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Hybrid Service: In Person + ZOOM

We will celebrate Eucharist at church this Sunday at 9am, 

but if you need to stay home, you can join us via ZOOM.


Topic: St. Richard Zoom Hybrid Service

Time: Mar 19, 2023 09:00 AM 

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If Zoom connection isn't working for you, try calling in: 

        (669) 444-9171 (only AUDiO)


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Cure of the Blind One

NOTE:  Homilies ARCHIVE: click: "Sunday&Sermons" (under the tab, upper left at the top of the site)  


March 19 - 4th Sunday in LENT

(Service this Sunday BOTH in person and via Zoom)


 Readings:

http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Lent/ALent4_RCL.html


Homily for Lent #4: 

"You ARE Light"

https://youtu.be/NA3E2YZOcKA


LOOKING AHEAD: March 26 

Readings for 5th Sun. in LENT:

http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Lent/ALent5_RCL.html



EN ESPAÑOL:

19 Marzo - Cuaresma #4

Lecturas:

https://www.episcopalchurch.org/es/lectionary/cuaresma-4a/

Homilía:

https://youtu.be/g_Zh83QXOWo


Próxima Semana: 26 Marzo - Cuaresma #5

Lecturas:

https://www.episcopalchurch.org/es/lectionary/cuaresma-5a/


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Nicole Aunapu Mann - Wailaki Tribe

THE BEACON

March 14, 2023


Good evening all!  

Hope you are all doing well, safe, dry and warm.  


 Although we have more rain and perhaps higher elevations snow, the  water, in what ever form is needed.  Wish we had the ability to save and  store it, unfortunately, with as much technology  as humankind has developed, water and conservation has not been the  highest of priorities. 


Thankful for our ability to Zoom!  Thank you, to  Father Michael for walking us through the story of the Samaritan at the  well.  Most of our scriptures and particularly the Gospel is rarely  without a deeper and more complex  meaning.  Each time we devote time and the desire to better understand  the Bible we find new meaning and therefore understanding.  The Living  Water is the water which causes us to thirst no more and just as with  the woman at the well, we are known fully as  we are, and we are still invited to share the water.  When the woman  returns to the settlement and shares her story, it seems all follow her  even though they are the same people who spurned her before.  Do we  perhaps have the charge and the ability to share  our stories and invite others to join us at the Lord's table.  We may  no longer thirst and still be open to learning, a thirst  for learning .


I missed any discussions following our service as, by the miracle of  Zoom I attended another service which began at 10:00 at St George's  Episcopal Church at Riverside with the guest celebrant Reverend Mary  Crist of St. Michael's also of Riverside.  Had learned  earlier that Mary would be speaking of the woman at the well and some  information about the Indigenous people's spiritual connection to water.   Mary is of the Blackfeet and works, through our Presiding Bishop Curry  with tribes throughout the America's and  other places.  


In a very abbreviated way, I wanted to share how the Indigenous people  hold water as sacred and thank their creator each morning for the life  giving and sustaining element in the same way that has been a familiar  practice for over 65,000 years.  The Indigenous  people simply call water "good medicine".  


There is much for us to learn from one another, from each country and  all spiritual and religious practices in our world. All the input I was  blessed to receive this past Sunday prompted me to see our unheard of  snowfall and the current deluge of rains the  West Coast is receiving. We may tend to take water for grated because  although we live in a desert area, we do not have to search beyond our  kitchen sinks for it.   


This week the US is celebrating the first Indigenous female astronaut to  venture into space--Nicole Aunapu Mann, a member of Northern California's Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes.   I was going to add a post I'd seen because we  should all celebrate everyone's success, except the headline said first  female from Mexico and that saddened me.  Ignorance  is one of the things we can all work on to truly share the Living Water  offered to every one of us.  Culture matters, color matters and respect  for everyone matters. (I have written to the entity posting this, will  see if I hear back).


We continue to pray for peaceful coexistence, reconciliation and that we  might better listen and learn just as we learn from the parables and  every scripture reading. 


Love and Blessings,

St. Richard's

A Lenten practice: LENT MADNESS!


Wanted to let you know about Lent Madness!  

Some of us have followed this for a few years. It is a great way to  learn about various saints and their history.  Read the following and  click on Lent Madness to learn more.  It's a fun way to become more  familiar with well-known and some lesser-known church  leaders. 

After reading about the two saints mentioned for the day, vote for the one you would like to see move on in the competition.  

Stay warm and enjoy your day. 


Click on:  Lent Madness.



Love and Blessings,

St. Richard's

Desiderata:


I shall pass this way but once.

Any good therefore that I can do

for any human being

let me do it now.

Let me not defer it nor neglect it,

for I shall not pass this way again.


🙏  🙏🏽


Help out!

The Mountain Homeless Coalition  ministry all started  four years ago, when St. Richard's little Outreach Committee, along with a couple of our local Presbyterian friends, formed a 501c3 and by the grace of God connected with the county Homeless Services. 

We were awarded a $1.1 million grant to purchase 8 units in Big Bear for permanent housing for the homeless.  We work now with  50 new requests for assistance monthly.  


More info OR care to HELP?:

https://www.mountainhomelesscoalition.com


Facebook site:

https://www.facebook.com/MountainHomelessCoalition/

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40 days of Prayer and Self-sacrifice

✙ The Two Components of LENT ✙


Sometimes referred to as "Prayer and Fasting," these are the two components of Lent:


Via Positiva:  The Positive Path -- Add some spiritual practice to your days, such as Scripture reading, other spiritual reading, or intentional acts of simple kindness each day.


Via Negativa:  The Self-denial Path -- Let go of some particular tasty treat or other simple pleasure you normally enjoy to "open a space" within you to be reminded to pray or act kindly toward others.


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RAINBOW BRIDGE

The Rainbow Bridge Pet Sanctuary is this church's burial site for pets.  Members and non-members are welcome to bury their beloved animals' ashes in our garden as well as place a brick marker engraved with the pet's name and dates of life with you.



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Thank You

Whether you help through monetary donations, volunteering your time, or spreading our mission through word-of-mouth, thank you. We couldn't accomplish our goals without the help of supporters like you. 

[picture:  McWhirter Memorial Garden for Burials of cremains of our Loved Ones.  

Members and non-members welcome.]


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