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Second Sunday after Pentecost:
June 11, 2023
SCRIPTURE READINGS
Hosea 5:15-6:6
Psalm 50:7-15
Romans 4:13-25
Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26
Preacher: The Reverend Jennifer Wagner Pavia
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Sunday, June 11, 1:30 PM, Grassroots Neighbors at Holy Nativity
Saturday, June 17: Neighbors 4 Neighbors is taking off the month of June. They will return in July.
Saturday, June 17, 6:30pm: SoB Venue: Juneteenth celebration (currently full)
In Luther Hall
Sunday, June 25, 4:00 PM: Performance of Brahms' A German Requiem with orchestra & singers conducted by Dr. James Vail
In Sanctuary
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Bible and Breakfast
Tuesdays | 9:30 AM
Luther Hall & Zoom
Midweek Eucharist
Wednesdays | 7:00 PM
Sanctuary
Adult Forum
Wednesdays | 7:45 PM
Luther Hall & Zoom
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Rest in Peace, Beloved Gloria Bando | |
Gloria Bando (in the center between Janet Hartley and Cynthia Rothschild) at her St. Bede's Farewell Party, 2019. | |
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Gloria Bando, a long-time and devoted member of St. Bede’s, passed away peacefully at her Ohio home on Tuesday, May 30, at the age of 71. Gloria moved to Ohio in 2019 to be close to her brother and other family members. She was active in our choir and the Sisters of Bede and is remembered fondly for her loving disposition. She had a special affection for the beauty in God's creation, especially enjoying fields of spring flowers, birdwatching and the vast Pacific Ocean. Gloria is also survived by her years-long partner, Terri, who resides in Santa Monica. Her obituary may be found at Cleveland.com/obituaries. Let us all keep Gloria’s friends and family in loving prayer.
Rest eternal grant to her, O Lord.
And let light perpetual shine upon her.
May her soul, and the souls of all the departed,
through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
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VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED THIS SUNDAY!
June 11 | 1:30 PM & 5:00 PM
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Grass Roots Neighbors is a volunteer community organization. They meet the immediate needs of our neighbors experiencing food and housing insecurity. GRN mobilizes to fill the gaps in existing services by providing assistance with love and respect. The organization's vision is to be a community effectively involved in ending poverty.
Among their outreach programs, GNR cooks and delivers a hot meal every Sunday to various encampments on the Westside. Once a month, St. Bede's with Holy Nativity assists GNR with preparing and providing meals. There are now four different volunteer time slots:
- 2 - 4 PM (mostly chopping of fruits and veggies)
- 4 - 6 PM (mainly packaging food)
- 6 - 8:30 PM (loading and distributing the food)
- 7:30 - 10:30 PM (distributing food in Venice by bike)
GNR utilizes the kitchen facilities at Holy Nativity Episcopal Church.
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James Vail conducting orchestra and singers at St. Bede's, November 2018 | |
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On June 4, our St. Bede's Choir, under the direction of Frank Basile, gave a beautiful performance of Trinity Sunday Evensong. Basile noted that for the first time the concert was live-streamed and the Psalms were sung in Gregorian and Anglican chants. In reflecting on the Evensong, parishioner Elizabeth Coombs declared that our choir was in "top form." She further exclaimed, "The volume of 'O Gracious Light' was three times what you would expect from a choir its size! It was truly transporting!"
The next concert at St. Bede’s will be held on Sunday, June 25, when we partner with Dr. James Vail, the esteemed conductor and Professor Emeritus of Choral and Sacred Music at the USC Thornton School of Music. The photo shown above shows Dr. Vail conducting a concert at St. Bede’s in 2018. The concert this year will feature Dr. Vail conducting the Laudamus Te Singers, the St. Bede's choir and a string orchestra including harp, timpani, and Frank Basile on organ. The musicians will be performing Dr. Vail’s transcription of Brahms' A German Requiem; however, the piece will be sung in English so that we are able to understand it. Be sure not to miss this monumental work that consoles the living. The performance will be held in our Sanctuary on June 25 at 4:00 PM.
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Please don't forget to support FRIENDs of MUSIC's
2022-2023 season!
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ST. BEDE'S ONLINE GIVING PORTAL | |
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Are you planning to attend worship online and want an easy way to make a pledge payment? Do you want to ditch the checkbook and set up reoccurring payments? Are you looking for a convenient way to make a one-time special gift to St. Bede's?
Did you know you can make donations online to St. Bede's, securely and easily?
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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.
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FROM THE EPISCOPAL NEWS
A newsletter serving the Diocese of LA
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St. Paul’s Commons, Echo Park, Los Angeles | |
Countering white Christian nationalism is focus of July 9 forum set by diocesan ecumenical, interfaith program group
By EN Staff
A Sunday afternoon forum focused on countering white Christian nationalism is set for 2 – 4 p.m. on July 9 at St. Paul’s Commons, Echo Park, hosted by the diocesan Program Group on Ecumenical and Interfaith Life.
All are welcome, and advance registration is requested here.
