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Show 8ST BAY Bor Porn KF BS F ee ne Te CR ee ee ee ST oe ee ee eee ee Oe ee ee ee Saw Se eee. eee =e en a ee eS s n - The Salt Lake Tribune RELIGION Wont? WORLD VIEW FAITH IN ACTION , WSt. Therese Catholic Church (634 East BAPTIST Lennoxin Midvale) is having a Jubilee 2000 Fiesta today and Sunday from 9a.m. to7 p.m. with crafts, children’s games andplenty of food. For more information, call Miguel The Calvary Baptist Church will present the “Children’s Day Musical” on Sunday at 3:30 p.m., at the church,532 E. 700 South,Salt Lake City. The musical is sponsored by the Linking Religion To Health Care Troubles Authors Gutierrez at 280-2161. Angel Choir, Witness for Christ Choir and Voicesof Praise Youth Choir. CATHOLIC National Shrine of the Immaculate Concep- Gardenon June 10. The prayer garden,a gift of the National Council of Women (NCCW), is located on a three-quarteracre site on the Basilica’s northwest grounds. The mostreverend Gabriel Montalvo, Apostolic Nuncio to Thetrend toward incorporating the United States, presided at the Mass and The Rey. John Kaloudis has returned from a three-month sabbatical to resume his conference will celebrate the 150th anniver- and friends participated in the dedication ceremonies as part of a Jubilee Year pilgrimage sponsored by the National Council turned to his responsibilities June 14. @ The 18th annual Greek Orthodox Archdiocese young adult league conference will take place June 29-July 3, in Philadelphia. Keynote speaker will be, His Eminence Arclibishop Demetrios. There will also be a hierarchial divine liturgy and grand ban- Dedication Rite. Among 400 NCCW members quet. Call 328-9681. ofCatholic Women. The Mormon History Association, a scholarly organization dedicatedto the study of Latter-day Saint and restoration history, will have its annual meeting in Denmark between June 25 and July 2. The association GREEK ORTHODOX nounced hisintention to take leave in February,telling parishioners in letter that he was going through a divorce. Kaloudis re- tion dedicated a new devotional area, Mary's built. His sister will speak on his family’s behalf and a marker will be placed ip*his memory. LATTER-DAYSAINTS stages meetingsatsites of historical signifi- duties as the chief priest at Salt Lake City’s Greek Orthodox community. He had an- WASHINGTON D.C.— TheBasilica ofthe religion and spirituality into health care is ethically and scientifically questionable, according to an article by a groupof Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Muslim c3 Saturday, June 24, 2000 METHODIST. + The Wesley Bell Ringers from Christ United Methodist Church in Salt Lake City will perform at Christ United Methodist cance to Mormonhistory. The Denmark sary of the introduction of the Church of Church, 2375 E. 3300 South, Sunday, at 7:30 p.m. Call 565-3645 for more information. Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into Scandinavia. MISCELLANEOUS @TheCopper Hills Stake LDS Church Youth Conference will be building a park to- The UnitySpiritual Center invites people to participate in a group meditation every Wednesdayin Millcreek Canyon. Call John Klobcharfor more information, 250-8033. day, from approximately 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.. Theparkis located at 4800 W. New Bingham Highway. Some 200 young people will plant trees, rake ground, and lay sod so that the The Miracle Rock Church and the Rev. Max Jaramillowill stage a youth rally today at the West High School auditorium, 341°N. 300 West, Salt Lake City. Refreshments will be served from 6 to 7 p.m., a praise and worship service will followfrom 7 to 10 p.m. neighborhood can have an area for recreation. At the end ofthe project, there will bea memorial for Ron Deutsch whodied of heart failure on his way to Copper Hills High School in the area where the park is to be Call 595-0056 for moreinformation. biomedical researchers and chap- lains in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine. Combining the two “leads to weak science [and] watered-down religion,”said the article whose lead author was Richard P. Sloan, director of behavioral medicine at ColumbiaPresbyterian Medical Center. “We are troubled by the uncritical embrace ofthis trend by thegeneral public, indi and American medical schools,” it said. The authors stated that “limited, narrowly focused and methodologically flawed studies” are leading to false conclusions that religious activity promotes healing. — The Associated Press Q No Regulation The House voted Tuesday to protect religious broadcasters by barring the Federal Communications Commission from regulating the contentof speech aired by noncommercial educational television andradiostations. In January, the FCC commissioners voted to drop controversial language in a De- cemberruling that declared that somereligious programming aired on noncommercial stations — including that which focused on proselytizing — could not be con- sidered educational. — Religion News Service Q Peter to Be Carol A twice-married and _twicedivorced Church of England vicar is to have a sex-change operation but continue to minister to his Wiltshire, England