareness and provide
financial resources through fund raising. Please join
us for lunch as we explore the wild life of Southern
Appalachia.
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From the Dean:
The Changing of Seasons
and the Experience of Time
I have not worn a watch since 1981. I think ceasing to
do so was an internal resistance to the sense of power I
perceived time holding in our culture. ‘Time is money’,
‘time’s a-wasting’, ‘time waits for no one, ‘it’s about time.’
Something in me wanted to have a different relationship with time. (Becky said she had no problem with me
not wearing a watch as long as I realized it was not now
her duty to provide me with the time whenever I asked.
Spouses and their boundaries!).
These days I find myself thinking about the long arc of
time and what it offers to us. While in Rome we engaged
the Basilica of San Clemente. I say engaged because it has
three levels of buildings. The first was built around 2000
years ago and includes a sanctuary for the cult of Mithras
complete with altar and frescoed icons. A natural spring
still runs through this level which provided water for the
rituals which were practiced here into the 4th century. As
with many structures in Rome this lower level was filled
in with dirt in order to build a Christian church which
stood from the 4th to the 10th century. The third and
current basilica was built in the 1100’s having filled in
the second level for its foundation. The two lower levels
began being unearthed in the late 1800’s.
Thus, we ‘engaged’ 2000 years of history, 2000 years of
life lived in the same space. Each level had its own word,
its own story, its own art and images. For 2000 years this
space has been a place where people gather to receive
water and share meals, literal and spiritual. For 2000
years this space has engaged and spoken to the hopes,
the changes, the losses, the ongoing seasons of our sister
and brother human beings. What does this experience
of time have to offer to us? What word, what sensibility,
what presence does this space speak to our experience of
and relationship to time? In relating this experience to
the staff Milly Morrow asked, ‘What does it mean that
for 2000 years our sisters and brothers have engaged
these local mountains which include trails and sites of
indigenous spiritual encounters and rituals?’
I am clear there is no one answer to these questions and
that any answers that emerge will also shift and evolve
with time. What I do experience is a humility about
my thinking I in any way master time or that time must
master us. It is both humbling and comforting to sense
being part of some larger experience of time than simply
my own. As with the deepest
aspects of life, time seems to be
about my and our relationship
to it. It does seem we are more healthy to the degree we
engage ourselves with the larger reality, the longer arc of
time.
“Perception is precisely this reciprocity, the ongoing
interchange between my body and the entities that
surround it. It is a sort of silent conversation that I carry
on with things, a continuous dialogue that unfolds far
below my verbal awareness.” David Abram, The Spell of
the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-ThanHuman World.
As we move into fall we see the created order, the entities that surround us, speaking. There are many words
and messages. They engage us in time. Perhaps this is the
gift of things like liturgical calendars, harvest festivals
and other time marking moments. They hold before us
time as both linear and cyclical ‘at the same time’. They
hold the vast expanse of time and our present moment
together. To these linear and cyclical experiences of time,
to these spaces where generations before us have gathered and where future generations will also gather, we
bring ourselves. What do we hear it offering to us? What
are its words to where we find ourselves today, as individuals, as members of the human species, as members
of ‘this fragile earth, our island home’? What opens in us
as we engage the long arc of time?
Peace,
Dean’s Sabbatical Report
Sunday, October 19, 5-7 p.m. Zabriskie Hall
Dean Donatelli will reflect on his time away
which included pondering the theme, ‘Somewhere
between Rome and Assisi’ as well as experience
with the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center and St. Paul’s
Within the Walls, Rome. Desert and beverages
will be served by the EYC and a nursery provided.
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Kerstin McDaniel
Art and Inspiration Exhibit
The Cathedral of All Souls Arts Commission will
present an exhibition of the work of Kerstin McDaniel
Friday, October 31st through Saturday, November 1st
in the sanctuary of All Souls. Kerstin has been at All
Souls since the 1960’s when she married her husband
Holcombe. She chose All Souls because of Father
Neil Zabriske. She became close friends with Neil’s
wife Marianne and in the 1970’s they started a needlepoint program which has been an enormous gift to the
Cathedral and continues to this day. Kerstin’s talents
are seen all over our church…not only in the pews,
(the needlepoint kneelers) but in the processionals
each Sunday morning (the
magnificent banners), on
the priests (the numerous
vestments) and at the Altar
(the liturgical hangings).
