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

For the month of February, 2012:
  • Sunday, February 05 – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Rev. Donald Wright presiding, community sing, fellowship & community meeting;
  • Sunday, February 12 – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Rev. Thomas Marlier presiding, community sing & fellowship;
  • Sunday, February 19 – 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Rev. Kathy Vandenberg presiding, community sing & fellowship;
  • Sunday, February 26 – 1st Sunday of Lent, Blessing of the ashes, Rev. Donald Wright presiding, community sing & fellowship;
For the month of March, 2012:
  • Sunday, March 04 – 2nd Sunday of Lent, Rev. Thomas Marlier presiding, community sing, fellowship & community meeting;
  • Sunday, March 11 – 3rd Sunday of Lent, Rev. Kathy Vandenberg presiding, community sing & fellowship;
  • Sunday, March 18 – 4th Sunday of Lent, Rev. Francis Baiocchi presiding, community sing & fellowship
  • Sunday, March 25 – 5th Sunday of Lent, Rev. Donald Wright presiding, community sing & fellowship


Weekly Bulletin
Two parts for the week of 29 January, 2012: part 1 | part 2



Homily
29 January 2012

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

In Mark's Gospel today, Jesus meets a a man with an “unclean spirit.” Other Gospels use the term “devil” or “demon.” It matters little what word is used. You get the message: This man is spiritually sick; his demon rules! Jesus confronts that demon and orders that demon out, and – to the wonder and amazement of everyone present, the demon exits. It's interesting that no one else recognizes Jesus, yet this demon does – obviously a clever and insightful demon!


News
Piss on War: Death, Desecration, and Afghanistan

Hamilton Nolan, Gawker

A video emerges showing US Marines pissing on three Taliban corpses in Afghanistan. The outrage machine grinds into motion. The media bestirs itself from its slumber. Americans momentarily pay attention to the war in Afghanistan again. Politicians rush to add their names to the chorus of identical statements. All inflamed over the least bad thing that soldiers do in war.

A God For All Peoples

Patricia Datchuck Sánchez, NCR

Through the centuries, a variety of interesting legends have grown up around this feast of the Epiphany. Although the Magi from the east are not named, described or numbered in the scriptures, most legends agree that there were three of them. One particular legend, told to world explorer Marco Polo on a trip to Persia (Iran), described Balthazar as a young man, Caspar as middle-aged and Melchior as a senior citizen (The Travels of Marco Polo, or, the Description of the World, 1298).


Meditations
Vision of The New Age

John Chuchman, A Vision

A reformatted and somewhat edited version of Bede Griffiths’ Vision of The New Age, as related in Chapter 13 of “A New Vision of Reality” published in 1989 by Templegate Publishers, Springfield, Illinois


Searchin'

Fr. Pat Brennan, NCEPR

For the last 31 years, Dawn Mayer and I have co-hosted a radio program that has come to be known as Horizons. The theme song that we have used these many years is Searchin' So Long by Chicago. One of the lines of the song sings about "searchin' for an answer." We thought the words of that secular song captured the essence of faith. With faith we do not have scientific knowledge. Rather faith largely deals with mystery. Mystery invites us to an ongoing, ever deepening search. On this feast of the Epiphany, I think it is appropriate to think and pray about whom or what many of us who believe are searching for.