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We are an Episcopal church community in Tucson, Arizona. We enjoy an Anglican expression in our worship, celebrate mass in two languages, and are committed to be socially involved in our Tucson community, our country, and the world. We are located at the corner of Fifth Street and Wilmot Road.
The Rev. David Benedict Hedges, n/BSG, Rector. Telephone 886-7292.
Contact
St. Michael's School at 722-8478.
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Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Monday, February 27, 2017
Thursday, December 22, 2016
The Messenger, Christmas 2016
The newest issue of The Messenger is now available.
Please click the link below to download your copy. Thanks!The Messenger, Christmas 2016
Monday, June 20, 2016
Announcements for Week Ending June 25, 2016
Just a Reminder.....Casa Maria sandwich-making is this coming Friday, June 24th at 5 PM in the Smith Parish Center. Your help is needed to prepare sack lunches for the homeless and disadvantaged of Tucson. Volunteers can always use a few “eggstra” hands and as always “shelled” hard boiled eggs. Join them for fellowship and to help with this good work_________________________________________________________________
The Vestry has had two days of intense conversation face-to-face with the finalist of the candidates. The Vestry is currently in deliberation and will make an announcement at the appropriate time. Thank you for your patience and participation. Please keep on praying so God’s will be done. Amen. †
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Dear Friends at St. Michael’s,
Thank you for all your love and caring for me during my three months recovery from my fractured hip. Your phone calls, visits and cards were a great support during the dark days. The sun is shining again and I am so grateful!
Thank you from,
Margaret Harnsberger
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Drawing credit: http://www.janetgoldner.com
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You are invited to join Parish Life for an evening of burgers, lively conversation and fellowship. Meet us at the ZINBURGER located at 6390 East Grant Road ~ Thursday, June 30th at 6:30 pm. Sign- up sheets are located in the back of church.__________________________________________________________
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Nominating Committee Report - May 2016
Rector Search Update
submitted by Ke Chiang (John) Hsieh, Senior Warden
On 11 May, our Nominating Committee, led by Co-chair Debbie d’Amore – our condolences go to Chair Ohia Hodges on her grandmother’s death – met with Canon Russ Smith, the Diocesan Consultant, who brought a list of applicants, whom the Bishop has vetted. After studying the accompanying documents, our NC began interviewing the applicants on 14 May, using a set of probing questions based on your inputs to the two Discoveries and Dreams sessions and the extended written survey. We thank math teacher, Mr. Matt Santucci, for providing technical support needed for the online interviews. For confidentiality, nothing concerning the applicants, numbers or names, will be released. Based on the interviews, the NC will nominate two to three finalists for the Bishop and the Vestry to discern and choose. Your continuing patience, trust and prayers are greatly appreciated. Let us hope that at the end of this arduous process, our new Rector may emerge with God’s blessings.
submitted by Ke Chiang (John) Hsieh, Senior Warden
On 11 May, our Nominating Committee, led by Co-chair Debbie d’Amore – our condolences go to Chair Ohia Hodges on her grandmother’s death – met with Canon Russ Smith, the Diocesan Consultant, who brought a list of applicants, whom the Bishop has vetted. After studying the accompanying documents, our NC began interviewing the applicants on 14 May, using a set of probing questions based on your inputs to the two Discoveries and Dreams sessions and the extended written survey. We thank math teacher, Mr. Matt Santucci, for providing technical support needed for the online interviews. For confidentiality, nothing concerning the applicants, numbers or names, will be released. Based on the interviews, the NC will nominate two to three finalists for the Bishop and the Vestry to discern and choose. Your continuing patience, trust and prayers are greatly appreciated. Let us hope that at the end of this arduous process, our new Rector may emerge with God’s blessings.
Monday, August 17, 2015
Casa Maria and The Messenger!
Casa Maria Sandwich making is this Friday, July 24th. You all have been so faithful since April; thanks are not enough! In Sept we'll have student help. BRING FRIENDS! Come join the fun!
St Michael's Parish Center, 602 N. Wilmot Rd.
Kitchen opens at 5 PM. Come anytime after that!
Please bring two or three dozen hard cooked, peeled eggs.We need extra eggs! We receive no extra eggs from the School students in the summer.
Also please bring medium sized boxes for transporting the lunches. Fruit boxes from Costco or banana boxes are ideal.
Maurice will deliver the sandwiches. (Thanks to Byron for July!) If you can deliver sandwiches once or twice a year, please let us know!
NEXT CASA MARIA: FRIDAY SEPT 18TH.
Casa Maria is every 4 weeks...
