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On a Wing and a Prayer August 2014 Newsletter
Guardian Angels Catholic Community – Just. Faithful. Catholic.
2004 – 2014 Ten Years Loving God and our Neighbor!
www.guardianangelscatholiccommunity.org https://www.facebook.com/GuardianAngelsCatholicCommunity
Join us for Mass every Sunday at 9AM and every Wednesday at 7AM
Sometimes It Just Seems to Be Too Much
Sometimes, Lord, it just seems to be too much: too much violence, too much fear;
too much of demands and problems; too much of broken dreams and broken lives;
too much of war and slums and dying; too much of greed and squishy fatness
and the sounds of people devouring each other
and the earth; too much of stale routines and quarrels,
unpaid bills and dead ends; too much of words lobbed in to explode
and leaving shredded hearts and lacerated souls; too much of turned-away backs and yellow silence,
red rage and the bitter taste of ashes in my mouth.
Sometimes the very air seems scorched by threats and rejection and decay
until there is nothing but to inhale pain
and exhale confusion.
Too much of darkness, Lord, too much of cruelty
and selfishness and indifference….
Too much, Lord,
too much, too bloody,
bruising, brain-washing much.
Or is it too little, too little of compassion, too little of courage, of daring, of persistence, of sacrifice; too little of music and laughter and celebration?
O God, make of me some nourishment for these starved times, some food for my brothers and sisters who are hungry for gladness and HOPE, that, being bread for them, I may also be fed and be full.
from Guerrillas of Grace by Ted Loder
Guardian Angels Calendar
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
MASS 7AM
AUGUST 1 2 AZ/NM ECC
PRESIDING BISHOP INTERVIEWS VIA SKYPE
IN TUCSON 10AM
3
MASS 9AM
PRESIDER/PREACHER: SUE
4
GREY ROBE BENEDICTINES
7PM
5 6
MASS 7AM
7
8 VIDEO,
POPCORN & DISCUSSION
“THE HOUSE I LIVE IN”
7PM
9
10
MASS 9AM
PRESIDER/PREACHER: ELAINE
11 12 13
MASS 7AM
14
15 16
17
MASS 9AM
LEADERSHIP COUNCIL MEETING AFTER MASS
PRESIDER/PREACHER: ED ELAINE WILL LEAD MUSIC
( SUE & PAUL ARE AWAY)
PAZ DE CRISTO 4 – 7PM
18
GREY ROBE BENEDICTINES
7PM
19 20
MASS 7AM
21 THE
COMMENTARY INTERFAITH
LIBRARY CLASS: NATIVE
SPIRITUALITY 7PM
IN THE PARLOR
22
23
GUARDIAN ANGELS TENTH ANNIVERSARY
MASS AND CELEBRATION
4:30PM
DINNER & PARTY FOLLOWING MASS
WE WILL BE JOINED BY THE AZ ECC
PARISHES ST. MICHAEL’S AND ST.
TERESA OF AVILA
24
NO 9AM MASS TODAY (SEE INFO ON AUG 23)
25 26
27
MASS 7AM
28 THE
COMMENTARY INTERFAITH
LIBRARY CLASS: NATIVE
SPIRITUALITY 7PM
IN THE PARLOR
29
I-HELP 4PM
30
31
MASS 9AM
PRESIDER – SUE GUEST PREACHER –
REV ANDY BURNETTE, PASTOR OF VALLEY UNITARIAN
UNIVERSALIST CHURCH CHANDLER
SEPTEMBER 1
GREY ROBE BENEDICTINES
7PM
2 3
MASS 7AM
4 5 6
News from Your Leadership Council
If you haven’t filled out the easy, fast Summer 2014 Survey, click on the link and DO IT!!! We need your opinions and feedback! Thank you for your time.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Z879PDQ
We are calling on The Guardian Angels Catholic Community to give us input on the candidate they would most like to see elected Presiding Bishop. Please review the following links on each candidate:
Rev. Frank Krebs: http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1101308228310-677/resume_RevFrankKrebs.pdf
Rev. Kae Madden: http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1101308228310-678/resume_RevKaeMadden.pdf We will offer an opportunity for the entire community of Guardian Angels to vote on the Presiding Bishop. More info on this in On a Wing and a Prayer, the August issue! Currently voting members from Guardian Angels Catholic Community have been identified as: House of Pastors (HOP): Rev. Sue Ringler and Rev. Elaine Groppenbacher House of Laity (HOL): Marie Renner (GALC) and Jeanie Ghan (GALC) (Because of the size of our parish we actually qualify to have another HOL delegate. The Leadership Council would like input from YOU on whether we should put the cost of this extra HOL Delegate in our Budget. See Council member’s emails at the end of this Leadership Council update if you would like to share your opinion) Single day observer registration is available for those interested in how the process works. If you are interested e-mail Marie [email protected] or Jeanie [email protected] New Directory of “Angels” available electronically! Let Jeanie [email protected] know if you would like a Guardian Angels Directory of Members. This Directory includes emails, addresses & phone numbers if we have them.
