<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040</id><updated>2011-08-02T23:08:01.960-07:00</updated><category term='silence'/><category term='baptism'/><category term='parish meeting'/><category term='bourlakas'/><category term='haiti'/><category term='lords prayer'/><category term='water'/><category term='young adults'/><category term='epiphany'/><category term='mlk'/><category term='lent'/><category term='compline'/><category term='cathedral'/><category term='coultas'/><category term='Easter'/><category term='evil'/><category term='suffering'/><category term='sermons'/><category term='prayer'/><title type='text'>Christ Church Cathedral</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Christ Church Cathedral</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01369695392794329957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>12</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040.post-2970903735037067729</id><published>2010-04-20T19:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-24T19:19:29.492-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sermons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bourlakas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Easter'/><title type='text'>Easter Day 2010 Sermon</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;O Splendor of the Father’s light That makes our daylight lucid, bright;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;O Light of light and sun of day,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Now shine on us your brightest ray.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;True Sun, break out on earth and shine In radiance with your light divine;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;By dazzling of your Spirit’s might, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Oh, give our jaded senses light.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;The Father sends his Son, our Lord, To be his bright and shining Word;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Come, Lord, ride out your gleaming course&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;And be our dawn, our light’s true source.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;This poetic Easter prayer was written by a deeply spiritual man named Ambrose in the fourth century.  This Easter morning is a brand new day.  And the Risen Christ is the radiant morning star whose brilliant light heralds the dawn and comes to be “our light’s true source.”  Alleluia!  On this glorious new day, we enter, once again, into the joyous mystery of the bodily resurrection of God’s anointed messiah, our savior Jesus Christ. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;We pray, with Ambrose, that the Holy Spirit might give our jaded senses light and help us to see and be a living member of the gleaming, forward course of the Risen Christ.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;A group of women lead by Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James arrive with fragrant spices early in the morning and after finding Jesus’ tomb empty are approached by two beings in dazzling garments who ask them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?”  On that first Easter day, those grieving women were confronted with a question about looking.  They were looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.  They do not find what they are looking for. It was all so very confusing.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;All of you got up early this morning and you made the necessary preparations to get here and be in this house of worship on this the holiest day of the Christian year. What are you looking for on this joyous new morning?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;If you are not too sure what you are looking for, how will you know it when you do see it?  Are you looking in the right places of your life?  Are you prepared for Resurrection?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Last week the International Space Station passed over Kentucky just after sun down.  I understand that around 8:30, if the skies were clear enough where you were looking, there was a chance that, with a pair of normal binoculars, you could’ve seen this marvel of our space program in the western sky.  I got my six year old daughter, Elizabeth, all excited about this possibility.  She ran to her room and got her small binoculars.  Once outside, I pointed her in the direction she should be looking.  The moon was almost full and the night was pleasantly warm.  I was not really sure what the space station would look like that far out in space.  At best, we would probably just see a collection of small blinking lights.  Standing there in the yard, I began to realize that this Space Station flyover was probably going to be rather unremarkable.  It was just cloudy enough to make seeing space craft lights thousands of miles away almost impossible.  I kept looking around.  Nothing.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;I was so intent on trying to figure out the right place in the western sky for us to be looking that I had not noticed that Elizabeth was not even pointing her binoculars at the sky at all.  Elizabeth was excited to have zeroed in, with her binoculars, on a chirping bird on the point of our roof.  Later she was looking around the yard through the wrong end of the binoculars and was laughing with delight. Then she saw a bat darting around our chimney.  For a moment, we watched the bat’s jagged flight.  I would smile at her every discovery and then glance up to scan the horizon for the International Space Station.  Nothing.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Looking back down, I told Elizabeth we probably were not going to see it.  She was hunched over, walking slowly, looking at the grass with her binoculars.  She didn’t really care about a space station. (She later told Martha that daddy kept her up past her bedtime looking for aliens.)  Looking through the binoculars, she said, “it looks like where the wild things are.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Suddenly, I was stirred from my foolishness, and turned my attention to all of Elizabeth’s innocent wonder of the front yard at dusk.  