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Making New COnnections
We would like to highlight several local organizations that may inspire participation.
Are you looking for ways to contribute "Good" to the challenges of racism? Live in Peace is a local group that focuses on uplifting underserved young people of color.
The Live in Peace website may appeal to your desire to learn more, support with personal engagement post Covid and possibly provide financial assistance. It is another way we can become more aware and actively engaged in improving the lives of local young people of color. This website describes the work being done, the staff and the Board of Directors.Let us work together translating our faith into making a "GOOD" difference for all people!
Redwood City Catholic Worker House is in need of supplies
Girls to Woman provides media and visual arts workshop, leadership training,summer program, ongoing, gardening, nutrition and environmental education, after school programs for young women of color in East Palo Alto. Information (here)
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Weekly Bulletin
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Today's Readings
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Reading I Ex 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28Responsorial Psalm 103:6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13Gospel Mt 13:36-43
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Prayer Requests
Prayers to Kay Williams,
Rosanna Madrigal's special intentions; for Rudy Bahr who passed away 5/11/21 and for Fr. Russ Roide who passed away 4/13/21. -
Options for Weekly Reflection
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Webinar event
Communion, Catholics, and Public Life: Where Do We Go From Here?, a panel discussion presented by Georgetown Center of Ethics July 28th at 9:30 am Pacific time
This Initiative online dialogue with key bishops and lay leaders will briefly review what happened and what did not, and will then look ahead to the challenges U.S. bishops and U.S. Catholics face in the months to come.
The speakers list is interesting including the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Cardinal Tobin of Newark, recently appointed to the Vatican’s high court and who according to Call to Action Bishops’ scorecard has made statements on racism, policing and immigration. Bishop Kevin Rhoades, USCCB Committee on Doctrine is also on the panel.
Registration information:
(here)
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Recent book publication
Clint Smith’s book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, is available (here) and the YouTube video of his discussion is (here)
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves. -
Bishops Betray a Faithful President
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Mr. Tom Perriello, the US executive director of Open Society Foundations, is a former diplomat and member of Congress
He writes on June 19, 2021: While the Catholic Church is far from infallible overseas, I frequently bear witness to Catholic leaders reminding me why my faith called me to a career promoting peace and justice. But back home, the persistent efforts by conservative bishops to arbitrate who among the faithful receives communion, while failing to practice the confession and penance they demand of others, reinforces why the bishops so often stand alone.
Read (here)
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Pope Francis restricts use of Latin Tridentine Mass
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Vatican archbishop: Traditional Latin Mass movement ‘hijacked’ initiatives of John Paul II and Benedict XVI
Pope Francis’ letter explaining why he was restricting the use of the pre-Vatican II Mass “fearlessly hits the nail on the head: the TLM (Traditional Latin Mass) movement has hijacked the initiatives of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI to its own ends,” said Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, who insisted he was speaking as a theologian and not as a Vatican official.
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Michael Sean Winters discusses in NCR on July 14, 2021: