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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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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"
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:
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.
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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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