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See you one week form tomorrow for the first Canterbury@ULM meeting of the semester:<br />
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Almighty God, by the hand of Moses your servant you led your people out
of slavery, and made them free at last: Grant that your Church,
following the example of your prophet Martin Luther King, may resist
oppression in the name of your love, and may secure for all your
children the blessed liberty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; who lives
and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen.<br />
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The Rev. Dr. K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310453203065397126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358437363832885170.post-71414296547668376532016-12-29T09:11:00.001-08:002016-12-29T09:11:12.503-08:00We're Going!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Rev. Dr. K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310453203065397126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358437363832885170.post-24093197749325866932016-11-22T06:20:00.003-08:002016-11-22T06:20:34.898-08:00Bishop Jake's Thanksgiving Message<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1"> Hate, Love and Thanksgiving</span><br />
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<span class="s1">The Nazis imprisoned my mother in one of the
lesser-known concentration camps. Mauthausen was located about 12 miles
from her home, Linz, Austria. More people are familiar with camps like
Auschwitz, Dachau, and Treblinka, but Mauthausen and its nearly 100
subcamps was one of the largest labor camps of the Nazi Regime. </span><br />
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<b>:-) <i>In a completely unrelated item</i></b> - St. Thomas's will hold our annual blessing of the animals on Sunday Morning, October 2 at the 10:00 a.m. celebration of Holy Eucharist. Bring your pets!St. Thomas Episcopal Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05585687212456995189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358437363832885170.post-67728492451212394422016-09-24T19:04:00.000-07:002016-09-24T19:04:50.340-07:00ULM BBQ Ad ;-)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Please join us on the bayou for the 61<sup>st</sup>
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Our menu includes chicken, pork loin, sausage, baked
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The cost is $15 per ticket or 5 for $50. Students with ID
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This is an opportunity for good food, fun and
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please call and leave a message at 318-343-4089. St. Thomas Episcopal Church is
located at 3706 Bon Aire Drive on beautiful Bayou DeSiard, here in Monroe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Engagement party! My house: 79 Quail Ridge Dr., 6 - 8 p.m. Friday. Dinner will be grilled pork chops, veggies and corn on the cob, with ice cream for dessert.<br />
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Go east of campus on Desiard St., which becomes Hwy 139. When you come to the flashing yellow light with a Chevron station on the corner about 6-8 miles east of town, that's Hwy 594. Turn right, go one long block, turn left onto Walker Road, go one long block and turn right onto Quail Ridge Dr. You'll go through a stop sign and then my house is on the left about the third house past the stop sign. Mottled brown brick with a reddish roof and a black Honda CR-V in the carport.<br />
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And Canterbury Kick-off, this Friday, Aug. 26, 6 p.m., at Deacon BJK's house, 79 Quail Ridge Dr. in Swartz.<br />
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Bring friends. Food provided. RSVP via text message to 318-372-8117.<br />
<br />The Rev. Dr. K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310453203065397126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358437363832885170.post-90936426223069381522016-08-23T05:46:00.000-07:002016-08-23T05:46:09.749-07:00The Archdeacon Awarded for Excellence!<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Our Archdeacon recognized for excellence! (Like we didn't know!?!) ;-)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"></span><br />
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conference in solidarity with our sister organizations in Baton Rouge
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me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Those of you familiar with the Christian scripture know
that this event, recorded in Luke chapter 4, signals the beginning of Jesus’
public ministry on earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As this story illustrates, the call to stand with those who
are poor and oppressed links Jewish and Christian traditions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Today, in this year of election politics, I propose that in
this passage, Jesus is laying out God’s platform and claiming it for himself.
He is saying, this is God’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>mission, and I am here to fulfill that mission. It is a political mission
in any age. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Today our economic system is creating inequality at the
fastest rate in recent history. The gap between the wealthiest in our society
and those huddled at the bottom has nearly tripled in the last 30 years. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Wealth Inequality in America by politizane; on YouTube;
based on research at Harvard)</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Millions of Americans work, and work hard, often at 2 or
more jobs, and still barely make ends meet. They are one major car repair, or
one major medical bill, away from homelessness and the clutches of the
predatory lenders.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (ALICE, a study by
United Way)</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And the income gap is worse in Louisiana than in most of
the country. Many are forced into an alternative economy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Alton Sterling was trying to feed his family selling CDs in
a parking lot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To stand in solidarity with those who are poor and
oppressed, to seek to open the eyes of those who are blind to inequality and
injustice is unavoidably political. It requires us to leave the comfort and
familiarity of home and neighborhood, and join hands across lines of race,
religion, and socio-economic status that traditionally divide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In the words of a praise song we sing in my religious
tradition, it requires us to get out of our stained glass boat and walk on the
water... without worrying about getting our feet wet or how, exactly, we’re
going to get to the other side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We, the people of God, are called to do just that. And we
are called to do it as peacemakers, without falling captive to the fear and
violence that plagues our society. We must not be divided by the polarizing
forces in our politics and in our media.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And we must bring forth real solutions. One of those is to
move people out of unemployment and under-employment, out of minimum wage jobs,
into jobs that will support their families. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Northern & Central Louisiana Interfaith was one of the
founding forces of a workforce intermediary called NOVA – New Opportunities
Vision Achievement. NOVA helps people get the training they need, then matches
them with employers who offer living wage jobs with a career path and benefits.