After the cold and snowy winter that I thought would never end, almost over night, the grass was now green and the trees were budding. The days were getting longer.  In the middle of my Lenten disciplines, spring had slipped up on me. New daffodils were swaying in the warm evening breeze.  I pulled Elizabeth against me and told her it was time for bed.  In that moment, my heart was full and pounding with love for my little girl on that beautiful evening. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;For the most part we, like Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary, look over and over, in the wrong places for the wrong things.  "Why do you look for the living among the dead?  He is not here.  He has been raised.”  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;The women who arrive at the tomb on that new morning find it empty and they are perplexed.  But then their looking is redirected away from emptiness toward faithfulness.  And filled with this dawning sense of God’s miraculous activity, they go to tell the eleven disciples, but instead of receiving this news with wonder and joy, “these words,” we are told, “seemed to [the disciples] an idle tale, and they did not believe them.”  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;You see, just like those disciples, we think too much and we talk too much.  We feel too little. And we listen too little.  We ask for proof instead of asking for wonder.  After all, a crucified God, bodily resurrected from the dead is not logical and does not make good sense to us.  We might find the meticulous science of a space station exploring the unknown universe amazing.  Looking with wonder at flowers through the wrong end of the binoculars is, well, child’s play. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;In these moments of our adult skepticism we might remember that Jesus taught those who came to him searching for meaning, “Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;The Easter story is about correcting our vision of ourselves and of the world around us.  It is about looking for the entrance to the kingdom of God.  What are you looking for?  Where are you looking?  Are we missing the mysterious dimensions of the forest because we are so over focused and obsessed with a single tree or a small clump of trees?  Are we missing the glory of the God manifest in birds, bats, flowers, six year olds, the full moon and the blessing of every living thing because we are consumed with our individual worries, frustrations, disappointments, and fears?  Christ Jesus is raised from the dead to correct our vision and liberate us from everything that conspires to kill our souls.  And in response we must sing, “Alleluia!” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Without the corrective lens of the Resurrection we go on blinding ourselves and blinding others over and over again.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;This morning we approach a cold empty tomb.  With trepidation, we bend over to look inside.  What do you see there?  What are you hoping to find there?  Many are looking for proof.  Many want to somehow lay hold of a historical Jesus. Maybe we need some police tape and a chalk line, a DNA sample that can be processed under a microscope, or a few photographs in order to roll away the stone of ambivalence and disbelief that blocks our hearts?   Even if some material evidence could be scraped up, the tomb would still be empty and cold.  The Risen Christ will not be found in a stone tomb of death.  And so, again, just as on that first morning, our looking, our vision is redirected.  "Why do you look for the living among the dead?  He is not here.  He has been raised.”  God’s “bright and shining Word” will always be found among the living.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;So if we are not to be starring into a cold empty tomb for Jesus, where should we be looking?  The key is in the other direction that Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary are giving on that first Easter morning.  “Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again."  Then they remembered his words.”  They remember that Jesus told them that Resurrection from death was the way it was going to be for him and for us forever.  Believe or not.  The One who was God, who was with God in the creation, will never be held down by death.  And not only that, the Good News, the only Good News, is that His Resurrection happens to free us from fear and death. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;That first morning, those faithful women are invited to remember all that Jesus had told them and meant to them during his ministry in Galilee.  And Luke tells us that they remember.  They remember.  They remember how he touched their lives and opened up a new way for them to go about living in the world.  They remembered how deeply he had loved them and how he told them that there was more to this life in God’s love than they could possibly imagine.  In a moment, they snap out of it and remember that he turned their lives upside down.  They had been reading Jesus and now their stories, their souls, were united with his.  Remember, remember, remember.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;This is what the Easter story is about.  Easter discipleship is about reading the story of our life alongside Jesus’ story.  Disciples of Jesus read, pray over, and cherish the life giving story of the Gospel.  It is a life long, life giving, journey.  You might give it try.  If we do not have a transforming story of Jesus’ love and forgiveness in our lives that we can remember and that we can read alongside our own story then the stone will stay in place and our hearts will be cold, fearful tombs of self-absorption, skepticism, frustration, and even resentment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;All of us gathered here today are called by the Risen Christ to be Easter people.  Easter people do not hang around the cold tombs of skepticism, ambivalence and complaint.  We are Resurrection people.  Look around: see, taste, hear.  The Risen Christ will be found among the living.  Pay attention to the deeper parts of your living. Today is a  joyous new morning.  You can be a new person.  Christ is Risen and we are risen with Him.  Alleluia! