Wear red, the traditional color of Pentecost. Here’s a discussion from Episcopal Church and Visual Arts on what other parishes are doing about the color red for Pentecost.
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Adult Ed News: Suggested Summer Schedule
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From Steve Gruenewald, director of Adult Education:
Folks –
As usual, summer is upon us before we’re ready for it. At the small gathering we had last Sunday, the group was not inclined to completely stop meeting until Fall if we can work it out; but of course we know that people have vacations, and regular weekend activities, and most are not likely to show up every week. A suggestion was made that we try to meet every third Sunday – that is, meet once, skip twice – at 9:00, before the summer Mass. We would start doing this the week after Father’s Day, June 24 – with the conflicting schedules we already knew of, that seemed like a reasonable date to shoot for.
This is all tentative. Please reply if you are interested in attending over the summer on some such schedule (including those who were there last week), and especially please reply if you’d be generally interested in attending but would like to suggest a different way of going about it (day, night, frequency, etc.). We are open to whatever will suit the most people. Look at your calendars and let me know. The suggested schedule would include June 24, July 15, August 5 and 26, but again, we are open to other ideas. Whatever we decide on, it will change if there is a consensus of active members.
For those who weren’t there, we have wrapped up the discussion of Hinduism and would like next to spend our next session talking about Native American religions. No one has volunteered for this topic. If no one else does, I will prepare the information, but if anyone has an interest in it, please speak up! We are not going to spend a lot of time on this section, so you needn’t consider it a major research project.
– Steve G
Searching For A Bishop: Applications and Inserts
From “A Bishop for Chicago,” the latest news:
The Bishop Search Committee is pleased to report that the application and nomination process was fruitful, and that we now are well into the process or reviewing and evaluating applications. Telephone interviews over the next month will be followed by site-site visits to the applicants’ current ministries.
A set of bulletin inserts is available on the bishop search web site at www.bishopforchicago.org. Congregations are encouraged to use these inserts to educate their members about the search process.
Following the public announcement of nominees in late August, a petition process will allow for other candidates to stand for election. Candidates will be presented to the Church in a series of October meetings throughout the Diocese, and delegates to the Diocesan Convention will select the next Bishop on November 10. A Transitions Committee chaired by Shawn Schreiner and Wayne Carlson will manage the election itself, and their work now centers around researching venues for consecration or investiture in early 2008.