St. Thomas' Back to the Bayou Fish Fry

St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church will hold its Back to the Bayou Fish Fry on Saturday, May 4, 2013 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on their back patio. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for those under fifteen.

The Back Pew Pickers will entertain us and games are planned for all ages.

Join us for great food, fun and music! 

This Week

   

As usual,

Tuesday, 5 - 6 p.m.

Student Center 163

What makes you angry?

What do you do with your anger?

This will be our last regular session this semester, but we'll talk about our year end party! 

Come one, come all. Bring a friend.

                 
                     

Lenten Gift

 Jesus said, "Feed my sheep."

 Back at the beginning of Lent, we decided to forgo food at our meetings during Lent in order to make a donation toward feeding hungry people locally. So, I calculated the average amount we had been spending from the Canterbury budget for food, and it was $17 per meeting.

We also put out a little wooden box at our meetings for those same five weeks that we met without food, and a total of $25 cash was put in the box.

Therefore, I have just composed a memo to the St. Thomas' treasurer asking him to deposit the cash and write a check in the amount of $110 to the Desiard Street Shelter.

Yaaay! Thank you for answering the call.

Burke on Evil

St. Benedict, Abbot

In light of our most interesting discussion of Boenhoffer last week, I was struck by this quote of Edmund Burke that showed up in my inbox this morning.

A Year with St. Benedict: April 27, 2013

 

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good to do nothing," Edmund Burke wrote. But if that's the case, then all the evil in the world belongs to us. Now what do you think about that? 

 

This "year with St. Benedict" meditation comes to me each day from Trinity Wall Street/Forward Movement <news@forwardmovement.org> via <forwarddaybyday.ccsend.com>. The meditations are from the book The Radical Christian Life: A Year with Saint Benedict by Joan Chittister, OSB.

This Week: Boenhoffer

 

Yes, Canterbury@ULM meets this week!

Tuesday

5 - 6 p.m.

Student Center 163

We'll discuss Dietrich Boenhoffer, on of my favorite saints of the church. His life enables us to discuss some interesting ethical issues, like:

Are we as Christians obligated to speak truth to power, even when it might cost us our life?

When is silence or inaction just as evil as evil?

Can a noble end justify an evil means?

See you tomorrow!

Common Cathedral video

Transforming Churches - Ecclesia Ministries Common Cathedral, Boston 

from The Episcopal Church on Vimeo.

Rosine and I watched this video at Canterbury last week. I encourage the remainder of you to watch it so we can talk about it this week. And what else we'll talk about, I'm not sure, but we'll meet!

Tuesday, 5 - 6 p.m.

Student Center 163

 

This Week

Tuesday, April 9, 5 - 6 p.m.

Student Center 163

So....  our post-Easter, post-Spring Break meeting and I have a video for us to watch and discuss. And that's all I'm sayin' right now! See you there.