Parish UPDATE: May 18

Beloved of God, 

Alleluia! Christ is risen!!!

Here is what is making news in our parish:

1. THIS WEEKEND  AT ST. MARY: Sunday, May 18

• The Fifth Sunday of Easter
• Diocesan Sunday
• VESTRY MEETING beginning at 11:30 am in the Conference Room (St. Cecilia room)

2.    CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AT ST. MARY [FOR MAY]:

• All classes begin at 11:30 am
• May 25: Last in the series on Anglo-Catholicism

3.   PALMS EMERGENCY  PREPAREDNESS PROJECT:

• The Coalition - Palms Emergency Preparedness Coalition [PePC] got the $15,000 we requested for fiscal year 2 ending June 30 and our Work plan for year 2 was approved. 
  • New members welcome to the Coalition. Talk to Fr. Vincent after Mass or send him an email.    

4.   COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH FIRST-AIDERS TRAINING

•  Registration is open for all who would like to be trained by the Department of Mental Health (DMH) as Certified Community Mental Health First-Aiders. 
• The DMH will provide all training free of charge. 
• Eight hours of training required for certification. 
• Training dates are Saturday, July 12 and July 26 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm.
• All training will be held at St. Mary in Palms. 
• Space is very limited. 
• Please, talk to Fr. Vincent, Coordinator of this project now if you are interested

5.  CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AT ST. MARY

• May 25:  Anglo-Catholicism

• June 1, 8, 22, 29:  Church and Music

• July: on vacation.

• August: visits to holy sites in Los Angeles.

6.  UPCOMING EVENTS: Mark your calendars:  

• Sunday, May 18: Election Day to elect a new Board Council for the Palms Neighborhood Council. 
  • Venue: IMAN Cultural Center. 
  • Time: 9 am - 3 pm
• Sunday, May 19: FREE Palms Tenant Rights Clinic, IMAN Cultural Center, 3376 Motor Ave. 
• Thursday, May 29: Ascension Day Joint-Eucharistic service with Grace Lutheran Church, Culver City. Service will be here at 7pm. Please, plan on attending to strengthen our relationship with our brothers and sisters at Grace Lutheran.
• Saturday, September 27: Third annual Faris Drive Neighborhood Block party from 10 am to 3 pm. Volunteer workers needed. Please, talk to Fr. Vincent if you can help with planning.

7.   OF YOUR CHARITY, PLEASE, PRAY FOR:

• Healing for Bianca, Joana, Gerda, Anthony Jo, Betty Moreno, Fr. Anderson. Phyllis Thomas
• all efforts to locate Malaysia Flight MH 370. For the families as they wait for more reliable news about the fate of their relatives on that flight.
• the safe release of the 200+ schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria. 
• a peaceful resolution of the crisis in Ukraine
• all who have been displaced by the fires in San Diego County
• Kathleen Engmann and Charlie
• Our youth: Larry Jr, Simone, Jeffrey, Natasha, Yasmine, Obed, Audrey and Michelle.
• Members of our parish family graduating this month: Natasha and Tamara

8. For news about:

• the Diocese of Los Angeles, please click on www.ladiocese.org

• the Expo Line construction, please, click on www.buildexpo.org

• the Palms Neighborhood Council, click on www.palmsla.org

See you at Mass. Bring a friend and your family to church.

Fr. Vincent

http://www.stmarypalms.org

 

Pastoral Letter from Bishop J. Jon Bruno, Bishop Diocesan

To the People and Congregations of the Diocese of Los Angeles:
This new Easter season unites us in responding to the ways in which God is calling us into new, resurrected life in Christ. We enter this Eastertide as a united diocesan community, joined together in daily ministry and shared service in our neighborhoods. This unity has been strengthened through the years by coming together around challenging issues and seeking common ground for understanding as we are led by the Holy Spirit.

Vitality continues to emerge from the firm stands the Diocese of Los Angeles has taken in respecting the dignity of every human being - the calling of our Baptismal Covenant. It is wonderful again to live within the full Christian promise of Easter.

