God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult, Psalm 46:1-3
God who hears our anxious thoughts, God who listens to our bold prayers:
There are so many uncertainties in our world right now that at times it is difficult to stope ourselves form borrowing worry form tomorrow. Yet while the changes and chances of this world are certain, so is your steadfast love. Help us in our times of doubt and fear about the future to plant our feet firmly in the ground of the present, so that we may feel your presence giving us strength to our troubled spirits. Amen.
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 St Patrick's Weekly Calendar
Sundays: Holy Eucharist
Join us in person for Sunday Eucharist! 9:30 a.m. with Priest Doyle
Also available online with Zoom. Below find the Zoom link and service leaflet.
Tuesdays: Morning Coffee Hour
Let's meet over coffee! 10:00 a.m. Hosted by Eleanor Albon. Send a note to Eleanor Albon or Richard Randolph and they will ensure you receive a Zoom invitation.
Eleanor Albon: ralbon@aol.com / 281-610-8043 or Richard Randolph: rjurny@gmail.com
Tuesdays: Compline
Let's share Compline together! 4:00 p.m. Hosted by Priest Doyle.
Wednesdays: Parish Bible Study
Join Priest Doyle for I Corinthians at 9:00 a.m., hosted by Priest Doyle.
Fridays: The Men's Bible Study:
Grow in your faith & walk with God! 8:30 a.m.
Send a note to Tom Allen and he will ensure you receive a Zoom invitation. ctetfa@sbcglobal.net or 214-766-7209
Second Saturday of the Month: Women's Breakfast:
Fellowship over breakfast, a cup of coffee, or just to visit with us! 8:30 a.m.
Send a note to Eleanor Albon and she will ensure you receive a Zoom invitation. ralbon@aol.comor 281-610-8043
** Women's Breakfast will meet on the second Sa turday of the month. Our next Zoom gathering will be August 14** |
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Join us on Zoom
This Weekend!
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** Our indoor service will also be available online by using Zoom **
Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 9:30AM: Proper 15
Click here for the Zoom Invitation for Proper 15.
Click here for the service leaflet.
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St Patrick's
Upcoming Indoor Holy Eucharist Services
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Sunday, August 15, Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, August 22, Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, August 29, Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, September 5, Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 9:30 a.m.
**Please note, future indoor gatherings are subject to change.
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Regular Weekday Worship & Education
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Compline Service, Every Tuesday at 4PM
See New Zoom Invitation and Service Leaflet Links for August 17, 2021.
Click here for the Zoom Invitation for August 17.
Click here for the service leaflet for August 17.
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Our Parish Bible Study occurs every Wednesday!
Our next study will be Wednesday, August 18th at 9:00 a.m.
The readings for August 18, 2021 will be I Corinthians 7:29 - 10:1.
Click here for your Zoom invite. See you there! |
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Words: Charles Wesley
Music: Joseph Parry
Sung by: Fernando Ortega
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From the Bishop's Office
Regarding 2021 Diocese Convention
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Click on the logo to be taken to a link and read Bishop Megans's important message regarding this year's Convention. --->
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Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
The Remarkable Insights of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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 Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: The Remarkable Insights of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Sunday, August 15, 2:00 PM
This event is offered on Zoom Only by Dr. Susannah Heschel.
Register for the Zoom link by clicking here.
 Dr. Susannah Heschel will join us on Zoom to discuss her father's deep commitment to human rights, his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, and his vision of a Jewish spirituality that combines the inner life with social and political commitment.
Selma: an iconic site in American history and an iconic moment in Jewish history. “I felt my legs were praying.” With those words describing his experience of the Selma march of 1965, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary, transformed a political march into a moment of profound religiosity.
What shaped Abraham Joshua Heschel, as a scholar, activist, rabbi and human being? Why did he view the Selma march in religious terms? Rabbi Heschel exemplified the very best of Judaism and yet also speaks to people of a range of faiths, all around the world.
This lecture will introduce aspects of Rabbi Heschel’s public and private life as well as some of his key teachings. Read more about Susannah by clicking here.
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Hello Friends!
Below is some incredible news about a St Patrick's Church friend. You may remember The Rev. Betsey Monnot who has joined us before. Read up on the latest news about our friend Betsey+!
Dear Friends in Christ,
Congratulations to The Reverend Betsey Monnot upon her election as 10th Bishop of the Diocese of Iowa! Betsey+ has been serving as the priest-in-charge at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church in Rancho Cordova, California, and as director and retreat leader of Called to Abundant Life: Leadership Consulting. She previously served as missioner for leadership development and networking for the Diocese of Northern California and co-rector with her husband, Michael, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Sacramento.
Betsey+ is the first woman to be elected bishop of Iowa since the diocese was formed in 1853. She will be consecrated as bishop by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on December 18 in Des Moines.
