God takes care of the glowworm as well as the galaxies, and not an atom moves without God’s consent. So what in the universe shall we fear? —Ernest Cardenal
God of the wildflowers, God of the sparrows:
We humans are so prone to fear and anxiety that one of the most repeated phrases in the Bible is “be not afraid.” Scripture also offers us examples from nature to teach
us how to move beyond our worries. Look at the birds of the air … consider the lilies of the field …. Help us today to read the messages of reassurance we see in
the world around us so that we may let go of our fears and trust in your steadfast love. Amen.
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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 29, 2021 at 9:30AM: Proper 17
Click here for the Zoom Invitation for Proper 17.
Click here for the service leaflet.
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St Patrick's
Upcoming Indoor Holy Eucharist Services
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Sunday, August 29, Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, September 5, Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, September 12, Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, September 19, Seventeenth 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 31, 2021.
Click here for the Zoom Invitation for August 31.
Click here for the service leaflet for August 31.
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Our Parish Bible Study occurs every Wednesday!
Our next study will be Wednesday, September 1 at 9:00 a.m.
The readings for September 1, 2021 will be
I Corinthians 11-12
Click here for your Zoom invite. See you there! |
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Burial Service for Our Dear Friend
Jack Abercrombie
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Dear St Patrick’s Family,
Our longtime dear friend Jack Abercrombie passed away on August 16, 2021.
Jack leaves behind his loving wife, Pris Abercrombie, wife of 64 years. Pris and Jack were members of St Patrick’s Church for many years and share a plethora of memories with their friends of the church.
Jack will be sorely missed. Please pray for Jack’s soul, Pris and their family.
The burial service will be this Saturday, August 28th at 10:00 a.m. located at St Patrick's Episcopal Church.
This will be a small gathering, please click HERE to register. Thank you!
“After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.”
1 Thessalonians 4:17-18
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How Great Thou Art
Celtic Worship ft. Steph Macleod
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Dear Friends in Christ:
As I write, The Dixie and Caldor fires continue their destructive march across our beautiful landscape. Thousands of residents have been displaced, not knowing if they will have homes to return to. Likewise, thousands of brave firefighters and first responders are working non-stop in treacherous  conditions to save communities.
For over a month, they have waged a war–first against the Dixie, now the Caldor, the Monument, the McFadden, The Beckwourth, The Tamarack, the Cache fire and others in what is likely to become the most destructive fire season in our state’s history.
The speed and ferocity of these fires is unprecedented, and the response has left our resources depleted and stretched thin. It is no wonder that communities would feel abandoned by their government’s seemingly glacial pace to declare the area a federal disaster, and trigger the aid that so many communities need.
I have been in close contact with Mark Dibelka, our new Missioner for Disaster Resilience about this very issue, and have directed him to convey to legislators and government agencies the dire circumstances our communities are in.
For those on the ground, and those closest to the firefight, the delay for the declaration seems absurd.
As I understand, Federal Aid is based upon direct confirmation of a certain number of residences lost. The extreme conditions have made it extremely difficult for the inspectors to determine the actual loss. Once a certain threshold is reached, the Federal Disaster Declaration can occur.
It saddens me that such a threshold exists, and I can assure you that, for me and my staff, there is no such target number to trigger a response. When one house or community is threatened, we are actively working to provide direct support in the form of cash grants, gift cards, and prayers. Simply put, we have a threshold of one.
My staff and I feel the grief of these fires. We work under the looming smoke, and we carry you closely in our hearts with prayer. I know that we are joined by the prayers of the saints across our diocese, state, and the wider church.
We are actively pursuing opportunities to convince government leaders of the urgent need, while continuing to provide direct assistance to congregations and individuals. Many congregations have opened their doors, and even their parking lots, to their neighbors and provided safe housing for individuals and animals alike. Rest assured, we are committed to supporting you through prayer and financial support.
May God continue to protect those impacted by these terrible fires.
Yours In Christ,
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Hello Friends,
Here is an update on what's going on around our church community.
If you would like to share anything, please send correspondence to Sandy Keith at skeith4@sbcglobal.net.
Diane and Bob Melder are moving to Richmond, Virginia to be closer to family. They will be nearer to Maurice Fleiss and Cynthia Pennington! More to follow as the time draws near.