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">More than 80% of those who enter NOVA’s program, finish it
and are placed in such jobs. NOVA graduates contribute approximately $8 million
annually to the Ouachita Parish economy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">NOVA has already expanded from Ouachita parish into the
Delta. We need comparable programs here in Shreveport, in Baton Rouge and
throughout Louisiana. We need to use dollars recovered from Industrial Tax
Exemptions by Gov. Edwards’ recent order to expand workforce development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Today Interfaith, Together Baton Rouge and our sister
organization in Dallas stand in solidarity and invite people of good will to
work with us to free our State from the oppression of poverty, to free us all from
the prison of racial distrust and fear, and to bring about the year of the
Lord’s favor.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">The folks at the Episcopal Church's in Monroe and West Monroe - Grace Episcopal Church, St. Alban's, St.Patrick's, and St. Thomas' will work together again to host Vacation Bible School</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">They are biting again! Hungry Episcopalian and guests at least will be doing the biting - not the fish! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">St. Thomas' Fish Fry is ON AGAIN, this Saturday, May 21, 2016 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Hope everyone will join us!</span>St. Thomas Episcopal Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05585687212456995189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358437363832885170.post-43855010401921825892016-04-27T10:02:00.001-07:002016-04-27T10:02:40.349-07:00St. Thomas' Fish Fry Cancelled!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">NOTICE: </b><span style="font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">Due to the weather forecast and unforeseen circumstances, St. Thomas' Annual Fish Fry scheduled for this Saturday, April 30, </span><b style="font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">has been cancelled</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">! Any ticket money will be gladly returned. The event may be rescheduled - so stay tuned! Thanks for understanding!</span></h3>
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memory fails us if we think of Jesus’ resurrection only in terms of
“then” and not also in terms of “now.” We are not reenacting Jesus’
resurrection; we are reappropriating Jesus’ resurrection power.</div>
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Sometime
this week, someone will need you to lay down your life for them, and
you will need another to lay down their life for you; when that happens
you will be in the presence of love. You will be in the presence of God.</div>
-Br. James Koester<br />
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God’s
generosity is boundless and, in turn, prompts in us a generosity that
is boundless as well. This is a generosity that does not count the
cost. This is the generosity that anoints the feet of Jesus. How
different it is to the gift that serves to our own advantage. And be
assured, we can and will know God’s generosity if we give ourselves to
others without expectations or requirements.<br />
-Br. Eldridge Pendleton (1940-2015)<br />
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<strong>Carry<br />
</strong>“<span data-sheets-userformat="[null,null,4488,null,null,null,[null,[[null,2,0,null,null,[null,2,0]],[null,0,0,3],[null,1,0,null,1]]],null,null,null,0,4,null,null,null,"Arial"]" data-sheets-value="[null,2,"By loving us first, God makes it possible for us to love others and Jesus asks only that we share that love. But in so doing he tells us that we must take up our cross and follow him. Our hands must reach out, pick up the rough wood, and carry it \u2014 for ourselves and for others."]">By
loving us first, God makes it possible for us to love others, and Jesus
asks only that we share that love. But in so doing he tells us that we
must take up our cross and follow him. Our hands must reach out, pick up
the rough wood, and carry it – for ourselves and for others.”</span><br />
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The Rev. Dr. K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310453203065397126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358437363832885170.post-7119139030619825712016-03-09T10:30:00.002-08:002016-03-09T10:30:37.346-08:00Weather Cancellation!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8uTpJ2wRrN-aH-zriSax1vBpzKUdDyFrVc4fwhzbxgjjsFVih04vvcvGLc35s68KpuEf0wDoFRqobNTy4HoXUu3CM-VYQAjYY0mBBq7vQ9zomzUR7RCEEuHqjSTMt1RP5rtj5NOhgNVk8/s1600/rainy_weather_with_thunder.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8uTpJ2wRrN-aH-zriSax1vBpzKUdDyFrVc4fwhzbxgjjsFVih04vvcvGLc35s68KpuEf0wDoFRqobNTy4HoXUu3CM-VYQAjYY0mBBq7vQ9zomzUR7RCEEuHqjSTMt1RP5rtj5NOhgNVk8/s200/rainy_weather_with_thunder.png" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">Tonight's Lenten Eucharist at Supper at St. Thomas' has been cancelled because of the weather. Stay dry and pray for those in areas of local flooding!</span>St. Thomas Episcopal Churchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05585687212456995189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358437363832885170.post-65957700257993318162016-03-06T19:32:00.003-08:002016-03-06T19:32:38.420-08:00This Week!<span style="font-size: large;">Ok, lots to do this week, BUT.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The reason is a bit of a long story, which I will share with you Monday, 3/14/16, the date of our next meeting. The short version of the story is that I must go to Baton Rouge Monday and will not get back until late, and I did not have time to make other arrangements for you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's Res Week on the ULM Campus. I don't know everything that's happening, but I'll be checking the Quad regularly to see what's going on Tuesday thru Thursday. The culmination is a worship service Thursday:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday, 6 p.m.</span></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Monday, Feb. 29, 6:30 p.m.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fr. Michael Bordelon will preside over Holy Eucharist and meet with you afterward for fellowship and to talk about Growing a Rule of Life, or whatever you want to talk with him about. </span></span></div>
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February 24: Grace Episcopal</div>
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Preaching: Archdeacon Bette Kauffman</div>
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