She has made banners
and vestments and Altar
hangings for churches and
clergy all over the United
States. Her incredible needlework is not the only way
she demonstrates her artistic talent…her paintings
are shown in galleries in western North Carolina and
beyond. Please join us in celebration of this amazing
talent. Doors will open at at 6:00 p.m. Friday night
with a talk given by Kerstin at 7:00. The exhibition will
be open Saturday from 1 – 3 p.m.
Take a Joyride In a Paintbox Art Workshop
Margaret Harvey to teach adults painting, drawing and collage
A workshop designed to guide
adult beginners in drawing and
painting, collage and other media
will be offered in the parish hall
of The Cathedral of All Souls on
Saturday, Oct. 25, from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m.
Fee for the workshop is $45 per person.
Art supplies will be provided. Proceeds
will benefit the music program at All
Souls. All abilities are welcome.
For more information and to
register, call Cedar Lane Studio at
828-684-3947.
Margaret Harvey’s “Take a
Joyride in a Paintbox” workshop Margaret Harvey - Tempera Artwork
is designed to help adults discover
their innate creativity. The title is inspired by artist
statesman Winston Churchill who once said; “We are
AMICIMUSIC
to take a joyride in a paintbox.”
Harvey was a longtime teacher at Asheville Country
Day School and at her Cedar Lane Studio in Arden.
She is a teacher of teachers and has led four workshops
for art teachers from across the state. She has designed
and conducted workshops in Western North Carolina
for elementary school teachers and parents. Her goal
has been to develop the imagination and creativity
inherent in everyone. “Using simple materials and
simple subjects, workshop exercises emphasize the
pure joy of combining colors and shapes,” Harvey said.
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Concert
Friday, November 21
AMICIMUSIC, Asheville’s award winning
chamber music organization, returns to All Souls
Cathedral on Friday, November 21 at 7:30 PM
with a concert called “BEETHOVEN’S CELLO”
featuring cellist Lawrence Stomberg and pianist
Daniel Weiser. They will perform some of the great
cello/piano works by Ludwig van Beethoven, part
of a three-concert weekend where they will perform
the complete cello works by Beethoven. Admission
will be $20 for general public, $15 for All Souls
members, and free for children. A special weekend
pass for all the concerts will be available as well for
$40. Tickets will be available at the door and also in
advance at www.amicimusic.org at a 10% discount.
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Roots + Wings
School of Art
rootsandwingsarts.com • 828.545.4827
Join us for our unique offerings of once-a-week classes
at Roots + Wings School of Art and Design. We use a
semester program to allow for curriculum building as
students progress through the year with us. For each
age group, our instructors will work with students on
exploring a variety of mediums, tools and techniques.
Our monthly ‘themes’ are only a point of departure
as students build confidence, knowledge, and skills.
All leading them to finding their own unique way of
expressing their creativity!
Art + Design Semester Programs
Clay + Mixed Media Explorations
• Grades K-5
• Thursdays, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
• Semesters: Sept 4 - Nov 20 and Jan 8 - Mar 26
Visual Art Adventures
• Ages 3-6
• Wednesdays, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
• Semesters: Sep 3 - Nov 19 and Jan 7 - Mar 25
Register online or email [email protected].
New Saturday Kindermusik Classes
Kindermusik classes provide fun
music and movement activities to
foster brain development in babies
and young children, while helping
them bond with parents
Allyson MacCauley is now offering
Saturday classes for families with
children from birth to 7 years old. Allyson has been
a licensed Kindermusik Educator since 2011, and is
excited to offer the community additional class times
to accommodate a more traditional work schedule.
Kindermusik is the worlds leading music an
movement program for children beginning as early
as their first infant months.
Classes involve a mixture
of singing, instrument play,
dancing and movement,
storytime, and other activities
that help children and their
families discover how music
can enrich their lives and lay
the foundation for a lifelong love of learning.
Please contact Allyson to schedule a free preview class
or to register for classes, families can join anytime!
[email protected] (828)318-3100
The current class schedule can be found at
www.kindermusik.com
Flower Memorials
or share with another for $35. The cost may be a bit
higher if you wish special flowers.