After a May 7, 2014, appearance in Orange County Superior Court brought final resolution to the litigation, the Episcopal Church, of St. James the Great, Newport Beach, will continue in ministry free of the challenge of appeal by parties who left the parish in August 2004. This action follows the California Supreme Court's January 2009 decision affirming that all Episcopal Church parish properties are held in trust for the present and future ministry of the local diocese and wider denomination.

In steadfastly supporting this position, the Diocese of Los Angeles has secured assets given by generations of Episcopalians and assisted in establishing favorable precedent for the future, and particularly for other dioceses to prevail in similar cases.
    
Invested in this position is more than $8 million in costs incurred on behalf of the Diocese of Los Angeles and the Episcopal Church by the Bishop as Corporation Sole. This expenditure resulted in retaining multimillion-dollar properties in Newport Beach, La Crescenta, Long Beach and North Hollywood, and in establishing important legal precedent. While the congregations of St. James the Great, Newport Beach, and St. Luke's of the Mountains, La Crescenta, continue in ministry within the Episcopal Church, congregations will not be restarted as All Saints, Long Beach, or St. David's, North Hollywood. The Corporation Sole currently holds title to the church property in Long Beach - a city where there are three neighboring Episcopal Church congregations - and a negotiated settlement allows the present congregation to worship on site while remunerating the Diocese for use of those facilities. Meanwhile, the Oakwood School has purchased the North Hollywood property, a fitting use in the mission of local secondary education.

As we move forward I ask your prayers that understanding will continue to grow among us as we experience resurrection anew in Christ. In that Easter spirit, we are called to look forward and, as leaders of local congregations, to strengthen the work that our parishes and missions are called to do. We can also share in current diocesan initiatives, including the Seeds of Hope nutrition and wellness program, the Hands in Healing outreach to youth and young adults, and Horizons & Heritage, the upcoming observance of the Episcopal Church's 150th year in Southern California.

It is important that we remain in community, not in isolation, and that in charity we create space for people whose views may differ from our own. We are not here to judge one another but rather to be in joy with each other in the name of Jesus. As resurrection people, we are looking forward to doing those things that would reflect the will of Jesus Christ, working to include people of all views and positions, making the Diocese of Los Angeles a beacon of inclusive, loving, joyful action in Christ Jesus.

So I call each of you to renew your local ministries and to share in the ministries of the Diocese. The door to the future is open. We will participate in our diocesan community by continuing to develop Hands in Healing and taking seriously reconciliation. Through Seeds of Hope we will keep nurturing new ministries in this Diocese for food security and care of our environment through curriculum in our primary, secondary and Sunday schools. We will continue to dwell in the new life and abundance of our diocesan community. 

Within the Episcopal Church, we go through careful processes to examine what is best for the whole community. In General Convention, we come to places of corporate decision, and whether we agree or disagree, we move forward in joy. We do the same in our Diocese, where there will be no declarations of "I told you so" or "we won" regarding important deliberations. Here I think of times when General Convention meetings have observed times of silence and prayer before the announcement of significant votes taken, and it has been through such prayer that God has guided us from positions of separation to being made whole.

I call you to pray for one another and for the unity of the entire Episcopal Church.

Almighty God, whose blessed Son before his passion prayed for his disciples that they might be one, as you and he are one: Grant that your Church, being bound together in love and obedience to you, may be united in one body by the one Spirit, that the world may believe in him whom you have sent, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
                              -The Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Unity of the Church

Together in Christ,
+ J. Jon Bruno
Sixth Bishop of Los Angeles

Parish UPDATE: May 11

Beloved of God, 

Alleluia! Christ is risen!!!