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;O Splendor of the Father’s light That makes our daylight lucid, bright;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Come, Christ Jesus, ride out your gleaming course&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;And be our dawn, our light’s true source.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;AMEN&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8775743665268172040-2970903735037067729?l=christchurchlouky.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/2970903735037067729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/04/easter-day-2010-sermon.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/2970903735037067729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/2970903735037067729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/04/easter-day-2010-sermon.html' title='Easter Day 2010 Sermon'/><author><name>Amy Real Coultas +</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040.post-3329984686541956587</id><published>2010-02-25T05:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-25T05:21:22.362-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sermons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lords prayer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coultas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lent'/><title type='text'>Sermon: Tuesday in 1 Lent 2010</title><content type='html'>Today's gospel is Jesus teaching the Lord's prayer.  I was reminded of one of the image NT Wright uses to describe the essence of this prayer: binoculars.  We so often see our lives dualistically: God's life out there somewhere vs. our life here on earth.  The incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection belie such an abstraction, but we slip back into that disconnected thinking pretty easily, and Jesus teaches us to pray that God's will be done here--that our life here become more  like God's life.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wright suggests that we think of binoculars:  When you first put them up to your eyes, there are two distinct shafts of vision and it's hard to see either clearly.  But pull them together and the two competing visions become one vision.  So it is with our life in Christ.  When we pull His life and our lives closer together, we begin to see with God's eyes and cooperate in building a world that looks more like God's kingdom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Read Wright's commentary &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/9AZmvf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8775743665268172040-3329984686541956587?l=christchurchlouky.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/3329984686541956587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/02/sermon-tuesday-in-1-lent-2010.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/3329984686541956587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/3329984686541956587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/02/sermon-tuesday-in-1-lent-2010.html' title='Sermon: Tuesday in 1 Lent 2010'/><author><name>Amy Real Coultas +</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040.post-3738760242118630047</id><published>2010-02-25T04:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-25T05:00:14.225-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sermons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bourlakas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lent'/><title type='text'>Sermon: Ash Wednesday 2010: Snow and Ashes</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“We entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation!”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;There is urgency in Paul’s letter to Church in Corinth. Now, not later, is time to be reconciled to one another and to God. The day of our salvation is now, not some time far off that we need not worry about today. Now, this Ash Wednesday in the year of our Lord 2010, is the acceptable time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Last night we burned the palms from last year’s Passion Sunday liturgy. They announced Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem. It was an entrance that was to be shortly followed by the horror of death on Golgotha. Today they announce our own mortality. This is the arc of the Lenten journey.&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt; See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation!”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;This year, the ash of those burning palms was in high contrast against the snow. I have been reflecting on this snow a lot as Lent has been approaching. Last week before this new installment of snow, my oldest daughter, Hannah, and I were walking our dog in our neighborhood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;After a few minutes of walking, Hannah observed the pure, untracked snow of some of our other neighbor’s yards. These were in contrast to our own yard and the yard’s of neighbors with children and dogs. There were children’s footsteps and dog chasing tracks going in all directions. Sled tracks marred all of the hills. There was, of course, plenty of yellow snow. The roads in the neighborhood were all gritted with salt and had become slushy and muddy from much scrapping. It reminded me of the three years we lived in Chicago and how tired we would get at the mounds piled up exhaust snow that would last for months. We always welcomed the fresh new snowfall that would cover it all up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Then Monday morning we all awoke to a new snow that had covered everything making all look fresh and clean again. Every yard, every street had a fresh immaculate start. Pure, undriven, virgin snow. By noon it was on its way back to being muddled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Our lives get like this. The fields of our best intentions soon get all tracked up with pathways heading off in all directions. Before long it gets difficult to know which pathways were fruitful ones and which ones were misguided. We slush up and muddy the roads. We get tempted. We trespass against other people and others trespass against us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The untrammeled garden gets messy again. Where and when did we leave the straight and narrow way? It was too long