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Emmanuel
Church Staff
The Rev’d Canon Dr. Mark Gatza,
Rector
Ellen Patten, Administrator
Brent Pertusio, Organist & Choirmaster
Heather Costantino, Christian Education
Coordinator
James Kennard, Sexton
Church Phone
410 838-7699
Church Cell Phone for
Pastoral Emergencies
443 752-0573
www.emmanuelbelair.org
Services:
Sundays—8 AM, 10 AM & Noon
Tuesdays — 10 AM
Your Vestry Wants To Hear From You!
Here is a list of your vestry to contact with any concerns!
Rector --Mark Gatza: [email protected]
Senior Warden — Dottie Ward: [email protected]
Junior Warden — Linden White: [email protected]
Treasurer -- Steve Bareford: [email protected]
Registrar -- Liz Glass: [email protected]
Debbie Bissoondial: [email protected]
Chris Gauthier: [email protected]
Cami Rogers: [email protected]
Rita Scharmann: [email protected]
JoAnne Bogusko: [email protected]
Peg Goodson: [email protected]
Allan Herlinger: [email protected]
Judy Hathaway: [email protected]
Judy Isom: [email protected]
Joan Kime: [email protected]
Andrea Lake: [email protected]
Charles Chapman Grafton, Bishop and Ecumenist, 1912
Charles Grafton was born April 12, 1830 in Boston, and attended Harvard Law School. He was confirmed at Church of the Advent — then a leading parish implementing the principles of the Oxford Movement—where he began seriously to explore his vocation. After graduation he moved to Maryland to study with the Tractarian Bishop William Whittington who eventually or-dained him deacon on December 23, 1855, and priest on May 30, 1858. Grafton served a num-ber of parishes in Maryland but experienced a growing attraction to the religious life. In 1865, he left for England specifically to meet Edward Bouverie Pusey. In the following year, after a series of meetings held at All Saints, Margaret Street, Grafton and two others took religious vows and the Society of St. John the Evangelist had its beginning. In 1872, Grafton returned and was elect-ed fourth Rector of the Church of the Advent, Boston. In 1888, Grafton was elected second bish-
op of Fond du Lac. His consent process was difficult as many thought him too ritualistic, but he soon became known not only as an Anglo-Catholic but also as an ecumenist, deeply committed to improve relations with the Orthodox and Old Catholics. He founded the Sisters of the Holy Nativity. Perhaps the most famous event during Grafton’s long epis-copate was the ordination of his successor in 1900. He invited the Russian Orthodox Bishop Tikhon and the Old Catho-lic Bishop Anthony Kozlowski to participate. The service stirred up furor across the country with the publication of a photograph (called derisively “The Fond du Lac Circus”) that showed all eight Episcopal bishops and the two visiting bishops in cope and miter. It caused a church-wide furor over ritual and vestments that lasted for over six months, with accusations and threats of ecclesiastical trial flying from all corners, and with scurrilous attacks and virulent justifications. When the dust finally settled, the legitimacy of traditional catholic ritual and vestments had thereafter gained a permanent place in the liturgy in the Episcopal Church. Bishop Grafton died August 30, 1912.
The Trumpet
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
303 North Main Street
Bel Air, Maryland 21014
30 August 2016
Upcoming Scripture Lessons
21 August 2016 — Isaiah 58:4b-14; Psalm 103; Hebrews 12:18-29; Luke 13:10-17
28 August 2016 — Sirach 12:12-18; Psalm 112; Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16; Luke 14:1, 7-14
Charles Chapman Grafton, Bishop and Ecumenist 1912
Loving God, you called Charles Chapman Grafton to be a bishop in your Church and endowed him with a burning zeal for souls: Grant that, following his example, we may ever live for the extension of your king-dom, that your glory may be the chief end of our lives, your will the law of our conduct, your love the motive of our actions, and Christ’s life the model and mold of our own; through the same Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, throughout all ages. Amen.
Calendar Notes
Please Note: Sunday worship through the Summer continues at 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM and Noon. On Tues-days we offer a service in the Parish Hall at 10:00 AM with prayers for healing.
Sunday, 21 August: Regular Service Schedule; Break-fast served at 9:00 AM in the Parish Hall.
Tuesday, 23 August: Healing Service in the Parish Hall, 10:00 AM. Office staff meeting, 11:00 AM
Sunday, 28 August: Regular Service Schedule.
Monday, 29 August: Trumpet Newsletter article deadline, 12 Noon.
Tuesday, 30 August: Healing Service in the Parish Hall, 10:00 AM; “Holy Folders” following.
Sunday, 4 September: Regular Service Schedule; see the notice to the right about Sunday School Registra-tion.
Tuesday, 6 September: Healing Service in the Parish Hall, 10:00 AM. Office staff meeting, 11:00 AM.
Gearing Up For
Fall
Here is the first notice of plans for our regular academic year Sunday School Program, which meets during our 10:00 AM Service on Sundays. Our theme for the year is “Soaring with the Spir-it.” In September we will pick up the Creation theme from our Summer program and focus on God’s creation of the “lights” in the sky. From there we will look to see how Christians under-stand Jesus as the light of the world.