Each Sunday our Sanctuary is graced with a flower
arrangement given in memory of, or in honor of,
a family member or other loved one. Because the
arrangements are memorials from donors, there is no
cost to the church. If you wish to give flowers in memory
of someone, please let me know. We have many donors
who participate on a specific date each year, but there are
often open dates available. It is also possible to have two
donors on a Sunday. Clement's Flower Shop is offering
our arrangements at this time and the charge for each
Sunday is $70. You may request to have a Sunday alone
In order to defray the cost of the flowers to the church
on a continued basis, it is important that each donor
send his/her check to All Souls with "flower memorial"
on the memo line, as close to the date of the memorial
as possible. You can put it in the collection plate as well.
For proper credit, don't forget the notation on the memo
line.
If you care to make a flower offering, please contact
Anne Kime at 505-7089 or [email protected].
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This October, the All Souls Book Group
Will Read…
Sailing Home, by Norman Fischer
Using the Wisdom of Homer’s Odyssey to
Navigate Life’s Perils and Pitfalls
Meeting & Discussion
Monday, October 27th, 7 p.m., the Warner Building
Book Availability
Copies of Sailing Home are now available at Malaprop’s
Bookstore on Haywood Avenue in Asheville. Malaprop’s
offers members of the All Souls Book Group a 10%
discount on the purchase of a book for our Book Group
reading/discussion. You should mention that you are a
member.
About the Book
“Norman Fischer is one of the most well-known Zen
teachers in the United States, as well as a published poet
and former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. In
this ambitious work, Fischer uses Homer’s tale about
the Odyssean journey home to Ithaca as a guide to our
own spiritual destiny and fulfillment. He believes that
this Greek story is rich with metaphors of the inner life.”
(Spirituality and Practice)
In the book’s Introduction, Fischer writes that the spiritual odyssey is “full of irony, depth, strangeness and
wonder. Full of paradox. In it, everything changes and
nothing changes. And we will all make this journey,
each in our own way, no matter how much we insist on
ignoring, denying, forgetting or working against it.”
Call for Ushers: An
Act of Hospitality
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All Souls is a community. Many of us live here, but we
are also made more of a community by visitors who share
with us when they are in town, by strangers on the street
who wander into the beautiful church, by friends of
other faiths who join us from time to time, particularly
funerals; by friends of friends who are in the hospital,
and the list goes on. We want our guests to feel welcome.
One reviewer has stated that “the clarity of Norman
Fischer’s prose is astounding. I challenge anyone to read
this and not remain deeply moved. A classic tale retold in
a fresh and pertinent manner - just right for our contemporary environment.”
James Finley, author of Merton’s Palace of Nowhere
and The Contemplative Heart, comments: “This book
reminds us that the great literature of the world and the
great religions of the world share something in common.
They each reveal us to ourselves. Fischer focuses on the
actual experience of our life as an odyssey -- a journey
toward our unknown fulfillment, which is welling up in
the ground beneath our feet.”
The All Souls Book Group is the nucleus of the Kay Falk Literary
Project, which is centered at the Cathedral as part of its teaching
mission. For more information, please contact Allan Campo at
[email protected]
Often the first person a visitor sees is an usher. Our
community goal is always to welcome the stranger as
a friend. To do that, we need a cadre of ushers. There
are all kinds of ways to be an usher – regular monthly
schedule at a particular service, occasional fill-in on
Sundays, on-call for mid-week/special services that need
extra help, and so on. The point is that we need to have
more ushers on board. Please consider signing up to help.
Contact information: Babie Chromy (828-215-8825,
[email protected], or church office).
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Living it Out
Interviews with All Souls parishioners about ways in
which they are living out their baptismal covenants in the
world. —by Susan Blexrud
Bill Doyle - Habitat for Humanity
In the summer of 2007, Bill Doyle was tapped by All
Souls to come to the aid of those less fortunate through
Habitat for Humanity. Asheville area Episcopal churches
(about 12 congregations) pool resources to participate in
a Habitat house every other year, and Bill was asked to
organize All Souls’ volunteers for house number seven.
Each congregation raises money and generates all volunteers. The last Episcopal House was constructed in fall
2013, and planning for the next house (to be constructed
in fall 2015) will begin this coming spring.
“It’s typically a 10-week build from the foundation to the
finished interior,” said Bill.
The core value of Habitat for Humanity is deep involvement by the potential homeowners. Any adult approved
for the program must invest two hundred volunteer hours.
“This is definitely one of the keys to Habitat’s success,”
said Bill. “The homeowners have skin in the game.”
While the homeowner obtains the home with no interest,
he/she is responsible for paying the house in full. Home
loans are based on a 20 to 30-year amortization with zero
percent interest for the life of the loan.