ago. We can not remember, but we need to remember. We need a new white blanket of forgiving snow. We need to be reconciled with each other and to God. This is what today is about. This is what the holy season of Lent is about. A cross of ash etched upon our forehead is to remind us that now is the time to take stock of everything. Gracious God forgive us our trespasses as much as we forgive those who trespass against us. Each of us stands on the edge of the day of our salvation. Right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;We need to stand close to the window and look out into the front yards of our lives. What hard hearted iciness needs salting? What pathways to peace and forgiveness do we need to shovel? Where do we need to catch up to another person in need and help them through the slush so that they do not falter and fall? And where do we sorely need to pray for the blanketing grace of God’s pure flaky snow to cover up what we can not cover ourselves?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;In some of our relationships with others a few inches of grace filled snow will do the trick. In the unnecessary wars of the middle East, in desperation of much of Africa and Latin America, and in poverty caused disaster in Haiti, we need to pray for a blizzard of the Holy Spirit’s mercy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8775743665268172040-3738760242118630047?l=christchurchlouky.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/3738760242118630047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/02/sermon-ash-wednesday-2010-snow-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/3738760242118630047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/3738760242118630047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/02/sermon-ash-wednesday-2010-snow-and.html' title='Sermon: Ash Wednesday 2010: Snow and Ashes'/><author><name>Amy Real Coultas +</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040.post-5270754295828484382</id><published>2010-02-18T08:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T08:15:51.769-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prayer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='compline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young adults'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coultas'/><title type='text'>Compline</title><content type='html'>I invite you to join me in saying Compline on Thursdays during Lent at 8pm in the chapel.  There will be some chanting, some silence, some incense, and a bunch of candles.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Compline is the final prayer service of the day and dates back at least to St. Bendict's rule of the early 6th century, and possibly to St. Basil's of the 4th.  Pretty cool.  It's in the Prayer Book &lt;a href="http://ow.ly/18Hv5"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Young Adults (18-30ish) will gather afterward in the narthex to head out for some fellowship.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8775743665268172040-5270754295828484382?l=christchurchlouky.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/5270754295828484382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/02/compline.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/5270754295828484382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/5270754295828484382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/02/compline.html' title='Compline'/><author><name>Amy Real Coultas +</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040.post-1720756851539894695</id><published>2010-02-06T18:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-06T19:00:31.575-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sermons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bourlakas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='parish meeting'/><title type='text'>Epiphany 4C | Annual Parish Meeting Address 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed src="http://www.odeo.com/flash/audio_player_standard_black.swf" quality="high" width="300" height="52" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="valid_sample_rate=true&amp;amp;external_url=http://www.filefactory.com/file/a213dbc/n/100131_001.mp3" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8775743665268172040-1720756851539894695?l=christchurchlouky.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/1720756851539894695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/02/epiphany-4c-annual-parish-meeting.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/1720756851539894695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/1720756851539894695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/02/epiphany-4c-annual-parish-meeting.html' title='Epiphany 4C | Annual Parish Meeting Address 2010'/><author><name>Christ Church Cathedral</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01369695392794329957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040.post-1875885100969393684</id><published>2010-01-24T17:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-06T18:02:44.158-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sermons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coultas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='epiphany'/><title type='text'>Sermon: Epiphany 3C</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "&gt;In today's gospel Jesus reads from the scroll of Isaiah, telling us he's the anointed one, the one sent to deliver God's good news to the poor.  We too are anointed--sealed in baptism by the power of the Holy Spirit and marked as Christ's own, forever.  We gather here week after week, dipping our fingers in the blessed water of baptism and gathering around the table, putting our hand out for a bite of the Body.  We leave here, not as individuals, but as members of the same body, unified in the name of Christ, enlivened by the Holy Spirit, sent to proclaim God's good news to the poor.  &lt;i&gt;This&lt;/i&gt;, Martin Luther King reminds us, &lt;i&gt;is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://moamy.org/2010/01/epiphany-3c-2010.htm"&gt;Read the full text here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8775743665268172040-1875885100969393684?l=christchurchlouky.