Easter Lilies: take some home! | |
After the 10:00 am worship service this Sunday, the Altar Guild is encouraging everyone to please take the Easter lilies home to enjoy. | |
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Consider making a donation of altar flowers in honor of a special occasion or in memory
of someone you love. (The suggested donation is $50.) Contact Claire in the church office at 310-375-4617 or claire.erbeznik@stfrancispalosverdes.org.
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The church and our hearts were full on Easter Sunday! It was an uplifting service followed by a festive egg hunt! A few sprinkles and soggy ground did not dampen any spirits as we held the egg hunt in the Parish Hall! Thank you to all who donated filled eggs! If you have empty plastic eggshells you may return them to the office over the next few weeks so we can reuse them for next year. | |
A big thank you to everyone who donated to our Undies Sundays on March 3, 10, and 17. St. Francis collected hundreds of undies -- boxers and boxer briefs -- for the St. Luke Breakfast and Showers Program serving our unhoused neighbors. Your donations to St. Luke's are appreciated. For more information about the Breakfast and Showers Program, contact Gayle Taylor at gaylentaylor@gmail.com. | |
Fr. Jason's Week in Review | |
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March 28: Home again with Archie, as he had to be out again since he’d had a fever the day before; Holy Week prep; Maundy Thursday service at St. Cross in Hermosa Beach.
March 29: Good Friday meditation service, 12-3 pm in the chapel; sermon prep for Easter.
March 30: Sermon prep for Easter; final prep for Easter Vigil; Easter Vigil - the Durufle Requiem was transcendent, especially the introit.
March 31: Easter! Alleluia, Christ is Risen! The Lord is risen indeed, alleluia. The Easter bunny once again graced us with his presence, and the church was full of people.
April 1: Day off.
April 2: Day off.
April 3: Admin tasks; met with Senior Warden; noon healing service and Eucharist; pastoral phone calls; pastoral visit.
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Antiques Show Meeting
Sunday, April 14 at 11:30! | |
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Please join us for an update. We still need someone to coordinate the luncheons for Thursday and Friday, May 30 and 31. We’d also love to get two volunteers to handle general staffing (together). It’s a job that can easily be done from home.
Antique Show Gala Silent Auction Donations needed!
Do you have the perfect treasure to make our Gala Silent Auction a huge success? Please consider donating to our Opening Night event on Wednesday, May 29. Popular items include personal creations such as jewelry and culinary specialties, social experiences like wine-tasting events and group dinners, sports and theater tickets, luxury home items, and much more! If you would like to donate, please contact Mary Deley at mary_deley@yahoo.com. We are happy to coordinate, pick up and provide you with a tax-deductible donation statement.
Submission of Ads for The Antiques Show Program
The Antiques Show program includes paid advertisements acquired by parishioners which help defray printing costs. Please pick up ad letters from the visitor’s desk in the church office and request ads from businesses you frequent. (All details are specified in the letters.) Be sure to take last year’s program with you to entice submission of an ad. For ad rates and questions, email Karin Petersen at lapdogdesigns@cox.net or 310-375-0962, or Wendy Pratt at wpratt@earthlink.net.
Thank you all for your ongoing support for this important fundraiser!
—Jamie Bellows and Wendy Pratt, Co-chairs
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Our next Taize service will be held on Tuesday, April 30 instead of the usual fourth Tuesday. Arrive a few minutes before 7:00 pm to enjoy the musical prelude, segueing into 45 minutes of contemplative worship in our candlelit chapel, followed by a reception in our board room. If you'd like to be on our e-mail reminder list, please contact Kristina Pela at krab3@yahoo.com or 310-941-2498. | |
"Good Grief" loss support group | |
Loss comes in many different forms: loss of a loved one to death, divorce, dementia ... loss of health due to aging, an accident or a diagnosis ... the list goes on. If you are feeling a loss and would like to be part of a supportive community, please contact Kristina Pela at krab3@yahoo.com with your interest. A team of parish volunteers will offer a weekly grief support group starting up after Easter here at St. Francis. Meeting dates and times will be established once we've learned people's availability. | |
By Your Side Training Winter 2024 | |
The Canterbury
April 15 through May 13
6:30 to 8:30 PM
Since 2011, the mission of By Your Side (an Episcopal Communities & Services Compassion Program) has been to support people in times of change and difficulty, particularly in health crisis, and to be at their bedside at the end of their lives as needed. More than five hundred volunteers have been trained to be a compassionate presence.
We continue to develop teams of people to serve in hospital and long-term care settings, especially in our ECS communities. There, team members have had the opportunity to deepen their understanding of what it means to really be "with" the residents they support, and residents become even more aware of the needs of neighbors having difficulty with changes in their lives, with challenging diagnoses or increasing frailty. In the larger community, individuals and spiritual care teams strengthen their understanding of what being together through the end of life can really look like. We all gain tools for taking care of ourselves while being present for those around us. The pandemic brought all of us to an acute awareness of life's fragility, realizing that what is most important is connection. Please join us in this exploration. There is no obligation to volunteer.
Our next 10-hour training is at The Canterbury, 5801 Crestridge Rd, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275 on Monday evenings, April 15—May 13, from 6:30 t0 8:30 pm. For further information and to register, you may contact Susan Bown at sbroun@ecsforseniors.org or (626)403-5424. A fee of $70.00 (which includes all materials) is due by the second class. ECS team members are complimentary; scholarships are for public enrollees. CE (2 hrs.) for nurses is available for an added $30.00 under California Board of Registered Nursing Provider CEP 16239.
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Sunday Holy Communion
8:00 am
Rite I in-person worship in the Chapel, with hymns. This service is not live-streamed.
10:00 am
Rite II in-person worship in the main church with choir and music.
For other worship services and parish events, visit our calendar.
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Livestream Worship and Sermons Online
We livestream Sunday 10am worship on Facebook and YouTube. You can view past sermons or entire livestreams on our YouTube channel.
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Nursery School and Sunday School
Sunday school for children in kindergarten through fifth grade will be held in the Parish Hall from 9:50 am to 10:40 am (ish ... the kids typically come in at the Peace). There is a nursery for children 6 months to 5 years old.
Contact: Kristina Pelá
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Pastoral Care
In need of prayer? Send prayer requests to Fr. Jason.
Contact Kristina Pelá to arrange for a Lay Eucharistic Minister to safely bring you communion.
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Parish Directory
Our directory is available online. If you need the password, contact the church office or email Claire Erbeznik.
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Calendar of Events
All of our worship services, events, and small groups are listed on our church calendar.
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Communications
and Notices
Please send all notices you wish to be included in the enews or bulletins to Father Jason.
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Coffee Hour
Ministry
To volunteer to help one week after the 10am worship service, see the sign-up sheet at Sunday coffee hour.
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Yoga with Jill
A spiritual mind and body practice led by Jill Lynch in the St. Francis Parish Hall.
Mondays 11:00-12:30 pm – Level 1/2 Hatha for Strength and Mobility
Wednesdays 9:00-10:30 am – Level 1 Gentle Yoga for Vital Mobility and Balance
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