It’s not an easy road for the homeowner. He/she has to
be employed to qualify for a Habitat home and has to
have lived or worked in Buncombe County for the past
36 months. The potential homeowner must also have
and maintain good credit and have adequate income to
cover the mortgage payment. And don’t forget the sweat
equity of significant volunteer hours. The volunteering
can take many different forms, from helping to construct
someone else’s home to working in Habitat’s thrift shop,
the ReStore. “Working on a neighbor’s house helps to
build an investment in community,” said Bill.
While Habitat volunteers must be 16 years old to participate (with parents’ consent), one can’t be too old to volunteer and all skill levels are welcome. “You can keep both
feet on the ground at all times if that’s your comfort
level,” Bill said. In 2013, Asheville volunteers contributed
61,000 hours to Habitat.
Habitat also offers a home repair program for low-income
homeowners who are unable to make needed repairs due
to limited income. Like the homeownership program, the
home repair program has qualifications including residency, need and ability to pay.
Bill is on Habitat’s Outreach Committee, a team of volunteers who go into the community to talk about Habitat. “I
can’t get enough of Habitat,” he said. During his years of
involvement, Bill has admired Habitat for its engaged and
supportive core values. “This non-profit is incredibly well
managed and business oriented.”
Every Habitat family has a unique story to tell, but the
common thread is the difference having a home of one’s
own has meant to their lives. “Working for Habitat is a
very specific commitment,” said Bill. “It’s not abstract:
It’s personal. We are making a difference, one family at a
time.” And in the course of helping those individual families, Habitat builds community.
A final point Bill wanted to make was the sense of
empowerment and dignity that a homeowner receives
from a Habitat home. “These are nice houses, and that’s
as it should be.” What Habitat volunteers deliver is no
less than what any homeowner wants for his/her family.
“There’s a real sense of closure when you hand the keys of
a Habitat house to its new family.”
The Habitat charter is “very consistent with our baptismal
covenant of seeking to serve Christ in all others,” said
Bill, who is now All Souls official Habitat representative.
There is a standing group of All Souls volunteers. “I’m
never worried about getting volunteers, and I never have
to beg,” Bill said. “I want to give as many people as possible
an opportunity to experience Habitat.” Not surprisingly,
All Souls usually sends more volunteers than the number
requested.
Visit Habitat for Humanity at www.ashevillehabitat.org
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Fierce Conversations
From the Director, Robbin Whittington
Remember the last time you heard about something
new and you couldn't get it off your mind? That
happened to me earlier this year at a Mission &
Structure commission meeting. Two priests in
our diocese had been invited to share their recent
experience attending a congregational vitality and
leadership training in Canada. They shared a lot of
good information, but when I heard them describe
"Fierce Conversations" as an exciting and powerful
leadership resource for congregations, I was hooked.
After devouring the book by the same name, I went
looking for more, and didn't have to look far. The
diocese of Chicago had adopted Fierce Conversations
(FC) as part of their diocesan culture several years ago,
and was now offering their first training for leaders
outside the diocese. So, in early September, thirteen of
us gathered in the Nicholas Center, a newly completed
leadership training facility on the 5th floor of the
diocesan office building.
You might be wondering, as was I, about the choice of
"Fierce" coupled with "Conversations." Anticipating
our question, one of the first sessions was devoted
to exploring what Fierce Conversations meant to
each of us, and what it might mean in our different
ministry contexts. We began with understanding each
word more fully. Fierce: bold, passionate, courageous,
robust, intense, strong, powerful, passionate,
courageous. Conversations: “con” = with; living among,
familiarity, intimacy; to keep company (with); and
“versation” = the act or action of turning something
over.
When we put "fierce" with "conversations"? Think
authentic, courageous, bold, intimate interaction with
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each other around the most important thing we need
to talk about, "with” rather than “at.”
For the next 2½ days, we learned how to host FC,
with ourselves, and with others. Instead of "role-play,"
we engaged in "real-play," taking situations from our
own lives and applying the principles and practices of
FC. While there were many treasures to be gleaned
from this challenging and powerful training, a few
immediate takeaways for me were the:
• importance of planning in advance for the
conversations that matter most (FC offers a script
to follow to plan for those conversations)
• idea that relationships, careers, or churches
succeed or fail gradually, then suddenly, one
conversation at a time
• value of sharing a common language when
creating a culture committed to engaging with one
another with integrity, authenticity, and passion.
