Emmaus Blog

Tuesday, July 15, 2025: 3 Important Events to make Good Trouble: Please Mark Your Calendars and plan to show up:   Event #1: From Indivisible Sonoma County:  COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 SAVE THE DATE: NECESSARY TROUBLE 📅   This Thursday, July 17, 2025 |  🕔 5PM at Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, CA Inspired by the legacy of Congressman John Lewis and the call to make #GoodTrouble, we rise in community and resistance. We are calling our community to come together for a powerful protest rooted in justice, resistance, and joy. This is not just a demonstration—this is an act of collective power, grounded in our constitutional right to speak out and take up space. Event #2:  July 22, 2025 : ICE Out of Sonoma County – A Protest to Protect our Immigrant Communities and our Human and Constitutional Rights Date: July 22 nd   When: 5:00PM 575 Administration Drive, Santa Rosa Under California Law, No Sheriff is required to cooperate with ICE. Yet Sonoma County She...

Sunday,  July 13, 2025   Emmaus Liturgy for Today! Join Us This Afternoon for our Emmaus Celebration either at Christ Church United Methodist in Santa Rosa or on ZOOM! We begin with welcoming at 3:45 In Person  in Classroom 8 at Christ Church United Methodist 1717 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa,  Or  Join our Emmaus Celebration on Zoom: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5193158573?omn=81718819732 Meeting ID: 519 315 8573 Passcode: 1234 Patti and Hermine:   Opening Remarks Opening song: On Eagles Wings https://youtu.be/nSjkJiuCaVI First Reading: From John O'Donohue   Though we need to weep your loss, You dwell in that safe place in our hearts, Where no storm or night or pain can reach you. Your love was like the dawn Brightening over our lives Awakening beneath the dark A further adventure of colour. The sound of your voice Found for us A new music That brightened everything. Whatever you enfolded in your gaze Quickened in the joy of its being; You p...