This last weekend in May is busy and important.
Consider...
1. Memorial Day, honoring those military who died defending is. Pray for them.
2. Pentecost Sunday, remember the first coming of the Holy Spirit. Pray in Thanks.
3. The burial of two of our family in the memorial garden. Patricia Mates, joining her husband, Ted, and
William McKoy, joining his wife, Mary.
4. The last Sunday with our choir, pray in Thanks for them.
5. The "beginning" of summer. Pray for seasonable weather and no fires!
Blessings,
Father Ed
|
|
|
St Patrick's
Upcoming Worship Service
In Person & Zoom
|
|
|
Contact Information:
The Very Rev. Ed, Priest-In-Charge
Email: edhowell@sonic.net
Phone/text: 707-292-8033
|
|
Our Happenings at St Patrick's Church!
May 25- Vestry Meeting at 5PM
May 25- Choir Rehearsal at 6:30PM
May 27- Pat Mates Funeral Service 11AM
May 28- Holy Eucharist 10AM
May 28- Bill McKoy's Funeral Service followed by reception in Stevenson Hall 1:30PM
May 29- Centering Prayer Group 10:30AM
May 29- Art & Exploring Class 11AM
Please click on the link below for upcoming calendar events!
https://stpatrickskenwood.org/calendar/
|
May 31- Midweek Worship followed by Bible Study 10AM
May 31- *Al Anon Meeting- 6PM
*AA Meeting- 7:30PM
June 1- P.E.O. Meeting in Stevenson Hall at 10:30AM
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 and sometimes on the first Saturday at 8:45AM, meets in the Parish Hall.
|
|
St Patrick's Weekly Calendar
Sundays: Holy Eucharist
Join us in person for Sunday Eucharist! 10 a.m.
Also available online by Zoom. Click here for the invite.
Tuesdays: Morning Coffee Hour
Let's meet over coffee! 10:00 a.m. Contact Rich Randolph for your Zoom Invitation.
Rich Randolph: rjurny@gmail.com
Thursdays: Compline
Compline on ZOOM! 4:00 p.m. Hosted by Minerva Haddad. Contact Minerva for your Zoom invite.
Minerva Haddad: minerva.haddad@gmail.com.
Fridays: The Men's Bible Study:
Grow in your faith & walk with God! 8:30 a.m.
Send a note to Rich Randolph and he will ensure you receive a Zoom invitation.
Rich Randolph: rjurny@gmail.com
|
|
|
Memorial Services for
William McKoy & Pat Mates
|
|
|
In Loving Memory of Our Dear Friend
William G. McKoy
 
In Loving Memory of Ted & Pate Mates
|
|
|
A Thankful Note from Our Choir Director!
|
|
|
|
Dear St. Patrick’s Family,
On behalf of myself and Doug Richardson, I would like to say a thank you to the 2022-2023 Choir and the congregation for a successful season of singing God’s praises and for the congregation’s kind support. We hope that the music helped to bring you closer to God, and helped move you in ways that mere words cannot. Doug and I hope you have enjoyed the various styles and genres of music that have been presented in the hope to help nourish your spiritual being.
The Choir will return to rehearsals on Thursday, August 17th at 6:30P.M. and will return to services starting Sunday, September 10th. We will present a lovely arrangement of the Irish Blessing (May the Road Rise to Meet You) as our final anthem this Sunday.
“…and until we meet again, may you keep safe in the gentle, loving arms of God.”
Sincerely,
Mark Kratz
Music Director
|
|
|
Greetings Friends! Check out Eleanor's thankful note to her volunteers from this week's distribution!
Thank you to Beth, Lauri, Natalie, Olivia, Mary, driver Tomie, and rep Arturo. 53 households/183 individuals received food tonight! Internet interruptions caused some delays in registering, so Arturo had to manually register most clients.
Arturo tells me that in the future, REFB will be decreasing its canned goods supplies and increasing its fresh produce.
The St Pat giveaway is going well. About 1/2 of what we set out was "repurposed" tonight! We've done this twice, but still have items to donate!
June 12 is our next distribution. Scheduled volunteers are Pam/Larry, Carolyn, Ned and Ron. I will be attending my home church's 100th birthday in Texas! Ron will open and close.
Eleanor
|
|
|
Art & Exploring Our Own Creative Expression with
Kate Rogers
|
|
|
|
Class begins at 11AM in the Common Room!