Here is what is making news in our parish:

1. THIS WEEKEND  AT ST. MARY:

• Saturday, May 10: Join us at the annual Palms Bike Rodeo and Palms Emergency Preparedness Coalition exhibition. 
• Venue: Palms Middle School, corner of Palms and Motor Avenues. This is a public event and is free. 
• Food will be available. Make new friends and help build community.
•  Volunteers are still needed to assist with the above events
• Sunday, May 11: Easter 4.  Mothers' Day

2.    CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AT ST. MARY [FOR MAY]:

• All classes begin at 11:30 am
• May 11: Continuing the series on Anglo-Catholicism
• May 25: Last in the series on Anglo-Catholicism

3.   PALMS EMERGENCY  PREPAREDNESS PROJECT:

• The Coalition - Palms Emergency Preparedness Coalition [PePC] got the $15,000 we requested for fiscal year 2 ending June 30 and our Work plan for year 2 was approved. 
  • New members welcome to the Coalition. Talk to Fr. Vincent after Mass or send him an email.    

4.   COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH FIRST-AIDERS TRAINING

•  Registration is open for all who would like to be trained by the Department of Mental Health (DMH) as Certified Community Mental Health First-Aiders. 
• The DMH will provide all training free of charge. 
• Eight hours of training required for certification. 
• Training dates are Saturday, July 12 and July 26 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm.
• All training will be held at St. Mary in Palms. 
• Space is very limited. 
• Please, talk to Fr. Vincent, Coordinator of this project now if you are interested

5.  CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AT ST. MARY

• May 4, 11, 25:  Anglo-Catholicism

• June 1, 8, 22, 29:  Church and Music

• July: on vacation.

• August: visits to holy sites in Los Angeles.

6.  UPCOMING EVENTS: Mark your calendars: 

• Saturday, May 10: Annual Palms Bike Rodeo. 
• Sunday, May 18: VESTRY MEETING beginning at 11:30 am
• Sunday, May 18: Election Day to elect a new Board Council for the Palms Neighborhood Council. 
  • Venue: IMAN Cultural Center. 
  • Time: 9 am - 3 pm
• Saturday, September 27: Third annual Faris Drive Neighborhood Block party from 10 am to 3 pm. Volunteer workers needed. Please, talk to Fr. Vincent if you can help with planning.

7.   OF YOUR CHARITY, PLEASE, PRAY FOR:

• Healing for Bianca, Joana, Gerda, Anthony Jo, Betty Moreno, Fr. Anderson.
• For all efforts to locate Malaysia Flight MH 370. For the families as they wait for more reliable news about the fate of their relatives on that flight.
• For the safe release of the 200+ schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria. 
• Our youth: Larry Jr, Simone, Jeffrey, Natasha, Yasmine, Obed, Audrey and Michelle.

8. For news about:

• the Diocese of Los Angeles, please click on www.ladiocese.org

• the Expo Line construction, please, click on www.buildexpo.org

• the Palms Neighborhood Council, click on www.palmsla.org

See you at Mass. Bring a friend and your family to church.

Fr. Vincent

www.stmarypalms.org

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Parish UPDATE: May 3

Beloved of God, 

Alleluia! Christ is risen!!!

Here is what is making news in our parish:

1. THIS WEEKEND  AT ST. MARY:

• Saturday, May 3: Parish rummage sale beginning at 8 am and finishing at 3 pm. Volunteers are still needed to assist shoppers in their shopping.
• Sunday, May 4: Easter 3. The 10 am service starts with the Rite of Vidi Aquam (The Sprinkling rite); we sit for the performance of the medieval play "The Harrowing of Hell" - after the Collect of the Day. We pick up for the Gospel acclamation, the Gospel reading and the rest is as usual.
• Sunday, May 4: continued sale following Mass. 

2.    CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AT ST. MARY [FOR MAY]:

• All classes begin at 11:30 am
• May 4: Class on History of Anglo-Catholicism
• May 11: Continuing the series on Anglo-Catholicism
• May 25: Last in the series on Anglo-Catholicism

3.   PALMS EMERGENCY  PREPAREDNESS PROJECT:

• The Coalition - Palms Emergency Preparedness Coalition [PePC] got the $15,000 we requested for fiscal year 2 ending June 30 and our Work plan for year 2 was approved. Here are highlights: 
  • We are setting up three refuge areas [for Palms] stocked with some barrels (bins) of emergency supplies. Refuge areas are the IMAN Cultural Center, St. Mary in Palms and Palms Middle School.
  • We will have a booth at the May 10 Palms Bike Rodeo at the Palms Elementary School. We will be there from 9:30 am till about 1 pm. Please, stop by and meet us and pick some free supplies.
  • We will have a CPR training coming up in June. 
  • New members welcome to the Coalition. Talk to Fr. Vincent after Mass or send him an email.    