The “Something’s Coming – Something Good” delivery went very well. Many thanks to Marilyn Ganz who prepared all the gift bags and to Tom and Priest Doyle, Eleanor Albon, Stephanie Chapralis, Leslie Clark, Gretchen Jackson, Pamela Moore, and Ron Keith who delivered the bags and brought cheer to and connection with our parish family! What a sweet surprise!!
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Ready to Make a Joyful Noise?
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Although we are still amid the pandemic, your music ministry team has been preparing for the future of our music program. Here are some of the things happening:
*The Music Ministry Team: Mark Kratz, Choir Director, Jackie Senter, Interim Pianist, Andy Robart, Wendy Lalanne, and Priest Doyle.
*We are finalizing our budget which pays for the music ministry staff, incidental soloists and musicians, special events like the Jazz Service, and the music library.
*We are about to launch our announcement to applicants for the position of church organist and will begin our audition process.
*We will start choir rehearsals again on Wednesday, September 8th at 7:00PM. We will not be singing in services just yet though. We will be observing 12 feet of social distancing between one another; and we will wear masks during rehearsals.
*Vaccinations required
*We are a small, but mighty choir. We would love some new voices to join us. Please consider joining the choir and help in raising a joyful voice to the Lord once again!
Mark Kratz, Choir Director
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A Message from Planned Giving Ministry
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FAITH FIELD TRIPS
A fundraiser
Brought to you by the Planned Giving Ministry
As people of faith, have you ever been curious about the faith traditions of other Christian Churches? We have more in common than differences.
We hope to bring appreciation and understanding of our Brothers and Sisters in Christ by venturing out and visiting a few churches that, in addition to their Liturgy, offer a unique and/or historic site, point of view, or experience.
In addition, we want to support our own St. Patrick's, and other faith communities thus each field trip would be a fundraiser where each participant provides $25 to St. Patrick's and $25 to the site we visit. There would be a (varying) limited number of participants for each trip.
Our first trip will be to the Holy Assumption Monastery in Calistoga. This monastery, one of the oldest in California, was founded by Russian Orthodox and is an exact replica of the chapel at Ft. Ross, now a state park. The Monastery is run by Orthodox nuns under Mother Melania, the Abbess, who live and work in community. Like all Monasteries, the nuns at Holy Assumption Monastery are self- supporting, by means of sales of products in their gift shop (all hand made), and donations. They offer prayer and hospitality, and welcome visitors.
Our trip on September 7th is for six (6) participants maximum, and would include driving to Calistoga, participating in the 12:15 pm service (about 35 minutes) and then we are invited to participate in their community lunchtime meal with the Sisters (and Mothers!) which lasts 50 minutes and is very similar in format to that outlined in The Rule of St. Benedict. There is also the gift shop you may visit with the crafts and articles they sell to support the monastery.
Considerations: Due to the resurgence of the Covid Delta variant, the following safety precautions will be in effect:
1. You must be fully vaccinated (two weeks prior) to attend. Proof of vaccination is necessary by card or "myvacationrecord CA Gov).
2. Masks must be worn indoors and in the dining area until the meal.
Please contact Stephanie Chapralis McCaffrey for further details (707
303-7130, schapralis@aol.com), if you would like to participate. Enrollment is on a first come, first served basis with checks submitted prior to the trip, if possible.
Future trips will include visits to the Carmelite House of Prayer in Oakville; a Friar Community, formerly a summer home with grounds by John McLaren, landscape designer of golden Gate Park, and an overnight trip to The Abbey of Our Lady of New Clairvaux; a Trappist-Cistercian monk community with their own winery (they grow grapes on land formerly owned by Leland Stanford) and a spectacular 800 year old Chapter House.
Let's Go Explore!
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Becoming A Beloved Community - Schools
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BECOMING BELOVED COMMUNITY - SCHOOLS
OPENING DOORS THROUGH MUSIC AND MENTORING
SUMMER 2021
School has started in person and it is a wonderful time to support our neighborhood schools! Join us in bringing an extraordinary orchestral program to Dunbar School by helping to underwrite instruction or funding an instrument. Together we can change young lives through music!!!! Please read this flyer and make instrumental music at Dunbar School a reality.
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Please contact Laurie Boone Hogen for any questions. Lauriehogen@gmail.com.
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If you wish to contribute to a St. Patrick's group gift for Pan & Larry, contact Stephanie Chapralis McCaffrey.
Thank you!
