For Sunday May 5, 2024
This Sunday: Robert Vivar, Guest Preacher
Robert Vivar will be our guest preacher this coming Sunday. Robert (or “Berto”) is the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego’s Migration Missioner. Troy Elder previously served in this role. In addition to preaching the sermon, Robert will be meeting with the Latino Ministry in the library in-between the services from 9AM-10AM. All are invited to attend and hear more about the important work the diocese is doing at the border. All loose plate offerings from this Sunday will go to supporting the Migration Ministry fund, which directly impacts the diocesan work at the border.
Migration Ministry Fund
The Episcopal Diocese of San Diego (EDSD) is committed to providing support and assistance to those on the margins, including migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees. Through a variety of programs and initiatives, EDSD works to ensure that these vulnerable populations have access to resources and services that can help them rebuild their lives and thrive in their new communities. EDSD wants to help with legal assistance, housing, food, clothing, and other necessities.
The Diocese partners with local organizations that help provide education and job training, food and housing, and spiritual care to migrants – helping people integrate into society and become self-sufficient. They also purchase food items to make 200 sack lunches every Monday for migrants that have been cleared through asylum and are waiting for flights at the San Diego Airport to meet sponsors in other parts of the country. Through these efforts, we’re dedicated to welcoming and supporting those in need, living out the values of compassion and love that are at the heart of our faith.
Spiritual Formation Feedback Questionnaire
At St. Paul’s, we are blessed with an abundance of retired/active priests, ministers, and educators who offer wonderful classes and retreats throughout the year! We are planning for our education/spiritual formation programing for the 2024-2025 year. Your answers to this questionnaire will help us find out what parishioners want and need. It should only take a few minutes of your time. Thank you for completing it!
Circle Supper—End of Season 2024!
End of Season Circle Supper Final Gathering! Everyone who is currently participating in a Circle Supper (whether you went every month or only a time or two) is invited to attend the “End of Season Joint Circle Supper” at Billy Reed’s Restaurant, Palm Springs, Thursday, May 30, at 6:00 PM. Please RSVP to Nancy Antonius at nancyjantonius@gmail.com by noon, Sunday, May 26. Reservations are a MUST. We will need to give the restaurant an exact headcount prior to the event.
Like to sing and want to do so a few times before “summer break”?
We plan on having the choir sing on Pentecost (May 19) and on the Bishop’s Visit (June 2). Rehearsals will continue as usual, Thursdays 5:45 PM and Sundays after the 10:30 postlude, through the first week in June. If you know of congregation members or friends of St. Paul who live full time in Palm Springs and might be interested in singing with us, please invite them. Any questions? Please reach out to musicdirector@stpaulsps.org
Parish Book Club
St. Paul’s Book Club will meet again on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at 2:00 PM via Zoom. Meeting access details will follow. The transition back to Zoom is a bit sooner than anticipated because many folks are returning early. For May, Book Club has selected James by Percival Everett. “From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.
When Jim,“James” overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “cult literary icon” (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.”
For more information, please contact Alan Zimmerman at alanzimmerman@icloud.com
Altar Flowers
“The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom . . .” Isaiah 35:1-2
Fresh flowers at the altar honor God and add to the beauty of our worship. We are in need of altar flowers for several special celebratory Sundays coming up, including the Bishop’s visit! If you would like to sponsor altar flowers for a future Sunday to commemorate a special person or event, you’ll find the sign-up book in the Narthex, or you can call the Parish Office at 760.320.7488 to reserve your sponsorship dates(s) A donation of $95 for each altar flower sponsorship is suggested.
Prayers of the Church
For the Anglican Communion, and for the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby; for Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil, The Most Reverend Marinez Rosa dos Santos Bassotto, Presiding Bishop and Primate.
For the Episcopal Diocese of Litoral Ecuador, The Right Reverend Cristobal Leon Lozano, Bishop.
