September 25, 19th Sunday after Pentecost

Daily Scripture Readings;  bookofcommonprayer.net/daily_office.php

See the different options.  There is full morning and evening prayer.  There is also the option of the readings only.  There is also an app for receiving the daily readings by email, or on a mobile device

 Sunday Scripture Readings:  bookofcommonprayer.net/lectionary.php

Set it for 1979 Contemporary, and the Bible version used in Church is Revised Standard

Santa Maria Barbecue :

Saturday ! September 24 4:30 p.m.

Parish Hall Lawn.

If you haven’t signed up at Church but still want to come, you are most welcome.

Please email the Office so Chris can get a final count for buying the food.

Coming up Saturday, September 24 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 need

Sign ups

Beer Wine: 

Dessert  

Set Up

Prepare Food                  Really Need  help!

Clean Up                         Really, Really, Really need help!

You can email your sign up for contributing food and helping with setup/cooking/clean up to the Church Office

Sign Up Sheets

The sign up sheet for coffee hour for September and October will be on the Coffee Table this coming Sunday.  Please sign up to take a turn.

Emmaus Road:  Monday September 26, 7:00 p.m.

Beginning Monday, September 19 we will begin reading Fr. James Martin’s book Between Heaven and Mirth.  Fr. Martin has been a favorite author for the Emmaus Road Group.  We’ve read his books, The Jesuit Guide to Everything,  Jesus, and My Life with the Saints.  The book is available from Amazon.  We will read the Introduction and Chapter 1

Below is a description

Between Heaven and Mirth will make any reader smile. . . . Father Martin reminds us that happiness is the good God’s own goal for us.” —Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York

 From The Colbert Report’s “official chaplain” James Martin, SJ, author of the New York Times bestselling The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, comes a revolutionary look at how joy, humor, and laughter can change our lives and save our spirits. A Jesuit priest with a busy media ministry, Martin understands the intersections between spirituality and daily life.  In Between Heaven and Mirth, he uses scriptural passages, the lives of the saints, the spiritual teachings of other traditions, and his own personal reflections to show us why joy is the inevitable result of faith, because a healthy spirituality and a healthy sense of humor go hand-in-hand with God's great plan for humankind.

Food For Thought: 

The God Who Took Away My Wife

  This was an article in the “Houses of Worship” column of The Wall Street Journal two weeks ago.  It is written by an Episcopal priest whose wife died at age 57 after a long, difficult illness that began when she was 38.   He writes about through Jesus’ crucifixion there is no darkness into which a human being can descend that Jesus has not already descended.   Reflecting on the novel, The Marriage Plot, where a person discovered that there were limits to his compassion, depths to which he could not plunge, limits in himself that had not yet been tested, the author wondered about his own untested limits, whether or not he could have gone on as the demands of care giving increased.  “For all of us there are untested limits.  But not for Jesus.”  The author ends by writing, “With Jesus on the cross, we can all ask, why God has forsaken us.  “God gives, and God takes away,.  But he is still there. “ 

Church of the Angels

Annual Parish Retreat for 2016

October 14-16, 2016

Being Together

In a Beautiful Place

The mailing has gone out for our Annual Parish Retreat coming up in October.   Our Annual Parish Retreat is an opportunity for parishioners to spend some quality time with one another, deepening our fellowship. 

There are several ways parishioners can participate.

1.  Onsite cabins staying Friday through Sunday.   This is especially good for parents and children.

2.  Couples and singles can stay in several different lodges or bed and breakfasts in Crestline and then come into camp for the program.

3.  People can also just drive up for the day, since the camp is only an hour and fifteen minutes from COA. 

Our presenter this year is our own Kelly Brandt  Taking a cue from St. Paul’s 1st Letter to the Thessalonians where he writes, “We would not have you ignorant concerning those who have fallen asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope,  Kelly will cover the different kinds of grief in loved ones and in ourselves, how to help others through loss, healthy and unhealthy grief, and lastly, grief as a transforming gift.

 Kelly recently received her Certified Bereavement Facilitator, (CBF) certificate through Glendale Adventist Medical Center, and she will be leading a program called Reignite, a two day grief support workshop in January 2017 for women who are childless by circumstance, not by choice.

We are very fortunate to have some one in our own parish who can help us move through this universal human experience.