DECISIONS
ECC Synod 2014 is scheduled for October 7-10 at Church of the Holy Family in Aurora, CO
This is a big year for the Ecumenical Catholic Communion (ECC). We will be electing a new Presiding Bishop for the first time in our history. There will be two candidates. (1.) Rev. Frank Krebs of Saints Clare & Francis Ecumenical Catholic Community in Webster Groves, Missouri and (2.) Rev. Kae Madden Church of the Beloved in Northglenn, Colorado.
1. Your Leadership Council has funded 4 voting members representing Guardian Angels to the Synod in October. (2 to the House of Pastors & 2 to the House of Laity) A decision on a 3rd HOL rep is pending.
2. Your Leadership Council and Pastor signed the Why Marriage Matters Arizona Endorsing Congregation and Clergy Commitments. We have some cool red signs if you want one for your business or home, let Pastor Sue know.
3. Barb, Terry, Frank and Sue have scheduled an upcoming audit of the books for Guardian Angles Catholic Community – doesn’t that sound fun!!
4. Your Leadership Council lead by Frank will be working on establishing a budget once the audit of the books is complete.
5. We are looking at several different classes to offer to the community this Fall. If you have an interest in a particular class, book discussion, etc. let the Council know. We are looking at classes using material we received from Rev. Michael Dowd when he was our guest preacher this past Spring; we are looking at a series on dealing with grief with Fr. Ed; Dr. Cynthia has offered to present a class based on her thesis (no yawning…it will be exciting); we may also offer a book study of Richard Rohr’s book Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps….
6. Sue & Marie are putting together a Guardian Angels Membership & Memory Book to honor our 10th Anniversary. There is still time to submit your poems, prayers, pictures, drawings, essays, etc about what our beloved community means to you.
7. The 10th Anniversary Celebration is set for Saturday, Aug. 23rd – w/ a Mass at 4:30pm. The other ECC Communities in AZ will be joining us at this mass. St. Teresa’s and St. Michael’s have canceled their masses for that weekend so that they may join all the Angels for this important milestone! Put in on your calendars NOW!!! You won’t want to miss this! The mass will be followed by a dinner and party and all together wonderful time! We are looking to put together a small committee of folks to work on this special day, contact Pastor Sue [email protected] if you’d like to help.
8. Your Leadership Council has approached Eight, Arizona PBS Viewer Services about the possibility of inclusion in a Faith Inspires topic. The request has been sent to the producers of Arizona Horizons.
9. Your Leadership Council is looking at creating an article about Guardian Angels Catholic Community for ASU’s The State Press.
Feedback Your Leadership Council invites you to attend our meetings on the 3rd Sunday of every month after mass. The next Council meeting will be held after mass on August 17. Questions and suggestions are welcomed so we may better serve our community. We may be contacted at:
Barb [email protected] Carol [email protected]
Christine [email protected] Marie [email protected]
Jeanie [email protected] Robert [email protected]
Frank [email protected] Terry [email protected] Sue [email protected]
Angels LOVE to Serve!