The experience also left me with a much keener
appreciation for the myriad ways All Souls—with
the leadership of our clergy—lives into its mission
of nurturing our shared lives, within and beyond its
walls. Both clergy and laity have initiated and hosted
courageously fierce conversations around issues that
impact our community on many levels by responding
publicly to controversial, difficult, charged issues too
important to ignore. Authentic,
courageous, bold, intimate
interactions. Fierce.
Fierce Conversation training participants with Bishop Jeff Lee, photo taken
in the Nicholas Center (Diocese of Chicago)
If you find this intriguing, please
contact Robbin Whittington
([email protected]), and we'll
create an opportunity to share
and learn more about Fierce
Conversations as a valuable
resource.
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Kairos Confirmation
from Milly Morrow
Kairos West
It’s a funny thing, ministry. Sometimes when you begin
something, dream something, feel your heart split open
wide by something you have no idea really where it will
take you. That’s the way ministry, faith, church (and life
really) is... it just is; unknown, uncontrollable, mysterious and awesome.
A Community Center dedicated to the empowerment of emerging leaders through capacity
building, service and liturgy.
This past Saturday something big happened at our
outreach ministry center Kairos West Community
Center and Social Justice Reading Room that I could
not have dreamed of or thought to ask God for, but
that’s the way of Kairos time: a propitious moment for
decision or action; God’s time of abundance and a time
when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a
crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment. You
see, this week Kairos West hosted three of our brothers
from Cuba. Actually not only Cuba, but from Kairos
Community Center in Cuba, where the pilgrims from
All Souls and Holy Spirit stay when in Cuba and where
Mark Siler, David Mcnair and I began our dreams of
Kairos West Community Center in West Asheville.
It was there in Cuba at Kairos that we witnessed Church
24/7 in a way that ushered in nothing less than Grace.
And it was there that we said “If they can accomplish this
in Cuba then we must make this happen in Asheville!” We
were so inspired by their ministry that it became ours too.
That’s the wiley way of Grace, it is contagious! The Holy
Spirit runs through work and music and art and relationship in a way that when it grabs you… it owns you. And
so this vision of Kairos West Community Center has
owned us in many ways… the vision of radical welcome of church in the world - has become a mission.
Community Center
facebook.com/kairoswest
Regular Hours
Monday 10:00-2 and then 4-6:00
Tuesday 6:30 am - 3:30
Wednesday 8:30 - 4:00
Thursday 8:30 - 4:00
Friday 8:30 - noon.
To host our brothers from Cuba and to say to them “This
place is a direct consequence of the Holy Spirit working
through you and through your welcome of us as pilgrims
from the USA… thank you.” was a humbling and mighty
moment. To sing with them - in our country - to be with
them in Kairos West, to radically welcome them, as they
did for us in Cuba, was a beautiful thing, a true God
moment.
Among the Kairos West group that hosted this past
Saturday and gave our brothers form Cuba this radical
welcome were members of our All Souls youth group
who are preparing for confirmation - preparing for a
time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; preparing for the opportune
and decisive moment (another Kairos moment). Indeed,
they witnessed that night the fruit of confirming - of
affirming - a faith that is wide and deep and wiley. It
called to them; they answered. All night that night we
discussed “evil”, “sin”, the Creeds, doubt/faith, church,
mission... they engaged it with open hearts and young,
curious minds.
When we arrive at Kairos moments it is not always in our
control; but every time we open our hearts - engage the
world, widen the walls, walk the way - we are ushering in
the Kairos way.
Thanks be to God.
Kairos West Community Center
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Notes from the Atrium
from Micki Hill, Catechesis of the Good Shepherd & Children’s Formation
“Purple and Blue, Red, Green and White are the colors of the
year.
Purple and Blue, Red, Green and White remind us of the
light.”
As the leaves begin to change color, your children are
exploring the church calendar and its seasons – seasons
of the Liturgical Year. We have looked at a calendar
puzzle and discussed the various feasts and seasons that
celebrate the life of Christ. We have wondered why the
church marks time as it does and how God’s time is
different than our time. Some of the children have talked
about the colors in relationship to the vestments that the
priest wears.
