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We hope that this weekly offering will keep you up-to-date
on the latest information from the parish
and from around the Diocese of Atlanta and wider Church.
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St. Bede's Announcements
In Person and Online Worship
for Sunday, July 2, 2021
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Join us for
Worship Together in the Nave
at 10 am on
Sunday, July 4, 2021
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Masks continue to be required
whenever in the building.
11:30 am - Morning Worship (in English) on Zoom
Join us for Morning Worship on Zoom
also live streamed
1 pm - Worship (in Spanish) on Facebook
Join us for Sunday Worship in Spanish
Querida Comunidad de San Beda, Unase a nosotros a orar.
Nuestro servicio en español es los domingos
a la 1 p.m. a través de Facebook live.
5 pm - Worship in the Nave (in Spanish)
Registration is required.
Please email The Rev'd Fabio Sotelo
(fsotelo@stbedes.org)
if you would like to attend.
Masks are required.
8 pm - Compline (in English) on Zoom
End your Sunday by joining others from St.Bede's
in the quiet evening prayer form known as Compline.
We usually take a few moments at the end to catch up as well.
Information about how to join
all of our Sunday offerings on Zoom
will be sent out in a separate email
by Saturday afternoon.
There is always a call-in (from a regular telephone) option for
all worship, fellowship, and meeting opportunities
that are offered on Zoom.
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A letter from Senior Warden Molly Graves
about an upcoming change to our worship space.
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Dear St. Bede's Friends,
If you have returned for in-person worship in the Nave, you know that the space looks a little different. We have used the flexibility of the moveable chairs to spread people out for worship and have moved entire rows of seating out of the Nave and into the Parish Hall which is now being used for some auxiliary services such as funerals, baptisms and quinceañera blessings on Saturdays.
When the “New Nave” was designed and built almost 25 years ago, the flexibility offered by moveable chairs was an important part of how the building committee envisioned our worship space. This flexibility, with the potential to change the seating layout for liturgical seasons, concerts, or other events, has been somewhat limited however by a “compromise” that was made during construction to install twelve pews from the old worship space (now the Parish Hall)... Click here to continue reading Molly's letter.
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Front of the VBS t-shirt
Vacation Bible School /
Estudio Bíblico del Verano
All-ages - Bilingual - On Zoom
Mondays, 6:30pm
June 28, July 12, July 19
Last call for T-shirts! (see design at the top and bottom of this announcement) Click here to put in your order by the end of today (Friday, June 25)
We hope your household will join with the St. Bede’s community for our All-ages, fully bilingual, dinner-time VBS. We will be live on Zoom, Mondays at 6:30pm, on June 28, July 12, 19. Each Tuesday we will send out a YouTube video link to all who are registered, so if you can’t be there live, you don’t have to miss out on the fun! Grandparents -- this would be a great activity to enjoy together with visiting grandkids!
Theme: “Compassion Camp: Be loved. Be kind. Be you.”
Included in each session:
Whole body prayers
Simple, catchy and profound music
Bible stories told by the creative households who brought us the Christmas and Easter Pageants
Compassionate crafts to help you put your love to work
We look forward to seeing many of your beautiful faces this summer!
Sincerely,
Alyssa Sali and the All-Ages Formation Team
Back of the VBS t-shirt
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Save the date! Victoria Esquivel is inviting all of us to walk with her at Dresden Park on Wednesday, July 7, at 6pm. More details to follow. Consider asking friends and family to sponsor your miles. This will spread awareness and gather more funds for our donation to #FreeBlack Mamas.
This year, our VBS, “Compassion Camp”, participants will have the opportunity to exercise compassion by raising money to donate to #FreeBlackMamas National Bail Out a partner initiative of SONG (Southerners on New Ground):
As described in their mission, “The National Bail Out is a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and activists building a community-based movement to support our folks and end systems of pretrial detention [being in jail when you have not been convicted of a crime] and, ultimately, mass incarceration [the unique way the U.S. has locked up a vast population in federal and state prisons, as well as local jails].
“We are people who have been impacted by cages — either by being in them ourselves or witnessing our families and loved ones be encaged. We are queer, trans, young, elder, and immigrant.”
“With your generous support we are able to continue to bail out our mothering community members, provide life-changing supportive services, and resource groups who are organizing to transform the criminal justice system.”
How to participate:
1. If you have dollars to share, you may give them!
Make your donation to St. Bede’s Episcopal Church with the comment “for VBS Outreach”
To give online, click GIVE HERE and choose "VBS Outreach" from the list.
To give by check, mail to : 2601 Henderson Mill Rd NE, Atlanta, GA, 30345
2. If you would like to walk (on your own or with friends), you can earn $5 per mile walked up to 5 miles ($25) with a VBS challenge gift from John Entrekin.
3. If you want to earn even more money walking, talk to friends and family and see how much they would sponsor you for per mile walked. Have them follow the directions above for giving their dollars.
Learn more at:
and
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Fall Retreat for Women
including Nonbinary Folks and Transwomen
Hold the dates: Sept. 24-26, 2021
Please plan to attend as we reconnect with each other in a safe, familiar environment. The retreat will include spiritual enrichment, creative contemplation activities, fun and games, good food and excellent fellowship. More details to follow shortly. Interested in helping with the planning? Contact Molly or Connie.
Thanks,
Connie & Molly, Co-chairs, Retreat Planning Committee
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Healing Our Racism
Book Discussion Group
will take a break for July,
and will begin meeting again on Monday, August 23.
Meeting Time:
4th Monday of each month at 2:00 pm
on ZOOM
Please join Muriel Diguette and other members/friends of St. Bede's to discuss current books pertaining to the issues of racism and white privilege.
We will meet the 4th Monday of each month at 2:00 pm.