The Diocese of Iowa is gaining a wise and talented priest as their bishop. Our diocese has been blessed by both Betsey and Michael for many years, and we will be sad to lose them. Our sadness, though is tempered by joy in the knowledge that they will have a great adventure ahead, and I know that she will make a great bishop. I look forward to continuing ministry with the Rev. Betsey Monnot. Please join me in congratulating Betsey and her family for this great news! |
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Richard Rohr
Daily Meditation
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A Communion Paradigm
Theme: Good and Bad Power
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM
Good and Bad Power
A Communion Paradigm
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
The contemplative theologian Beatrice Bruteau explores how Jesus took his intimate experience of Trinitarian love and empowerment into his ministry. Of course, when we read the Gospels and the New Testament, we see how difficult it was for even Jesus’ earliest followers to follow his example in their treatment of others. However, that doesn’t mean we give up! Rather, I hope we are encouraged to keep thinking in circles rather than pyramids. Beatrice Bruteau writes:
Under the Domination Paradigm, people are encouraged to think of themselves as identified by their descriptions and to see themselves as real insofar as they are distinct from others. . . . “I am I by virtue of being not-you.” So defined, people feel the insufficiency of their being, which is always vulnerable, always at risk. Consequently, people are insecure and anxious. Strongly pressed to preserve and enhance what being they have, people are easily tempted to believe that helping others may hurt themselves and that hurting others may be the best way to help themselves. After all, the others are “others,” and our first priority is ourselves. “My” well-being has to take precedence over “yours.”
In the Jesus Movement, several things happen that undercut these views and feelings. First, Jesus offers people unconditional positive regard. He gives full attention, sympathetic support, respect, and something else. The something else is that he does not interact on the basis of one’s social description. In by-passing the description, he is going to something deeper and more real in the person. When he turns his unconditional positive regard on this deeper self beyond the descriptions, that self has the opportunity to wake up, to experience itself. When it does, it discovers itself as full of being; it no longer feels deficient. . . .
Second, Jesus explains to people that each person is a child of God. . . . God does not play favorites. God loves all equally. Children of God are supremely safe in this love (but not protected in the world), and children of God are themselves capable of this kind of loving. . . .
Third, Jesus gathers people into communities in which . . . each person does the same thing that Jesus originally did: loving another person on the level beyond any description, beaming full attention (with all one’s heart, soul, mind, strength) of positive regard. This can awaken the sense of selfhood in one who has not yet known it, and in this way the community expands. . . . [In the community] all people are absolutely equal and each is absolutely unique. The sharing within the community is thus richly textured and very creative. Being unified, loving, and creative, the community is the “outreach” of God, the very Presence of God as world.
We now have what we may call a Communion Paradigm. . . . Here I am I by virtue of being in-you/with-you/for-you, not outside and not against—not even separate.
Reference:
Beatrice Bruteau, The Holy Thursday Revolution (Orbis Books: 2005), 69, 70.
Story from Our Community:
I am looking for a way to exist that is driven by Love. Both my “conservative” childhood and my “liberal” young adulthood felt steeped in what to be against. In reading Father Richard’s words, as well as the many voices he includes in the Daily Meditations, I am more able to see and center on the Love that is God—both in myself and the world around me. —Jenna F.
Posted in Daily Meditations | Also tagged Beatrice Bruteau, Community, domination, God, Jesus, opportunity, Power
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From the Office of the Bishop
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Dixie Fire Continues
to burn in Diocese |
The Dixie Fire, which began July 13, has burned nearly 500,000 acres, making it the 2nd largest fire in California's recorded history. As of today, the fire is at 25% containment, with no estimated date for full containment.
The fire has devastated Greenville, Canyon Dam, and other towns, and continues to threaten Chester, Lake Almanor, and Quincy. |
Give Now to help
fire victims |
The Office of the Bishop has provided many gift cards for victims of the Dixie Fire. If you would like to give to fire relief, please visit the GIVE link on our web site.
Your contribution helps us both to offer immediate, direct aid to those in need, and to sustain a long-term commitment to heal and restore devastated communities. |
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COVID Updates from Covid ActNow
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Education for Justice and Hope
Interfaith Sonoma County News for August 2021
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Click HERE to be taken to the August edition of Interfaith Sonoma County News. The electronic publication of the Interfaith Council of Sonoma County ("ICSC").
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Natalie Grant | Andraé Crouch
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The Lord be with you. Let us pray:
Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ, your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen.
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Please Support Saint Patrick’s Episcopal Church Ministry
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Please remember that if you choose to mail your gift, our mailing address is P.O. Box 247, Kenwood CA 95452.
Thank you!!!
If you choose to mail in your gift, please consider to send checks only. This is for your security.
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Priest Doyle Dietz Allen Contact Information
Email: stpatricksrector@gmail.com
Parish Office Phone: 707-833-4228
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9000 Sonoma Highway
PO Box 247
Kenwood, CA 95452
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