eConnections - September 14, 2025
eConnections
The Weekend of The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Year C, Proper 19, Track 2)
September 14, 2025
The Dean's List
The Week That Was
I am weary.
I am reasonably certain you are, too.
We began worship on Sunday, August 31 by praying the Supplication, a prayer form reserved pretty much for when things are not going so well in the world around us. We prayed the Supplication that day specifically in response to the horrific shooting of August 27 at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis and more generally in response to five other mass shootings in the US during that same week. As has been our custom for many years now, we lit the round, glass candle on the altar that signifies our continued vigil when there has been an incident of mass gun violence - defined as more than three victims - anywhere in the United States during the week prior. I don't remember any more exactly when we started that - after Sandy Hook in 2012 but before Parkland in 2017 - but, as I reminded the congregation on August 31, it has been lit every Sunday since without exception.
At the time of this writing, there have been eight separate incidents of mass gun violence in seven different states this week. Not one of them made national headlines, at least that I'm aware of. 4 dead, 32 injured, unnumbered traumatized, no headlines.
What did make headlines were the September 10 assassination of Charlie Kirk at a public event in Utah and - an hour later - a school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado that left two students injured and the gunman dead by suicide. Both were awful. Both were beyond tragic. Neither should ever happen.
Queue the aftermath, when common decency and basic humanity were obliterated in public discourse and the toxicity of our culture came into much clearer relief in incendiary rhetoric, baseless allegations, and blame calculated to serve a narrative, not seek the truth.
In the days following the attacks of September 11, 2001, I remember having to come to terms with the truth that someone whom I have never met hated me for reasons I don't fully understand. Such hatred is not personal but ideological, having to do with how we as a nation, for better or for worse, engage the world.
I sat with that same feeling again on September 11, 2025, except this time it wasn't coming from halfway around the world, but from within our own proverbial house.
Friday was the lesser feast of John Henry Hobart, a very influential, evangelical figure in the nascent Episcopal Church in post-colonial times. The Gospel reading appointed from Mark 8 for this feast includes a story of Jesus feeding of a multitude - a brilliant bit of work - which is followed immediately by a group of grumblers who come to argue with him. The very next line begins, "And [Jesus] sighed deeply in his spirit..."
That line resonates in this moment.
I don't claim many labels when defining what kind of Christian I am but, as I told the Friday crowd, I have - for very personal reasons - tended to avoid the term evangelical. But in this particular moment, I get what the great evangelical bishop John Henry Hobart and others are on about.
We need to proclaim Jesus. We need to name Jesus as Lord and Savior.
Because, in the words of former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, "If it's not about love, it's not about Jesus." And there's a whole lot floating about in our society right now that has absolutely nothing to do with love, but rather sings praises to idols erected in the place of God.
Love that brings forth in us compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience has a name. Love that calls us to justice and mercy has a name. Love that bears all things, hopes all things, believes all things, and endures all things has a name. Love that gives of itself entirely has a name. We can't afford not to say it.
Jesus is the Name above all names.
Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life that is so desperately needed in this - and every - moment.
Yes, I am weary. But I am not without hope.
Blessings,
Brian
Worship
Formation & Spirituality
Fellowship & Fun
Outreach & Evangelism
Cathedral Calendar
Saturday, September 13 Cyprian
No Events Scheduled
Sunday, September 14
The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Year C, Proper 19, Track 2
8:00 am
Holy Eucharist: Rite One
9:00 am
Intercessory Prayer
9:15 am
Adult Forum
10:30 am
Holy Eucharist: Rite Two