Aug 21st
Sept 18th
Oct 16th
Nov 13th
Dec 11th
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The Summer 2015 issue of The Messenger is available! Eight pages long, it includes an article by our new interim rector, Father Richard Mallory, along with articles on the transition, adult education, Taizé, the contemplative prayer group and more, along with an update on St. Michael's School from Head of School Margaret Moore. Click here do download your copy. Black and white printed copies are available in the back of the church and in the church office. The next issue of The Messenger will be published in December, and we're always looking for articles. Please contact Karen Funk Blocher or John Hsieh for details on how to contribute.
Friday, August 07, 2015
Introducing Our New Interim Rector: Fr. Richard Mallory!
In anticipation of the arrival of our Interim Rector on 16 August...
Sunday, 2 August 2015
Dear parishioners of St. Michael and All Angels,
On Sunday, 16 August 2015, Fr. Richard Mallory, our Interim Rector, shall celebrate his first Sunday masses at 7:45, 10:15 AM and 5:00 PM at St. Michael & All Angels. I take this opportunity to introduce him to you in advance, using his own words, so it would be easier for you to get acquainted with him when you welcome him.
“I first became an interim rector in 1999 almost as a fluke.
I had been working full time as a psychotherapist in private practice, a director of a satellite counseling site of a multi-professional counseling center in New York City for 29 years. I had been a senior faculty member in the pastoral counseling department of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health/Hebrew Union College doctoral program for over 20 years. I lived in Stamford, CT, and the Diocese of CT asked if I could be the interim in a nearby town where an interim rector had abruptly resigned.
“I had never imagined that I would work in a congregation when I went to Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1965. My intention was to specialize in Old Testament studies and be a teacher. After my first year, a dynamic and life changing experience in Clinical Pastoral Education at an Atlanta general hospital reoriented me to the world of the psyche. I sought out individual psychotherapy and benefited from exploring my own inner world with the help of a solid professional. I knew that I too wanted to enter that field. That I did by going through the most rigorous training program in pastoral counseling and psychotherapy at the Blanton Peale Institute after graduating from Union. I spent three years in full time work in the alcoholism and drug rehabilitation units of the Roosevelt Hospital in New York and developed a specialty in my practice of working with recovering people in twelve step programs. The other two specialties in my practice became working with couples and traumatized people.
“I accepted that first interim ministry opportunity five years after my wife died of recurrent breast cancer. In looking back on that decision/calling, I was ready for something different. I had always loved the Bible, having grown up in a Southern Baptist context in Alabama, and came to find even more power released in the Scriptures through critical scholarship I first encountered as an undergraduate at Wake Forest. In this interim work, I knew that I liked preaching, teaching, pastoring and began to discover that I was a leader. Upon leaving this parish, it was unmistakable that I had made a difference to an anxious congregation when I first arrived. I could no longer deny that besides making a difference to individuals, groups, couples and students in the world of psychotherapy, I also made a difference in a wider and larger context of a parish. I realized in my own life the difference a primary leader can make for a group.
“My second interim work was in a Greenwich, CT parish where the retiring rector had been for 29 years. He was a good man and also set a controlling and anxious style of leadership. I later learned that he did not attend coffee hours, did not want an ECW group in the parish and wanted first to read every communication from any staff that went out on the letterhead. After being there for a few months, I’ll never forget one parishioner who exclaimed, “We are free to get to know one another.” My leadership style is relaxed just as I am with counselees, providing a safe place and a welcoming presence to all. The essential message is and must be, “You are welcome here, wherever you are in your life’s journey. “ After all, our goal is the imitation of Christ. Did he not welcome anyone who was seeking healing?
“I worked in two more CT parishes before moving to Arizona in 2008. I moved to work in a counseling center in Scottsdale. It has since closed its doors. I knew after several months I had landed in a counseling center with vastly different standards of professionalism than I expected. I knew that staying was intolerable. I had begun to attend the cathedral and began to make connections at the Diocese. An opportunity was offered to be a part time vicar at St. Thomas in Clarkdale. This parish had been battered by prior leadership. My job was to stabilize and pastor a shaken community. After three years, I pursued the associate’s position at All Saints of the Desert in Sun City where I have been serving for almost two years. Here and throughout my ministry, I have concentrated on preaching, teaching, leading small groups both in matters of loss and grief and in men’s work of deeper sharing and communication.
“I am interested in being your interim rector at this time. I had a delightful conversation with your senior warden John Hsieh. I learned about your sign prophesying the sin of nuclear weapons and how that sign survived a truck’s attempt to pull it out of the ground resulting in the sign pulling off a part of the truck. I learned that St. Michael’s in strongly committed in outreach to hungry people. I sense that St. Michael’s encompasses these two poles active ministry and witness undergirded by worship, prayer and openness to Holy Spirit.”
Let us get ready to welcome Fr. Richard.