Here are some dates to put in your calendars:
Sunday, 4 September: Sunday School pre-registration, beginning at 9:30 AM. Come early to avoid the rush! There will be a group activity for children after they are registered.
Sunday, 11 September: First Sunday School classes of the year, followed by the ever pop-ular
“Sundae Sunday” Party
Join us following the 10:00 AM service for Home-made Ice Cream and all of your favorite top-pings (Yes! All of them!)
It Started with a Fire At least that is one way to tell the story of the growth spurt that happened to Bel Air in
the mid-1800’s. This is the first of an occasional series of Trumpet articles about life in
Harford County during the early years of Emmanuel Church that I hope will put our
founding in 1868 in some context.
Harford County was separated from Baltimore County in 1773, and I suppose that the
looming Revolutionary War postponed the immediate construction of a courthouse anywhere in the county.
“Scott’s Old Fields” was renamed “Belle Aire” and designated the County Seat in 1784. I have always won-
dered why, after being so chosen, Bel Air (the superfluous letters dropping off by the turn of the last century)
was so slow to grow as a town. The building you see illustrated here was constructed in 1791, with the wings
for the Clerk of the Court on the right and the Register of Wills on the left, added later. With good ports on
the Chesapeake Bay, it is easy to see why Joppatowne, Havre de
Grace and Aberdeen were the chief commercial centers of the
county in its early years, but the designation of a county seat usual-
ly brought with it a thriving trade. In fact, in the Diocese of Mary-
land, historically speaking, the Episcopal Church in the county seat
of its 10 counties was always the largest in the region — except for
Bel Air, which didn’t have one! The 1860 US Census attests to Bel
Air’s relative tardiness: it listed a population of just 197 people: 146
whites, 45 “Free Coloreds” and six slaves. The town was laid out
on a main street of 42 lots, some of them over two acres in size. If
you have ever walked the streets of Colonial Williamsburg — or
better, Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts — you have some
feel for the original layout of Bel Air.
There was enough concern about the safety of the records kept in the two wings added in 1830 that the
plans called for them to be built to withstand an outside fire — this according to the website of the Clerk’s
Office of the District Court for Harford County. This indictment of the safety of the original building turned
out to be well-founded: the courthouse burned in 1858, while the fireproof additions remained undamaged
and their contents intact. The reconstruction of a much larger facility began immediately, and so too did the
process of “urbanizing” our little town. Larger lots were subdivided and buildings began to spring up wall to
wall to create the street scene that is still apparent today. The population more than tripled in 10 years,
reaching 633 as recorded in the 1870 census. This, of course, included a growing number of children, for
whom “Holy Innocents” Sunday school was established in 1862.
Before Emmanuel’s founding, local Episcopalians worshiped at several surrounding country churches,
including Christ Church three miles to the north, St. Mary’s Church, three miles to the south, and St. John’s in
Kingsville (formerly Joppatowne) some eight miles to the west. Though there were significant theological
controversies which divided our 19th century forebears (to be saved for a later installment in this series) and
tension between northern and southern sympathizers in the border state of Maryland before and during the
Civil War, it probably was mostly a matter of convenience that led several of the town’s merchants and law-
yers to meet and organize the congregation in March of 1868. In fact, clergy from Christ Church began regu-
larly to travel to Bel Air on Sunday afternoons to do services as early as 1860. The venues varied from private
homes to the old Masonic hall which was then used for services by a Methodist congregation.
Whether caused by the courthouse fire or not, the small town of Bel Air was soon inundated with the
tide of new growth and new opportunity. Emmanuel Church came in with that tide, ready to be of service.
Totidem Verbis Mark Gatza+
Outreach at Emmanuel
We haven’t been talking much about Outreach lately, but our Out-reach Programs are alive and well. Please remember the following offerings we support here at Emmanuel:
Cell Phone for Soldiers: We haven’t had a donation for this pro-gram for quite a while. Used cell phones are turned into phone minutes for service people who are away from home. Batteries & chargers are not necessary
Box Tops for Educations: Take just a moment to cut off these labels from your boxed goods to help local schools.
Food Pantry: We appreciate all the wonderful donations that keep our food pantry well stocked. Keep ‘em coming as this ministry continues to grow.
Cottage Thrift Shop: Our volunteers often go above and beyond the call to keep the Thrift Shop open to serve our community. Consider volunteering one Friday or Saturday morning a month. It is a rewarding experience with wonderful fellowship.
Yarn Guild: We have a prolific group of knitters and cro-cheters who produce chemo caps, prayer shawls, dialysis sleeves, lap blankets, scarves and more. If you know of someone in need, don’t hesitate to ask one of the mem-bers for one of their creations. Dollar donations for the purchase of yarn is always appreciated.
Harford Senior Housing: Look to future Trumpet publica-tions for announcements of needed donation to benefit those residents in need who live at Harford Senior Housing.
The Outreach volunteers are truly grateful for all the dona-tions given in the past.