The program – planned by diocesan interfaith ministers-in-residence Sable Manson, Tasneem Noor, and Tahil Sharma – will be framed by remarks offered by Bishop John Harvey Taylor of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, Bishop Brenda Bos of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Southwest California Synod, and Bishop Mary Ann Swenson, retired bishop of the United Methodist Church’s California-Pacific Conference.
Forum planners recommend that attendees read Pamela Cooper White’s 2022 book The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People Are Drawn In and How to Talk Across the Divide. The author has been invited to address the forum.
Program objectives, set by the diocese’s interfaith ministers and program group members, include:
- Creating a deeper understanding of what white Christian nationalism is, the different ways in which it materializes, and why it is pervasive and important to address;
- Empowering people to realize different roles to play in combating white Christian nationalism;
- Activating people to see white Christian nationalism as an issue requiring attention and diligent action;
- Providing people with tools to understand that addressing white Christian nationalism is not attacking their faith but addressing the weapon hijacking Christianity.
Further information will follow in upcoming issues of The Episcopal News Update.
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This stained glass window is a memorable feature of All Saints Episcopal Church, Highland Park (Los Angeles), soon to be shared with the ACNA Church of the Resurrection, also known as “L.A. Rez.” Photo: Episcopal News files | |
Highland Park’s All Saints parish welcomes ‘LA Rez’ as nesting congregation
By Bob Williams
Anglicanism’s “via media” (middle way) is the path newly chosen by two northeast Los Angeles congregations, one Episcopal, the other leasing space onsite as part of the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA).
Highland Park’s All Saints Episcopal Church, founded in 1904 and worshiping in English and Spanish at 5619 Monte Vista Avenue, has voted to welcome Church of the Resurrection, formed in 2016 and cheerfully dubbed “L.A. Rez” by congregants, to locate its ministries on campus and share the A-frame sanctuary’s worship space.
This agreement – forged by both congregations’ leadership groups and endorsed by Bishop John Harvey Taylor and the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles – reflects Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s view that Episcopal congregations may find productive common cause with those of breakaway denominations such as ACNA.
“At a House of Bishops meeting last year, Bishop Curry asked us all to keep in mind that, in his words, the ‘ACNA of 20 years ago is not necessarily the ACNA of today,’” Taylor told The News. “He said that many of its congregants and even leaders were not as invested in the doctrinal disputes of the early years of the century, and he hoped we would not be, either. He stressed that he wasn’t asking us to put aside the gospel priority of equity for all across barriers of identification and orientation. He just wanted us to go into any conversations we had with ACNA with hearts of reconciliation.
Read more here
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Maryland church unveils pollinator garden, part of growing trend supporting bees, butterflies
By David Paulsen
Gardening is a popular way for congregations across The Episcopal Church to put extra land to productive use, and while many grow food in connection with their local feeding ministries, some church gardeners focus not on what they will produce but on what they will attract: pollinators.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, for example, recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new pollinator garden in the town of Berlin, Maryland. The garden was a collaboration between the church, its Church Mouse thrift store, the Lower Shore Land Trust and the community of Berlin, which is one of 12 municipalities in Maryland and 183 nationwide with a Bee City USA designation.
“We can’t have enough pollinator gardens,” Helen Wiley, a St. Paul’s member and Church Mouse coordinator, told Episcopal News Service. She helped developed the garden on a small plot of church land. It was partly inspired by her daughter’s involvement with a local conservation group, and Wiley said it aligns with the Christian value of “taking care of God’s creation.”
Pollinator gardens include native species of flowers that are particularly attractive to bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and other species that aid in the reproduction of flowering plants. Those plants include three-quarters of the staple crop plants that humans rely on for food, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “The secret bond of the partnership is that neither plant nor pollinator populations can exist in isolation – should one disappear, the other is one generation away from disaster,” the department says.
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Missioner for African Descent Ministries the Rev. Ronald Byrd listens to a debate taking place in the United Nations General Assembly Hall during the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. Photo: Lynnaia Main |
Episcopal delegate attends meeting of new UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
By Melodie Woerman
Representatives from The Episcopal Church took part in only the second session of the United Nation’s Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, with four days of debate, discussion and meetings at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
The Rev. Ronald C. Byrd Sr., missioner for African Descent Ministries, was the church’s delegate to the May 30-June 2 forum, and he was accompanied by Lynnaia Main, the church’s representative to the U.N. They were joined at the opening plenary by the Rev. Margaret Rose, deputy for ecumenical and interreligious relations.
As a first-time delegate, Byrd told Episcopal News Service his goal was “to look, listen, learn” and to understand the process of how the large event functioned. He was among 900 representatives from what the U.N. calls “civil society” – nongovernmental organizations and others, including The Episcopal Church – as well as representatives of the 193 U.N. member states and other U.N. agencies. The United States delegation to the forum was led by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
The forum, which functions under the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was created by U.N. resolution on Aug. 2, 2021, with a variety of mandates, including to advise the Human Rights Council and others about issues of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and to consider issuing a declaration on the protection of the human rights of people of African descent. The first session of the forum took place Dec. 5-8, 2022, in Geneva, Switzerland.
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