With gratitude and joy,
Your Senior Warden,
John Hsieh
Sunday, 2 August 2015
Dear parishioners of St. Michael and All Angels,
On Sunday, 16 August 2015, Fr. Richard Mallory, our Interim Rector, shall celebrate his first Sunday masses at 7:45, 10:15 AM and 5:00 PM at St. Michael & All Angels. I take this opportunity to introduce him to you in advance, using his own words, so it would be easier for you to get acquainted with him when you welcome him.
“I first became an interim rector in 1999 almost as a fluke.
I had been working full time as a psychotherapist in private practice, a director of a satellite counseling site of a multi-professional counseling center in New York City for 29 years. I had been a senior faculty member in the pastoral counseling department of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health/Hebrew Union College doctoral program for over 20 years. I lived in Stamford, CT, and the Diocese of CT asked if I could be the interim in a nearby town where an interim rector had abruptly resigned. “I had never imagined that I would work in a congregation when I went to Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1965. My intention was to specialize in Old Testament studies and be a teacher. After my first year, a dynamic and life changing experience in Clinical Pastoral Education at an Atlanta general hospital reoriented me to the world of the psyche. I sought out individual psychotherapy and benefited from exploring my own inner world with the help of a solid professional. I knew that I too wanted to enter that field. That I did by going through the most rigorous training program in pastoral counseling and psychotherapy at the Blanton Peale Institute after graduating from Union. I spent three years in full time work in the alcoholism and drug rehabilitation units of the Roosevelt Hospital in New York and developed a specialty in my practice of working with recovering people in twelve step programs. The other two specialties in my practice became working with couples and traumatized people.
“I accepted that first interim ministry opportunity five years after my wife died of recurrent breast cancer. In looking back on that decision/calling, I was ready for something different. I had always loved the Bible, having grown up in a Southern Baptist context in Alabama, and came to find even more power released in the Scriptures through critical scholarship I first encountered as an undergraduate at Wake Forest. In this interim work, I knew that I liked preaching, teaching, pastoring and began to discover that I was a leader. Upon leaving this parish, it was unmistakable that I had made a difference to an anxious congregation when I first arrived. I could no longer deny that besides making a difference to individuals, groups, couples and students in the world of psychotherapy, I also made a difference in a wider and larger context of a parish. I realized in my own life the difference a primary leader can make for a group.
“My second interim work was in a Greenwich, CT parish where the retiring rector had been for 29 years. He was a good man and also set a controlling and anxious style of leadership. I later learned that he did not attend coffee hours, did not want an ECW group in the parish and wanted first to read every communication from any staff that went out on the letterhead. After being there for a few months, I’ll never forget one parishioner who exclaimed, “We are free to get to know one another.” My leadership style is relaxed just as I am with counselees, providing a safe place and a welcoming presence to all. The essential message is and must be, “You are welcome here, wherever you are in your life’s journey. “ After all, our goal is the imitation of Christ. Did he not welcome anyone who was seeking healing?
“I worked in two more CT parishes before moving to Arizona in 2008. I moved to work in a counseling center in Scottsdale. It has since closed its doors. I knew after several months I had landed in a counseling center with vastly different standards of professionalism than I expected. I knew that staying was intolerable. I had begun to attend the cathedral and began to make connections at the Diocese. An opportunity was offered to be a part time vicar at St. Thomas in Clarkdale. This parish had been battered by prior leadership. My job was to stabilize and pastor a shaken community. After three years, I pursued the associate’s position at All Saints of the Desert in Sun City where I have been serving for almost two years. Here and throughout my ministry, I have concentrated on preaching, teaching, leading small groups both in matters of loss and grief and in men’s work of deeper sharing and communication.
“I am interested in being your interim rector at this time. I had a delightful conversation with your senior warden John Hsieh. I learned about your sign prophesying the sin of nuclear weapons and how that sign survived a truck’s attempt to pull it out of the ground resulting in the sign pulling off a part of the truck. I learned that St. Michael’s in strongly committed in outreach to hungry people. I sense that St. Michael’s encompasses these two poles active ministry and witness undergirded by worship, prayer and openness to Holy Spirit.”
Let us get ready to welcome Fr. Richard.
With gratitude and joy,
Your Senior Warden,
John Hsieh
Friday, June 19, 2015
General Convention News
The 78th General Convention of the Episcopal Church
June 25 - July 3, 2015
Salt Lake City, Utah
The governing body of The Episcopal Church, known as the General Convention, is a bicameral legislature that includes the House of Deputies and the House of Bishops. It meets every three years - and this is one of those years.
During its triennial meeting, the Convention's work is carried out by deputies and bishops representing each diocese. They consider a wide range of important issues. For more information on the Convention, as well as videos about the four nominees for Presiding Bishop, check out the General Convention website, articles about Convention on The Episcopal Cafe website. Thanks to Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis for the info!
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