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Matthew 5: 1-12
The world says,
"blessed are the mighty
for they will inherit the earth."
Jesus, you say it is the poor
who will inherit the earth.
Let us be with
your poor.
Let us inherit the earth:
transform it with
meekness,
mercy,
clean heart,
peace-making,
hunger for justice,
in grace and
faith in
you.
The Sunday Website of Saint Louis University
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Read the Pope's Encyclical Laudato Si
On Care for our
Common Home
HERE
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Remember to view videos of the Synod on our website and on our Facebook Page.
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Remember to bring something for the food bank!
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Please know that you can email us your Prayer Requests.
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Mass at 10:30 am on Sundays.
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Contemplative Prayer and Scripture Study
Beginning October 12th we will meet
Mondays at 1:30 pm in the Sacred Space. Meeting every week alternating each week with Contemplative Prayer and Scripture study.
Recommended books:
Open Mind, Open Heart: a Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel by Rev. Thomas Keating. Prayer: Our Deepest Longing by Rev. Ronald Rolheiser. For more information contact Fr. David. |
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Emmaus ECC
Celebrating God's wonderful diversity
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Interfaith Works
Urgently Needed...
The Emergency Overnight Shelter located here at First Christian Church needs the following items:
- Blankets
- Socks
- Gloves and hats
- Hand warmers
- Coffee and creamer
- Plates, bowls, sliverware
Contact Meg Martin by email:
[email protected] or call: 360-357-7224.
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Good Shepherd Community of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion
New Mass time is 5:00 pm
Sundays. Contemplative prayer at 4:00 pm prior to mass.
In Tacoma WA
Christ Episcopal Church 310 North K street
In Trinity Chapel
Contact Father David.
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We Celebrate Ordinary Time
FALL BACK! Remember to set your clocks back an hour. Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 am on Sunday. Enjoy that extra hour of sleep.
There is a lot of news from Interfaith Works this time.
This Sunday, November 1st, at 2:30 pm there is an Interfaith All Souls Day Service at Mills & Mills Funeral Home, 5725 Littlerock Rd. SW, Tumwater WA 98512. See the flyer HERE.
Meg Martin, the program director of the Interfaith Works Emergency Overnight Shelter, sent this invitation:
Greetings!
On November 14th, 2015 at 5:30pm at Temple Beth Hatfiloh we will be celebrating our one year anniversary since the opening of the IW Emergency Overnight Shelter and we would love to share this moment with you! Through the help and support of many, we've been able to provide housing to our most vulnerable neighbors.
Wine and dine while you hear about our year in review, our LONG list of gratitudes, listen to stories from our guests, volunteers and staff and learn more about where we are headed as a program in the coming year.
Each ticket purchase provides a full-course, sit-down meal. Please consider "Paying it Forward" by buying an additional ticket to make it possible for one of our guests to come to the dinner that may otherwise not be able to afford it.
We really hope that you can join us and help us spread the word!
The cost is $50 per ticket. Interfaith Works recommends purchasing extra tickets for those who use the shelter and could not afford to pay for a ticket, so they can attend the event, too. Get tickets HERE.
Sidewalk, an organization we support, is having their Gingerbread Village event again this year, Saturday 11/28 - Sunday 11/29. You can find out more on their website HERE. I think it would be fun if we found a way to participate this year. Anyone enjoy creating Gingerbread houses or castles?
The Interfaith Works Thanksgiving event, "Living Thanksgiving," is on November 22nd at 2:00 pm at the United Churches of Olympia. This is a wonderful event, and we are invited to bring food for the food bank when we attend. See the flyer HERE.
If you or someone you know is looking for a wonderful way to be Catholic, you can find an authentic Catholicism at Emmaus ECC. We are
a Catholic community that is welcoming of all. We do our best to follow the teaching and example of Jesus, and welcome everyone into our community, and to our table -- regardless of their race, gender, marital status or sexual orientation. Following the example of Jesus, we believe that everyone is the beloved daughter or son of God, and welcome at the table of the Christ. No kidding!
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During the month of November we remember those who have died. One way Emmaus does this is by entering the names of our friends and family who have died into our Book of the Dead. This book will be on the sign-in table when you come in for mass, and then processed in and placed on the side table during mass.
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Solemnity of All Saints
All Saints and All Souls
This Sunday we celebrate the great multitude of Saints, from all tribes, nations and languages. We celebrate those who were men and women like us, and yet found the path to a happy eternity with God. As Matthew tells us in chapter 25, many of those saints didn't know they were saints. Perhaps they didn't even know God, didn't know Christ, and had never heard of a Holy Spirit. But they had God's way imprinted on their hearts and they followed that way like a road map. They met the challenges of life as compassionate and peace loving people.
Becoming a saint is a lot more than not doing things that are wrong. Becoming a saint is also a lot more than actions. Becoming a saint involves having Godly attitudes - Beatitudes - that lead to Godly actions. All of us were created to be saints and have the ways of God imprinted on our hearts. A saint is someone who falls in love with the ways of God, and in fact, falls in love with God. When we spot someone who really demonstrates what it means to follow God, we in the Church like to canonize them and hold them up as models for the rest of us. But most of God's holy people go unheralded. So, the Church set aside this time to remember that there is a multitude of saints, and to celebrate the joy this brings us.