The words above are part of a song that helps children
remember the colors of the church year. Blue and Purple
are for Preparation – the seasons of Advent and Lent –
before the great feasts of Christmas and Easter. White is
for Celebration – the great feasts of Christmas when Jesus
was born and Easter when He rose from the dead. Green
is for Ordinary or counted time, after the great feast. It is
a time for growing with Jesus. Red is for Pentecost - the
Feast of the Holy Spirit.
The children are becoming familiar with the names of the
garments worn by the priests and servers at the altar. The
chasuble is the long sleeveless garment worn by priests
and bishops over the alb and stole during the celebration
of Eucharist. It always gives us a clue to the season of the
year. The chasubles and stoles were made small enough
for them to handle and place on special stands as part of
their work. The garments are hand stitched and quilted
by Sally Fargo and the stands were crafted by David
Fargo. They are a lovely gift to the atrium.
The children are also learning the names of items used
at the altar and why they are used during the Eucharistic
celebration. Altar– like our own table, where we gather
for a family meal. Fair Linen – similar to a tablecloth,
covers the altar & is always white. Chalice – the cup that
holds the wine Paten - plate that holds the bread Crucifix
- cross with the figure of Christ - a reminder that Jesus
invites us to this meal Candles in Candle Holders –
reminds us that Christ has died and is Risen - He is the
Light of the World.
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We are learning that it is at the Holy Eucharist where
we hear the words of Jesus,
repeated by the priests and
that it is here in a mysterious
way that Jesus continues
to be with us. It is at the
Eucharistic table we share special food to help us grow in
love for Christ and one another.
Some of the children will create their own prayer book,
some will design their own banners and worship spaces.
These lessons help us recognize that life in the church is
celebration. Even as the leaves are falling and much of the
life around us is preparing to slumber we are celebrating
the Risen Life of Christ.
Take a look around, what speaks to you of the Risen Life?
In celebration, Micki
Service of Healing
October 23
Service of Healing and Holy Eucharist
Please join us for a Service of Healing and Holy
Eucharist on Thursday, October 23, at 7:00. PM in the
church. This contemplative service offers an opportunity to be still and to be refreshed. Anointing and the
laying on of hands for healing are offered. Charlotte
Cleghorn and Thomas Murphy are presiders. Music is
offered by Karen Turner and Jacque Combs.
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Stewardship Ingathering
7:45, 9:00, 11:15 a.m.
Cathedral Connection
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Malcom Douglas, Elaine Young
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Sadie Smith-Morrow, Margaret Sorum, Douglas
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Henry Callahan, Joan Carrassi, Carol Clark, Joseph
Cummings, Ellison SMith
Phineas Bundy, Stacey Curnow, Walter Currie
Allen Campbell, John Chromy, Julie Northup,
Caldwell Ragan
Amy Eckart, Reed Fendley, Glenda McDowell, Don
Neblett
Paul Brezny, Wayne Clifford, Ilona Kendrick
Jack Campbell, Phyllis Key, Paul Summey
Samuel Budzinski, Charlotte Jenkins, Chris Lindley,
Ridgeway Lynch, Marisa Pharr, W. Michael Smith,
Kate Wolfe, Jackson Zemp
Toni Hicks, Jennifer Peeples, Roy Westmoreland
Robert Benninghofen, Leland Derryberry, Amelia
Fleming, Chuck Smither, Billie Stahmer, Cynthia
Strom
Beth Burdick, Shelly Garland
Mary Hinkle
Eloise Murphy
Kemper Brown, Nancy Clark, Nancy Harrison,
Jackson Krupnick, Michelle Peterson
Anne Harrell, Susan Sihler, Mary Thompson
Nancy Milan
Becky Hannah, Tom Leeder, Larry Weigel, Tracy
Yarbro
Will Bryant, Ashley Cosslett, Sherry Hunley, Jack
Macfie
Edith Conrad, James Curl, Howard Jackson, Douglas
Taylor
Miles Beasley, Susan Blexrud, Joyce Bryant, Franklin
Sorrells
Nancy Butler, Pam Penland, Art Swanson, Gail
Wiley
Halland Cislo, Mary Macqueen
Sandra Byrd, Beverly MacDowell
Andrew Kane
Dimitri Asaad, William Palmer, Jimmy Walker
Amy Congdon, Susan Stevenson
Leslie Huntley, Jules Smith
Jack Ingersoll, Fred Overbay
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Mimi and William Cecil
Eleanor and Paul Miller
Paul and Virginia Thompson
Abigail and James Clarkson
Eryn and Wesley Duffee-Braun
Pam and Steve VanAllen
Bob and Suzanne Dixon, Melisa and Wesley
