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|  | | The GrapevineSt. Patrick’s Episcopal Church |
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Joyfully Transforming Lives
Our Mission Statement:
"To be a community that shares the joy of God's Love" |
| Thanks to All Who Blessed Us With Your Presence and Pledges Last SundayRejoice, Rejoice!To Have You With us is God’s Great Gift |
|  | | The Grapevine Will Not be Published Next Week. Church Office Will Be Closed, December 26 & 27See you in 2025!! |
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As promised, here’s the recipe:
Father Mack's Broiled Cheesy Appetizers
Makes 20 servings
Ingredients: 1 Cup medium cheddar cheese, shredded 1/3 Cup crumbled bacon 1/4 Cup mayonnaise 2 Tbsp. onion, finely minced 20 slices rye (or pumpernickel) cocktail bread (those little squares)
Directions: 1. Mix all ingredients, and spread a scant tablespoon of the mixture on each bread slice and place on baking sheet 2. Set broiler to "high" 3. Place the baking sheet at least 4 inches from heat 4. Broil for 1-2 minutes or until the cheese melts and begins to lightly brown
Serve while hot, and I normally double, triple, or quadruple the recipe. It's nearly impossible to eat just one!
Enjoy!
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St. Patrick's News Briefly A. Just Happened B. Happening Now C. About to Happen
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| A. Just Happened: MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC!!! The Best Holiday Concert Ever! |
|  | |  | | |  | Thank you, Laurie, for a Wonderful Advent! Enjoy this online diploma!!! |
|  | | If you want more art: The Christmas Story in Art is live! For all who love art, and all who love Christmas, feast your eyes on ten beautiful early Renaissance images which tell our Sacred Story. Click HERE to see them. |
|  | C. About to HappenChristmas Morning service will take the place of our regular Wednesday Eucharist, but there will be no Wednesday morning Eucharist on January 1 because of the holiday. |
| A Message from the Planned Giving Ministry |
| | ENCOURAGING GOOD STEWARDSHIP
It is Stewardship renewal season, when the parishioners of St. Patrick’s are asked to prayerfully consider their annual pledge to help sustain our church.
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| The Planned Giving Ministry supports the important work of the Stewardship Ministry that reminds us all of the gifts we receive from our church community and to thoughtfully give back in the form of an annual pledge.
Soon it will be a new year which is a great time to review and update your will or trust. A review should occur at least every three to five years or when a significant life event, such as a birth, death, or divorce, occurs. As the rose freely gives of its perfume, please consider as part of your will or trust, leaving a Legacy Gift to St. Patrick’s. |
| | Sunday, December 22, 5 pm: St. Paul’s Healdsburg A Festival of Lessons and Carols |
| |  | Let Heaven and Nature Sing!
Christmas is the most musical time of year: just look at the number of concerts offered in December, including our own. Could the shepherds abiding in their fields have dreamed what they were starting when that host of singing angels descended that first Christmas night?
We will be offering a number of musical approaches to Christmas during the next week: on Advent 4, our processional will be “The angel Gabriel from heaven came/ his wings as drifted snow, his eyes as flame,” one of my very favorite love songs which may also be the oldest Christmas carol written. Also in honor of the Virgin, whose Sunday this is, the choir anthem will be “Lo how a rose,” with a solo by Emily Lewis.
The following Saturday, we will offer a Blue Christmas service at 5 pm. Blue Christmas is holiday in a minor key, recognizing that joy is never fully detached from sorrow. This is a time of year when sadness arrives along with mirth, as we remember friends and family who have passed, or who are on their final journey. And life doesn’t take a break at Christmas: worries, estrangement, a new diagnosis, a crisis are often magnified at this time of year. Blue Christmas tells us to rest assured: God’s love is big enough to hold it all!
Musically, Blue Christmas holds it all. We all know that the Blues, one of America’s greatest home-grown genres, arose to help people deal with the unspeakable sorrows and sufferings of slavery, and later, the diminishment of segregation. But blue is also the color of heaven, of the holy mother. On Blue Christmas, our anthem will be “I Wonder as I Wander,” an American hymn by the compose John Jacob Niles which begins, “I wonder as I wander out under the sky/why Jesus our Savior did come forth to die/for poor ornery people like you and like I.” It will be sung by our favorite resident tenor and choir director, Mark Kratz, who will then leave us for a couple of weeks to be with family.
