 | The GrapevineSt. Patrick’s Episcopal Church |
| | | Thanks Living:
Joyfully Transforming Lives
Our Mission Statement:
"To be a community that shares the joy of God's Love" |
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| |  | Hopefully you’re not surprised that our annual meeting is THIS Sunday, right after our 10 o’clock service. As your new priest, I am excited to learn more about what’s been going on at St. Patrick’s this past year, and I look forward to celebrating all the ways we’ve been “a community that shares the joy of God’s love.” We’ll have the opportunity to give thanks to our outgoing vestry leaders, elect some new ones, and choose delegates to our diocesan convention. Below is a link to a .pdf copy of the 2024 Annual Meeting reports, so be sure to check it out beforehand, and a separate Treasurer’s report will be available on Sunday. See you then! |
| | | | You know what just happened. An opportunity to walk with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and deepen our commitment to being the bearers of God’s love to a world in pain. |
| | | In which we will celebrate a year of accomplishments and look toward our shared future! |
| |  | January 27, 4:30-5:30, St. Pat’s Parking Lot |
| Saturday February 1 - Nomadic Shelter
Saturday February 8 - Women’s Breakfast, 10am Boudin, Montgomery Village |
| | | This Year’s Lent Book will be Atul Gawande’s classic book on life, death, and the medicalized world view.
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending |
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| Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.
Facilitated by Fr. Mack, this book study will meet Wednesday Evenings beginning March 12. Even if you have already read it, this book craves re-reading. |
| | | This Sunday’s anthem is an arrangement of the famous We Shall Overcome, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, which he referenced in speeches and |
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| protestors sang in pivotal events like the Selma-to-Montgomery marches. During the 1950s and 1960s, the song became synonymous with the civil rights movement in the United States. It was sung during marches, protests, and rallies,symbolizing solidarity and determination. In this arrangement, Laurie Boone Hogen recites famous quotes from Dr. King as the choir sings! It is a moving rendition!
Our Processional Hymn is #533: How Wondrous and Great Thy Works, God of Praise! Based on Revelation 15:3-4, which celebrates God's mighty works and His justice, truth, and universal kingship. The text exalts God’s power and calls for all nations to worship Him.
The Sequence Hymn is #513: Like the Murmur of the Dove's Song, was written by Carl P. Daw Jr. in 1982. It is a modern hymn that reflects themes of peace, the Holy Spirit, and unity, inspired by the imagery of a dove.
We will sing #321: My God, Thy Table Now is Spread for the Communion Hymn. This hymn reflects on the Lord’s Supper, portraying it as a spiritual feast where believers are invited to experience God’s grace and fellowship. The text emphasizes themes of divine generosity, unity, and the blessings of Christ’s sacrifice.
Lastly, our Recessional Hymn is #537: Christ for the World We Sing! It was written by Samuel Wolcott in 1869. Inspired by a meeting focused on Christian outreach, Wolcott penned this hymn as a call to mission and evangelism. |
| | A Message from the Planned Giving Ministry |
|  | New Yorker Cartoon by Frank Cotham
True Story… A dear friend unexpectedly developed brain cancer that in 6 short weeks caused immediate decline and her passing. She died without a will and her estate went to her only relative whom she did not like. She had wanted her estate to go to the nonprofit agency where she had spent her entire life in support of people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. In her effects they found the beginning notations of a “To Do” list for her will, but it was too late.
Don’t let this happen to you! If you know to whom you want to leave your estate, make sure your wishes are documented in a legal will or trust. The Planned Giving Ministry members include Laurie Boone-Hogen, Ann and Alec Peters and Stephanie Chapralis McCaffrey. |
| 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 |
| | |  | | Fri. January 24 Wellspring with Sharron Simpson, Contemplative Prayer and Conversation, 10-11:30 Parish Hall
Mon. January 27 - Art with Kate Rogers, 11 am, Common Room
Monday January 27 - Redwood Empire Food Bank, 4:30 pm
Wednesday, January 29 - Eucharist and Healing
Saturday February 1 - Nomadic Shelter
Saturday February 5 - Women’s Breakfast, 10am Boudin, Montgomery Village |
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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, February 9
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 bring Peanut Butter, Canned Tuna, Canned Soup. Canned Chicken or
Consider sending a monetary contribution to F.I.S.H. P.O. Box 4291 Santa Rosa, CA 95402
Thank you, Eleanor Albon, Margaret Merchat, Leslie Clark, and Kerin McTaggert |
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| | Carol’s Corner: The Joy of the Lord is Our Strength |
| Sunday’s Old Testament reading comes from the Book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah is one of two Biblical books which tell the story of Israel’s return from Exile to rebuild the city from which they had been taken, to renew the lives they once lived in the shadow of God’s holy temple. These two books, the other being Ezra, both delight and trouble me, like most of the Bible.
The delight, of course, is restoration. Many people in this country are experiencing this very thing: the hope that the United States will return to its historical “greatness.” That a world will look up to us again. (Read 1 and 2 Kings if you want a taste of this “greatness.”) Things are never so simple, and greatness is always bittersweet.
The challenge is not to decree a restoration but to let myself be restored. That is what happens in Sunday’s reading. All the people gather and hear the story of what they had been. Men and woman alike. Later on, many of the women and their children would be cast out with their children so that their husbands could marry fresh Jewish girls and maintain racial purity.
Fortunately, Sunday’s reading stops before these difficult times; it is about rediscovering something wonderful that was feared lost forever. It is about a vision of the good that brings tears to the eyes. To discovering strength in the Joy of the Lord. To sharing the feast with the hungry.
This is where I think we need to be. Restoration does not happen by decree. Restoration happens in the human heart. |
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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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