Thought for the Day
“Jesus always worked with groups. He spoke to groups, he fed groups, ate with groups, healed people in groups. When we read he encountered individuals, they were representatives of a group, or he sent these individuals back to groups. It’s not about me, individually, or you, individually; it’s about us.”
-Br. Curtis Almquist
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Gender Equality and Women’s History Month
This week – Celebrating St. Tabitha (Dorcas)
In Acts 9:36-43, we read of Tabitha, “a disciple” who led a house church in Joppa, just 30 miles northwest of Jerusalem. She fell ill and died, leaving “all the widows … weeping and showing tunics and other clothing she had made for them” (Acts 9:39). Luke shows Peter hastening to Joppa where, after he prays over her, Tabitha is raised from the dead.
Because she is the only woman given the grammatically feminine title of “disciple” (mathetria) in the entire New Testament, some commentators suggest Tabitha was one of the women in Jesus’s Galilean discipleship. Peter may have known her well.
Since no male relative is anywhere in evidence, Tabitha was probably a widow herself. Biblical scholars suggest she was a leader of a congregation of widows at Joppa and a foremother of the “order of widows” prominent in the church into the third century.
Honor the ‘mothers’ of early Christianity during Women’s History Month
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Ellis Medicine COVID-19 Vaccine Update with Bishop Tony Green
Bishop Tony Green is the Co-Pastor of St. John of God Parish in Schenectady, New York. Bishop Green is the Director of Pastoral Care and is head Chaplain at Ellis Medicine overseeing three (3) medical (hospital) facilities and nursing homes. Bishop Green is featured in the video.
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(Another) Statement on the Shooting of Black Men by Police: We’re Weary But Not Too Tired to Continue the Fight for Justice
| They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14 (NRSV) |
Washington, D.C., August 26, 2020—Another shooting. Another video. More trauma for a community and our nation. It is hard to believe that we are in the position to have to issue another statement on police shootings. Yet, here we are. This past weekend our nation again witnessed Black men being shot by police – one is paralyzed and fighting for his life; the other died.
The National Council of Churches USA (NCC) is again outraged by the shooting of Jacob Blake, III, who was shot by Kenosha, WI, police on Sunday, Aug. 23. Video evidence seems to show clearly that Blake was unarmed and walking away from white police officers when he was shot multiple times in the back at point blank range in front of his three young children. A part of NCC’s extended family, Blake is the grandson of African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Pastor Rev. Jacob Blake, Sr., who served in Evanston, IL at Ebenezer AME Church during the 1960s and 70s and was an activist for fair housing in the affluent Chicago suburb.
In addition, the NCC is further outraged by the killing of Trayford Pellerin by police in Lafayette, LA on Saturday, Aug. 22. Like Mr. Blake, Mr. Pellerin was walking away from police. His family has suggested that a mental health crisis may have prompted calls to 911 about a “disturbance” that ended with Mr. Pellerin being shot and killed.
The news of these tragic events are disheartening and cause us to ask the question, when will it end? We’re weary but not too tired to continue working for change and fighting for justice.
These incidents also highlight the need for police reform and increased de-escalation training. Therefore, we repeat our call for full, transparent, and independent investigations of the conduct of the officers involved in both of these terrible shootings. We repeat our call for the use of body cameras to be used by every sworn officer in the Kenosha Police Department – as well as in police departments across the country—and we urge the Lafayette Police Department to immediately release body camera footage of the incident with Mr. Pellerin. These basic first steps, while not the entire solution, help to provide accountability in horrific situations such as these and reduce the likelihood that they occur in the first place.
Moreover, the case with Mr. Pellerin reinforces the need for communities to have greater investments in mental health services and not to use police as first responders when a mental health professional will be more effective and have a better chance of saving lives.
For these injustices to continue after months of robust protests following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery as well as too many others, is indicative of how deeply broken our systems are and how much work is yet to be done to end racism, white supremacy and unconscious bias.
We pray for Mr. Blake’s complete physical and emotional healing from the multiple gunshot wounds and the horror of this situation. We pray that his three young children and family as well as the community will heal from the trauma caused by the shooting. We pray for the family and friends of Mr. Pellerin who mourn his unnecessary killing.