For the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, The Right Reverend Dr. Susan Brown Snook, Bishop; for the clergy and people of St. Philip the Apostle, Lemon Grove; for all our retired clergy and their spouses.
For those commended to our prayers: Robert Blackshear, Michael Marguet, June Marguet, Lisa Yegin, Michael Neill, Jerry & Teresa O’Steen, Ronald Woodward, Karen Nelson, Nick Kuttig, David Stanfill, Betsy Westaway, Bob Westaway, Judy Young, George Forrest, Paris Coffey, Patricia H., Will & Rob, Mark Austin, Jill & Robert Philbrook, Richard Osuna, Eliott Kahn, Delores Swanson, Debbie, Nuan Pan, Antoinette, John, Zadaiya, Jacob Parshall, Henry Black, Frank Stahl, Stan Kolodzi, Leah Drake, Ralph Bise, Carmen Vasquez, Mary Hildebrandt, Daniel Garcia, George Barros, Andy Johnson, Robby Robinson, Terry Garrity, Rus Butler, Joe Christopher, Hap Blaisdell, David Valenzuela, Amelia Grinstead, Chloe Grace Wilson Barton, Marilyn De Silva Currie, Jamie Currie, Greg Gowdy, Tom Lutgen; pray for all those for whom no prayers have been said.
For those who have died: Damon Nelson, Pat Mauritzen, Donald Beck, Mark Levin, Gwendolyn Walton, Roger Senter, Donald Rimac, Nicole Rimac, Peter Rimac. Rest eternal grant to these, your servants, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.
For those with birthdays: May 5: Brian Brodowsky, Skip Swanlund; May 6: Eric Stein-Steele, Rita Yribar; May 9: Lee Bartelmey; May 11: Drew Bizzaro.
For those celebrating anniversaries: May 7: Michelle & Tyrus Brown; May 10: David Hale & Randy Hoepfner; May 11: Christine & William Kennedy.
For those for whom flowers have been donated: Today’s Altar Flowers are sponsored by Luis Valdez & Vern Marken, to the Glory of God and in memory of our father, George Marken, Jr., and to commemorate the 120th anniversary of his birth.
Send us your Prayer Requests via email — You may request prayers, “For those commended to our prayers” or “For those who have died,” by sending requests to registrar@stpaulsps.org. The weekly print deadline is Wednesday noon.
For next Sunday’s Lectionary readings, go to www.lectionarypage.net and click on May 12, the Seventh Sunday of Easter.
Upcoming Meetings & Events at St Paul’s
- Sunday, May 5 – Easter VI – Migration Sunday – Cinco De Mayo
- Wednesday, May 8 – 6:00 PM – Ascension Day (transferred) – Midweek Eucharist
- Sunday, May 19 – The Day of PENTECOST: Whitsunday – (Wear red!)
- Sunday, May 26 – TRINITY SUNDAY – The First Sunday after Pentecost
- Sunday, June 2 – Pentecost II – Bishop’s Visit – Reception following 10:30 Service – Q & A with the Bishop – Wear your St. Paul’s T-Shirt!
Free Movie Screening
Interfaith Refugee & Immigration Services, the refugee resettlement organization that Troy Elder leads, is sponsoring a free screening of a documentary in Palm Springs on May 15. The purpose is to meet new friends as IRIS expands its services into the desert. The movie, “Welcome to Chechnya,” is a critically acclaimed documentary that goes inside the Russian Republic’s deadly war on LGBTQ+ people. Something that continues to this day. And yet, the courage of the activists is amazing. As Entertainment Weekly put it: “It’s shocking, and it should be. But Welcome to Chechnya finds tender, funny moments too — and even, in the end, some kind of hope.” These are the victims IRIS is trying to “welcome home” to the US as refugees. We partnered with IRIS during Epiphany/Los Tres Reyes when we collected items for a refugee family. If you are interested in finding out more about how to engage with this issue, please attend! Click here to reserve your seat.
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