Emmaus Blog

Thursday, May 29, 2025: 2 Announcements: Today - Fundraiser for Catholic Charities and this Saturday’s Gay Pride Parade   There's still time to RSVP for Catholic Charities Fund a Future Citizen, happening this Thursday, Today, from 5:00–7:00 PM Location: Hen House Santa Rosa Brewery & Tasting Room. 322 Bellevue Avenue Santa Rosa, CA 95407 This free community event brings together neighbors like you to support one of the most urgent needs facing local immigrant families today.    WHY IT MATTERS A $500,000 federal grant to our immigration legal services was abruptly canceled, just as over 100 people a day are reaching out for help on their path to citizenship.   Your presence can make a difference:   •   Hear directly how Catholic Charities is responding to this crisis •   Learn how just $1,400 can fund a future citizen's journey—legal help, classes, and test prep included •   Enjoy 20% off craft beer and tasty bites from local food trucks •   Connect with a p...

Wednesday, May 28, 2025: 2 Announcements: Fundraiser fo Catholic Charities and this Saturday’s Gay Pride Parade   There's still time to RSVP for Catholic Charities Fund a Future Citizen, happening this Thursday, May 29, from 5:00–7:00 PM Location: Hen House Santa Rosa Brewery & Tasting Room. 322 Bellevue Avenue Santa Rosa, CA 95407 This free community event brings together neighbors like you to support one of the most urgent needs facing local immigrant families today.    WHY IT MATTERS A $500,000 federal grant to our immigration legal services was abruptly canceled, just as over 100 people a day are reaching out for help on their path to citizenship.   Your presence can make a difference:   • Hear directly how Catholic Charities is responding to this crisis • Learn how just $1,400 can fund a future citizen's journey—legal help, classes, and test prep included • Enjoy 20% off craft beer and tasty bites from local food trucks • Connect with a passionate community ...

Tuesday, May 27, 2025:   This meditation garden is to honor the enslaved and somehow change the world by compassion Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in rural South Carolina, has inaugurated a new meditation garden memorializing the enslaved African Americans and Indigenous who once worked the land, part of a larger effort for atonement at the 76-year-old institution. A blessing ceremony with Bishop Jacques Fabre-Jeune of Charleston, South Carolina, took place April 26 at the property in Moncks Corner, which functioned as Mepkin Plantation under prominent British colonists beginning in the late 18th century. "We don't have to be upset. Truth can always hurt," said Fabre-Jeune, a Haitian-born prelate who is the first Black Catholic bishop in South Carolina. "We don't like when people tell us the truth. We feel uncomfortable. But after that experience, we know that it was good for us." Built in the 1760s, the complex served as the home of Henry Laurens, a Fou...

  Monday, May 26, 2025: Announcements: Volunteer Actions to assist our Immigrant Sisters and Brothers and John Dear prayer for peace Dear Sisters and Brothers of Emmaus and beyond: Here is a simplified list of actions we can volunteer to help with in order to support our immigrant Sisters and Brothers. We all have amazing gifts and know we will be generous.  (Also a fillable pdf version is  attached which you can fill out online and send back to Denise at denise@miralee.com   If you’re filling this out using your own email simply copy the items you want to volunteer for from the list below and send your choices to Denise at  denise@miralee.com We hope to get groups of 3-4 people to work together on any particular task (ie  grocery shopping or food delivery etc). Once she get responses, Denise will put together the list and we can go over at our next celebration. Thanks - Denise Sanctuary Congregation Volunteer Actions Interest Form Name: _________________...

Sunday, May 25, 2025:   Join Us  Today  for our Emmaus Celebration at Christ Church United Methodist or on Zoom:  All are Welcome! We begin with welcoming at 3:45 I n Person  in Classroom 8 at Christ Church United Methodist 1717 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa,  Join Zoom Meeting using this link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5193158573?omn=84980065052 Passcode: 1234 Or Start ZOOM and when it asks for the Meeting ID: Meeting ID: 519 315 8573 Passcode: 1234 If you're using the phone: One tap mobile: Dial +16699006833,,5193158573# US (San Jose) +16694449171,,5193158573# US    Emmaus Liturgy for May 25, 2025: Welcome:  With his self-giving love, Jesus showed us the face of the unseen, divine Mystery so that in his humanity we could sense, taste, enjoy and share in the eternity of God. We experience God in the living Christ as love because he is at the heart of our personal and cosmic life: where Christ is, there we are also. Can we interpret this revelat...