July 2007
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1 V Pentecost Coffee 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist 10:30 (Fr. Gene Asbury)	2 Fr. Karl out of the office	3 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA 8 p.m.	4 Independence Day Office Closed No Bible study	5 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA Noon NA 7 p.m.	6 AA 8 p.m.	7
8 VI Pentecost Coffee 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist 10:30	9 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m.	10 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA 8 p.m.	11 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Bible Study, noon Holy Eucharist 6 p.m. St. Benedict	12 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA Noon NA 7 p.m.	13 AA 8 p.m.	14
15 VII Pentecost Coffee 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist 10:30	16 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Vestry 5:30 p.m.	17 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Project Homestead 8:30 a.m. AA 8 p.m.	18 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Bible Study, noon Holy Eucharist 6 p.m. St. Macrina	19 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA Noon NA 7 p.m.	20 AA 8 p.m.	21
22 VIII Pentecost Coffee 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist 10:30	23 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m.	24 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA 8 p.m.	25 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Bible Study, noon Holy Eucharist 6 p.m. St. James the Apostle	26 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA Noon NA 7 p.m.	27 AA 8 p.m.	28
29 IV Pentecost Coffee 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist 10:30	30 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m.	31 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA 8 p.m.

	Grace Notes The first day in July for which the Church calendar prescribes an optional special observance is Independence Day. An observance was first proposed in the draft Prayer Book of 1786, but General Convention in 1789 voted this down, based in large part on the intervention of Bishop William White (Pennsylvania), who argued such an observance to be inappropriate in a church in which the majority of clergy had been loyal to the British crown throughout the War of Independence. The Fourth of July was not included in the church calendar until the 1928 Prayer Book. On 11 July, Benedict of Nursia is remembered. Benedict was a sixth century abbot who is considered to be the father of western monasticism. The Benedictine Rule for monks and nuns is observed in all of the monastic orders of the Anglican tradition. Bishop William White is remembered on 17 July, as the chief architect of the constitution of the Episcopal Church. At the first general Convention of 1789, Bp. White was the first Presiding Bishop. Other notable observances in July include those for prominent abolitionists on 20 and 30 July, Mary Magdalene (July 22), St. James the Apostle (“James the Greater,” brother of John), and William Reed Huntington on 27 July. William Reed Huntington was the sixth rector of Grace Church, New York City. He worked tirelessly from the mid-nineteenth century until the eve of World War I to promote Christian unity, and was responsible (largely through his 1870 book The Church Idea) for promoting Anglicanism as a “middle way” around which Christians could come together. Huntington was behind the calling of the first Lambeth Conference, and the drafting of the “Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral (pp. 876–878 in the Prayer Book) as a basis for Christian unity. The four elements of the Quadrilateral are: (1) The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as the revealed word of God; (2) The Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of the Christian Faith; (3) The two Sacraments–Baptism and the Supper of the Lord,–ministered with unfailing use of Christ’s words of institution and of the elements ordained by Him; and (4) The Historic Episcopate, locally adapted in the methods of its administration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples called of God into the unity of His Church. We begin the month with a favorite hymn, The Church’s One Foundation (525), a nineteenth century hymn by Samuel John Stone, who was prominent in the revival of hymnody in the Church of England. Stone figured in the compilation of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861), the first hymnal used widely in England. A similar theme is included in Christ is Made the Sure Foundation (518), which we’ll sing at the end of the month. This hymn, sung to a famous tune from the 17^th century composer, Henry Purcell, also first appeared in Hymns Ancient and Modern, as a translation of a seventh century Latin prayer. Like many hymns in our hymnal that come from early Latin and Greek prayers, this hymn resulted from the linguistic and poetical skills of John Mason Neale (d. 1866; remembered on the Church calendar on 7 August). Twentieth century hymns also figure in worship for this July, including 655, O Jesus, I Have Promised, sung to a Finnish folk tune, and Come Labor On (541). Other favorites this month include: Lord Dismiss us with Thy Blessing (344); The God of Abraham Praise (401); and Eternal Father, Strong to Save (608). For those of you who particularly like nineteenth century Evangelical hymns, come sing in August, when the lessons allow us to use old favorites like Onward Christian Soldiers, Stand up, Stand up for Jesus!, and Just as I am.