Contact Information:
Home: (707) 303-7130
Email: schapralis@aol.com
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I am Music Director at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Healdsburg and we are starting a new concert series at St. Paul’s called Second Sundays at St. Paul’s. On the second Sunday of each month at 5pm we will have a musical event featuring the new Bigelow pipe organ. The first year will be a mixture of Organ Concerts and Choral Evensongs.
Our first event is an Organ Concert by David Hatt on Sunday, September 12 at 5:00 pm. Dave is a member of St. Paul’s as he and his wife Teal live in Cloverdale even though he continues his position as Assistant Organist at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. Would be great if you could get the word out to those you think might be interested at your church.
Paul
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You're Invited to the Diocesan Convention!
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Diocesan Convention Update
Convention REGISTRATION is now open. Click here to visit the registration page.
Are you interested in serving as a member of the Standing Committee or Board of Trustees? Deadline to submit nominations for Board of Trustees and Standing Committee is FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.
Deanery Convocation takes place SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9.
Virtual Town Hall Meetings about Resolutions will be WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, AND SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
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News from the Diocese & Wider Church
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Disaster Relief Update
Thanks to your generosity, we have received $5390.00 through our online giving link to purchase gift cards for fire victims!
The Bishop and Staff of the Office continue to provide direct aid in the form of grants and gift cards to congregations impacted by the many fires in the diocese.
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.
Faith in action near the frontline
Today, the Office of the Bishop received an update from the Rev. Debra Warwick-Sabinoon the work being done by Our Savior, Placerville to support victims of nearby fires. Read the update and see photos here.
 Happy 36th Wedding Anniversary to Bishop Megan & Phillip Traquair!
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Earthquake-battered Haitian Episcopalians assess damage as ministry partners prepare to help
Episcopal News Service
Read the story From Episcopal News Service.
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Richard Rohr
Daily Meditation
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Expanding Our Capacity to Love
Theme: Unveiling the Universal Christ
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM
Unveiling the Universal Christ
Expanding Our Capacity to Love
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
To be loved by Jesus enlarges our heart capacity. To be loved by the Christ enlarges our mental capacity. We need both a Jesus and a Christ, in my opinion, to get the full picture. A truly transformative God—for both the individual and history—needs to be experienced as both personal and universal. Nothing less will fully work. If the overly personal (even sentimental) Jesus has shown itself to have severe limitations and problems, it is because this Jesus was not also universal. We lost the cosmic when we made him cozy. History has clearly shown that worship of Jesus without worship of Christ invariably becomes a time-and culture-bound religion, often ethnic or even, in the West, implicitly racist, which excludes much of humanity from God’s embrace.
I fully believe, however, that there has never been a single soul who was not possessed by the Christ, even in the ages before Jesus. Why would we want our religion, or our God, to be any smaller?
For those of us who have felt angered or wounded or excluded by the message of Jesus or Christ as we have heard it, I hope we sense an opening here—an affirmation, a welcome that we may have despaired of ever hearing. You are a child of God, and always will be, even when you don’t believe it.
I opened my book The Universal Christ with a lengthy quote from Catholic mystic and artist Caryll Houselander [1901–1954]. She describes riding the subway and seeing Christ permeating and radiating from all her fellow passengers:
Quite suddenly I saw with my mind, but as vividly as a wonderful picture, Christ in them all. But I saw more than that; not only was Christ in every one of them, living in them, dying in them, rejoicing in them, sorrowing in them—but because He was in them, and because they were here, the whole world was here too . . . all those people who had lived in the past, and all those yet to come.
I came out into the street and walked for a long time in the crowds. It was the same here, on every side, in every passer-by, everywhere—Christ. [1]
This is why I can see Christ in my dog Opie, the sky, and all creatures, and it’s why we can experience God’s unadulterated care for us in our garden or kitchen, our husband or wife or child, an ordinary beetle, a fish in the darkest sea that no human eye will ever observe, and even in those who do not like us, and those who are not like us.
This is the illuminating light that enlightens all things, making it possible for us to see things in their fullness. When Christ calls himself the “Light of the World” (John 8:12), he is not telling us to look just at him, but to look out at life with his all-merciful eyes. We see him so we can see like him, and with the same infinite compassion.
References:
[1] Caryll Houselander, A Rocking-Horse Catholic (Sheed & Ward: 1955), 137–138.
Adapted from Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe (Convergent: 2019), 36–37.
Story from Our Community:
I am a physician who works in a hospital. This last year has been difficult and I felt that my faith was slipping. Then I read The Universal Christ and found this site. Now I get into my day rather than through it. I am inspired each day to listen more deeply, connect more intimately and love more generously. These daily readings have saved me. —Mahsheed K.