Paz de Cristo Community Center
The AZ/NM ECC Joint Justice Project: Mass Incarceration
Guardian Angels Movie Night, Friday, August 8, 7PM
The House I Live In
2012 Documentary From Executive Producers Danny Glover, John Legend, BRAD PITT & Russell Simmons A Film by Eugene Jareck
As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. Over forty years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world’s largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels of America’s War on Drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside America’s longest war, offering a definitive portrait and revealing its profound human rights implications.
While recognizing the seriousness of drug abuse as a matter of public health, the film investigates the tragic errors and shortcomings that have meant it is more often treated as a matter for law enforcement, creating a vast machine that feeds largely on America’s poor, and especially on minority communities. Beyond simple misguided policy, The House I Live In examines how political and economic corruption has fueled the war for forty years, despite persistent evidence of its moral, economic, and practical failures.
“2012′s BEST DOCUMENTARY! THE MOST IMPORTANT DRUG WAR FILM YOU’LL EVER SEE.” – Mark Hughes, Forbes
“FEARLESS! A MODEL OF THE AMBITIOUS, VITALIZING ACTIVIST WORK THAT EXISTS TO STIR
THE SLEEPING TO WAKE.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“THE HOUSE I LIVE IN WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!” – Anne Thompson, Indiewire
“SEARING! ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECES OF NONFICTION TO HIT THE SCREEN IN YEARS.”
– Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
“I’D HATE TO IMPLY THAT IT’S YOUR CIVIC DUTY TO SEE THE HOUSE I LIVE IN, BUT GUESS WHAT – IT IS.” – Ty Burr, The Boston Globe
The implications of Mass Incarceration are difficult to grasp. In order to help us understand the issue better we will have a movie night on Friday, August 8 @ 7PM at one of our favorite meeting place, where we held our last JustFaith course, Robin Iverson’s house! There will be a sign up at church this weekend with Robin’s address. If you will not be
at church this Sunday but still want to attend movie night, contact Pastor Sue at [email protected]
Good reflection on our Prison System by John Oliver (with Sesame Street Puppets!): http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/07/john-oliver-prison-system-sesame-street-puppets
TEE-HEE-HEE
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Coming up in August at The Commentary Interfaith Library….
Deacon Dorothy Saucedo and Deacon Vivian Winter Chaser, Deacons at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church will offer two classes on Native Spirituality.
The classes will be held on Thursday, August 21 and Thursday, August 28 @ 7PM at Community Christian Church in the Parlor
Sometimes comics contain more wisdom on a subject than pages and pages of articles. And sometimes it’s just good to laugh…like I did when I saw the Mary and Baby Jesus one on the last page .
INTERESTED IN SERVING IN A MINISTRY AT GUARDIAN ANGELS? Interested in helping to set up before mass and greeting everyone before mass? WE CURRENTLY NEED
SOMEONE TO COVER THIS WHEN THERE IS A FIFTH SUNDAY OF THE MONTH – THE NEXT ONE WILL BE AUGUST 31
Contact Marie, Leadership Council [email protected]
Interested in being a Lector? Contact Barb, Leadership Council [email protected]
Interested in being a Eucharistic Minister? Contact Nancy [email protected]
Interested in baking our Altar Bread? Contact Jeanie, Leadership Council [email protected]
Interested in helping with clean-up after mass?
Contact Carol, Leadership Council [email protected]
If you have any financial questions about the parish, ask Treasurer Frank, Leadership Council [email protected]
or pick up the monthly financial report available on the back counter where you pick up your worship aid.
THE ECUMENICAL CATHOLIC COMMUNION -- A Wonderful Way of Being Catholic!
http://www.ecumenical-catholic-communion.org/
You can request a subscription to the Monthly ECC Report at [email protected]
For more information check out the ECC Constitution at http://www.ecumenical-catholic-communion.org/eccpdf/constitution_2012.pdf
And don’t forget the ECC 101 report from our January 2014 meeting
http://guardianangelscatholiccommunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2014-01-18-ECC-101-With-History.ppt.pdf
BRING YOUR QUESTIONS TO
GUARDIAN ANGELS!! WE WANT TO HEAR
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