July 10, 2025 | VOLUME 37, ISSUE 27

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost:

July 13, 2025

Preacher: The Rev. James Newman

Saturday, July 12, 12:30 - 4:00 PM: Pax Veritas Seminar on "Non-Positional Thinking" in parish hall

Saturday, August 2, 5:00 - 8:00 PM: "Dinner & Movie with Frank" SoB venue at Basile Residence

Early August: Stay tuned for date & time of "Backpack Project Assembly Dinner"

Bible and Breakfast

Tuesdays | 9:30 AM

Luther Hall & Zoom

Midweek Eucharist:

Wednesdays | 7:00 PM

Chapel in the Sanctuary

Adult Forum: How We Learn to Be Brave

Wednesdays | 8:00 PM

Luther Hall & Zoom

LEARN HOW to BRIDGE DIFFERENCES!

Learn how to bridge differences in your conversations with those of differing viewpoints

Saturday July12, 2025

12:30 p.m.to 4:00 p.m. followed by refreshments and meet-and greet.

St. Bede's parishioners, families, and friends are invited to join the PAX Veritas (Peace of Truth) seminar on Non-Positional Thinking led by Dr. Ariane David.

We live in a time when political and cultural divisions feel unbridgeable. Facts don’t change minds. Debates go in circles. People aren’t just disagreeing—they’re digging in. The problem isn’t just what we think—it’s how we think.

Non-Positional Thinking offers a way out: It starts by asking: “What am I not seeing in the other person's thinking, which - if I could see - would change everything?” This approach invites us to listen—not to argue or persuade, but to understand where each of us is coming from.

It teaches us to listen deeply without losing our voice, to understand opposing views without compromising our values, and to engage across divides without the impulse to convert others. This approach makes space for real conversation, even in the face of serious disagreement.

What You’ll Learn in this Live Seminar: Dr. Ariane David - who for the past 40 years, has led governments, corporations, and individuals through this process - will guide participants through transformative dialogue. You’ll learn how to recognize and release positional thinking—the deeply ingrained belief that your perspective is the only valid one—and begin replacing the reflex to blame with genuine curiosity.

Without compromising your values, you’ll see how trust can be built through understanding, not argument, and how this practice can be applied to political, religious, and everyday conversations with equal effectiveness.

This Isn’t Neutrality—It’s Clarity: Grounded in cognitive science and lived experience, Non-Positional Thinking is a tool for anyone who wants to lead with clarity and integrity, not ideology.

Whether you’re working to build a more compassionate society, trying to heal fractured relationships in your family, or participating in religious ministry or political activism, this seminar offers the insight and skills to start real conversations in a fractured world. When we stop defending and start listening, we begin to rebuild trust—and that’s how change begins.

Feel free to invite someone in your life to join with whom you have strong differences, including family members, friends, or colleagues. Why? So that you both are given the same opportunity to learn the tools for respectful dialogue with the hope that this might lead to transformative dialogue between you.

PAX Veritas is a non-profit committed to sustainable peace, global resource equity, social justice, and gender equality. Contact us at 818-825-7538.

ADULT FORUM: HOW WE LEARN to BE BRAVE

Wednesday Adult Forum

In person and via Zoom

8:00pm

We may start a few minutes late if the service runs long!

Following in person Midweek Mass at 7pm

How We Learn to Be Brave is an inspirational guide to the key junctures in life that, if navigated with faith and discernment, pave the way for us to become our most courageous selves, by the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C.

With Bishop Budde’s wisdom, readers will learn to live and to respond according to their true beliefs and in ways that align with their best selves. How We Learn to Be Brave will provide much-needed fortitude and insight to anyone searching for answers in uncertain times.

Available in hard cover from your favorite bookseller,

and on Kindle and Audible

CLICK HERE TO JOIN VIA ZOOM

A SEND-OFF FOR KELLY!

THE ST. BEDE'S BACKPACK PROJECT

St. Bede’s has partnered for several years with First AME Church on a back-to-school backpack project for children in foster care, and the start of summer means it’s happening again!

Our plan is to fill 45 backpacks (15 for elementary school-age children, 15 for middle school and 15 for high school), and we’re collecting money to purchase the supplies that will go inside.

If you’re writing a check, please make them payable to St. Bede’s with “Backpack Project” in the memo portion (at the lower left corner of the check.) You can bring the checks (or cash) to church, mail the checks to church, or send your checks to Alice Short (3156 Coolidge Ave. Los Angeles 90066).

We’d be grateful if you could make your donations by July 21.

As always, we will schedule an “assembly dinner” (probably in early August) to prepare the backpacks and enjoy the fellowship this project offers.

Questions? Please reach out to members of the Mission Committee. Thank you!