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Covid Act Now Daily Download
21:45 ET 19 August 2021
US COVID Map & Risk Levels
Risk Levels*
 U.S. Vitals
Cases: 37.3 million
Deaths: 624,000
First dose administered: 170 million
Data derived from Covid Act Now. Learn more about our data sources.
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Hello again.
With cases rising, and the Delta variant surging across the country, we wanted to pop back into your inboxes to try to provide some clarity about what’s going on. While we won’t be returning to your inboxes daily, we’ll be sending out these Special Downloads every so often to provide some updates on the ever-evolving pandemic world.
What's the deal with breakthrough infections?
On Monday, the seven day average of daily new COVID cases in the U.S. rose to 130,710 – the highest number reported since February. Some studies show that breakthrough cases, which occur when a fully vaccinated person becomes infected with COVID, account for a small number of these new cases. Data from July 30 shows that these infections are very rare and have been identified only in between 0.1 to 0.29 percent of all fully vaccinated people in the United States.
However, there is some evidence that the Delta variant may cause more breakthrough infections than previous strains and that vaccines may become less effective over time. Recent study data shows the Pfizer vaccine is 88 percent effectiveat preventing infection from the Delta variant, but some real-world data gathered in Israelsuggests that vaccines may become less effective against Delta infections over time. In Israel, people who were vaccinated in January were significantly less protected against infection than those vaccinated in April. Experts caution, however, that the real-world data may be skewed by a variety of factors, including smaller sample sizes and a narrower window of time studied.
But, in both study and real-world data, vaccines remain highly protective against severe disease and hospitalization. Full Pfizer vaccination is 96 percent effective at preventing hospitalizations from Delta, and unvaccinated people make up more than 95 percent of COVID patients in American hospital beds. So get vaccinated, and make sure your friends and family do too.
What’s the deal with booster shots?
Last week, the FDA authorized an additional dose of mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) for immunocompromised people – the country’s first official step towards giving out booster shots against COVID. Soon after, the Biden administration moved to recommend booster shots for all Americans eight months after their second dose. The administration plans to begin administering these booster shots with FDA authorization as soon as September 20, starting with health care workers, nursing home residents, and older Americans. This announcement comes alongside the growing body of evidence that the vaccines may become less protective against infection as time goes on.
On Monday, Pfizer submitted early clinical data to the FDA showing that a booster shot generated significantly higher levels of neutralizing antibodies against the original strain of COVID, as well as the Beta and Delta variants.
There has been confusion about whether or not boosters are necessary (as recently as August 3rd, the federal government said boosters were not needed). There have been reports of people crossing state lines and lying about their vaccination status to obtain a third shot.
What’s the deal with masking and mitigation measures?
In late July, the CDC reversed its earlier guidance to recommend that all people, regardless of vaccination status, should once again wear masks indoors. Since then, some local governments have moved to impose indoor mask mandates and restrictions, while others have been slow to adopt or even allow any mitigation measures. In both New York City and San Francisco, proof of vaccination is now required to enter any indoor bars, restaurants, gyms, or entertainment centers. In nine states, such as Texas, Florida, and Arizona, governors have banned schools from imposing any mask mandates. Many of the states that are banning mask mandates are currently facing overwhelming outbreaks driven by the Delta variant and tend to have been among the first to relax COVID restrictions earlier this year. On Wednesday, the Biden administration directed the Department of Education to use its civil rights division to prevent governors from banning universal masking inside of schools.
What’s the deal with variants?
Variants occur when there is a significant change or mutation to a virus’ genetic code over time. Variants are natural and expected, especially for viruses like COVID that are spreading widely across several distinct geographic locations. While many different COVID variants have been detected, the WHO has only categorized four as variants of concern: the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta variants.
Of these four, the Delta variant is the most contagious. The original strain of COVID had a reproduction number, R0, between two and three, meaning that on average, each person infected with COVID would spread the virus to two to three more people. The CDC estimates that the Delta variant’s R0 is between 5 and 9.
As long as COVID continues to spread throughout the population, we should expect new variants to continue to emerge over time.
ICYMI
On a Lighter Note
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Fight the good fight with all thy might
(gospel hymn)
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The Lord be with you. Let us pray:
Grant,O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the HolySpirit, one God, for ever and 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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