Service of Song & Prayer in Manner of Taize
Sunday, August 15th at 5:30 pm
618 Locust
The Taizé community, based in Taize, France, is an ecumenical monastic order with a strong devotion to peace and justice through prayer and meditation. Prayer and silence are at the heart of the Taizé experience.
The 100-strong community of Catholic and Protestant monks is drawn from 30 countries across the world. The community has become one of the world's most important sites of Christian pilgrimage. Over 100,000 young people from around the world pilgrim to Taizé each year for prayer, Bible study, sharing, and communal work. Through the community's ecumenical outlook, they are encouraged to live in the spirit of kindness, simplicity and reconciliation.
The community seeks to include people and traditions worldwide. They demonstrate this in music and prayers where songs are sung in many languages, and include chants and icons from the Eastern Orthodox or other pieces of scripture, repeated and sometimes also sung in canon.
Sunday's Gathering worship experience will be a Taize service of prayer and meditation. Our offering will honor our own ecumenical effort devoted to peace and justice - West Texas Organizing Strategy. Our potluck theme is, of course, simple French fare.
2010/2011 Gathering Film Series: Neighbors Known and Unknown
Thanks to The Gathering's Community Connecting Workgroup and the United Church of Christ's Media with a Mission grant, The Gathering is offering a film series to provide a place of authentic and respectful relationship and conversation re: contemporary justice issues. Our goal is two-fold: 1) the social justice aspect - educate and expand people's knowledge about and compassion for others; and 2) help The Gathering get more known in the community.
Our first movie, One Peace at a Time, is scheduled to coincide with the Peace Ambassadors' Season of Peace emphasis (formerly known as The 11 Days of Peace). Reserve the date now, and invite others to join you!
Thursday evening, September 16, 2010Plan now to attend, and watch for more information!
San Angelo Health Foundation/San Angelo Visitor Center's River View room
The Collection Basket
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Total Received: $265
Mental Health Mental Retardation Workshop: $150
The Gathering: $115
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Total Received: $347
The Gathering: $347
Paper Goods for Concho Valley Food Bank
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Total Received: $288.54
Bread For The Journey: $178.54
The Gathering: $110
Calendar Highlights
Dinner and a Movie: Sunday, August 22- 5:30 pm, 618 Locust Street
Academy Award Nominee The Garden; discussion lead by Maurice Toliver. The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community.
But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.... The powers-that-be have the same response: "The garden is wonderful, but there is nothing more we can do." If everyone told you nothing more could be done, would you give up?
Gathering for Sacred Business- Sunday, August 29- 5:30 pm, 618 Locust Street
Community Conversation Regarding Our Priorities We've got a lot going on in The Gathering and much to share with each other, so this evening will be full of engaging with the Spirit and discussing and deciding things that shape who we are. You are encouraged to participate. The Gathering is a collaborative community where, just as our bell banner symbolizes, each voice is unique and important in making up the whole chorus. We say we welcome all into the "full life and ministry of The Gathering" and that doesn't just mean others - it means us, too!
Recognizing the time issue, we will not have a regular pot-luck; feel free, however, to bring a sack supper if you'd like.
Support Our Sidewalk Musician
Trudy Darling Ballentine will be the star of Mar-Tiques' sidewalk Thursday evening, August 19, during the downtown Artwalk celebration. Sing along and dance to the tunes as she plays the old piano outside of Mar-Tiques Downtown, 129 S. Chadbourne St (formerly Nathan's Jewelers). For more info, contact Trudy.
Revealing Ramadan
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, which is based on the moon. The Qur'an was first revealed to Prophet Muhammad during the month of Ramadan. The month is a special time of worship, Qur'an reading, charitable acts, and individual reflection and purification. For Ramadan stories, poems, music, traditions, and more, explore Speaking of Faith's website and podcast.
Holding in the Light....
Crockett Light and family as he begins radiation in Houston;
Bonnie's grandfather and family;
My father and family as he recuperates from surgery in Dallas;
Pakistani lives devastated by flood;
Gulf residents and ecosystem mired in oil disaster and also observing the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina;
Chinese lives and ecosystem struggling due to an oil disaster;
Those whose lives are impacted and determined by war and violence;
Those whose lives are limited and painful due to prejudice, injustice, hatred, misunderstanding;
Those living with the complexities of chronic illness and pain;
Those imprisoned physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally.
Never place a period where God has placed a comma,
Salaam, Shalom, Peace,
Karen Schmeltekopf
thegatheringsanangelo@yahoo.com
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