IN REMEMBRANCE: KAREN SCHARRE

Requiescat in Pace

Karen Annette Scharre

December 24, 1954 – June 5, 2025

Karen Scharre was a distinguished pathologist, an accomplished musician and a devoted philanthropist.

Before she retired in 2015, she was the director of Breast Pathology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC), and she was a lifelong violinist, playing with the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra as the principal second violinist for years.

But it was among family—her husband, Jerry; their sons, Alex and Jeffrey, and their daughters-in-law, Erica and Rachel; their grandson, Owen and granddaughter, Juniper; and her many siblings, in-laws, nieces and nephews, and friends—where she found her greatest joy. Traveling with them, gathering in Pasadena, Mar Vista, Chicago, or Seattle, watching Owen riding a horse or Juniper scaling a mountain in her father’s backpack—provided the moments she treasured the most.

Family and friends will always remember her brilliance, her kindness, and her candor. Karen was quietly elegant but unafraid of speaking her truth–laconic and enlightening, when she spoke people knew to pay attention.

After a long battle with melanoma, she peacefully departed this world at home in Mar Vista on June 5, 2025. Her loss leaves a hole in the universe.

Karen Scharre, 70, was born on Dec. 24, 1954, in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, to the late William and Edla (Cassetta) Scharre. Her father was a graduate of West Point and a career United States Army officer. Growing up, Karen spent time in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; New Delhi, India; and Washington DC. Upon her father’s retirement in 1963, her family moved to Pasadena, California, where she attended middle and high school.

In 1976, Karen graduated from the University of California, Davis, with a Bachelor of Science degree in organic chemistry. She attended medical school at UC Davis, graduating with her Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1980. She did a four-year residency in pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle where she met Jerry in 1982. They married two years later at Seattle’s Burke Museum and spent 41 wonderful years as husband and wife.

In June of 1984, Jerry and Karen moved to Los Angeles where Karen began a one year pathology fellowship at CSMC. At the completion of her fellowship, Karen stayed on as an attending staff pathologist and became the Director of Breast Pathology, a position she held until her retirement in 2015.

In addition to her family and medicine, Karen was a passionate violinist and played with community orchestras her entire life. She was a long-time member of the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra (rebranded Orchestra Nova LA in 2023) where she held the Ethel McClatchey endowed Principal Second Violin chair. She also served as a member of the board of directors for the orchestra, providing leadership and substantial financial support.

Karen was a member of the Committee of Professional Women, an affiliate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. During her membership, she served terms as treasurer and vice-president. She was also an active member of the St. Cecilia Music Club based in Altadena, California, serving as treasurer.

Somehow, amid all this activity, she made time to see the world. She loved her family trips. While the destinations were wildly varied—from a month living in Paris seeking the joie de vivre, to a multiday white-water rafting trip through a forest fire in Idaho—family was a constant. Whether she traveled with just her husband and children, or the trip also included members of her extended family, she truly cherished the opportunity to experience the new and the wonderful with those she loved. It was a highlight of her life. Some of the most memorable destinations include Iceland, South Africa, large family trips to Greece and France, and a 2024 European river cruise with all her siblings.

Karen touched so many people in her life. Her legacy of love, compassion, and generosity will be forever cherished by her husband, Jerry (Gerald); her children, Alex Hornof and Jeffrey Hornof; daughters-in-law Erica Escajeda and Rachel Moore; grandchildren Owen Hornof and Juniper Hornof; and siblings Dan Scharre, Gloria Pitzer, Doug Scharre, Steve Scharre, Kamla Grisham, and Kim Prairie. She was a loving daughter and daughter-in-law to Jerry’s parents, the late Frank and Ann (Schell) Hornof.

In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests that donations be given to Orchestra Nova LA, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, or the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.

A memorial is being planned for a date later this year.

FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

A MESSAGE FROM HELLY HOWER

"St. Bede’s needs someone to take over, from me, the job of refreshing the elements between the 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. services.

It can be someone from the early service who stays after or someone who comes at 9:30 a.m. to do the refreshing before the second service.

I’d be happy to spend some time showing my successor how to do it. It only takes a few minutes.

The last Sunday in July will be my last* Sunday.

Thanks!"

*The Quill wishes to add that we will miss Kelly SO MUCH!

A PRAYER FROM THE BISHOP

ELECTION PRAYER for NEW EDLA BISHOP

SUPPORT for IMMIGRANTS

Dear friends,

Many of you have shown concern about new immigration policies and how they will impact this vulnerable population among us here in Los Angeles. Below is information about how you can get involved through CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice), an organization that St. Bede's works with and supports. Join us in preparation for this essential work.

Blessings,

Rev. Jennifer+

At the core of nearly every faith tradition lies the concept of a just, harmonious, and loving society where all souls are valued and everyone can thrive.