And, we pray for our nation to heal and to move swiftly and decisively toward justice. We must end the racism that infests our institutions and perpetuates the myth that Black lives are expendable. Black lives matter.
CACINA video That They All May Be One
That They All May Be One
During this time of quarantine and self reflection, a message for all. CACINA video made by Bishop Tony Green.
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CACINA Catholic Who and Independent What STOCCC Workshop
Saint Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Community (STOCCC) Workshop on CACINA Catholic Who? and Independent What?
Father Victor Ray is the Pastor of Saint Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Community. He is assisted by Deacon Barbara Fichter. The Church is a CACINA parish located at 3803 Haines Road North in St. Petersburg, Florida. (Pinellas County) The church shares space at Allendale United Methodist Church.
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Who Lives and Who Dies Webinar
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Who Lives and Who Dies: How COVID-19 Has Shined a Light on the Politics of Death in United States
The political scientist Achille Mbembe conceptualizes necropolitics as such: “The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die.” COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus that has highlighted a historic truth about the United States. The country was founded and built on systemic and systematic race, class and gender hierarchical constructs that ranks the value of people groups. The coronavirus has shined a light on how our systems and structures determine who should live and who is expendable. Join the National Council of Churches in a theological, political and cultural conversation on necropolitics, the politics of death, with three of the most sought after scholars on politics, religion, and culture.
Thursday July 30
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Dr. Brittney Cooper is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. Dr. Cooper is the author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (U of Illinois Press, 2017), winner of the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Prize for Best Book in U.S. Intellectual History. She is also author of the New York Times Bestselling Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (St. Martin’s Press, 2018).
Professor Cooper has been named to The Root 100 multiple times, most recently in 2018. She is a frequent commentator for MSNBC and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, BET, Essence Magazine, the Root and many other publications.
Dr. Melanye Price, Endowed Professor of Political Science and principal investigator for the Mellon Foundation African American Studies Initiative at Prairie View A&M University, Houston TX. Price’s research and teaching expertise include black politics, public opinion, political rhetoric, and social movements. She is the author of, “The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race” (NYU, 2016) and “Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion” (NYU, 2009). Her next project is “Mountaintop Removal: Martin Luther King, Trump and the Racial Mountain,” which uses King’s “Mountaintop Speech” as a lens for understanding the rise of Trump and the 2016 election.
Dr. Price has is a sought after political commentator whose opinion has been published in several media outlets including The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, The Hartford Courant, Vox, Pacifica and NYC and CT Public Radio. She was also a contributor to Stanley Nelson’s documentary, Obama: Through the Fire, which aired on BET.
Rev. Dr. Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Democracy Collaborative in Washington, DC. Dr. Hendricks has been called one of the most provocative and innovative commentators on the intersection of religion, politics and social policy in America today. A widely sought lecturer and media spokesperson, his media appearances include C-SPAN, PBS, NPR, al-Jazeera Television, Fox News, the Bloomberg Network, among others. He is also an editorial advisor to the award-winning Tikkun magazine, a contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, and a principal commentator in the The Oxford Annotated Bible.
Dr. Hendricks is the author of The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church and the Body Politic (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2011),The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted (New York: Doubleday, 2006). Dallas Evening News Bestseller and Living Water: A Novel (New York: HarperCollins, 2003), National & Essence Magazine Bestseller.
Rev. Aundreia Alexander is the Associate General Secretary for Action and Advocacy for Justice and Peace at the National Council of Churches. (Moderator)
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Sunday Mass 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mother Monica Kennedy is the Pastor of Saint Charles of Brazil which is a CACINA parish located at 116 Marydell Road in Linthicum, Maryland (Anne Arundel County). The church shares space with St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church.
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Sunday Mass 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Parish of Saints Francis and Clare is a CACINA parish located at 2300 NW 9th Avenue (Powerline Road) in Wilton Manors, Florida (Broward County) the greater Fort Lauderdale area. Fr. Joseph Spina, OSF is the Pastor and is accompanied by Fr. Vincent Treglio, OSF, Associate Pastor. Assisting clergy are Fr. Peter Sanchez, OSF and Fr. Paul Pfadenhauer. The Franciscan Friars of Fort Lauderdale are the Guardians of the parish. Francis and Clare rents an entire building. Livestreaming Mass every Sunday at 10:30am on Facebook. Homily posted on YouTube.
