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Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
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Lessons for July 16, the Sixth Sunday After Pentecost - Year A
Sermon podcasts are on our website and Facebook page
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The negotiation on climate change isn't really between Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservative. The real negotiation is between human beings and physics. And that's different, because physics doesn't negotiate. It's uninterested in compromise and unimpressed by rhetoric."
--- Bill McKibben, Seven Days, June 21, 2017
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St. Paul's Cathedral Events
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Thank You
Thank you to Maureen and Tom Rees, Jean Anderson, and Alice Winn for their success with heavenly parking on July 3! They raised $700, which will be donated to the Cathedral's outreach missions, and had a lot of fun.
The Salvation Army Dinner was fantastic and seamless thanks to everyone who went above and beyond! Thank you to Penny and Keith Pillsbury, Sylvia Knight and bob Wright, Vieva and tom Grenier, Cathy Cooke, Fran Carlson, Jenny Sisk, Gabe Dixon, Linda Sheridan and Barb Comeau, who all made delicious stews.
Rick Robinson, Maureen Rees, Ann Giombetti and Karen Mikkelson all supplied greens, bread and milk.
David Turner helped set up at St. Paul's.
Will Belluche, Linda Sheridan, Barb Comeau and Terrence Landberg all set up, served and cleaned up at the Salvation Army.
We also had a very generous donation of ice cream from Ben and Jerry's!
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Staff Vacation
St. Paul's Canon Precentor and Director of Music Mark Howe will be away on vacation Saturday July 8 through Monday July 24. During this time we will welcome several guest organists. We wish Mark safe travels!
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The Rev. Todd McKee to Preach this Sunday, July 16
The Rev. Todd McKee is a priest in the Episcopal Church in Vermont. Todd has been a part of five congregations during his twenty years in Vermont, including serving most recently as Priest-in-Partnership with the people of Gethsemane Church, Proctorsville. His current ministry is focused on increasing awareness of and engagement with the work of Cristosal, a human rights organization in El Salvador connected with the Episcopal Church in Vermont. Todd also serves on the diocesan Grants and Loans committee and serves occasionally in several parishes near his home in White River Junction. Todd is a bi-vocational priest who has worked for several social service organizations and now provides administrative support at the National Center for PTSD in the Department of Veterans Affairs. In addition to his work and ministry, Todd is passionate about good food and strong coffee, loves traveling to new places, dreams of keeping up with his gardening, and wishes that he rode his bike as often as he thinks about it.
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Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival at St. Paul's
This Sunday, July 16, we welcome a quartet of participants in this year's Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, who will be playing before, during, and after the Eucharist. The Festival's four-week summer season (June 25-July 23) includes a series of seven concerts played by its artist faculty, including works at the heart of the chamber repertoire and music by fresh compositional voices of our time. More information is available on the Festival's website:
www.gmcmf.org.
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Attention Scrabble, Catan and Other Game Players!
 This summer, St. Paul's game night runs every Wednesday evening in the Parish Hall from 6-8 p.m. Please join us on Wednesday evenings this summer. This will be a civilized, church-wide weekly activity for all ages, with a focus on board games or card games.
- Admission: please bring a dessert or drink to share.
- On hand will be Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Seven Wonders, Pandemic, Bananagrams, and a few decks of cards. Please bring your favorite game, or just come and learn some new games.
- Quiet friends are welcome!
We hope to see you there!
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Let's Make a New Pictorial Directory!
Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. - Hebrews 13:1
The ministry of welcoming strangers into our midst is crucial to the charge we all have to show hospitality to our brothers and sisters. A pictorial directory not only provides useful information and visual recognition of current members, but also is one of the best tools a church has for integrating new members into the fold!
Starting in the next few weeks, we'll be doing an "in-house" directory - no more outside sales pitches and ugly photo backgrounds! Keep an eye out for the Directory Table in the Narthex during coffee hour to update your contact information. We will have several splendid photographers who will take your photo, or you can email a recent one to our Office Administrator Jennifer Sumner, along with this form if your contact information has changed. With the help of directory making software, we will have a fresh new pictorial directory by October!