To sign up, please contact Bobbiejo at parishadm9000@gmail.com or call 707-833-4228. For questions, contact Laurie Boone Hogen at Lauriehogen@gmail.com.
St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church is located at 9000 Sonoma Highway in Kenwood.
|
|
|
Kiwanis Club of the North Bay Presents...
|
|
|
Kiwanis Club of the North Bay is sponsoring a fund raiser to strengthen their youth scholarship fund and other youth programs in our local area!
They are asking people to buy tickets to a preview showing of the play "Something Rotten" at the 6th Street Playhouse on Wednesday evening, May 31st. You can buy tickets ($30) from any Kiwanis member, that is Eleanor Albon, or you can email pennylee@71briteyes@comcast.net.
|
|
Robin Williams in License to Wed (2007)
The following is an insight on why so many adults have chosen the Episcopal Church. You might like to share it with one who is a searcher and could find a home in the Episcopal Church.
- Worship that brings you in, instead of putting you on the sidelines.
- A theology that demands our intelligence rather than ignoring it.
- A willingness not only to tolerate, but also to celebrate differences.
- A heritage that takes the Bible very seriously but is not bound by literalism.
- A strong sense of community in which our consensus is in Christ, not a conformity of opinion.
- A devotion to the Biblical Sacraments instituted by Jesus, which evoke awe and mystery instead of factual explanation.
- A sense of ministry that is rightfully the obligation of every baptized person.
- An insistence upon morality (what is good and loving) and an avoidance of moralism (salvation by code and not by Christ).
- The heritage of Apostolic faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and in the Apostolic order given to the church by Him.
The Rev. Canon James MacLean, Diocese of Arkansas
|
|
Our Dunbar cello players and other young musicians gave a wonderful concert at El Verano School on May 11. It was wonderful to support and cheer on our young Dunbar musicians!
In the future, our Dunbar children will be attending other schools in the district but will continue with ViVO after school! So, we will continue to support that “Music changes lives” through learning to play an instrument and join an orchestra not only with the children who attended Dunbar but we will support additional underserved children in our area.
Klara Crean and Michael Fesckes
ViVO's Leaders
Thank you for all your continued support during this difficult time for our Dunbar children. The district may close Dunbar School but BBC-Schools continues to make a difference in the lives of the children in our area! And a special thank you to Stephanie Chapralis, Dennis McCaffrey, Eleanor Albon, Laurie
Hogen, & Russ Engel for attending the concert earlier this month.
|
|
| LIVING SACRAMENTALLY: AN EASTERTIDE LEARNING OPPORTUNITY |
| |
 Are you interested in reflecting on the meaning of your baptism for the questions, challenges, and opportunities you face in daily life? During Easter Season (also known as the Great Fifty Days), Phina Borgeson and Paul Mallatt will be offering an online, Zoom-based course called “Living Sacramentally.” All in our Russian River Deanery are invited to explore what it means to live into our baptisms, and meet the questions, challenges and opportunities to live faithfully in our daily lives. Five sessions will each be focused on a sign of baptism: water, oil, name, new clothes, light. A short reflection from one of the facilitators and a key text from scripture or the Book of Common Prayer will lead into open dialogue among those who participate. Newly baptized adults and older teens, as well as parents and godparents of newly baptized children and infants, are especially encouraged to participate, but all are welcome. Eastertide is a traditional time for Christians to reflect on living sacramentally; as part of the catechumenal process it is called “mystagogy.”
Meetings will be Tuesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. Pacific, beginning April 18 for five weeks. Paul Mallatt (paulyfa@me.com) and Phina Borgeson (phinaborgeson@gmail.com) will be facilitating. Contact either of them with questions or to receive the Zoom link.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Food Donations Needed
F.I.S.H. of Santa Rosa
|
|
|
Spread the LOVE!
Our friends at F.I.S.H. of Santa Rosa would like our help with peanut butter donations! If you would like to bring in jars of peanut butter to help fulfill their needs to keep serving those in need. You can also bring canned soup and other food non-perishable items. Peanut butter is their greatest need at the moment.
Drop off your donations in the basket located in the Narthex.
We thank you for all your help!
Donation basket, located in the Narthex
|
|
Please Support Saint Patrick’s Episcopal Church Ministry
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
Contact Information:
The Very Rev. Ed Howell, Priest-In-Charge
Email: edhowell@sonic.net
Phone/text: 707-292-8033
|
|
|
|
9000 Sonoma Highway
PO Box 247
Kenwood, CA 95452
|
|
|
|
|