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (1251 A.D.) is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with the Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites lived as hermits on Mt. Carmel in the Holy Land beginning in the 12th century. In the middle of their hermitages, they built a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, who became the protectress of the Carmelites under the title of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a Carmelite hermit, St. Simon Stock, under this title and gave him a piece of cloth—the brown scapular—as a sacramental to be worn by the faithful to whom she promised her special protection. At the apparitions in Fatima, in addition to appearing as Our Lady of the Rosary, the Virgin Mary appeared as Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Her feast day is July 16th.
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A reflection by Bishop Tony Green from Saint John of God Parish
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Independence Day – Celebrate or Observe?
A reflection by Bishop Tony Green
I listen to NPR every morning on my drive to work at Ellis. This morning, Thursday, July 2nd, I heard reporter Juana Summers report on how every year on the 4th of July we reflect on the promises of the United States of America. Summers goes on to say, “This year we will reflect on how those promises are not equally fulfilled.” I listened to several Black Americans describe their struggle to reconcile systemic racism with pride in our country.
One interviewee, Trevor Smith, said, “You grow up hearing and saying …one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, and then you realize, oh, wait…it has never really meant liberty and justice for all.” Another interviewee, Timothy Berry, class president of his graduating class at West Point Military Academy, said he finds a lot of contradiction in what the United States says it is and what it actually is. Berry said he feels his role is to do his part to hold the country accountable.
In years past, I have simply thought of Independence Day in too shallow a way. I have known since grade school that it represents the Declaration of Independence from British governance. I have celebrated a lifetime of July 4th’s on the lake, family barbeques, fireworks shows, and cans of Budweiser.
This year I will re-think, hopefully in a deeper way, what has happened, and has not happened that should have happened in this country since July 4th of 1776. This year, I will observe Independence Day rather than celebrate it. It is difficult, if not impossible to celebrate the great ideal of liberty and justice when it has yet to become a reality for all – especially for communities of color.
It is a good thing to know history, or we are doomed to repeat it. I’ll leave you with a paragraph from a speech that Frederick Douglass delivered on July 5, 1852, entitled, What to the Slave is the 4th of July?
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.”
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A reflection by Mary Desantis – St. John of God Parish CACINA
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Ordinary Time
A reflection by Mary Desantis – St. John of God Parish CACINA
The word TIME can be a topic of reflection all on its own. For example: What is it? How is it used? How does it impact life? How do we view it? All are valid ways of reflecting on time. My reflection today has been influenced by the Liturgical Calendar, which in the Catholic Tradition is used throughout a year to refer to different liturgical periods. Presently the liturgical season being observed is called “Ordinary Time”. Only a few major feasts occur in this liturgical season in contrast to other seasons of the Church Year like Advent, Christmas, Easter, etc. This is what is particular to Ordinary Time.
However, Ordinary Time it is NOT! Not in our society today! Not within our everyday lives currently being reflected in our culture. This is a time of deep division, civil unrest, frustration, deaths occurring in our streets, total disregard for human life, etc. Coupled with this is a health pandemic the wake of which has not been experienced before in our country. And we are told by scientific data that it is not over by any means as others might have us think. Most want to see it contained if not eradicated all together. Too many lives have been lost to death and/or changed forever by this beastly virus. Ordinary Time it is not.
In the midst of all this suffering, where is God? Where God always is: right in the struggle with us. Does God have a message for humanity as we endure the trauma of this time? No matter what takes place in human life God always has a message. No different now, here in this time than in other times. Part of the message always is that God continues to be among us, continually loving us because God is Love. However, another part of the message from God always contains an expectation of us. What might that be in these dark times?
Perhaps it is to be light for the world, to be salt for the earth, to take a stand against evil, to speak out against injustice, to show compassion. LISTEN to one another. Really Listen. Learn from one another. “Work” together, side-by-side sharing your talents and resources in building a future far better than the present for everyone. We are in grave circumstances that threaten the very life of the soul of humankind and this country.
By no means is this Ordinary Time. But we can make it a productive time, a cohesive time. A time we can right the wrongs of history, set a new course that is an all-inclusive one, bury the division among us, quit the blaming and move forward. Not an ordinary nor an easy task but one that is very much doable. The next generation deserves no less a legacy from us.
Amen
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