parish — no longeras the Rev.Peter butinstead as the Rev. Carol Stone. Ata news conference this week in Bristol, Stone, 46, said he was relieved to receive the backing of Bishop Barry Rogersonof Bristol. He said the decision to have the operation ended lifetime journey. “Among myearliest memories are of me wishing that I was other than I was,” he said. “Every night I prayed I would wake upasa girl.If there was another way,I would not be here today. Nobody does this by choice.” Stone also said his 18-year-old daughter had been “tremendously supportive.” Rogerson said he had told Stone’s congregation about their vicars decision after morning service on Sunday. “The response wasoneof over- whelming support and a general desire to keep Peter, or Carol, as their parishpriest,” he said. — Religion NewsService Ist Ordained Woman The Rev. Bekure Daba of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church MekaneYesus has becomethefirst ordained woman in the 3 millionmember denomination. The May 16 ceremony was attended by senior pastors from the denomination as well as a delegation from Lutheran churches around the world, including the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Daba, 39, has served the Ethiopian Church in a variety of women’s ministries since graduating from the denomination’s seminary in Addis Ababa. Her ordination brings to 750 the numberofpastors in the Ethiopian Lutheran denomination, whichis said to be one of ao fastest growing churches in Communion: Sacramentof Unity, History of Division @ Continued from C-1 Communionis indeed a spiritual experience, minus transubtantiation. “We understandit asa sign of our redemption,” she said. “It is also. . . a foretaste of the heavenly kingdom where we will all gatherat the Lord’s table.” The church's historic “Elizabethan Compromise” puts it this way: “Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee and feed on him in thy heart by faith and with thanksgiving.” Irish says those words allow open communion with Christians of all persuasions, To the Eastern Orthodoxfaith, the Eucharist is, as St. Ignatius put it, “The medicine of immortality,” said the Rev. Mark Baker of Salt Lake City’s Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church. Orthodox Christians embrace the idea of “real presence,” that the bread and wine are truly Christ's body and blood. However, they avoid trying to explain exactly how. “In what way, and by what means, we do not know,” Bakersaid. “And, we are content with not knowing. . . . The expe- rience of the Orthodoxfaith is not limited by ourability to mentally comprehendit.” Orthodox Communion,like its Catholic counterpart,is limited to members, making “closed communion”the rule for roughly two-thirds the world’s 2 billion Christians. Protestant denominationssplit on the practice; many Baptist congregations and some Lutheranslimit communion to parishioners; most evangelical Christian churches offer it openly to all believers. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stands apart from most of Christendom in its weekly Sacrament “They should never have done what they did, but I don't blame them. God is the one who will deal with all ofus.” — Sheila Martin, who escaped with two of her children but lost her husband and four other children in the 1993 fire that ended the , Siege at a Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, A wrongful death trial has begun to determine if the government is responsible | for the deaths that occurred in the ‘ finalday ofthesiege, 1 From USA Today A Prayer in Despair Leads to Holy Communion Online BY BOB MIMS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE TheRev. Rusty Weller, forced by failing health to resign his pastorate, found himself depressed andwithout flock three years ago. Then,he says, God spoke to him — through his personal computer. The result was “The Write Answer” (www.writeanswer.com), a virtual churchoffering Internet links to everything from online hymns, sermons and Sunday School to the most universal rite of Christendom:a self-serve Holy Communion(bread and winenotincluded). “The Communion page and online worship service were inspired in responseto prayer dur- ing a timeof deep despair,” the 53-year-old Southern Baptist minister said. “I poured out myheart to God and suddenlyfelt the overpowering urge to wipe myeyes and constructthe [Web]sites.” What happenednext, hebelieves, was a cybermiracle. “ I felt the Holy Spirit take over myfingers on the keyboard,andI let him create,” Weller said. First to go online was his “Sonrise Service” (www.writeanswer.com/worship.htm), which opens with a selection of church music and the invitation, “No need to wait for Sunday to worship! Please join ‘The Write Answer" staff in a unique online service.” The menuincludes sermonsanda selection of hymns,as well as online Bibles. Andthenthere is “The I ord’s Supper: Online Communion” link (www.writeanswer.com/ communion.htm). The page opens with a Episcopalians, Evangelical Lutherans, the United ChurchofChrist andother denominationshave recently moved toward “fully shared communion” with each from Jerusalem, across Arabia Bountiful to retrace the epic scriptural journey of Lehi and his family. Tour includes airfare, deluxe hotels, all meals and study materials. Be amon\ the first Latter-day Saints to travel this fascinating ‘ail through the Scat eee of lerae, eran, wdi Arabia, Yemen and Oman, muchof it previously inaccessible. 