We need your correct information to make this a success. Questions? Contact Vieva Grenier at (908) 303-2094, or dornoch2009@gmail.com.
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Contemplative Celtic Worship
A quiet service of music, prayer, communion and reflection hosted by the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington; St. James Episcopal, Essex Junction; and Christ Church Presbyterian, Burlington.
Sunday, July 23 at 5:00 p.m. at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. All are welcome. For more information, call 802-864-0471.
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New Locks to be Installed
Scheduled for Mid-August
 In an effort to improve access and to increase our safety and security, we will be installing a keypad lock on the downstairs exterior (kitchen) door. The locks on the upstairs exterior (south porch) door will also be changed at this time. If you have a key, it will no longer work on either of these doors. You will need to turn in your key and receive an access code. If you don't have a key but would find access to the Cathedral helpful, you can ask Jennifer Sumner, our Office Administrator, to assign you a key code. We expect this changeover to be completed by mid-August, so it is not too early to request a key code. If you have questions, call the Cathedral office (864-0471).
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Budget Requests for 2018 Now Being Accepted
Deadline: August 30, 2017
The vestry is preparing to adopt a first draft of the 2018 budget for the Cathedral. If you would like to submit a request for funding for a specific area of ministry, please contact the cluster chair (see the pink sheet on the Narthex table) that oversees that ministry and put your request in writing to them. They can then submit a request (by August 30) to be considered for the second draft of the 2018 budget which the vestry will consider in September. As you probably know, the final budget is not approved until late 2017, following the annual giving/stewardship campaign. Thank you!
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Submission Deadline for St. Paul's Enews
This weekly e-newsletter is circulated on Tuesdays. Please have your pieces submitted to Jennifer at
admin@stpaulscathedralvt.org
by noon on the Thursday of the previous week
. Thank you.
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St. Paul's Youth: Voice Your Opinion
An Invitation to Participate in a Documentary Film on Young Adults in Today's Political Climate
Ella Baseman, a student filmmaker, will be in Burlington on Saturday, July 15, and is seeking volunteers who were too young to vote in the 2016 presidential election, but will be eligible in 2020.
"The aim of this documentary is to increase understanding and awareness of different opinions and concerns of young adults in America, especially in such a polarized political climate. I am looking for a broad range of opinions so all people are welcome. I would conduct these interviews in a public space with a small crew. Each interview would take approximately 20 minutes or less, and will be recorded with both video and audio. If a person would like to voice their opinion anonymously, I can accomplish this by not showing their face or any identifying features."
Questions? Contact Ella Baseman at voices2020documentary@gmail.com, or visit the Voices 2020 Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/voices2020.
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JUMP Day at the Ballpark
Vermont Lake Monsters Donate Half of All Ticket Sales to JUMP on July 23
 On Sunday, July 23 come to Centennial Field to see the Vermont Lake Monsters take on the Tri City Valleycats! Tickets are just $6, with half of all proceeds going directly back to the Joint Urban Ministry Project (JUMP).
Game time is 5:05 p.m., gates open at 4:00 p.m.
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Cristosal Advocate Program Launches
 For anyone interested in becoming further involved with Cristosal, we are launching the Cristosal Advocate program, a nine-week online course about human rights and social justice advocacy in which participants are trained in raising awareness regarding human rights issues, and support of Cristosal's work in particular.
If that is too large an undertaking, people who want to build a relationship with Cristosal are invited to check out our Newsletter, and/or support our work financially.
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Contacts:
The Right Rev. Thomas C. Ely, Bishop
tely@dioceseofvermont.org
The Very Rev. Jeanne Finan, Dean and Rector
jfinan@stpaulscathedralvt.org
The Rev. Deacon J. Stannard Baker, Deacon
sbaker@stpaulscathedralvt.org
Mark A. DeW. Howe, Canon Precentor and Director of Music
mhowe@stpaulscathedralvt.org
Jennifer C.Sumner, Office Administrator
admin@stpaulscathedralvt.org
Barbara F. Comeau, Financial Administrator
bcomeau@stpaulscathedralvt.org
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