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/1875885100969393684/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/01/sermon-epiphany-3c.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/1875885100969393684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/1875885100969393684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/01/sermon-epiphany-3c.html' title='Sermon: Epiphany 3C'/><author><name>Amy Real Coultas +</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040.post-4581090364161787401</id><published>2010-01-21T15:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-26T12:06:52.872-08:00</updated><title type='text'>This Week at the Cathedral</title><content type='html'>The third week of Epiphany&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 25th, 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Annual Parish Meeting is THIS Sunday, January 31&lt;br /&gt;immediately following the 10:00 service. A light lunch of soup, fruit, and&lt;br /&gt;bread will be provided.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call for Chapter Nominations&lt;br /&gt;With the Annual Meeting of the Cathedral Parish fast approaching, it will&lt;br /&gt;be time to elect four members of the congregation to serve on the Chapter&lt;br /&gt;of Christ Church Cathedral. These Congregation Directors, as they are&lt;br /&gt;called in our by laws, are communicants in good standing*If you are&lt;br /&gt;interested in submitting a fellow parishioner or your own name for&lt;br /&gt;nomination, please fill out a nomination form. These forms are in the&lt;br /&gt;Narthex and the office hallway. Questions about nominations can be directed&lt;br /&gt;to the Cathedral Office or to one of the members of the Chapter Nominating&lt;br /&gt;Committee: Marilyn Werst, Sissy Lanier, Dorothy Converse and Louise Isaacs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* "Communicant in good standing" means all lay persons whose baptisms&lt;br /&gt;have been recorded in the Church, have Holy Communion in the Church at&lt;br /&gt;least 3 times during the preceding year, have been faithful in corporate&lt;br /&gt;worship (unless a good cause has prevented) and in working, prating and&lt;br /&gt;giving for the spread of the Kingdom of God and whose membership&lt;br /&gt;certificates are recorded in the office of Christ Church Cathedral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WANTED: servers at the Lord’s table&lt;br /&gt;We are looking for a few people, adult or child, to would be interested&lt;br /&gt;in serving as an acolyte. Depending on the number of people we have, it&lt;br /&gt;would be approximately a once a month rotation. Please see Tom Thill for&lt;br /&gt;more information or to sign up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bishop Aglionby Harvest Ingathering&lt;br /&gt;A couple months ago Christ Church received offerings for the Bishop&lt;br /&gt;Aglionby Memorial Cathedral Harvest ingathering of 2009. We were able to&lt;br /&gt;send $700. Susan Herlin has asked Dean Jacob Ayeebo to send us photos of&lt;br /&gt;the presentation because we enjoy receiving news from our friends in&lt;br /&gt;Tamale. Many thanks to everyone for your generosity in giving!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Worship During the Week&lt;br /&gt;• Holy Eucharist is offered on&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday at 7:30 am.&lt;br /&gt;• Morning Prayer is offered in the Chapel&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 9:00.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bible Study&lt;br /&gt;Led by Tom Peters, the group is currently studying the Gospel of Mark.&lt;br /&gt;Bible Study meets every Sunday morning at 9:00 in the Conference Room. All&lt;br /&gt;are welcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Living Water,&lt;br /&gt;the title of the art quilt in the Chancel, will be with us through the&lt;br /&gt;season of Epiphany. It is by fiber artist Penny Sisto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE SUPPER&lt;br /&gt;The choir, again this year, will be hosting the Shrove Tuesday Pancake&lt;br /&gt;Supper on Tuesday, February 16 with good food and fun entertainment.  Choir&lt;br /&gt;members will be selling tickets so please put this on your calendar and&lt;br /&gt;plan to come!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Search of TV Nostalgia&lt;br /&gt;The theme for our Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper this year is classic TV.&lt;br /&gt;If you have anything related to this around your house, such as old end&lt;br /&gt;tables, lamps, televisions, antennae, popcorn makers, remote controls, TV&lt;br /&gt;Guides, TV stands, and other such paraphernalia, then please let Bryan&lt;br /&gt;Platt (in the choir) know right away.  Even if all you can do is loan an&lt;br /&gt;item or items, that would be most appreciated.  Bryan Platt may be reached&lt;br /&gt;at 502.495.0640 or [mailto:bvplatt@bellsouth.net] bvplatt@bellsouth.net or&lt;br /&gt;in person.  Thank you, in advance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2010 Parish Directory Update&lt;br /&gt;It’s time to update the September 2009 version. A hard copy of the&lt;br /&gt;directory will be available in the narthex before and after services each&lt;br /&gt;Sunday of January. Please review your listing and note any changes. If you&lt;br /&gt;do not have an entry at all, there will be extra pages for your&lt;br /&gt;information.&lt;br /&gt;Sissy Lanier will also be in the narthex to snap your photo. If the&lt;br /&gt;existing photo is OK, no need to redo. Otherwise, make a note to have yours&lt;br /&gt;made. The deadline for photos, changes and additions will be Sunday, Jan.&lt;br /&gt;31. The directory update will be made available in February.&lt;br /&gt;If you prefer, you can also email your updates to Terry Laun at&lt;br /&gt;t.laun@insightbb.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Week!!&lt;br /&gt;We celebrate the birthdays of  Randy Peters and Sarah Bourlakas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Events at Christ Church Cathedral for the&lt;br /&gt;Week of 01-25-10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, January 25th&lt;br /&gt;6:30p-8:45p EfM in Deans Hall&lt;br /&gt;8:00p- 9:00p Dual Diagnosis AA in Bishops Hall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday, January 26th&lt;br /&gt;9:00a-9:30a Morning Prayer in the Chapel&lt;br /&gt;5:30p-7:30p Cornerstone in Deans Hall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, January 27th&lt;br /&gt;7:30a-8:00a Holy Eucharist, Rite II in the Chapel&lt;br /&gt;7:45a-9:00a Cursillo 4th day group meeting&lt;br /&gt;12:15p-1:00p IFP/P Meditation in Bishops Hall.