18 days. Departures Sept. Limited space. nd 3 4 800-532-9488 for — detalis 10. tions for taking the Communion bread and wine. Weller acknowledges the idea of cyberCommunion might raise some Christian eyebrows, but believes he was divinely directed to includetherite on his Website. “I believe as the Internet becomes an entertainmentalternative onliving room TV screens along with network shows and cable movies, churches have a wonderful opportunity to offer several hours of Godly programming for their families,” he said. Nonetheless, this pastor of bits and bytes in- sists his ministryis not a substitute for real-world churches occupied by worshippersofflesh and bone.* I don’t knowwhat purposethe Lord has in mind, but I don’t thinkit’s forus to forsake meeting together,” he said. Still, for those without a church, between churches orunable to get out of their homes to attend Sundayservices, there remains “The Write Answer.” Through the Internet, Weller believes other Christian computer users will soon join him in offering an arrayof religious courses, streaming audio sermons and messages, prayer rooms, tesid, yes, worship and Communion for Asfor potentialcritics? “I just do as directed.” hesaid, “andlet God handleanyflak.” other. He yearns for the day when faith honor. Onlythat, Marty said, Protestants and Catholics, too, will finally end “the long struggles find a wayto share in the bodyof Christ, which both wings of the sacrament ofunity.” Great Harvest Family Church Special Guest Minister Rev. Jim Puhr Missionary to Budapest. Hungary Sunday, June 25th 10:00 AM and 6:30 PM 7692 S. 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Don Schlichting 4200 West 5415 South, Kearns Pastor & Mrs. Willard Richard.of WORDALIVE FAMILY CHURCH {575 SOUTH 700 EAST 801-255-8181 on Home of at Lake Chtatlan Aendemy (K-12) BE PROVO - Dr. Lynn Hilton and Warren Aston, noted Book of Mormon researchers, are leading an tscedton depiction of the Last Supperand the admonition not to enter into the sacrament without “soulsearching and a timeof reflection.” It continues with prayers andillustrated step-by-step instruc- ATTEND THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE meetings, where young members of the church’s Aaronic priesthood distribute broken bread — and water. “Since 1830, Latter-day Saints havetaughtthatit does not matter what is used as emblems of the body and blood ofthe Lord,as long as they are taken in remembrance of the suffering and death of Christ,” explained Robert Millet, dean of church-owned Brigham Young University’s Religious Education Department. Mormon communion also is “open,” with non-members allowed to participate, though it remains, as church President Gordon B. Hinckley has said, “the very heart of our sabbath worship [including] a renewal ofcovenants with . fand] a promise of his Holy Spirit to be with us.” The “open communion table” also is practiced by Salt Lake City's Christ United Methodist Church,said the Rev. Ron Hodges. Like many Protestant denominations, the elements are distributed via a plate containing the bread and a containerfilled with miniature plastic cups; the frequency of offering communion varies from one UMCchurchto the next. “We fall into the symbolicremembrance understanding of the sacrament, but that does not — Lutheran World Information Q The Last Word lessen its meaning or power for United Methodists,” Hodgessaid. “When we share the symbolic meal aroundthetable of the Lord weexperience Christ alive in us, in our church andin the world.” Communionis a monthlyaffair at Salt Lake City’s First Congregational Church,and“thetable is for all whorepentoftheir sins and desire of new way of life in Christ,” said the Rev. Art Ritter. Usually, the elements are distributed through the pews on trays by church deacons, with occasional departures. “Once in a while, we will have the participants come forwardto receive a small cup and tear off a piece of bread from a commonloaf,” Ritter said, In eithercase, the sacramentis viewed symbolically, as “gifts Jesus gaveus so that we might rememberhim each time weeat and drink of them,”the pastorsaid. The Lord's Supperprimarily is a‘spiritual experience, too, for membersofSalt Lake City’s Central Seventh-Day Adventist Church.In addition to unleavened bread andfresh grape juice served by deaconstoall, Adventists have the Ordinance of Humility, with members re-enacting Christ's washing ofthe disciples’ feet. “We believe that communion should always be a solemn experience but never a somber one,” said the Rev. Rowland Nwosu. “Wrongs have been righted, sins have been forgiven and faith has been reaffirmed; it is a time for celebration.” By sharing that sentiment, Marty believes Christians could once morefind a measureof unity at the Lord’s Table. Indeed, Summér Forum 1:00am ar 3, 4 Bi ¥ 9:30 1am Celebration Services ic Fothering Meditation 9:00 am org ven upualceiet q - |