It is unconscionable that people fleeing violence in other countries would be deported back to those places, regardless of threats to their safety and security.

Because the Trump Administration is threatening immigrant communities across the country (regardless of documentation status), CLUE is working across Southern California to protect immigrant workers and their families in a variety of important ways.

You can join us in this work or support it with your donations knowing that you are doing your part to protect vulnerable people.

SUPPORT CLUES IMMIGRATION WORK

RAPID RESPONSE NETWORKS

If you see ICE Activity anywhere you go, you can report it to the Rapid Response hotlines in your area.

Los Angeles: 888-624-4752
Orange County: 714-881-1558
San Bernardino/Riverside: 909-361-4588
Kern County: 661-432-2230
Central Valley: 559-206-0151

CLUE is working with RRN partners to offer ongoing trainings for faith leaders and community members who want to show up for workers and families being targeted by ICE.

If you want to be trained to be a rapid responder and you live in Orange County, Los Angeles or the Inland Empire, contact Sithy Bin at sbin@cluejustice.org.

CLUE WELCOME NETWORK

CLUE is cultivating its vast network of houses of worship to create a network of congregations that provide respite, and even longer-term shelter, to migrants released into Southern California.

Over 30 congregations are already participating in the CLUE Welcome Network that houses asylum seekers and refugees. We receive referrals from CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights) for asylum seekers in need of shelter, from legal service providers that are seeking sponsors for people being released from detention, or direct walk-ins. Some congregations in the network provide temporary shelter or short-term housing, and others support those efforts with gifts of supplies, transportation, etc.

Thank you for standing in intimate solidarity as we seek to build a society where everyone is safe and lives with dignity.

If your congregation is interested in joining the network, offering housing or supplies or services, please contact Sithy Bin at sbin@cluejustice.org.

In faith and solidarity,

Rev. Jennifer Gutierrez

PRAYER FOR PEACE IN THE HOLY LAND

ST. BEDE'S ONLINE GIVING PORTAL

Visit the St. Bede's website and at the top of every page, look for the "Donate" button. When you click on the "Donate" button, you will be transported to St. Bede's Vanco eGiving and Payment Process Site.

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You are invited to set up one-time or recurring gifts using credit, debit, or bank transfer on Vanco's secure payment processing platform. Giving online through the Vanco site saves time and the hassle of remembering to bring your offering. In addition, you decrease the expense incurred by St. Bede’s from handling and processing checks and cash.

FROM THE EPISCOPAL NEWS

A newsletter serving the Diocese of Los Angeles

Korean culture is focus for July 12-13 Lotus Festival; St. James’ Episcopal School drummers to perform

By EN Staff

All are welcome for the 44th annual Lotus Festival, a citywide celebration of Asian and Pacific Islander cultures, set for July 12-13 around L.A.’s Echo Park Lake. Korea is this year’s highlighted country, and traditional drummers and other musicians from St. James’ Episcopal School, located in Koreatown-Wilshire Center, will perform on the festival’s main stage on Sunday at 1:10 p.m.

Led by the school’s director of music, Dr. Jihae Lee, students and alumni are scheduled to perform traditional Korean selections including the song “Arirang” (orchestral rendering) followed by a puppet dance, a drumming dance titled “Nanta,” and other works by the school’s Korean drumming team.

Ministry partners from St. Paul’s Commons, located across Echo Park Lake from the festival area, will host display tables in the exhibit area. Booth hosts include Seeds of Hope, the diocesan food security ministry; St. Athanasius Episcopal Church, Echo Park, a participant since the festival’s inception; and Holy Spirit Episcopal Community Echo Park/Silver Lake.

EPISCOPAL NEWS SERVICE

The Very Rev. Winnie Varghese (left), dean of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and New York Bishop Matthew Heyd share a social media-style frame during the launch of the new #onesingleact campaign. Photo: Courtesy Diocese of New York

Episcopalians invited to share stories of care, connection and courage to social media

By Melodie Woerman

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of New York, the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City and other faith partners have launched a new social media campaign aimed at helping people share the good things taking place in their communities.

Called One Single Act and using the social media tag #onesingleact, the 100-day project was announced July 1 from the cathedral steps.

New York Bishop Matthew Heyd said during the launch event that when people experience “chaos, cruelty and carelessness” in the world around them, one antidote is to respond with “care, connection and courage.” Sharing the good things they see taking place – or doing one themselves – are “the deepest expressions of our faith.”

The Very Rev. Winnie Varghese, the cathedral’s new dean, told Episcopal News Service she knows people can feel powerless in the face of huge global and local forces that affect them. But this campaign offers people a chance to emphasize a very fundamental spiritual value.

“How we engage with one another, engage the stranger, engage our neighbor, is actually a fundamental power to be the conduit for God’s love in the world,” she said.