The choir will be on hand to kick off the Christmas season on Christmas Eve at 5. Christmas morning will be more informal: carol singing and togetherness at 10 am.
Come, sing with us. Rev. Carol+ |
| Have News to Share in the Grapevine? Send articles and pictures to carol.luther@gmail.com no later than Thursday morning. Submissions received after that will be published the following week. |
| | IF YOU NEED A CHECK OR REIMBURSEMENT
We now have a special box in the copy room for your request forms. Left side, 2nd from the top. We want to get your payment to you ASAP! Thanks. |
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| | The Rev. Mack Olson, Priest-in-Charge
Email: mack.saintpatricks@gmail.com Phone/text: 707-395-5572 |
| St. Patrick’s Upcoming Worship Service In Person and on Zoom |
| | If you are unable to join in person at 10 a.m., click here for the Zoom invite.
Click the dates below to download service bulletins.
Fourth Sunday of Advent Blue Christmas Christmas Eve Christmas Day
Click here for website https://stpatrickskenwood.org
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| |  | | Fri. December 20 and 27 - Wellspring with Sharron Simpson, Contemplative Prayer and Conversation, 10-11:30 Parish Hall
Mon. December 23 and 30 - Art with Kate Rogers, 11 am, Common Room
Wednesday, December 25 - Christmas Morning Service, 10am
No Wednesday Morning Eucharist on December 24 and January 1
Saturday January 4 - Nomadic Shelter
Saturday January 10 - Women’s Breakfast, 10am Boudin, Montgomery Village
Monday January 13 - Redwood Empire Food Bank, 4 pm
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Ministries of the parish that we cannot directly accomplish, except by our hospitable welcome to these fellowships and healing work include the following:
* AA Group, weekly on Wednesdays at 7:30PM, meets in the Parish Hall.
* Al Anon Group weekly on Wednesdays at 6PM, meets in the Common Room. * PEO, once a month on the first Thursday at 10AM meets in the Parish Hall.
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| Collection Corner: Doing Good!Blessing Bags and F.I.S.H. |
| Blessing Bags are due Sunday, January 12
Each bag needs: A Can of Pasta and Meat w/ pop top lid Crackers with Cheese or Peanut Butter A Boxed Drink A Granola/Trail Mix Bar Napkin and sturdy plastic fork |
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Please consider sending a monetary contribution to F.I.S.H. P.O. Box 4291 Santa Rosa, CA 95402
or putting non-perishable food in the basket in the Narthex. The need is great. Thank you,
Eleanor Albon and on behalf of Margaret Merchat, Leslie Clark and Kerin McTaggert |
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| | | | From Rev. Carol: I like to read Statements of Faith. This one especially moved me. It’s from South Africa, written by Allan Boesak and it reminds us of certain truths in an uncertain world..
ADVENT CREDO It is not true that creation and the human family are doomed to destruction and loss—
This is true: For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life; It is not true that we must accept inhumanity and discrimination, hunger and poverty, death and destruction—
This is true: I have come that they may have life, and that abundantly. It is not true that violence and hatred should have the last word, and that war and destruction rule forever—
This is true: Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, his name shall be called wonderful councilor, mighty God, the Everlasting, the Prince of peace. It is not true that we are simply victims of the powers of evil who seek to rule the world—
This is true: To me is given authority in heaven and on earth, and lo I am with you, even until the end of the world. It is not true that we have to wait for those who are specially gifted, who are the prophets of the Church before we can be peacemakers—
This is true: I will pour out my spirit on all flesh and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions and your old men shall have dreams. It is not true that our hopes for liberation of humankind, of justice, of human dignity of peace are not meant for this earth and for this history
This is true: The hour comes, and it is now, that the true worshipers shall worship God in spirit and in truth.
So let us enter Advent in hope, even hope against hope. Let us see visions of love and peace and justice. Let us affirm with humility, with joy, with faith, with courage: Jesus Christ—the life of the world. |
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St. Patrick’s Church Kenwood acknowledges that we sit on unceded lands traversed by the Coast Miwok, the Southern Pomo and the Central Wappo.
With God's help, we commit ourselves to acknowledging the truth of California's history, as well as strengthening existing relationships and improving our efforts to build collaborative relationships with Native peoples. |
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