In Memory of

PATRICIA FURNANZ / KARD

GospelMK 10:46-52

As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd,
Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus,
sat by the roadside begging.
On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth,
he began to cry out and say,
“Jesus, son of David, have pity on me.”
And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent.
But he kept calling out all the more,
“Son of David, have pity on me.”
Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”
So they called the blind man, saying to him,
“Take courage; get up, Jesus is calling you.”
He threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
Jesus said to him in reply, “What do you want me to do for you?”
The blind man replied to him, “Master, I want to see.”
Jesus told him, “Go your way; your faith has saved you.”
Immediately he received his sight
and followed him on the way.

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Thank you to Sean Brown who served as cantor today (see video above) and to Otto Kobler who was our lector.

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ALL SAINTS DAY – HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION

Thursday, Nov. 1, mass at 9:00 AM

MEMORIAL PLAQUE CAMPAIGN

We have placed the order to the engraver for our plaques and they will be installed at the beginning of next summer. You will have the opportunity to order a plaque next year, at the end of summer we will place a second order.

Thank you to everyone who has participated in this campaign. We are so grateful for your support and hope that the memorial plaques will be a blessing to you.

As we approach All Souls Day, we will be praying for the souls of all the departed, and of course, our own loved ones who are included in that group.

The campaign has brought in over $14,000 so far, which includes generous donations as well as plaque purchases. This will cover the cost of the storage shed and the repair and replacement of the pews, as well as new picnic tables and benches in the outdoor church area and the yard behind St. Hubert’s Hall. We hope to discourage vandalism and negative behaviors associated with the area by emphasizing that it is a church, deserving of respect, and to encourage appropriate use of the property by the community.

COFFEE SERVICE

Please join us for coffee after the 9:00 AM mass. We are trying something new – serving the coffee, sweets and savories indoors. It might be too cramped for space, in which case we will discontinue until warmer weather permits use of the porch.

Thank you all for supporting this service, we so enjoy meeting new parishioners and visitors, and visiting with old ones!

On a late summer Saturday afternoon a group of Catholic volunteers (Dan, Jim and Irene) were working on the outdoor church when they noticed a bovine creature grazing in the area usually reserved for parking cars. All of us being urbanites, we were pretty useless as to herding or developing a plan of action. Dan layed claim to previous cow ownership, so he established the lead. However, as modernists we immediately feel into a confusing discussion of gender identity. Since I previously knew the cow was a female who had a calf with her, I suggested she wasn’t a bull. However, I was concerned that the calf was not with her. We had all seen “City Slickers” so we didn’t fire up our coffee grinders, chain saws, blowers or another equipment which might cause her to stampede, but reasonably walked over to the neighbor’s home across Armstrong Woods. The amiable owner, Damian, thanked us for alerting him to his vagrant cow, and came over with nothing other than a genuine cattle dog named Camelia, who nimbly herded the cow, an Irish Dexter Mountain cow named Alma, back to her pasture. Damien explained that our parking lot currently features delicious clover, which tempted Alma.

While we are at it, let us introduce you to another character from the animal kingdom, Delilah, a bull dog.

So dear friends, we ask that you drive slowly in general, but especially near the outdoor church so that you don’t run over any of these dear animals, or any of us volunteers. Say hello to their owner Damian if you see him, and thank him for helping us clear the underbrush. He is sympathetic to our problems with vagrants and vandalism and has been enormously helpful.

We also have some happy news that Alma is expecting, and will have her new baby in January. Alma is a bit shy but she likes apples. She’s getting acclimated to her new environment and is getting more relaxed. We will update you when the happy event occurs! Keep a good thought for Alma!

Sunday Bulletin 2018-10-21[142]

Please join us for Coffee and Treats after the 9:00 AM mass!

The purpose of the coffee service is to welcome visitors and to provide a tasty social experience for parishioners to get to know each other a bit. Don’t be shy, please introduce yourself and enjoy our sweets and savories!

Menu (tentative)

Tostidos topped with scramble eggs, chorizo and chili verde

Mixed berry tassies

Salmon Salad on Puffed Paste

Poached Salmon sandwiches on Foccacia

Blueberry Muffins

Mummy Cake (Halloween)

Coffee, Cocoa and Juices

Update on Outdoor Church Improvements

You can enjoy this wonderful Sacred Art Painting Class at St. John’s in Healdsburg! Here’s the update flyer:

After we finished our cartoons, Monika explained how to mix colors and encouraged us to be BOLD.

I struggle to find the words to describe this experience. I had minored in Art History in undergraduate school, and I have always loved sacred art. For me it was a wonderful experience, very peaceful and joyful, without worrying whether it was “good” or not, and reassured by the artist Monika that whatever we produced would be our own personal view…not to be judged, but to be embraced.’

