November 21, 2024 | VOLUME 36, ISSUE 46

Last Sunday after Pentecost

November 24, 2024

Preacher: The Reverend Jennifer Wagner Pavia

Wed., November 27, 7:00 PM: Thanksgiving Eve Eucharist in Sanctuary followed by Soup Dinner

Thu. November 28: 10 AM: Thanksgiving Eucharist in Sanctuary

Bible and Breakfast

Tuesdays | 9:30 AM

Luther Hall & Zoom

Midweek Eucharist:

Wednesdays | 7:00 PM

Sanctuary

Adult Forum: Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times

Wednesdays | 8:00 PM

Luther Hall & Zoom

ADULT FORUM: Cherished Belonging

In Person and on Zoom

Wednesdays November 13-27

Join the discussion at 8pm following the in person Midweek Mass at 7pm.

At a time when society is more fractured than ever before, beloved Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle invites us to see the world through a new lens of connection and build the loving community that we long to live in—a perfect message for our times.

The nine essays will be broken down into three weeks.

November 13 - Chapter 1-3

November 20 - Chapter 4-6

November 27 - Chapter 7-9

Available in hardcover and on Kindle.

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Click HERE to join Adult Forum on Zoom

ST. BEDE'S ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS MARKET

WINTER CLOTHING DRIVE

The St. Bede's Mission Committee is organizing a clothing drive for cold weather items: new or gently used clothing and new underwear and socks. We will have a donation bin in the narthex (through Jan. 12) that's clearly labeled to collect the clothing.

In addition, as part of our Alternative Christmas Market (please see above!), we are helping to collect monetary donations to help the Neighborhood Youth Association with plans for holiday crafts and gifts. (If you write a check, please write it to St. Bede’s with “Neighborhood Youth Association” in the memo.)

Questions? Please see a member of the Mission Committee. Thank you!

ANNUAL HOLIDAY TREE TRIM

SISTERS OF BEDE CHRISTMAS PARTY

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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.

EPISOCOPAL NEWS SERVICE

A crowd gathered in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, for a Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil on Nov. 20, 2022. The crowd addressed the previous night’s mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where five people were murdered and 25 others were injured. Photo: Aimee Dilger/AP

Episcopalians join international Transgender Day of Remembrance, as hatred and violence against LBGTQ+ persons continues to rise

By Shireen Korkzan

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal churches nationwide are recognizing Nov. 20 as Transgender Day of Remembrance with special worship services and prayer vigils to memorialize those who’ve been targeted and murdered for being transgender and to raise awareness of violence against trans people.

Between Oct. 1, 2023, and Sept. 30, 2024, 350 known transgender people worldwide – including 41 in the United States – were murdered, though the number may be much higher, according to data compiled by the Trans Murder Monitoring project, an initiative of Transgender Europe, a Berlin, Germany-based nongovernmental organization. Most victims were Black or brown.

Aaron Scott, The Episcopal Church’s gender justice officer and a trans man, told Episcopal News Service that Transgender Day of Remembrance bears extra meaning this year as it’s taking place two weeks after former President Donald Trump’s election to a second term. Trump’s campaign intensified its use of racist, anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in the lead-up to Election Day.

“A lot of people are very scared – and they have very real reasons to be scared. …We must hold a lot of love and tenderness for folks at this moment,” Scott said. “What we’re experiencing now is spiritual violence, and in the biblical witness, it’s clear what God thinks about pushing oppressed people further and further to the edge. Spiritual violence is not pleasing to the God of the Bible.”

The term “transgender” refers to an individual whose gender identity, expression or behavior does not conform with the person’s assigned sex at birth, whereas nonbinary reflects a gender identity that is not strictly male or female. The terms are often associated with each other but are not interchangeable.

FROM THE EPISCOPAL NEWS

A newsletter serving the Diocese of Los Angeles

Bishop John Harvey Taylor with a pastor of the United Methodist Church at the rally in support of the sanctuary city ordinance.

Los Angeles City Council votes to protect immigrants with ‘Sanctuary City’ ordinance

By EN Staff

Los Angeles City Council members voted Tuesday to adopt a “Sanctuary City” ordinance, which would prevent city resources and personnel from being used to help federal immigration enforcement. At a demonstration and press conference in favor of the ordinance, organized by the local Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Bishop John Harvey Taylor and other faith leaders showed their support for the ordinance from a religious perspective.

Troy Elder, executive director of Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Services, a program of the Los Angeles diocese and an Episcopal Migration Ministries affiliate, and other IRIS team members also attended the event to stand up for the protection of immigrants in Los Angeles. Further representing the faith perspective were Father John Watson, priest-in-charge of St. Athanasius Church, Kathey Cooper-Ledesma, a United Methodist pastor, and Mary Ann Swenson, a bishop from the United Methodist Church, and a parishioner from All Saints, Pasadena. The event, and the recent push to quickly get the ordinance up for a vote, follow president-elect Trump’s promises of mass deportations.

“If national politicians really wanted to fix the immigration and asylum system, they would. But they don’t,” Bishop Taylor said in remarks prepared for the event . “They want to play politics at human beings’ expense. They are willing to hurt our neighbors, colleagues, and friends and their children so they can get and keep power.”