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Reminder from last week. We are ramping up the Casserole Collection again for the needful/homeless in our community.. Archived video and recipe for the casserole are below. Please bring casseroles when you come to church and place them in the freezer in the Narthex. | | |
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Chicken & Rice Casserole Recipe | |
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By Robert Longley
Labor Day is a public holiday in the United States. Always observed on the first Monday in September, Labor Day celebrates and honors the contribution of the American system of organized labor and workers to the prosperity and economic strength of the nation. The Monday of Labor Day along with the Saturday and Sunday preceding it is known as the Labor Day Weekend and is traditionally considered the end of summer. As a federal holiday, all but essential national, state, and local government offices are typically closed on Labor Day. READ MORE
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Editor's Note: Next Sunday's Gospel reading is that jammed backed passage having do do with 'lost things' - lost sheep, lost coins, and a lost son and brother. We'll tackle the lost son and brother, better known as the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Enjoy! | |
Loss and Restoration — Luke 15:1-32 | |
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Elaine Wainwright gives an ecological reading of the parable of the Lost Son in Luke 15:11-32.
We are so very familiar with the parable we call The Prodigal Son that it is challenging to read it with fresh eyes. When we read it ecologically we bring new perspectives, new reading lenses to the narrative so that we look at Earth, the material, the other-than-human as these intersect with the human.
The three opening verses set the scene for Jesus’s preaching through three parables. First is the shepherd and his lost sheep (Lk 15:4-7), next, the widow and her lost coin (Lk 15:8-10) and then the father who loses a son, or perhaps two (Luke 15:11-32). The context is significant. Tax collectors and sinners are seeking Jesus to hear what he has to say while Pharisees and scribes are complaining that he not only teaches but welcomes sinners and eats with them. Our attention is drawn to the human characters and their interrelationships. And in this context the parable begins: “A man had two sons . . .” READ MORE
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A Word From Our Ministry Coordinator | |
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We’ve come to the end of the summer. Fall is nearly upon us.
It’s a season rife with imagery, symbols that signify transition, change, a turning of the page into something more somber and sparse. The leaves begin to lose their summer greens and become red, yellow, orange, brown. School buses appear on our streets, students trudging down sidewalks laden with bookbags and lunch boxes. There are new projects commencing at work as things begin to pick up after the quiet months of summer. We turn our attention to picking apples, pumpkins and all the festivities of the autumn holiday season.
My sense of fall is heavily colored by the east coast of the United States. What symbols come to mind for you? How do you pass through this time of transition? READ MORE
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Memorial Prayer Service for Frank Gallagher | |
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St. Ignatius Parish and The Loyola School will offer a Memorial Prayer Service for Frank Gallagher. St. Ignatius parishioners with their pastor, Fr. Brian Frain, SJ, joined by Fr. Bill Watters, SJ, president of The Loyola School and the school community will welcome: Flannery and Liam, Frank’s children; Tara, his former wife; Frank’s siblings; and his many nieces and nephews.
Frank was an active and generous member of St. Ignatius for many years and served on its finance committee. He meant much to St. Ignatius Parish and will be missed deeply.
Frank was a founding member of The Loyola School’s board of trustees, active in its development, and planning for its future. Frank served as chair of the board’s finance committee for five years as well as the board’s facilities chair for one additional year. Recently, Frank helped to design plans for construction of The Loyola School’s new facilities.
Frank believed that a quality education changed lives. He was grateful for his Jesuit education at Loyola Blakefield, Georgetown University, and Georgetown Law School. He shared his blessings and his commitment to education through his service on The Loyola School Board, and by funding two scholarships for underserved children enrolled in the school. The Loyola School is forever grateful for Frank’s guidance and support.
St. Ignatius and The Loyola School will welcome Frank’s family, friends, and business associates to a Memorial Prayer Service at 10:30 AM on Saturday, September 24 at St. Ignatius Church, 740 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore.
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Nancy Chambers
We wanted to notify the parish of the death longtime parishioner Nancy Chambers. Nancy passed away in Florida on August the 8th. Nancy, who was born August 6, 1939 is survived by a sister, Betty Camp, as well as a niece and a nephew. She was a long time
lab technician with a Hopkins physician. She enjoyed reading, taking Osher Courses, and going to movies.
