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Sunday, March 23, 2025: An Invitation to a Special Feast  TODAY, Sunday the 23rd of March - we celebrate our kinship which begins with a greeting at 3:45 PM Pacific Time followed by our liturgy at 4:00 and then a potluck. We will meet face-to-face in our new home at Christ Church United Methodist: 1717 Yulupa Ave Santa Rosa, CA 95405 We will meet on Zoom using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5193158573?omn=87890600552 Passcode: 1234 Meeting ID: 519 315 8573 Passcode: 1234 Or we can mneet using our phones on Zoom by calling these numbers: One tap mobile +16699006833 ,,5193158573# US (San Jose) +16694449171 ,,5193158573# US May I be at peace May my heart remain open May I awaken to my own true nature May I be healed May I be a source of healing for others. May You be at peace May Your heart remain open May You awaken to Your own true nature May You be healed May You be a source of healing for others. May We be at peace May Our hearts remain open May We awaken to Our own tru...

 Saturday, March 22, 2025 " The salvation of man is through love and in love.” - Viktor Frankl TOMORROW, Sunday the 23rd of March - we celebrate our kinship which begins with a greeting at 3:45 PM Pacific Time followed by our liturgy at 4:00 and then a potluck. We will meet face-to-face in our new home at Christ Church United Methodist: 1717 Yulupa Ave Santa Rosa, CA 95405 We will meet on Zoom using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5193158573?omn=87890600552 Passcode: 1234 Meeting ID: 519 315 8573 Passcode: 1234 Or we can mneet using our phones on Zoom by calling these numbers: One tap mobile +16699006833 ,,5193158573# US (San Jose) +16694449171 ,,5193158573# US May I be at peace May my heart remain open May I awaken to my own true nature May I be healed May I be a source of healing for others. May You be at peace May Your heart remain open May You awaken to Your own true nature May You be healed May You be a source of healing for others. May We be at peace May Our he...

Friday, March 21, 2025:  Jesus primarily talked about the kingdom of God as his defining worldview …. God Beyond Geography Father Richard challenges the ways we allow personal possessions and national boundaries to define us:  Jesus primarily talked about the kingdom of God as his defining worldview. Yet, the vast majority of Christians in history have identified with their own much smaller kingdoms for which they were willing to fight, kill, surrender, and grant pledges of total allegiance. “Caesar is Lord” has been the rallying cry of most Christians more than the intentionally subversive creed: “Jesus is Lord!” (Romans 10:9; 1 Corinthians 12:3).  Christian history up to now has been overwhelmingly and adamantly provincial, ethnic, and cultural, much more than “catholic” or universal. We have defined ourselves largely by exclusion more than inclusion. Ironically, World Wars I and II were fought among various “Christian” peoples of Europe and the United States. Any reluc...

Thursday, March 20, 2025:  “We must all become disrupters” — disrupting “those who portray refugees as enemies rather than our brothers and sisters in terrible need” and “those who train us to see Muslim men, women and children as forces of fear rather than as children of God.” - Cardinal Robert McElroy Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr. Washington’s new archbishop is progressive, outspoken — and ready to stand up Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Catholic Church’s new man in Washington, is uniquely suited to the role. If Cardinal Robert McElroy had decided long ago to prepare himself for engaging with presidents, public policy and a deeply divided Washington, he might have lived his life exactly as he has. It goes all the way back to his time as a Harvard undergraduate, when he wrote a thesis exploring how John F. Kennedy handled the Cuban missile crisis while avoiding nuclear war. Later, he earned a PhD in political science from Stanford. Since then, he has been one of the Catholic Church’s m...

 Tuesday, March 18, 2025:   I was a stranger and you  invited me in Biblical scholar Ched Myers writes of the prominence of immigrants in the Scriptures.  Torah and the Prophets warned Israel not to discriminate against economic or political refugees, since in YHWH’s eyes even the chosen people were “but aliens and tenants” (Leviticus 25:23). Instead, they were to treat the “sojourners in your midst” with dignity and justice (Deuteronomy 24:14). This fundamental regard for the resident alien, and call to solidarity with the “outsider,” came to full realization in the teaching and practice of Jesus of Nazareth. An oft-cited verse that captures this is Matthew’s last-judgment parable, in which Jesus commends those who welcome him in the guise of a stranger—and condemns those who do not (Matthew 25:35–46). [1]  35  For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, ...