4.   COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH FIRST-AIDERS TRAINING

•  Registration is open for all who would like to be trained by the Department of Mental Health as Certified Community Mental Health First-Aiders. 
• The DMH will provide all training free of charge. 
• Eight hours of mandatory training required for certification. 
• Training dates are Saturday, July 12 and July 26. 
• All training will be held at St. Mary in Palms. 
• Space is very limited. 
• Please, talk to Fr. Vincent, Coordinator of this project now if you are interested.

5.  CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AT ST. MARY

• May 4: Performance of the play: "The Harrowing of Hell" at the 10 am Mass. Please, invite your friends. Thank our Producer, Director and the entire Cast if you find the chance.

• May 4, 11, 25:  Anglo-Catholicism

• June 1, 8, 22, 29:  Church and Music

• July: on vacation.

• August: visits to holy sites in Los Angeles.

6.  UPCOMING EVENTS: Mark your calendars: 

• Monday, May 5 - 7: Annual Spring Clergy Retreat, Crowne Plaza Hotel, San Pedro. 
• Saturday, May 10: Annual Palms Bike Rodeo. 
• Venue: Palms Middle School, corner of Palms and Motor Avenues. This is a public event and is free. 
• Food will be available. Make new friends and help build community.
• Sunday, May 18: Election Day to elect a new Board Council for the Palms Neighborhood Council. Venue for elections will be announced later. 
• Saturday, September 27: Third annual Faris Drive Neighborhood Block party from 10 am to 3 pm. Volunteer workers needed. Please, talk to Fr. Vincent if you can help with planning.

7.   OF YOUR CHARITY, PLEASE, PRAY FOR:

• Healing for Bianca, Joana, Gerda, Anthony Jo, Betty Moreno, Fr. Anderson.
• For all efforts to locate Malaysia Flight MH 370. For the families as they wait for more reliable news about the fate of their relatives on that flight.
• Our youth: Larry Jr, Simone, Jeffrey, Natasha, Yasmine, Obed, Audrey and Michelle.

8. For news about:

• the Diocese of Los Angeles, please click on www.ladiocese.org

• the Expo Line construction, please, click on www.buildexpo.org

• the Palms Neighborhood Council, click on www.palmsla.org

See you at Mass. Bring a friend and your family to church.

 Fr. Vincent

www.stmarypalms.org

Third Day of the Sacred Triduum

ON THE THIRD DAY OF SACRED TRIDUUM.... April 19

HOLY SATURDAY: 

Morning Prayer - 9 am

EASTER VIGIL: Saturday, April 19

Proper Liturgy - 8 pm. Rite include:

• lighting and blessing of the new fire
• the singing of the Exsultet [The Easter Proclamation]
• recounting our salvation story
• renewal of baptismal vows
• first Mass of Easter.
• Homilist - Br. Clark, SSF (Minister General, Society of St. Francis)

Just one more... 

 EASTER DAY:  April 20

Solemn Mass [English] - 10 am

Easter potluck brunch - 11:15 am [please, bring something to share]

Misa (Mass in Espanol] - 1 pm [followed by Easter fiesta]

SECOND DAY OF SACRED TRIDUUM

GOOD FRIDAY - the Second Day of the Sacred Triduum

GOOD FRIDAY: April 18

Morning Prayer - 9 am

Stations (Way) of the Cross - 12 pm

Proper Liturgy (of the Pre-sanctified) - 7 pm. Rite include:

• The Solemn Collects
•  Homilist - Br. Clark, SSF (Minister General, Society of St. Francis)
• Veneration of the Cross
• Holy Communion

EVERYONE IS WELCOME. Join us if you can.