Visit Monika’s website!

Sunday Bulletin 2018-10-14

GospelMK 10:17-30

As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up,
knelt down before him, and asked him,
“Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good?
No one is good but God alone.
You know the commandments: You shall not kill;
you shall not commit adultery;
you shall not steal;
you shall not bear false witness;
you shall not defraud;
honor your father and your mother.” 
He replied and said to him,
“Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth.”
Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him,
“You are lacking in one thing.
Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor
and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
At that statement his face fell,
and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.Jesus looked around and said to his disciples,
“How hard it is for those who have wealth
to enter the kingdom of God!”
The disciples were amazed at his words.
So Jesus again said to them in reply,
“Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle
than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
They were exceedingly astonished and said among themselves,
“Then who can be saved?”
Jesus looked at them and said,
“For human beings it is impossible, but not for God.
All things are possible for God.”
Peter began to say to him,
“We have given up everything and followed you.”
Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you,
there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters
or mother or father or children or lands
for my sake and for the sake of the gospel
who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age:
houses and brothers and sisters
and mothers and children and lands,
with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.”

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Special thanks to Fr. Steve Canny who said the week end masses while Fr. Luis is away on retreat.

We welcome our new lector, Sara Flores who did a fine job today on her first time!

Thank you St. Elizabeth’s choir for your beautiful voices and instrumentalists, you are coping so well after the departure of Eric Lindenbusch, whom we miss of course. Love the new Alleluja!

 

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The St. Elizabeth Memorial Plaque Campaign has reached more than $13,000.00 in plaque purchases and donations. We are deeply grateful to all of you who have participated, and encourage others to consider honoring their families and loved ones with a memorial plaque. There is still time to place an order, we are continuing this campaign thru next summer. SponsorForm of the form to download.

 

The angels and statue were purchased at Absolute Statuary in Sebastopol. They have wire hooks on the back which are in turn wired with a coat hanger to the rebar behind the stones.

 

Weddings in the woods have a magical charm and even though very beautiful are also light hearted and fun. There is an air about them similar to Midsummer’s Night Dream. We hope to enhance our outdoor church and have more beautiful Catholic weddings!

Wedding cake made by yours truly as well as sugar flowers. If you wish to learn how to do it, or wish to borrow the molds for making lace fondant, contact me via the site.

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COFFEE SOCIAL AFTER 9:00 MASS

Please welcome visiting priest Fr. Kevin Scalf from the Chicago Diocese who is leading a retreat for the Young Adults Group from Most Holy Redeemer parish in San Francisco. Fr. Luis is away on retreat in Menlo Park at the Vallambrosa Center. The retreatants met on Saturday in St. Hubert’s Hall, and held a Reconciliation Service in the Outdoor Church Saturday night. They had mass at 10:30 AM at St. Elizabeth and coffee and cake afterward. Very nice to meet these very dynamic young people.

The guitarist for the group only learned this song “Come as You Are” 3 days before! She did a terrific job!

Thank you to volunteers Valerie Pritchard, Irene Deem, Gail Culverwell and Barbara Kobler for putting on our coffee after the 9:00 am mass. The menu so far includes these wonderful “Canele” (pronounced Kan-lay) which are French patisserie from the Bordeaux region. They are flavored with rum and vanilla, and have a soft custard interior and a dark carmelized crust. (Information and photo from Wikipedia.)

Jeanine is bringing chocolate chip pumpkin cake, Valerie is bringing bagels with cream cheese and ham, and we will have our signature salmon sandwiches and salads. A new addition to our menu is cocoa topped with freshly made whipped cream.

 

 

Sunday Bulletin 2018-10-07[136]

GospelMK 10:2-16

The Pharisees approached Jesus and asked,
“Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?”
They were testing him.
He said to them in reply, “What did Moses command you?”
They replied,
“Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce
and dismiss her.”
But Jesus told them,
“Because of the hardness of your hearts
he wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Therefore what God has joined together,
no human being must separate.”
In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this.
He said to them,
“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another
commits adultery against her;
and if she divorces her husband and marries another,
she commits adultery.”

And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them,
but the disciples rebuked them.
When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them,
“Let the children come to me;
do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to
such as these.
Amen, I say to you,
whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child
will not enter it.”
Then he embraced them and blessed them,
placing his hands on them.

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Coffee Service will be offered for the first time in the winter Church today! Space is limited, bear with us!

Thank you Valerie Pritchard and Barbara Kobbler for stepping up to help with the coffee service! We are continuing the service throughout the winter on a trial basis, to see if space permits and people want it. Valeries will introduced her fabulous Chicken Tostitos this week end and next week end Barbara will bring something wonderful!