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)
Mercedes McCaffrey who passed on June 20, 2022
Elizabeth Fitting
Both Msgr. John Sandersfeld and Eleanor Kraft passed on August 3, 2022
Art Adams passed on August 10, 2022
George Chippendale passed on September 3, 2022
Marlene Arnold passed on September 16, 2023
Margaret Herte passed on December 29, 2023
Josie Colbruno passed on April 20, 2024
Michelle Hogan passed on Oct. 4., 2024
Dick Placone went to his heavenly home on Oct. 9, 2024
See links on TMC’s website home page: https://thomasmerton.org/
TMC bulletin page: https://thomasmerton.org/bulletin
The Epiphany
TMC Board announcement: Matching contributions toward the TMC revitalization program. (See the TMC homepage)
News: San Diego Cardinal McElroy named to head the Diocese of Washington D.C.; Bill Smith describes his history and serves on BoD of Louisville, KY’s men’s shelter run by the local St. Vincent DePaul; Greg Erlander writes In Pacific Palisades, paradise lost
Recent Passing: Michelle Hogan, Oct 4th, 2024 (Memorial Mass Jan. 25th 10 a.m. STA); Jane Stephens, Dec 5th, 2024 (Memorial Mass Feb. 15th 10 a.m. STA),
We are in a moment of unprecedented division and uncertainty in both the church and society. That's why Pope Francis could not have made a better choice to lead the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., when he tapped Cardinal Robert McElroy.
…The new archbishop brings to Washington a long and well-earned reputation as a pastor. He has gone to great lengths both in San Francisco as a parish pastor and as bishop of San Diego to consult widely, to listen to the needs of the people of God, and to advocate for radical inclusion, even supporting the concept of women deacons.
Far from being a culture warrior, McElroy will disappoint the demands of the extremes. He is a reformer in the model of Pope Francis, whose priorities — synodality, care of the earth, focusing on those on society's margins and ending the scandal of clericalism — he has made his own.
Bill Smith writes in America magazine
Bill Smith is a former client at the Ozanam Inn Men’s Emergency Shelter, run by St. Vincent de Paul Louisville in Louisville, Ky. He now serves on its board of directors.
I have met homeless people who had college degrees and careers and all that. Often they had bad luck, or made a bad decision somewhere, or lost a family member and couldn’t cope. Or they simply couldn’t pay their rent and got tossed out of their living space. The challenge when you’re working with the homeless is how to peel back the layers of that particular onion, so to speak, without bruising it.
Read complete article (here)
Greg Erlandson writes Jan 10, 2025 in America magazine
(See article in document attached)