July Evangelist - St. Mark`s Cathedral

A Monthly Magazine
July 2015 • Volume 55 • Issue 7
The
ST.
ST. MARK’S
MARK’S CATHEDRAL
CATHEDRAL
SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA
www.stmarkscathedral.net
2015!
The Cathedral
welcomed forty-five
youngsters from
across the city for this
year’s week-long choir
camp. The children
also sang during the
10:30 a.m. Sunday
service on June 7 and
attended a reception
in the honor to
culminate the week!
Anglican
Heritage Trip
to Scotland
and England
SUNDAY WORSHIP
8:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m. & 6:00 p.m. Sunday
Holy Eucharist
Holy Unction offered at 10:30 a.m.
5:30 p.m. Friday
Holy Eucharist (uses the Sunday Propers)
A number of
members and staff
from St. Mark’s
spent a week in
Scotland and
Northern England
last month. The
journey began in
Edinburgh and
included stops at
Stirling, Durham
and York with stops
along the way at
the Holy Island of
Lindisfarne, Whitby
Abbey and Hadrian’s
Wall. Sunday
morning worship
was at York Minster.
JULY 5, 2015
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Ezekiel 2:1-5
Psalm 123
2 Corinthians 12:2-10
Mark 6:1-13
JULY 12, 2015
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Amos 7:7-15
Psalm 85:8-13
Ephesians 1:3-14
Mark 6:14-29
JULY 19, 2015
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Jeremiah 23:1-6
Psalm 23
Ephesians 2:11-22
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
From top:
Marybeth & Bob McVie,
Fr. Wayne Carter and
Bess Maxwell walk in
Edinburgh, Scotland.
JULY 26, 2015
The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
2 Kings 4:42-44
Psalm 145:10-19
Ephesians 3:14-21
John 6:1-21
The cave of St. Cuthbert
on the holy island of
Lindisfarne
Weekday
Worship
at the
Cathedral
The ruins of
Lindisfarne Priory
Hexham Abbey,
Durham England
York Minster,
York England
Wednesdays
7:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Fridays
5:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist
(This service is an option for
those who cannot attend
Sunday worship.)
Oblationers Needed
The Altar Guild invites parishioners (families, adult singles,
siblings, friends) to serve as oblationers (gift bearers) at the
10:30 a.m. Sunday service. This is a meaningful way to serve
the faith community. For more information please contact
Lynn Yancey at lynnyancey@comcast.net.
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MEMORIAL FLOWERS
July 5
The flowers on the High Altar are given to the Glory
of God and in loving memory of Donald William Van
Doorn and in remembrance of those who have fought
so that we may enjoy freedom.
The flowers on the Chapel Altar are given to the
glory of God and in loving memory of Paula Minor
Coleman.
July 12
The flowers on the High Altar are given to the Glory
of God and in loving memory of Mr. & Mrs. James
Curtis Stevens, Mr. & Mrs. John Davis Boyd, William
Michael Boyd, Lewis Sleeper Robinson, M.D. and
Jean Walker Robinson
Great works are
happening in the
Ministry Building!
The flowers on the Chapel Altar are given to the glory
of God and in loving memory of Mr. & Mrs. Henry
Restarick and Dr & Mrs Jack Pou.
July 19
The flowers on the High Altar are given to the
Glory of God and in loving memory of Lori Leigh
Leatherman.
Mrs. Beth’s room
and the atrium will be getting
a facelift this summer.
Please have all the little ones
(3-6 year olds) report to the 3rd
7 is the same
floor. Everything
as usual, with the exception of
room change.
The flowers on the Chapel Altar are given to the glory
of God and in honor of John Peter Koellen and in
loving memory of Mr. & Mrs. George G. Koellen.
July 26
The flowers on the High Altar are given to the Glory
of God and in loving memory of Rutledge Holmes
Deas and Mamie Jordan Deas Ratzburg.
The flowers on the Chapel Altar are given to the glory
of God and in honor of the birthday of Jack Berg.
DEATHS
Rest Eternal grant to her, O Lord; and let light
perpetual shine upon her.
See you Sunday upstairs!
Elizabeth Louise Scheel, mother of John Scheel, on
June 3, 2015.
Martha Ann Evans, on June 22, 2015.
May her soul, and the souls of all the departed,
through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
WEDDINGS
Those whom God has joined together, let no one
put asunder.
Kayla Malynne Klaus & Christopher Allen Marsalis, on
May 23, 2015.
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Especially if we are still mourning all those old plans that we
“knew” we wanted.
This is where we once again find ourselves looking to Christ for
clarity about our lives.
We look to Christ for answers to make it all make sense.
Which we may not get, or maybe we do, but not the answers we
seek or that we hoped for.
During Bible study and Ale and the Almighty this spring, both
the youth and the young adults have found ourselves looking at
this exact aspect of our lives and seeing how God’s plan for us
isn’t always the plan we thought we wanted, and also how we
live into this plan.
We see that every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The
good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice-versa,
the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make
them unimportant. What we have to remember is to always try to
add to others’ pile of good things. Even if they aren’t necessarily
adding to ours. It may not solve their problems nor rectify their
hardships, but that’s how we know that we are at least trying to
live as Jesus teaches us to, by his example. To do what we can so that we have shared that light, and add
good things.
In this, we start to see why we are on the path we are on...
In this we grow up.
From child or stalled adulthood to adults, with purpose and
direction.
Where our great gifts are used for a greater good, in God’s
greater plan.
But how do we know we are even on God’s path?
What if we made a wrong turn and now we are just stuck?
It is here we have to remind ourselves to really look at the piles
we have collected.
Mainly our pile of good things – all the things, no matter how
small or seemly insignificant, that have brought some amount of
joy, or hope, or peace into our lives.
These are the things that remind us God has never left us.
That although we don’t always see God’s plans and more often
have trouble understanding it –
It’s right there before us.
And we are not alone.
Collecting Piles while Taking
the Long Way Around...
by Brooks Boylan
brooks@stmarkscathedral.net
Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I—I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
– Robert Frost
The fastest way between two points is a straight line.
This is a fact that we all learn at a early age.
A fact that unfortunately gives us wrong ideas about life.
We tend to believe that that fastest, easiest way, is the best for us.
Clearly the most convenient path is the right one, and any
deviation is not: we look for the path of least resistance...
It, this path, becomes the plans, the life, the idea of perfection that
shapes us – that we put all of our efforts and energies in.
It becomes the basket that holds all of our eggs.
It becomes our life, or at least the life we think we want – the
specific way we want it.
And we want it soooooo bad, don’t we?
Now the problem is that that fastest, best, thoroughly planned out
path isn’t always the path we actually get to travel.
Sometimes some of those plans work out; sometimes we get part
of what we think we want.
And sometimes, most times, we end up taking the long way
around.
Our journey usually reveals to us a path, a plan, a life that we
never counted on and yet, despite the frustration of being not
wanted or expected, hardly is there ever an occurrence where we
regret that path which had been taken.
Because it did make all the difference
But this is never so easily done;
it takes so much to see the blessings of the “long way around”
road.
We are left wondering what we did wrong and if there is anything
we can do to get back to where we began.
Then there is the question we have to ask ourselves:
was it all worth it?
Was everything we went through: the joy and pain, the failures and
surprise successes, the lost dreams and the nearly built ones…
Was the journey, the one we traveled or are traveling, all worth it?
This is where the questions of “whys,” the “what ifs,” the “isn’t
fairs,” and the doubt creep in to our lives.
Especially if we haven’t seen the results of this “new” path yet,
The truth is, most of us (if not all) know what this is like, and for
the most part, we would never trade what we now know, what we
have learned about ourselves and life, where we have now found
ourselves, and what this unexpected path has brought into our
lives.
I hope when we find ourselves at a low point, struggling to
understand the chances and changes of our life, we take the time
to remember our pile of good things and may we trust God’s
plan for us.
And may we appreciate the blessings of the long way around
road.
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EYC Calendar
Mondays
Coming
This Month...
Caddo Parish High school art
teachers Holli Hennessy and Shirlene
Alexander are offering an art camp in the
Parish Hall on July 6-10 for little artists age
7-14. The camp is from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00
p.m. daily and will include drawing, painting,
printmaking, clay, batik and sculpture. For
more information call Shirlene Alexander
at 218-4380.
