October 10, 2024 | VOLUME 36, ISSUE 41

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Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost

October 13, 2024

SCRIPTURE READINGS

Amos 5:6-7,10-15

Psalm 90:12-17

Hebrews 4:12-16

Mark 10:17-31

Preacher: The Reverend Jennifer Wagner Pavia

Sat., October 19, 6:00 - 9:00 PM: A Community Gala (see flyer below; click to register)

Sat., October 26, 6:00 PM: Party of Parties in Luther Hall (see story below; click to RSVP)

Sat., November 16, 3:00 PM: "Fables & Fantasy" at Veterans Memorial Auditorium (see flyer below)

Bible and Breakfast

Tuesdays | 9:30 AM

Luther Hall & Zoom

Midweek Eucharist:

Wednesdays | 7:00 PM

Sanctuary

Adult Forum: Discussion of CA state Legislative Propositions

Wednesdays | 8:00 PM

Luther Hall & Zoom

Saturday, October 26, at 6:00 PM, in Luther Hall

The Sisters of Bede would like to remind everyone to put on your calendars the date of our Party of Parties: Sat. Oct. 26 in Luther Hall at 6pm. Everyone is welcome to attend the party where we will hear about the events planned for the 2024-25 series and have the opportunity to sign up for our favorites. Feel free to invite a friend to join you. Click HERE to RSVP for the Party of Parties.

Come join us for this fabulous event. Click HERE to register.

Most of you know parishioner Karen Scharre, wife of St. Bede’s Senior Warden Jerry Hornof. For many years Karen has played violin in the Orchestra Nova LA, formerly known as the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra. Karen is excited about their upcoming performance in November and encourages St. Bede’s parishioners to take advantage of this magical concert for the entire family. We hope to see you there!

From the Orchestra Nova LA website:

Join us for an enchanting “Fables and Fantasy” themed family concert presented by Orchestra Nova LA! This magical afternoon will feature repertoire, a live narration, and video projections designed to be a fun and engaging experience for the whole family. This concert promises to spark the imagination and delight audiences of all ages. Come and share in the joy of music and storytelling with us!

PROGRAM:

RICHARD WAGNER – Ride of the Valkyries

SERGEI PROKOFIEV – Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67: Narration by Gabriela Bonet**

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY – Excerpts from the Nutcracker, Op. 71

JOHN POWELL (ARR. SEAN O’LOUGHLIN) – How to Train Your Dragon (from the Motion Picture)

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** Gabriela Bonet is an actress, singer, and dancer whose film credits include The Babymoon, Renacer, Trapo Sucio, Curing Assholes, God is an Astronaut, and the Puerto Rican TV Series Incognita 2. Gabriela holds a B.A. in Acting from the University of Puerto Rico and an MFA in Acting from the USC School of Dramatic Arts.

On Sunday, Oct. 6, parishioners brought photos of beloved pets, stuffed animals and a handful of very excited domestic companions to church for a very special day. St. Bede's followed the tradition of celebrating St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals (and the environment), with a "blessing of the animals."

Congratulations to Rea Crane and Carl Townsend for hosting "Octoberfest," the final Sisters of Bede venue of the 2023-2024 year, where we enjoyed Carl's delicious home brewed beer as well as home-made root beer floats. ALSO: You are all invited to the upcoming Party of Parties (PLEASE SEE ABOVE!) on Saturday, Oct. 26, where the venues for the 2024-2025 year will be presented and you will have a chance to sign up.

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.

Presiding Bishop-elect Sean Rowe preaches at Holy Eucharist on Oct. 5 during the Diocese of Wisconsin’s convention in Stevens Point. Wisconsin Bishop Matthew Gunter is seated behind Rowe. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service

Presiding bishop, presiding bishop-elect encourage reunited Diocese of Wisconsin to ‘go forth’

By David Paulsen

[Episcopal News Service – Stevens Point, Wisconsin] The Diocese of Wisconsin gathered here Oct. 4-5 for its first diocesan convention since the state’s three Episcopal dioceses reunited this year, and the celebration was joined by both The Episcopal Church’s current presiding bishop and its presiding bishop-elect.

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, whose nine-year term ends Oct. 31, addressed Wisconsin Episcopalians in a prerecorded video, in which he called the votes authorizing the diocese’s reunion “one of the great highlights of General Convention” and “a sign of hope.”

“It was such a great moment, not only for the Diocese of Wisconsin but for The Episcopal Church,” Curry said. “Go forth following in the footsteps of Jesus.”

This diocesan convention also offered an opportunity to formally install Bishop Matthew Gunter as bishop of the reunited diocese. Gunter previously was bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac, and as the only active bishop in Wisconsin, he became bishop of the reunited diocese when Fond du Lac merged with the dioceses of Milwaukee and Eau Claire in June.

On Oct. 5, the convention’s Holy Eucharist was held in a ballroom at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Conference Center in Stevens Point, a city of about 25,000 in the center of the state. The diocese welcomed Presiding Bishop-elect Sean Rowe as preacher, and in his sermon, he praised Gunter as a respected bishop in the church.

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Dot Leach, program chair

Hon. Andrew Guilford, retired judge

Lo Sprague, a psychotherapist

Second ‘Losing Truth’ seminar explores role of media, viewing habits in rise of disinformation

By Pat McCaughan

Deliberate misinformation and lies “continue to put at risk the lives of school children, hospital patients and workers and our Haitian and Haitian American neighbors in Springfield, Ohio,” Bishop John Harvey Taylor said in a September 22 video welcome to participants of a second online session of “Losing Truth: The Critical Cost to Our Lives and Future.”

Taylor referred to recent false statements that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating their neighbor’s pets. Those repeated falsehoods led to anti-immigrant violence, including more than 30 bomb threats and forced evacuations of schools and government buildings. On Sept. 24, an Ohio Haitian immigrant group called for the arrest of presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, for repeatedly spreading the lies.

“The media marketplace makes it easy to find our way to what we want to hear instead of what we need to hear, and social media algorithms seem to read our very minds, reassuring us and soothing us in our biases and in our predispositions,” Taylor said.

Dot Leach, chair of the Program Group on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the Diocese of Los Angeles and a former broadcast journalist, moderated the September 22 conversation and a previous September 15 online gathering “to examine the critical costs to our lives and to the future” of misinformation. Both sessions were recorded and will be available soon for viewing on demand.

Panelists agreed that questioning media reports and gathering information from a variety of differing sources is essential to help discern truth, and that it is both a relational and an intellectual exercise.

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