If you want to go ahead and order books for future discussions:
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
The Devil You Know by Charles Blow
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur
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Mostly Mysteries Book Group
Meeting Time:
4th Monday of each month at 7:00 pm
on ZOOM
The Mostly Mysteries Book Group is continuing to meet on Zoom. If you would like to take part, please contact Connie Coralli and she will send you the link.
For our July 26th meeting at 7:00pm we will be reading The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz.
New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz and eccentric detective Daniel Hawthorne team up again in a new mystery, the sequel to the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder, to delve deep into the killing of a high-profile divorce lawyer and the death, only a day earlier, of his one-time friend.
“You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late . . . ”
These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine—a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth £3,000, to be precise.
Odd, considering he didn’t drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the man’s many, many enemies did the deed?
Baffled, the police are forced to bring in Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, the author Anthony, who’s really getting rather good at this murder investigation business.
But as Hawthorne takes on the case with characteristic relish, it becomes clear that he, too, has secrets to hide. As our reluctant narrator becomes ever more embroiled in the case, he realizes that these secrets must be exposed—even at the risk of death . . .
If you are interested in receiving the Zoom link, please email Connie Coralli
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St. Bede's Prayer List
Prayers have been requested for:
Eferdita Prroni, friend of Suzanne Shapiro
Kevin Maloof, stepson of Anita Maloof
Oscar Orlando Sanchez Garay, brother of Paola Sanchez Garay, Geriatrics
Fellow who is training with Taylor Graves
Jean Ahlfinger
Larry Bing
Bill Edgar, father of Beth Cannon
Sarra David
Rosalene Larson, mother in law of Michael Daniel
Bryce Cannon
The Cannon Family
Aree Bancroft
Laura Ribas
Jane Wiggins
Hilda Bell
Willie Diaz
Tim Waring
Peggy Allen, mother of Lisa Main
Ray Lampros
Gwen Cordner
Arlene Means, sister of Larry Bing
Maggie Williams
Mary Rodriguez
Hollis Pickett
Margie Klein, mother of Jody Klein
Anita Maloof
Lynn Edgar, mother of Beth Cannon
Nancy Waring
John Branan
Kerry Penney
Patrick Newberry, stepson of Gretchen Berggren
Andy Matia, friend of Ann Foote
Brooke & Taylor Harty, granddaughters of Nancy Waring
Jim Ohl
Frances Bowen
Max Carpenter, grandson of Sarra David
Judy Penney, sister-in-law of Kerry Penney
Sydney Lund
Ann Foote
Helen Abraham
Cameron Maddox
For those who have died:
Randy Witt, son of Sherry Witt
We give thanks for those celebrating birthdays this week:
7/4: Linda Rhyne
7/4: Mariano Perez-Camiro
7/7: Andrew Ackall
7/7: Tom Vail
7/7: Rosario Martinez
7/7: Emilo Vaquero
7/9: Elaine McClean
7/9: Angela Cruz-Perez
7/10: Willie Diaz
7/10: Jonathan Bello
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Vestry Establishes
Community Emergency Assistance Fund
In addition to all of the wonderful ways that the Community Engagement Team is leading us in supporting community ministry partners (locally, churchwide, and globally) during this critical time, the Vestry has established a Community Emergency Assistance Fund to help people within the greater St. Bede's community with food assistance during the current public health crisis. This fund will be administered confidentially by the clergy in a similar way as their normal discretionary funds, but will be used exclusively to help with food assistance during this crisis.
UPDATE of June 24, 2021: We have collected around $10,500 and distributed over $8,000 in assistance though food and utility support for individuals and families so far during the current public health crisis. The current balance of the fund stands at around $2,600 and new needs continue to present themselves. A dedicated group of members work with Fabio to help identify need and deliver food. Thank you to all who have contributed!
If you have questions about this offering to the greater St. Bede's community or if you are in need of food assistance or know someone who is, please contact either the Rev'd Caroline Magee or the Rev'd Fabio Sotelo.
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Your Amazon purchases can support St. Bede's
through Amazon Smile
If you shop on Amazon, consider accessing Amazon through
and designating St. Bede's as your charitable beneficiary.
To find St. Bede's in the beneficiary list,
you must search for "St Bedes Episcopal Church"
(without the apostrophe)
and choose the one located in Atlanta.
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and the wider Church...
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Episcopal Relief & Development
Launches New Spiritual Resource, Lectio Divina
Episcopal Relief & Development has created a new resource to guide deep reflection on Scripture. Lectio Divina, a Latin phrase that means “sacred reading,” will invite readers to join the organization’s program partners from the US and around the world as they reflect on brief passages from the Bible.
“Episcopal Relief & Development’s Lectio Divina is a form of centering prayer that invites us to listen to God and to listen to the experiences of fellow followers of Jesus from across the Anglican Communion,” said Josephine Hicks, Vice President, Episcopal Church Programs, Episcopal Relief & Development.
The Lectio Divina is designed to be used individually or by congregations. Each reflection contains a short video that provides an opportunity to connect to program partners who work with Episcopal Relief & Development across the globe. These partners share their personal reflections for each Scripture reading from the context of their life and work. New meditations will be added regularly.
For 80 years, Episcopal Relief & Development has been working together with supporters and partners for lasting change around the world. Each year the organization facilitates healthier, more fulfilling lives for more than 3 million people struggling with hunger, poverty, disaster and disease. Inspired by Jesus’ words in Matthew 25, Episcopal Relief & Development leverages the expertise and resources of Anglican and other partners to deliver measurable and sustainable change in three signature program areas: Women, Children and Climate.
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Quick Links
To schedule events, please contact our
Muriel Diguette
For the weekly lectionary readings visit:
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