Coffice at Rhino
4:00-5:00 pm
Girls’ Bible Study – Wednesdays at
5:00 pm
July 1 (Wednesday) – Cinematic Adventure Day
July 10 (Friday) – EYC Camping
July 20 - 24 – VBS
July 24 – Glow in the Dark 5K
July 27 - August 2 – Youth Week
July 30 - August 2 – Summer Trip: Dollywood and Rafting
Highland Kids Need
School Help!
Several children in the Highland
Community Renewal program need
help preparing for the upcoming school
year. They need backpacks and supplies
for 24 kids. Supplies include: a box
of tissues, loose leaf paper, pencils,
erasers, scissors, composition books,
folders, 3 subject notebooks, glue-sticks,
colored pencils, and highlighters. These
items are needed by July 14. Please see
the signup list at the church office for
specifics. Contact Jennifer Beruvides at
jennifer@stmarkscathedral.net for more
information or questions.
Lost Anything at Church?
Or maybe you’re just missing some item
and have no idea where it might have gone.
Drop by or call the church office and check
into our lost and found! We have everything
from sunglasses to scarves to cell phones
to jewelry (including some very nice pieces.)
Check and see what you’re missing!
Monday – Friday
July 20-24th
Spaces are limited;
please sign up by July 5th
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JULY 1
Susie Collier
Austin Reed
2
Amanda Clingan
Brenda Giles
Daniel Clarke
Kevin Payne
Brooks Boylan
Penn Brightwell
3
Paul Winder
Gregg Sellers
4
Tom Reed
Kennon Comegys
Tom Needham
Chris Aymond
Shana Jump
Meg Willett
McKenzie Pugh
5
Edward Leatherman
Mike Schofield
Elissa Larremore
6
Frances Simpson
Marty Whatley
Bickham Dickson
Leah Horn
Dana Milner
7
Beth Allen
Ashley Nader
Chris Cottingham
Michael Schimpf
Sydney Smith
8
Bill Teague
Dodie Billingsley
Bob Williamson
Loyd Comegys
9
Pam Comegys
James King, III
10
Gene Snell
Connie Emmons
Carol Peterson
Sherry Ward
Joanne Russell
Tina Strong
Elise Crockford
Mae Hargrove
11
Barbara Qualey
Lauren Florsheim
Sam Crichton
Kellie Kilcline
Sam Powell
12
Priscilla Claflin
Kelsey Turnage
Trigg Erwin
13
Tuck Ingersoll
Clyde Hargrove
Kathy Brodnax
Natalie Bartle
Kate Davis
14
Eleanor Armstrong
Amy Lewis
James Mayeaux
Jennie Jamerson
15
Nancy Cosse
Marie Toles
Benny Popwell
Susannah Poljak
Christian Hall
16
Lynn Massad
Sandra Miller
17
Katharine Knicely
Ellen Erwin
Danielle Hilario
Alex Hall
William Hardtner
18
Roger Hammett
Judy Storer
Thomas Poljak
19
Darrell Rebouché
John Atkins
20
Campbell Jones
Clayton Simmons
Caitlyn Hinkie
21
Laura McLemore
Barbara Johnson
Rob Gilchrist
Scott Soignier
Randolph Smith
Marissa Kane
John Kamphuis
22
Gayle Labor
Beverly Reeves
Morgan O’Brien
Micah Strong
23
John Peter Koellen
Bennett Herndon
Ellis Prince
Parker Byles
Sarah Elizabeth
Larremore
24
Debbie Smith
Margaret Badgley
Glay Collier
Teresa LeBleu
Toni Sellers
Stephanie Young
Rosalyn Fisher
RachaelMillen
25
Marguerite Allen
Michele Q=Petersen
Jane Shea
Lisa Hargrove
26
Barbara Dossett
Elizabeth Peterson
Warren Graves
27
Dicksey Sanders
Tommy Broome
Bob FitzGerald
Joe Ketner
Kathy Lowe
Susan Falbaum
Clay Stroud
28
Roger Naus
Jack Berg
Pepper Lang
Stuart Dubin
Oliver Jenkins
Lauren Ewing
Evelyn Margaret Little
29
Chloe Thornton
Tom Thompson
Diane Long
Frank Harris, IV
Molly Manno
Tammy Arnold
Wes Arnold
Ann Nuckolls
Samuel Cooper
J.J. Fortiz
30
Laura Boyd
Jan Glass
Matt Woodard
Patrick Caraway
Chris Skrivanos
Jaden Allen
