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Folks,
Our friend Rev Roger Wharton, of San Jose's Good Samaritan Episcopal Church, told us by email, upon reading the previous News, that our mention of the many times the word "love" (and its forms) in the last Sunday's Epistle lesson from I John caused he to look again at that passage. He came up with the fact that that the word "love" or a derivative thereof accounts for 11.275% of the 327 words in that passage - that's a lot of love! As I see it, the lessons for this coming Sunday are meant to help us spread that love. In the first lesson from Acts 10 after Peter baptised the Roman centurion Cornelius we hear of a sort of "mini-Pentecost" in which the assembled disciples witness the Holy Spirit coming upon the assembly of mostly Gentiles of different nations - note that Peter was at first not so sure Gentiles should be part of the church. In the second lesson, also from John's epistle, we see that loving God is the first step and that God's command to love God and so to love neighbour are not burdensome. In John's gospel we see that Jesus was joyously sharing his own love of God with all, and giving substance to that love by noting "And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last .." I have noted before that some in the loving communities are shy about "testifying". But the Epistle notes: "the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth." The world really does want to hear God's message of love - not in some accounting manner where we "chalk up another Christian" but rather in the irresistibly joyful message of love, however that Spirit is called. May we all find that joyous spirit in ourselves and share forth the message of God's love, with the guidance of God's spirit! Our love to all, Bart and Tony! and for all of us at St Matthew Church Events We at St Matthew parish in San Ardo will be meeting for Morning Prayer at the usual time of 10am this Sunday. Our fellow missions St Luke Church in Jolon and St Mark Church in King City will be meeting together at St Mark's beautiful chapel on 3rd and Bassett in King City where Fr Carl Hansen will lead in a Communion (Eucharist) service. From the Diocese (We though to switch this around with more local new further below) we hear about the Spring Renewal event and in particular that the Dynamic Deacons of the Diocese will be Flamboyantly Stepping Out with Souland we hope and we hope that many of us will register by Monday for the May 178-18 where we hear you can be "Walking the Way" in your El Camino Real diocesan sandals, tents, jackets, etc - for full info see https://www.realepiscopal.org/blog/spring-renewal-2024/?occurrence=568 It seems a fun idea do combine our Diocese's name with that other Camino (de Santiago). Also from the Diocese we hear of the following event on Tues evenings beginning May 7: The Life and Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A four week on-line Conversation hosted by the Social Justice CommitteeFor and registration see https://realepiscopal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99ebbaf4cee8d012c9edafe60&id=b8211e62e1&e=f136cc0442 From the Deanery: We received the following info for the upcoming San Luis Obispo Deanery meeting this Sunday. Hello Everyone, This is a final reminder of our combo Deanery/Potluck meeting this Sunday. It will be held at St. Stephen's, SLO, with the potluck beginning at 1:15 pm and the business meeting at 2 pm. The business meeting will be hybrid with the Zoom link below (and also in the agenda). I am happy to announce that our invited speaker will be Ms. Jessica Ripper who is a real estate professional working with the Diocese of San Diego on how to use church real estate for God's mission. This will be a very relevant presentation on creative ways we might be able to use our churches' property and I hope you will be able to hear Jessica speak. I'm attaching the Zoom link, agenda and draft minutes from our last meeting below. I hope to see you on Sunday! Peace, David Ottesen Lay Convener for the Deanery For the details and agenda, etc, please email David who is copied on this email (and note that we may have mixed up his email with Tricia's - both great folks, who work well together. Other News We hear from the St Paul Cathedral in San Diego that they will be creating a Music Center which will provide a base for their fine choir and other music programs. For details ee their websites at www.stPaulcathedral.org et al and note their many other offerings, such a weekly organ concerts. Good Shepherd parish in Salinas (Corral de Tierra) tells us that they be participating in the Pacific Grove Walk of Remembrance on May 11 to commemorate the Chinese fishing village that existed at one time where Pacific Grove is today. See https://goodshepherdcorral.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7cbc9cee2ea785c71ef0cbb3c&id=efbe857c48&e=cc1155f723 Our friend Eric Fisher of San Luis Obispo tells us that Prov VIII of the Brotherhood of Saint Andrew will having a Retreat for men AND women 5/31-6/2. For details contact Eric at [email protected] and for more info on the Brotherhood go to https://brothersandrew.net/ From our parishes (for full info go to parish websites as at www.sloepiscopalians.org St Stephen Church in San Luis Obispo tells us they will have a meeting on May 20 at 6pm on the topic "What Is Baptism" - no registration needed and children welcome. St Benedict Church in Los Osos will be hosting a Potluck Dinner tomorrow at 5:30pm. St Barnabas Church in Arroyo Grande as usual has a full set of events - see https://brothersandrew.net/ St Luke Church in Atascaadero will be having a Plant Sale May 17-18 12-4pm Fri and 11-2pm Sat, St James Church in Paso Robles is also organising a Music Fund, and for info and links to their events see https://brothersandrew.net/ Probably some of you are wondering why we didn't have the most local news down here - maybe next time we will, but better to get this mailed off before these events are OVER!
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