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Tuesday, June 9, 2026: Upcoming Events this Sunday the 14th of June: 2 Events: #1 No Kings 11 am - 1PM on Farmers Lane in Santa Rosa .  #2: A Live and Streamed Concert to Celebrate the1st Amendment in Sebastopol at the Sebastopol Community Center: 3:30 - 6:30 PM Event #1: In Santa Rosa - 11a to 1p along Farmers Lane.  Here’s a color-coded map of where we will be. We’ve marked areas of available parking. Here’s a map of the bus routes that serve Sonoma Ave., Montgomery, and Farmers Lane. Bus routes serving Sonoma, Farmers Lane, and Montgomery We’ve had a lot of questions — and we have answers. If you are still looking for more information, read this FAQ . This truly is a somber moment in our country. The current president is attempting to corrupt the military, just as he’s attempting to corrupt every other part of our government. If you want to stand with the veterans, join them (and all the rest of us). West side of Farmers Lane, north of Hoen. This truly is a somber moment ...
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Monday, June 9, 2026: 'We cannot get beyond our racial, tragic past without a confrontation with our history. We can't get over something that we've never acknowledged.' -  Fr. Bryan Massingale Descendants of slaves once owned and sold by the Jesuits are among those welcoming Pope Leo XIV's formal apology for the Catholic Church's historical involvement in slavery. The move has been largely praised by Black Catholic leaders, scholars and descendant communities as it renews debate over how fully the church has reckoned with its past. The apology appears in Magnifica Humanitas, Leo's first encyclical. While the document primarily focuses on artificial intelligence and human dignity in the modern world, one paragraph drew immediate attention for addressing slavery and the church's complicity in it. In paragraph 176, Leo acknowledged that ecclesiastical institutions owned slaves in antiquity and the Middle Ages and that the Apostolic See had "interven...
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 Saturday, June 6, 2026:  Someone said grief is like glitter. Dear Sisters and Brothers of Emmaus:  (Corey Patin in Italy) I'm sorry I haven't written for the past couple of weeks. We found out on Friday, May 22nd that our beloved nephew Corey passed away in his sleep during the early hours of that day. It was hard to believe that terrible news and at first I thought someone might have sent us a text by mistake. Sadly, that afternoon my sister Tina, Corey's mother, and his sister Kara confirmed his death for us.  Corey never missed a day of work in 12 years and when he didn't show up his work colleagues grew suspicious. They called Corey's best friend who went to his apartment and found his body. He was only 41 years old.  We had just shared a house with Corey and other family members in Salt Lake City -- a celebration of our niece's PhD graduation. We spend three days retelling family stories, listening to Corey's jokes which he loved telling (he laughed he...
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 Thursday, May 21, 2026:  So why not be ravished by the Holy Spirit? Be overcome, overpowered, transported, delighted, entranced, enchanted, stunned, enraptured into a beguiling dance. More than a dove, the Holy Spirit can be glimpsed in a kaleidoscope of forms by Art Blumberg in NCR I've been told that I must trust in the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit trusts in me. I say this not with pride but humility, and more than a touch of trembling. So far beyond me, yet so near. In all the Spirit's forms and manifestations, how it appears when most needed or when least expected. Keeping my eyes and ears, body, mind and soul open. I believe, yes, the Spirit does dwell within me. Yes, the Spirit does surround and envelop me. As it does for everyone, for everything. Yet in what form will we find it? So often when we think of the Holy Spirit, it's as a dove. A soft trilling coo, comfort and peace and harmony But the Holy Spirit can be wild and tempestuous, coming where and when it w...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026:  We celebrate this gift of the Spirit as it deeply affects our own lives today. To my brothers and sisters of our Beloved Emmaus Community,  Our next liturgy on May 22nd will be a celebration of Pentecost the culmination of the Easter season and the Paschal Mystery  - a journey that takes us from The Passover, to Jesus’ trial, crucifixion, death, resurrection, accompaniment with the disciples, ascension and visitation of the Spirit on Pentecost. Pentecost comes fifty days after Jesus’ resurrection and celebrates God’s gift of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles. In this feats, the disciples receive the the grace and courage to leave their hiding place and take the message of the Resurrected Christ into their communities – “unto the ends of the earth..”  Many consider Pentecost the birthday of the Church. We celebrate this gift of the Spirit as it deeply affects our own lives today. We will explore this more in our shared homily. The Resurrected C...
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