&lt;br /&gt;6:30p-7:30p Choir Rehearsal in the Choir room&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thursday, January 28th&lt;br /&gt;9:00a-9:30a Morning Prayer in the Chapel&lt;br /&gt;4:00p-8:00p Trustees &amp;amp; Council Meeting in Bishops Hall&lt;br /&gt;5:30p-7:30p Cornerstone in Deans Hall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, January 31st&lt;br /&gt;8:15a-Holy Eucharist, Rite I in the Cathedral&lt;br /&gt;9:00a- Bible study in the Conference Room&lt;br /&gt;10:00a- Holy Eucharist, Rite II in the Cathedral&lt;br /&gt;11:00a- 12:00 Annual Meeting in Bishops Hall&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8775743665268172040-4581090364161787401?l=christchurchlouky.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/4581090364161787401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-week-at-cathedral.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/4581090364161787401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/4581090364161787401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-week-at-cathedral.html' title='This Week at the Cathedral'/><author><name>Amy Real Coultas +</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040.post-1842033205245943866</id><published>2010-01-20T16:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-20T16:44:08.403-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cathedral Parish Notes 1/20/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Cathedral Parish Notes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The second week of Epiphany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: small; "&gt;January 19th, 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The Annual Parish Meeting is Sunday, January 31&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;immediately following the 10:00 service. A light lunch of soup, fruit, and bread will be provided. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:-2;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Call for Chapter Nominations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;With the Annual Meeting of the Cathedral Parish fast approaching, it will be time to elect four members of the congregation to serve on the Chapter of Christ Church Cathedral. These Congregation Directors, as they are called in our by laws, are communicants in good standing*If you are interested in submitting a fellow parishioner or your own name for nomination, please fill out a nomination form. These forms are in the Narthex and the office hallway. Questions about nominations can be directed to the Cathedral Office or to one of the members of the Chapter Nominating Committee: Marilyn Werst, Sissy Lanier, Dorothy Converse and Louise Isaacs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; * "Communicant in good standing" means all lay persons whose baptisms have been recorded in the Church, have Holy Communion in the Church at least 3 times during the preceding year, have been faithful in corporate worship (unless a good cause has prevented) and in working, prating and giving for the spread of the Kingdom of God and whose membership certificates are recorded in the office of Christ Church Cathedral. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Concert Spirituel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Sunday, January 24 – 5:00 pm. This concert by Fiore della Vita of the Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington will consist of wide ranging vocal and instrumental chamber music by G P Telemann. It will showcase his dexterity as a prolific composer of his time. Free. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Worship During the Week&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Holy Eucharist is offered on&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday at 7:30 am.&lt;br /&gt;• Morning Prayer is offered in the Chapel&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 9:00. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Ladies Lunch Bunch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;will meet this Thursday, January 21st at Noon at Olive Garden located at 1320 South Hurstborne way. Please join us for food, fellowship and fun!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Living Water,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;the title of the art quilt in the Chancel, will be with us through the season of Epiphany. It is by fiber artist Penny Sisto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Flower offerings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sunday celebration of the Eucharist is enhanced by the offering of flowers in memory of loved ones or in thanksgiving for special blessings. If you would like to make an offering of flowers please put your name on the list on the bulletin board and indicate who or what the dedication is for. The suggested donation for weekly flowers is $50.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE SUPPER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The choir, again this year, will be hosting the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on Tuesday, February 16 with good food and fun entertainment.  Choir members will be selling tickets so please put this on your calendar and plan to come!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;In Search of TV Nostalgia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The theme for our Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper this year is classic TV.  If you have anything related to this around your house, such as old end tables, lamps, televisions, antennae, popcorn makers, remote controls, TV Guides, TV stands, and other such paraphernalia, then please let Bryan Platt (in the choir) know right away.  Even if all you can do is loan an item or items, that would be most appreciated.  Bryan Platt may be reached at 502.495.0640 or&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:bvplatt@bellsouth.net" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;bvplatt@bellsouth.net&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; or in person.  