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eNewsletter 11 January 2002 |
The Chi Rho Press eNewsletter Happy New Year. May your troubles in 2002 be as
short-lived as your resolutions. Contents: -------------------------------------------------- Welcome once again to the Chi Rho Connection, the electronic newsletter of Chi Rho Press. Thank you for passing this Chi Rho Connection on to others. To join our list, send an e-mail message to
ChiRhoPress-subscribe@yahoo.com. Direct all other e-mail to Adam@ChiRhoPress.com. See the end of this eNewsletter for a complete list of e-mail addresses at ChiRhoPress.com. -------------------------------------------------- 1. Father Mychal Judge's Prayer This prayer was written by Father Mychal Judge, the first identified victim of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. Fr. Judge was a remarkable man, embraced and celebrated by many parts of the New York community, including the Gay community. A Catholic priest, a Franciscan, and fire department chaplain, he was killed by falling debris at the World Trade Center while giving last rites to a fire fighter. Here is his prayer: -------------------------------------------------- 2. Recapping the Steps to Recovery from Bible Abuse The last thirteen issues of the Chi Rho Connection each
featured one of the Steps to Recovery from Bible Abuse
from Dr. Rembert Truluck's amazing book by the same name.
We thought it would be well to list all the steps in this
premier issue of 2002. ***** -------------------------------------------------- 3. New Promissory Notes Offered -------------------------------------------------- 4. Publication of 2002 Liturgical Calendar Cancelled -------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------
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Vol. III, No. 1
11 January 2002
2. Recapping the Steps to Recovery from Bible Abuse
3. New Promissory Notes Offered
4. Publication of 2002 Liturgical Calendar Cancelled
5. Adam's Last Word:
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Let me meet who you want me to meet
Tell me what you want me to say
And keep me out of your way. Amen.
Father Mychal Judge, victim 00001, World Trade Center
Step 2, Turn to God for Help
Step 3, Examine Your Faith
Step 4, Face and Deal with Your Anger
Step 5, Avoid Negative People and Churches
Step 6, Confront the Scripture Used Against You
Step 7, Find Positive Supportive Scripture
Step 8, Read and Study the Gospels
Step 9, Come Out and Accept Yourself
Step 10, Develop Your Support System
Step 11, Learn to Share Your Faith
Step 12, Become a Freedom Missionary
Step 13, Give Yourself Time to Heal and Recover
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We believe that the liturgical calendar has been a valued resource for many of our most loyal customers for the last seven years, and the staff and board of Chi Rho Press deeply regret what we expect will only be a temporary discontinuation of the annual Liturgical Calendar. We are working to revise the content and format of the calendar for next year.
Future Liturgical Calendars will be very different from previous Calendars, offering much more information and utility for leaders of worship across the UFMCC and beyond. This year's Calendar was to have been compiled by a pastornew to the project with great ideas; however, it would also have cost significantly more to produce. Given the untested new product and the lateness of the hour in getting the finished material to us, Chi Rho Press believes it best not to publish a Liturgical Calendar this year.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by this very regrettable situation. Please also know that we have informed you as soon as the decision not to publish was made. To all who have pre-paid outstanding orders for this year's Liturgical Calendar, we will issue a refund or credit.
We would also like to direct you to a substitute resource that you might find helpful during 2002. Visit http://www.cresourcei.org/RCLmenu.html for information about the Revised Common Lectionary, as well as scripturereadings by Sunday.
If you are interested in learning how we might change our liturgical calendar, please write the Director and Publisher R. Adam DeBaugh at Adam@ChiRhoPress.com. If you have inquired about the Liturgical Calendar this year we will keep your name on file and notify you in mid-2002 about the production of the 2003 Year B Liturgical Calendar. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
The holidays were somewhat subdued this year, sales were down from last year and things never seemed to reach the fever pitch we often associate with the holidays. In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the war in Afghanistan, it seemed as though the holidays crept up on us unaware and passed with little fanfare. Perhaps that is a good thing, if it means more people were spending their time meditating on the reason for the season, the incarnation of God in our midst in the person of Jesus Christ.
I had a relatively quiet Christmas and New Years. Kevin Fries (who is my best friend as well as my co-worker here at the Press) and I escaped to New York City for a few days right before Christmas, returning home in time for a dinner party Christmas Eve. We stayed in a wonderfully gay bed and breakfast on West 22nd Street called the Colonial House Inn (http://www.colonialhouseinn.com). The building had been the first home of the Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York.
We had a Gay literary weekend, seeing the Oscar Wilde exhibit at the Morgan Library (http://www.morganlibrary.org), dinner with a writer friend at Tea and Sympathy on Greenwich, a wonderful church service Sunday at MCC New York, and high tea at Lady Mendl's just south of Grammercy Park (http://www.travel-new-york.com/inn-at-irving). Of course there was the obligatory shopping as well (Saks Fifth Avenue, FAO Schwartz, and looking in the windows of Tiffany's) and seeing the tree, decorations, and crowds at Rockefeller Center.
Lady Mendl turns out to be Elsie de Wolfe who is credited with creating the interior decorating industry in the US. She was a rather unsuccessful actress, but her time on the stage enabled her to meet Elizabeth Marbury, a New York theatrical agent and producer. They fell in love and bought two conjoined brownstones on Irving Place (Lexington Avenue extended south of Grammercy Park) which Elsie decorated. Her interior design for their house was such a success that friends began asking her to decorate their homes and a new business was created.
Elsie and Bessie Marbury continued together for many years. When Elsie suddenly married Sir Charles Mendl late in life it was much to Bessie's surprise. But Sir Charles assured Bessie that it was merely a marriage of convenience. When Bessie died at aged 60, she left her entire estate to the love of her life, Elsie, Lady Mendl. A wonderful lesbian love story! (Read David Bianco's mini-bio of Elsie de Wolfe at
http://www.camprehoboth.com/issue03-10-00/pastout.htm.)
Now their home on Irving Place is the Inn at Irving Place, and includes the rather famous restaurant Verbena, and Lady Mendl's Tea Room. The five-course high tea is a real event there and Kevin and I thought it a highlight of our New York trip. Are we queer or what?
Once we were back home, Christmas passed quietly with dinner parties Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day, and then New Years Eve was spent at an early dinner with friends at a wonderful Vietnamese restaurant in Rockville, MD (Taste of Saigon) and movies at home. Time for reflection, meditation, and prayer made the holidays extra special, along with lots of time with my dearest friend Kevin and other friends and family.
You may recall my telling you that I had bought livestock for my niece and nephews through the Heifer Project International, http://www.heifer.org. Well, I am pleased to say they were a big hit with the kids and they are delighted that families in other parts of the world will be receiving a hive of bees and training in bee keeping, a flock of ducks, and a flock of chicks in their names.
So now 2002 is well and truly with us. The debate over whether or not we have passed into the 21st Century must surely be over by now. And we enter 2002 a bit more sobered perhaps, more serious, maybe even a little more fearful. It is my hope that we also enter 2002 with a new resolve to be more attentive to the needs of our spiritual natures, to be more concerned about those less fortunate than ourselves, to be more thankful for all that we have, to be less willing to ignore oppression and discrimination, and to be more willing to stand up for our rights as LGBT people and our allies.
Of course, we also hope that the new year will bring a renewed and continued interest in reading! I urge you to check out our Web page and to purchase a book or two from Chi Rho Press. We rely on your patronage to keep us in business and growing. The new year will hold a lot of exciting things for us, a new look to the Web page, better ability to serve you, new books and products, and new opportunities for investment.
Thanks for being a part of this ministry! Happy New Year!
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