11:45 am
Intercessory Prayer
Hospitality Hour
Youth Group
Monday, September 15 Holy Cross Day
Cathedral Office: Closed
No Events Scheduled
Tuesday, September 16 Ninian
Cathedral Office Hours: 9 am - 1:30 pm
6:30 pm
Chapter Meeting
Wednesday, September 17 Hildegard of Bingen
Cathedral Office Hours: 9:00 am - 1:30 pm
5:30 pm
Daughters of the King
7:00 pm
Choir Practice
Thursday, September 18 Edward Bouverie Pusey
Cathedral Office Hours: 9:00 am - 1:30 pm
No Events Scheduled
Friday, September 19 Theodore of Tarsus
Cathedral Office Hours: 9:00 am - 1:30 pm
12:05 pm
Holy Eucharist
1:00 pm
Community Lunch at Grill 362
Saturday, September 20 John Coleridge Patteson
No Events Scheduled
Sunday, September 21
The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Year C, Proper 20, Track 2
8:00 am
Holy Eucharist: Rite One
9:15 am
Through the Years
10:30 am
Holy Eucharist: Rite Two
11:45 am
Hospitality Hour
Youth Group
12:30 pm
Ecumenical Bible Study
Fellowship of St. John
Cathedral Staff Meeting
2:00 pm
CROP Hunger Walk
Cathedral Prayer List
Collect for Proper 19
O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Anniversaries & Birthdays
Sep 16 Andrea Crawford & Michael Pippenger
Sep 17 Terri & Tim Bays
Sep 15 Al Caparell
Sep 15 Karen Slack
Sep 17 Anna Milligan
Sep 19 Gay McCrea
And those who have gone before us
into the nearer presence of God
Sep 14 Jack & Pat Smith
Sep 16 David Anthony
For Your Prayers
• For Megan, Dr. Steve Wietstock's niece
• Charlotte Matthews and her grandsons Will Vance and Gerald Schram
• For the Demler and Martindale families
• Siberina Taylor, Joe Anand-Obleton's Mother, for health & recovery
• Michael Anand-Obleton
• Juan Jacob Allen Obleton, Joe Anand-Obleton's youngest brother
• Angela Otis-Ashby, Joe Anand-Obleton’s cousin
• Shaun Ashby, Angela's husband
• Shirley Ashby
• Roland Ashby
• Joseph Obleton, Joe Anand-Obleton’s father
• Elizabeth Gains, Joe Anand-Obleton’s Father’s Mother
• For Scott Peters
• Trish O’Connor
• Kathleen O’Connor
• Kitty Ward
• Jean Smith
• Michelle Miller
• Billy Hans, for comfort in grief and for Patty Hans
• Tina Velthuizen
• Donnie Zigler
• Derek, for guidance
• For Joseph Hilliard, for strength & guidance
• Joyce, for strength & guidance
• Marshall Moore, for strength & guidance
• Robin & Laurie, for healing from health issues
• Gideon and his family, for healing, strength, and guidance
• For David, who has thyroid cancer.
• For Rick Hillard.
• For Joshua Henderson, brother of Chris Henderson.
• For James Ellar, high school classmate of Mike Jaworski, who has a recurrence of cancer.
• For Willow Grace Wilson, daughter of Connor Wilson & Genesis Dylewski
• For Deb Walter, friend of Sherry Berkley
• For Elaine Mick
• For the Proffitt Family and for the Hillman Family
• Mary Brooks
• Jamie, Mimi, Joely, Mia, and the entire Jeter Family
• Bill Jones and his family
• For Mary Beth Wright
• For Richard Murphy Jr. and Jill Bird
• Mary M. Burman
• Carolynn Raney
• For Joan Machatton
• Jim Arns
• For Cindy Ahlgrim
• For Joni Carlson, who continues treatment of an ongoing issue
• For Mike Jaworski and for Lisa.
• For Michael, son of Diane Hoist, and his family.
• For Tim Haywood, and Janice
• Fred & Kate Mast
• Paula Fowler
• Connor Gibbons
• Olivia, who has leukemia, and her family
• Sheila & family
• Alan Thompson
• Tony Molnar
• Dan & Gail Mandell
• Ron Gunn
• Alissa Broussara
• Cherryl Andries
• Becky Ballentine
• Marge Johnson
• Jo Dorsch
• Sharron McGowan
• Joyce Marchant
• Fr. Paul Tracy
• Richard Bitner
• Al Caparell; Tony Lemna; Mike; Denise & Demetrius
• For those expecting children: Delilah Allsop & Joe MacFarland
• For those preparing for Holy Orders: Nan Noecker, diaconate
How may we pray for you? To add (or remove) a petition from the Cathedral Prayer List, please send an email to Deacon Clay Berkley. If you are requesting prayer for someone else, please make sure you have their permission to add their name and any details to the prayer list.
Ministry Schedule
Sunday, September 14: The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
8:00 am
Reader Nan Noecker
Server Nan Noecker
10:30 am
Readers Volunteer Needed & Norris Whitfield
Eucharistic Ministers Stephen Drendall, Rick Hilliard
Ushers Deborah Drendall, Nicole Pinter
Acolytes Cynthia Katsarelis, Ainsley Gray, Bear Kallenberg
Hospitality Rhonda Culbertson
Linens DeDe Guth
Sacristan Nan Noecker, Betsy VanderBurg
Tuesday, September 16
Counters DeDe Guth, Mary Lehman
Friday, September 19
Folder DeDe Guth