Thank you, in advance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;2010 Parish Directory Update&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;   It’s time to update the September 2009 version. A hard copy of the directory will be available in the narthex before and after services each Sunday of January. Please review your listing and note any changes. If you do not have an entry at all, there will be extra pages for your information.&lt;br /&gt;  Sissy Lanier will also be in the narthex to snap your photo. If the existing photo is OK, no need to redo. Otherwise, make a note to have yours made. The deadline for photos, changes and additions will be Sunday, Jan. 31. The directory update will be made available in February.&lt;br /&gt;   If you prefer, you can also email your updates to Terry Laun at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:t.laun@insightbb.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;t.laun@insightbb.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;This Week!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; We celebrate the birthdays of  Bill Friedlander, Judy Donahue, Anne Miller, Dale Carter Cooper&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Events at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Christ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; Cathedral for the Week of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;01-18-10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Monday, January 18th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cathedral Offices are closed&lt;br /&gt;6:30p-8:45p EfM in Deans Hall&lt;br /&gt;8:00p- 9:00p Dual Diagnosis AA in Bishops Hall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Tuesday, January 19th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:00a-9:30a Morning Prayer in the Chapel&lt;br /&gt;5:30p-7:30p Community Ventures Board meeting in Bishops Hall&lt;br /&gt;5:30p-7:30p Cornerstone in Deans Hall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Wednesday, January 20th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7:30a-8:00a Holy Eucharist, Rite II in the Chapel  7:45a-9:00a Cursillo 4th day group meeting&lt;br /&gt;12:15p-1:00p IFP/P Meditation in Bishops Hall.&lt;br /&gt;6:30p-7:30p Choir Rehearsal in the Choir room&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Thursday, January 21st  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:00a-9:30a Morning Prayer in the Chapel&lt;br /&gt;3:30p-5:30p Mid/KY Council in Bishops Hall&lt;br /&gt;5:30p-7:30p Cornerstone in Deans Hall&lt;br /&gt;6:00p- 8:00p Cathedral Chapter in Bishops Hall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Friday, January 22nd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6:00p-7:00p Traud Wedding Rehearsal in the Cathedral&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Saturday, January 23rd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11:30a-2:00p Bishop Search Luncheon in Bishops Hall&lt;br /&gt;5:00p-7:00p Traud Wedding in the Cathedral&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Sunday, January 24th &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8:15a-Holy Eucharist, Rite I in the Cathedral&lt;br /&gt;9:00a- Bible study in the Conference Room&lt;br /&gt;10:00a- Holy Eucharist, Rite II in the Cathedral&lt;br /&gt;11:20a- Choir rehearsal in the choir room&lt;br /&gt;5:00p- 6:30 Concert Spirituel in the Cathedral&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8775743665268172040-1842033205245943866?l=christchurchlouky.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/1842033205245943866/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040.post-2947792120855913444</id><published>2010-01-17T22:27:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-18T15:27:22.570-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sermons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bourlakas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suffering'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mlk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='epiphany'/><title type='text'>Sermon: Epiphany 2C</title><content type='html'>Listen to Dean Bourlakas' Epiphany 1C sermon:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.odeo.com/flash/audio_player_standard_black.swf" quality="high" width="300" height="52" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="valid_sample_rate=true&amp;amp;external_url=https://sites.google.com/site/cccuploads/mp3s/Epiphany2C2010.mp3" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8775743665268172040-2947792120855913444?l=christchurchlouky.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='audio/mpeg' href='https://sites.google.com/site/cccuploads/mp3s/Epiphany2C2010.mp3' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/2947792120855913444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/01/sermon-epiphany-2c.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/2947792120855913444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/2947792120855913444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/01/sermon-epiphany-2c.html' title='Sermon: Epiphany 2C'/><author><name>Christ Church Cathedral</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01369695392794329957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040.post-3322693334093996782</id><published>2010-01-17T13:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-18T13:50:08.287-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suffering'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evil'/><title type='text'>Some responses to Pat Robertson</title><content type='html'>From MoAmy:  &lt;a href="http://moamy.org/2010/01/two-christian-responses-to-haiti-robertson-vs-the-missionaries.html"&gt;Two Christian responses to Haiti: Pat Robertson vs. the Missionaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;A video from &lt;a href="http://www.askthepriest.org/askthepriest/2010/01/where-is-god-in-the-haitian-earthquake.html"&gt;Frank Logue at AskThePriest.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A letter &lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/the_devil_writes_pat_robertson.html"&gt;from the devil himself&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bishop Dan Edwards (Nevada) on &lt;a href="http://bdsermons.blogspot.com/2010/01/pat-robertson-dietrich-bonhoeffer-god.html"&gt;Robertson, Bonhoeffer, God, &amp;amp; Haiti.