Giddens, Alfred and Linda Hammar
Nancy and Don Ackermann Cole, John Byrd and
Ellen Clarke, Dawn and Walter Dickinson
Helen and Jim Shaw
Christina and Jason McKeown
Kara and Ric Albrecht, Doug and Pat McDowell
Florence and Jack Krupnick
Prayer Requests
Bev Gaines, Meg Karayiannis, Bob Morrow, the
Teitelbaum family, Fallon Elkes, Quentin Fabrian,
Rebecca Jackson, Maude Carver, Taylor Jacobs, John
Chromey, Joey and Jon Davis, David Truelove, Suzzy
Sams, Sam Craig, John Smith, Ralph Lewis, Sophie Van
Keer, Guy Sayles, Robert Keifer, Jennifer Shelton, Cindy
Davis, Rob Willhige, Jeremy Lamb, MaryAnn Baker,
Karen Sams, Phillip Brent, Dan Powell and family, the
Spangler family, Carolyn Scribner, Sheila Gibbs, Linda
Evans, Carolyn Herman, Oz Henry, Lora Scott, Janice
Harvey, Joan Tidwell, Carol, David Power and family,
Emma Mamone-Peeples, JoFrances Dula, Joan Crook,
Billy and Sandy Hinson, Jessica and Jackson Ayers, Del
Hare, Betty Nokes, Barbara Kendall, Chris, Stevie Turner,
Peter Yaun and family, the Byrd family, Archie Turner,
Katie Gonzalez and family, Linda Zralek, Pat McDowell,
David Beebe, James Godwin, Nancy Bole, David Bitgood
& family, the Zabriskie family, the Calhoun family, and
Tom Drakos.
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The Cathedral of All Souls
9 Swan Street
Asheville, NC 28803
Address Service Requested
Contents
Adult Forum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Room in the Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Church of the Advocate Clothes Closet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Senior Lunch Bunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Community Breakfast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
From the Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Kerstin McDaniel Exhibit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Margaret Harvey Art Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
AMICIMUSIC Concert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Roots + Wings School of Art. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Kindermusic: New Saturday Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Worship at All Souls
Contemplative Noon Prayer—
Thursdays at noon (Owen Library)
Holy Eucharist—
Wednesdays at noon and 5:45 p.m. and
Sundays at 7:45, 9:00, and 11:15 a.m.
For Readings, please see the The Lectionary Page
http://lectionarypage.net
All Souls Office Hours and Contact Information
Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(828) 274-2681, Fax: (828) 277-9461
9 Swan Street, Asheville, NC 28803
http://www.allsoulscathedral.org
About The Cathedral Connection
The Cathedral Connection is published monthly in print and online
at allsoulscathedral.org/publications-and-forms/connection.
Deadline for the next issue is the 15th of next month. Email
announcements to [email protected].
Flower Memorials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
All Souls Book Group: Sailing Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Hospitalty Call for Ushers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Living it Out: Habitat for Humanity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Fierce Conversations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
From Milly Morrow: Kairos Confirmation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Kairos West Community Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Notes from the Atrium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Service of Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Prayer Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Cathedral Clergy and Staff
The Rt. Rev. G. Porter Taylor, Bishop
The Very Rev. Todd M. Donatelli, Dean
The Rev. Canon Thomas Murphy, Assistant to the Dean
The Rev. Rosa Lee Harden, Canon for Money and Meaning
The Rev. Glenda McDowell, Deacon
Kyle Ritter, Canon Musician
Milly Morrow, Assistant for Youth Formation and Parish Life Events
Micki Hill, Catechesis of the Good Shepherd & Children’s Formation
Robbin Whittington, Center for Spiritual Resources
Sherry Prazich, Cathedral Administrator
Sue Gervais, Accounting
David Fortney, Facilities Manager
Tahani Sticpewich, Webmaster adjunct
Adjunct Clergy
The Rev. Anne Bonnyman
The Rev. Jim Curl
The Rev. Ross Jones
The Rev. Ashley Neal
The Rev. Jean Scribner
The Rev. Judith Whelchel
The Rev. Charles Winters
The Rev. Canon Charlotte Cleghorn
The Rev. Everett Fredholm
The Rev. Nancy Mills
The Rev. Barbara Plimpton
The Rev. Robert Spangler
The Rev. David Fargo
The Rev. Del Hare