Catholicism teaches us that when we celebrate the mass we step into another realm, the realm of God. We enter the Presence of God in a special way and it is as if we exist in two places at once - in the incarnate world, and yet also in heaven with all the saints. When we sing the Holy, holy, holy, we believe we are singing with the saints, and indeed with the entire universe of saints. In this space that we make sacred by our celebration of the mass, we belong to no tribe, no nation, no arbitrary human group. We leave our national flags, our politics, our membership cards, and our prejudices behind and gather as One Communion with God. If you visit St. Matthew's in Orange CA you will see icons of the saints on all the walls surrounding the nave, reminding you that the saints are present.
But there is another group we remember in November. We also celebrate All Souls Day. We remember all of our loved ones who have died, and we pray for them. We are reminded that we, too, will die. As we remember the dead, we are invited to pray for them. Why are we praying for the dead? We are praying for the souls in purgatory.
Death is a mystery, and life after death is more mysterious yet. All Christians believe in the last four things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Purgatory is not mentioned as one of the last things. This is because Purgatory is already heaven. It is not a place of punishment. There are no assigned sentences for crimes committed, as if God were running a penitentiary, or prison. Purgatory is a process of preparation, or as we have called it, a place of purification. Not everyone who dies is fully capable of full unity with God and with the saints. Transformation is needed. Those who enter heaven are those who already know how to live there.
How many of you have ever encountered a feral cat? A feral cat has no idea that human beings can be loving, affectionate and caring beings. They will scratch, bite, kick and scream if you pick them up, and practically die of fright. No one would bring a feral cat into their house to play with their children. First you would need to spend time loving that cat, helping it to learn how to trust and not to fear people. The cat would spend time in purgatory preparing to be a member of your household. The cat needs to change in order to live with the family.
Some argue that with God transformation, or purification, is instantaneous. We will have to wait until we die to know the answer to that possibility. All we really know is that we will encounter God's divine love, and be changed.
The life of each of God's children is joined in Christ, and we believe that our prayers for one another are worthwhile and help. We believe that the saints pray for us, and that all those who have died still pray for us. And we in turn pray for the departed, and our prayers are worthwhile. In Christ we are in a true communion with the living and the dead. All the departed are alive in God. The bond of our relationships are not broken by death, or forgotten. God is a God of the living.
Mthr. Kedda
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The Ecumenical Catholic Communion
To whom it may concern:
As a faith community with national headquarters in St. Louis, MO, we believe it is important to speak out against the recent string of arson attacks against predominantly black churches in the St. Louis area. Our thoughts and prayers are with our brothers and sisters working to recover and rebuild their spaces of worship.
As you will read in our release we are deeply grieved by these attacks, ask that the perpetrators come forward, and pray for a conversion of heart for those committing the arson and those silently supporting these hateful actions.
We are calling on other faith communities to join with us in standing with our brothers and sisters already impacted by these attacks and prevent further destruction. We are also asking people of faith to commit themselves to eliminating racism in their own lives, churches, and communities as we are striving to do in ours.
Thank you for your time and attention,
Bishop Francis E Krebs
Presiding Bishop of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion
Local Pastor of Sts. Clare & Francis ECC
ECC: A wonderful way of being Catholic!
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Schedule:
Contemplative Prayer/Scripture study --Mondays at 1:30 pm.
All Souls Day Service: November 1st, 2:30 pm at Mills & Mills Funeral Home.
IW Emergency Shelter Dinner: November 14th, 5:30 pm at Temple Beth Hatfiloh.
ECC Regional Meeting: November 18th, 5:00 pm, by phone.
Interfaith Thanksgiving: "Living Thanksgiving" November 22nd at 2:00 pm, United Churches of Olympia.
First Sunday of Advent: November 29th. New liturgical year C. We will be reading from the Gospel of Luke.
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The Ecumenical Catholic Communion has several regions. We are located in the Pacific Northwest Region (Washington, Oregon and Idaho). Bishop Thomas Altepeter is our Vicar.
We need more lay representatives at these meetings!
For years the laity have complained that they have no voice in the Church. Well, you are invited and encouraged to attend these meetings. In order to encourage more participation we are going to have our meetings by phone, and not as often as we have been having them. Our next meeting will be on
November 18th, at 5:00 pm. Let Mother Kedda know if you are interested in being on the call.
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 Interfaith Works
Volunteer Opportunities: Would you be willing to volunteer, or to recruit a volunteer, to help with Interfaith Works programs? Lots of opportunities are listed below. IW office staff is ready to offer all kinds of support services to volunteers. To get involved, or to request information about any program, please call 357-7224, 9:00am to 2:00pm Monday through Thursday. The Peoples House: To advance the social inclusion and empowerment of the homeless through innovative practices of sheltering, mental health and emergency basic needs coordination.
The Women's Shelter: The Interfaith Women's Shelter now provides refuge for homeless women throughout the year. Single homeless women in need of shelter should call the SideWalk Advocacy Center Shelter HelpLine at 360-515-5620 Monday through Thursday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to be screened. A shelter volunteer will also be available nightly between 7:00-9:00 pm only to arrange urgent access to the women's shelter. Faith communities house the shelter on a rotating basis and it is staffed by volunteer hosts. Other volunteers do laundry, move shelter materials from location to location and provide transportation. The program welcomes volunteers and donations of new twin sheets and pillowcases, as well as toiletry items.
Go
HERE to read more about Interfaith Works, and all their programs.
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NOTICE
The Sacraments of Marriage, Reconciliation and Anointing, are available upon request. Preparation is required for Baptisms -- for parents when children to be baptized are below age seven; for those over age seven, our community supports the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. Our priests are also happy to meet with you individually, and confidentially, to discuss any spiritual or pastoral concerns you may have.
Email: Mother Kedda
Email: Father John
We Support Marriage Equality
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