Thomas Siskron
31
Mickey Prestridge
Nancy Kate Hargrove
Rick Newell
Annual Fine Arts Camp
to be Held at Cathedral
St. Mark’s
Please help us with the history of St. Mark’s weddings! If you
were married by a clergy of St. Mark’s, either at the cathedral
or another location, please submit a photograph to be
included in the album. The earliest photograph in the album
at this point is from the early 1920’s. Contact Martha Cooper
if you have questions. 523-9136 or sug63@aol.com
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On July 27-31, St. Mark’s will host
the 26th annual Fine Arts Camp for
grades 1 through adult. The mission
of the camp is to provide ShreveportBossier children and adults with the
opportunities to explore and learn
various forms of fine arts with the
best and brightest, highly qualified
and trained professional artists from
around the United States during
one week in the summer. There is
a fee to cover the costs and expenses associated with
running such a program. Classes range from music and
voice lessons to dance, theater and art. Registration
and information can be found at their website, www.
summerfineartscamp.org.
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July 1 (Wednesday) – Cinematic Adventure Day
July 10 (Friday) – EYC Camping
July 20 - 24 – VBS
July 24 – Glow in the Dark 5K
July 27 - August 2 – Youth Week
July 30 - August 2 – Summer Trip: Dollywood
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Members of the Vestry of St. Mark’s Cathedral
Scott Deupree, Senior Warden – Lad Shemwell, Junior Warden – Patrick Caraway, Treasurer – John Reeks, Chancellor
2015
Scott Crichton
Bob FitzGerald
Kathryn Gaiennie
Patrick Harrison
Jonathan Hardtner
The Rt. Rev. Jacob W. Owensby
(Bishop of Western Louisiana)
bishopjake@diocesewla.org
The Very Rev. Alston Johnson
(Dean)
alston@stmarkscathedral.net
The Rev. Dr. Rowena White
(Canon)
rowena@stmarkscathedral.net
The Rev. Dr. Wayne Carter
(Associate Clergy)
wayne@stmarkscathedral.net
The Rev. John Raish
(Assisting Clergy)
Lois Maberry (Ministerial Intern)
lois@stmarkscathedral.net
2016
Rick Beruvides
Rosemary Cole
Bill Kalmbach
Anne Lasseigne
Pat Viser
2017
Laura Boyd
Bonnie Dubin
Bill Reyenga
David Roberts
Patrick White
Bryan T. Mitnaul
(Canon for Cathedral Music)
bryan@stmarkscathedral.net
Christopher Lynch (Associate
Organist & Choirmaster)
christopher@stmarkscathedral.net
Brooks Boylan (Lay Canon for Parish
Family Ministries)
brooks@stmarkscathedral.net
John Scheel (Facilities Manager)
john@stmarkscathedral.net
Katie Baker (Assistant Youth Minister)
katie@stmarkscathedral.net
Becky Deverts (Financial Office Manager)
becky@stmarkscathedral.net
Bess Maxwell (Administrative Assistant)
bess@stmarkscathedral.net
2018
Caffery Brown
Amy Lewis
Kevin Payne
Darrell Rebouché
Mike Schofield
Ashley Jackson
(Director of Children’s Formation)
ashley@stmarkscathedral.net
Jennifer Beruvides (Coordinator for
Events and Hands-on Outreach Ministry)
jennifer@stmarkscathedral.net
Judy Austin (Receptionist)
judy@stmarkscathedral.net
Marguerite Allen (Receptionist)
marguerite@stmarkscathedral.net
Beth Reeks (Minister for Pre-K
Children’s Programs)
preschool.beth@gmail.com
Katie-Beth Davis
(Nursery Coordinator)
smcnursery1@gmail.com
Address Service Requested
(318) 221-3360
Fax: (318) 424-8427
www.stmarkscathedral.net
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