Requiescat in Pace
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Environmental Justice Meeting
The September 7 meeting of the Environmental Justice Subcommittee is cancelled, due to the committee chair being out of the country. But please join us for our October meeting on October 5 at 7:00 p.m. Please email [email protected] and you will be sent the zoom link. Thank you
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Justice & Peace Committee Meeting
September 8 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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September 13 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
THE NIGHT WATCHMAN by Louise Erdrich.
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Louise Erdrich’s latest novel in her storied writing career won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Drawing from her Ojibwa heritage she tells the story, in a semi-fictionalized account, of her grandfather who worked as a nightwatchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota to the halls of Washington, D.C. This powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity, unfolding with the elegant prose, sly humor and depth of feeling that have characterized the works of this master craftswoman. All are welcome and we would love to have you join us! Meetings occur online via Zoom on the second Tuesday of the Month from 7:00-8:30pm. Contact William Paznekas @ [email protected] to receive an invitation to Zoom Meeting.
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September 18 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | |
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Praying With Our Feet- Religion in Action
An interfaith conversation with members of St. Ignatius Church and Beth Am Synagogue
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Beth Am Synagogue, we will be hosting an afternoon of conversation with a small group of members from each congregation. Through interaction with text and videos, engagement with a panel of our fellow congregants, and discussion in small intimate groups, we will think together about our experience with interfaith encounters, and process how our own spiritual and religious identities inspire us to affect change in our local community. | |
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2022 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Bon Secours Retreat and Conference Center, 1525 Marriottsville Rd, Marriottsville, MD 21104
This storytelling event brings together the experiences of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian congregational leaders across Greater Baltimore who have been on a year-long journey of discovery together through the ICJS Congregational Leaders Fellowship. They have learned about each others’ religions, cultivated relationships between their religious communities, and collaborated on ways to use their faith to bring about positive change in our world.
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*** Phishing is pronounced just like "fishing". It is all about tricking people into responding in order to gain access to an individual's computer thus enabling them to get all kinds of information (passwords, financial, etc.). How do they do that? By sending you an email that appears to be from someone you know.
Heads Up!
Another maleficent scammer has decided to have a go at it. We've had several reports from parishioners stating that they have received an email from someone parading as Fr. Brian, or me.
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Current scam that some may have received:
Subject line: GOD BLESS YOU BARBARA
Message:
BARBARA
Hello
How are you?
I need a favor from you. Email me back when you get this message.
Many Blessings,
Fr. Brian
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In these scenarios the bogus email will likely have the staff member's correct name, but the rest of it may have Gmail, Jesuit, or St. Ignatius…and some additive that is not correct.
The emails will try to get you to respond, and when you respond it will likely answer back asking for money or to join some promotion/program. Please know, Fr. Brian or the St. Ignatius staff will NEVER send you anything like this.
Note: Legitimate St. Ignatius email addresses will have the staff member's name followed by @st-ignatius.net ([email protected]).
Note: If you did happen to respond, as a couple of parishioners have, it would be wise to immediately change your email password.
All to say – do not respond to these emails.
Sincerely,
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Director of Media and Communications | |
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POOR BOX
This week's collection: "Loaves & Fishes"
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Are We There Yet?
“His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’” (Matthew 25:21)
He sat across the table from me at a Subway and retold a story that had changed his life. As he recalled the struggle of climbing Mt. Fuji in the dark and being one of the few to make it to the top as the sun rose over the land of the rising sun, his voice cracked slightly and his eyes became intense. It was a pivotal point in his life when God revealed to him the millions of people that were living in darkness and without hope. God had put a passion in him on that mountain that would change the rest of his life.
I realized two things that day: first, I’m not losing any weight eating at Subway, and second, I hate stories like that. I hate stories like that pretty much because I don’t have a story like that. READ MORE
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READER NOTIFICATION:
Parish: 'the thought' is a publication of St. Ignatius Catholic Community—Baltimore. Each edition contains articles and news feeds that are included for awareness of current topics in our world today. The positions expressed by outside authors and news feeds are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or positions of St. Ignatius Catholic Community or its staff.
- This e-zine was designed and compiled by John C. Odean
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