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Community Events
(All Liturgies begin at 9:30a unless otherwise noted.)

May 2013
  • May 05 6th Sunday of Easter, Rev. Francis Baiocchi presiding community sing, fellowship & community meeting; annual bike blessing at 11:00am in church parking lot
  • May 12 7th Sunday of Easter, Rev. Robert Weiss presiding community sing, fellowship
  • May 19 Pentecost Sunday Rev. Kathy Vandenberg presiding community sing, fellowship
  • May 26 Feast of the Holy Trinity Rev. Francis Baiocchi presiding community sing, fellowship
June 2013
  • Jun 02 Corpus Christi Sunday Rev. Robert Weiss presiding community sing, fellowship & community meeting
  • Jun 09 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time Rev. Francis Baiocchi presiding community sing, fellowship
  • Jun 16 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Rev. Donald Wright presiding community sing, fellowship
  • Jun 23 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Rev. Robert Weiss presiding community sing, fellowship
  • Jun 30 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Rev. Kathy Vandenberg presiding community sing, fellowship


Weekly Bulletin
Two parts for the week of 19 May, 2013: part 1 | part 2



Homily
19 May 2013

Pentecost

Pentecost has arrived. Alleluia, Alleluia!!


News
What Would Christ Say...

Fr. Peter Daly (adapted)

Cars registered to the Vatican display license plates with the letters SCV. Officially those initials stand for Stato della Citta del Vaticano (Vatican City State). But Italians say SCV stands for Se Christo Videsse (“If Christ could see”). One wonders: If Christ could see, what would he say?

Vatican's Looming 'Inquisition' Reveals a Fractured Catholic Church

Jason Berry, Pulitzer Center

Over the last half century, the place known as Holy Wisdom Monastery in Westport, Wisconsin, has changed as the Catholic Church has changed.


Meditations
Turning Old Age's Prison Into A Time Of Forgiveness And Gratitude

Ed Hays, NCR

One day you awake to find yourself behind barbed wire fences as a prisoner of an escape-proof concentration camp -- old age. You have been seeing all the warning signs of your dreaded deportation in the mirror and knew soon you would be next.

Becoming Other Christs

Roger Karban, NCR

At the end of his life, Moses delivers some final words to the Israelites, who are finally about to enter the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 26:4-10 concerns the proper way to offer the first fruits of their future harvests. Setting their offering before Yahweh’s altar, they’re to say, “My father [Jacob] was a wandering Aramean who went down to Egypt with a small household and lived there as an alien. But there he became a nation great, strong and numerous.”