Anglican Rosary: Saturday, September 19, 9:00 a.m
The Anglican Rosary devotional group meets Saturdays at 9:00 a.m. in the Church. Everyone is welcome.
Emmaus Road: Monday September 21
Emmaus Road will meet to discuss and decide what we’ll do next.
Santa Maria Barbecue :
Saturday ! September 26 4:30 p.m.
Parish Hall Lawn.
Coming up Saturday, September 26 is our annual Santa Maria BBQ, for over a decade now one of our most popular and best-attended parish events. On the Parish Hall lawn we grill tri-tip and chicken over red oak fires using a time-honored Santa Maria recipe, and add a simple salad, barbecue beans and grilled French bread. You bring drinks and desserts and your family and friends and it all adds up to an all-you-can-eat feast of great food and great fellowship.
Still Looking For Help:
People to Bring Drinks, Appetizers, and Desserts!
None of this happens without the many helping hands each year who do everything from purchasing to grilling, setup to cleanup. No experience necessary! If you'd like to be part of this year's happy crew, say so on the sign-up sheet after church, or contact coordinator Chris Askew directly at
626 200-5209 or, christopher.askew@gmail.com.
What we have so far:
Sign ups total: 37
Beer Wine: 10 That’s Good
Dessert 7 In Good Shape
Set Up 3 Need more help!
Prepare Food 2 Really Need more help!
Clean Up 4 Really, Really, Really need more help!
You can email your sign up for contributing food and helping with setup/cooking/clean up to the Church Office
Level 4
The young people now aged out of Catechesis of the Good Shepherd will begin meeting again with Fr. Bob between the services to learn about being acolytes, exploring the human qualities that make for a virtuous life, and continuing to work through the books of the that library we call the Bible. Sunday September 21
Combined Service to Start the Fall: Sunday September 27
We’ll combine the 7:45 and 10:15 services into one Liturgy at 9:30. It will be followed by a brunch in the Parish Hall. We will also use the occasion to say good by (temporarily) to Jim Goltz and Eileen Wakiji who will be going to Japan for a year. Jim will be teaching at a university there.
Looking Further Ahead: Annual Parish Retreat
October 16-18, Camp Thousand Pines, Crestline California
This will be our fifth year at this site. We’ve had wonderful times here. Participation can happen in several ways. One can stay the weekend at Camp Thousand Pines. This is especially good for families with children. There is lodging in nearby Crestline as well, and people can come on the site for the program and activities. Third, the Crestline is only an hour and a half away and people can easily drive up for the day on Saturday. The Retreat is especially good for new people to get to know parishioners better.
Our retreat speaker will be Suzanne Acton-Edwards. Suzanne led the Anglican Rosary Workshop last spring that many parishioners attended. We’re still in the planning stages for the topic and activities. Suzanne is a wonderful presenter and you’ll really enjoy her.
Allen Woolery has some pictures that people can see to get a sense of things. Check the link below.
Photos:
https://churchoftheangelsretreat.shutterfly.com/pictures/5
Food For Thought.
On the Food for Thought Table this weekend, a sampling from two ends of the spectrum.
The first two articles are in honor of Pope Francis’s visit to the United States
1. The Pope and the Planet. This is from The New York Review of Books, and is a review of the Pope’s recent Encyclical on the environment, global warming, and what is most dear to his heart, how what we do impacts the poorest of people.
2. Holy Orders. From the current issue of The New Yorker. This is an article which shows another side of the Pope. While he is warm, engaging, compassionate, and attractive to most everyone, he is also a very skilled administrator and has a big job reforming the Vatican as the operational center of the world wide Roman Catholic Church. He must be doing something right for two reasons, 1. career bureaucrats are having a tough time with him. 2. One of the new people he brought on, a Cardinal from Australia, head of the new finance department has found 1.2 billion dollars in assets they didn’t know they had!
The third article is about Hitler. It’s called Hitler’s World, and it comes from the most recent issue of The New York Review of Books. This selection is not to be a contrast to Pope Francis, but rather to go with what we’ll hear this Sunday in the Old Testament Reading. Some ideas that seem so modern go back an awfully long way.