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8775743665268172040-3322693334093996782?l=christchurchlouky.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/3322693334093996782/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-responses-to-pat-robertson.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/3322693334093996782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/3322693334093996782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-responses-to-pat-robertson.html' title='Some responses to Pat Robertson'/><author><name>Christ Church Cathedral</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01369695392794329957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040.post-1887773419415128920</id><published>2010-01-17T12:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-18T16:18:47.006-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cathedral'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='water'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coultas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baptism'/><title type='text'>MoAmy.org: Moments of Silence</title><content type='html'>(I keep a blog at www.MoAmy.org.  When I think it's particularly relevant to the Cathedral community, I'll cross-post it here.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.askthepriest.org/.a/6a00d83452429669e2012876ec066c970c-pi" style="float: left; "&gt;&lt;img alt="Ccc_font" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83452429669e2012876ec066c970c " src="http://www.askthepriest.org/.a/6a00d83452429669e2012876ec066c970c-320pi" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 8px; " title="Ccc_font" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Twice Sunday there were moments of silence in the Cathedral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, during the prayers of the people, we were called to a long silence during which we were to hold our Haitian brothers and sisters up before God.  During the second, we remembered murder victims in the city of Louisville after hearing the Cathedral bells toll for the dead. These moments of silence were offered as a prayerful space in which to absorb the pain of our neighbors, near and far, and to unite our intentions in a moment of intercession on behalf of their suffering.  Silence can be hard.  We don't always know what to do with it.  Sometimes we want to hear something and it just doesn't emerge.  Sometimes we can't quiet our thoughts long enough to engage the restfulness silence promises. Sometimes silence too quickly exposes the pained cries of our own heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This day, however, there was not really silence. Both of these prayer-filled pauses were also filled with the sound of running water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The running water of the baptismal font is always in the background of our life together at the Cathedral.  It greets each person that enters our doors.  Its water flows continuously, pouring into the octagonal pool below, reminding the baptized of their new life in Christ and welcoming the stranger into the family of God.  It proclaims to those who dip their fingers in it that our imagined separation from God and our neighbors has been washed away in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and that even death no longer has power over us.  "Nothing," it preaches, "can ever come between us and the love of God."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so a moment which could have simply memorialized the power of sadness and loss was filled instead with a reminder of our unending life in the God who is living water for all who thirst.  Thanks be to God.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Amy+&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8775743665268172040-1887773419415128920?l=christchurchlouky.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/1887773419415128920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/01/moamyorg-moments-of-silence.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/1887773419415128920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/1887773419415128920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/01/moamyorg-moments-of-silence.html' title='MoAmy.org: Moments of Silence'/><author><name>Christ Church Cathedral</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01369695392794329957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775743665268172040.post-8396741663942273607</id><published>2010-01-12T21:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-18T15:27:03.575-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sermons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coultas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='epiphany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baptism'/><title type='text'>Sermon: Epiphany 1C</title><content type='html'>Listen to Canon Coultas' Epiphany 1C sermon:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.odeo.com/flash/audio_player_standard_black.swf" quality="high" width="300" height="52" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="valid_sample_rate=true&amp;amp;external_url=https://sites.google.com/site/cccuploads/mp3s/SermonEpiphanyIC.mp3" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8775743665268172040-8396741663942273607?l=christchurchlouky.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='audio/mpeg' href='https://sites.google.com/site/cccuploads/mp3s/SermonEpiphanyIC.mp3' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/feeds/8396741663942273607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/01/test-sermon.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/8396741663942273607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8775743665268172040/posts/default/8396741663942273607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://christchurchlouky.blogspot.com/2010/01/test-sermon.html' title='Sermon: Epiphany 1C'/><author><name>Christ Church Cathedral</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01369695392794329957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
