San Damiano Ecumenical Catholic Church

It’s taken more than an hour to get this far! For weeks, I’ve had very slow (or no) Internet — I’m having to do this on my phone. I can’t use our newsletter editor here, which is why you haven’t seen one in a while. I also can’t manage our Zoom calls.

It’s okay for now. We’ll stay on hiatus and pray for one another until things change!

Peace and all good,

Fred+

No online worship this evening

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Focus on the Head! ⛪ News from San Damiano Through the intercession of Saint Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

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May we be open daily! ⛪ News from San Damiano

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Perseverance and encounter ⛪ News from San Damiano When Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and did not find the Lord’s body, she thought it had been taken away and so informed the disciples. After they came and saw the tomb, they too believed what Mary had told them. The text then says: The disciples went back home, and it adds: but Mary wept and ...

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Sabbatical ⛪ News from San Damiano This familiar verse from Psalm 23 showed up in the Office of Readings this morning. It is familiar for a reason — it speaks to our hearts. It is a word of assurance in challenging times. Because I have been asked by some of you, I'll say a word about our break in worship for now. I've been at thi...

Holy Week at St Michaels, we have been invited to join in as much as we would like to.

It was great to be in person last night for Stations of the Cross and dinner. I look forward to gathering again to celebrate Easter!

Fred+

Multiscopic vision!

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On multiscopic vision ⛪ News from San Damiano Since May of 2020, a group of faithful San Damiano members and friends have  been gathering on Sunday mornings at the intersection of Markham and Shackleford, in Little Rock. Holding signs, waving to the passers by, and receiving many honks for unity as well as thumbs up, their presence is a remind...

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War is always a defeat for humanity ⛪ News from San Damiano Since May of 2020, a group of faithful San Damiano members and friends have  been gathering on Sunday mornings at the intersection of Markham and Shackleford, in Little Rock. Holding signs, waving to the passers by, and receiving many honks for unity as well as thumbs up, their presence is a remind...

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Creation! ⛪ News from San Damiano Since May of 2020, a group of faithful San Damiano members and friends have  been gathering on Sunday mornings at the intersection of Markham and Shackleford, in Little Rock. Holding signs, waving to the passers by, and receiving many honks for unity as well as thumbs up, their presence is a remind...

We can find our song again!

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We can find our song again! ⛪ News from San Damiano By the rivers of Babylon—    there we sat down and there we wept    when we remembered Zion. On the willows there    we hung up our harps. For there our captors    asked us for songs, and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying,    "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" How could we si...

Little Rock Parks & Recreation will open Warming Centers at its Community Centers to offer daytime shelter from the cold weather this week. Centers will be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 3-7. See details below.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot?

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Should auld acquaintance be forgot? ⛪ News from San Damiano On Sunday mornings, since May of 2020, a group of faithful San Damiano members and friends have gathered at the intersection of Markham and Shackleford, here in Little Rock. Holding signs, waving to the passers by, and receiving many honks for unity as well as thumbs up, their presence is a reminder...

What is leaping within you, waiting to be born, when you encounter the Lord?

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What Leaps Within You? Homily for San Damiano ECC, 4th Sunday of Advent 2021, Fr. Bruno/Ambrose

"Can I reach a place where all I do is moved by Love?"

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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle ⛪ News from San Damiano On Sunday mornings, since May of 2020, a group of faithful San Damiano members and friends have gathered at the intersection of Markham and Shackleford, here in Little Rock. Holding signs, waving to the passers by, and receiving many honks for unity as well as thumbs up, their presence is a reminder...

Finding treasure in the plowed field of routine.

Finding treasure in the plowed field of routine ⛪ News from San Damiano UPDATE: We now have two donation boxes at the entry of the church — one for food and one for donations to The Van, which works with unsheltered people. Click here for The Van's list of items needed. An addition to the Sunday demonstrations is giving food bags to folks we encounter on the street...

Just a moment of calm for your heart and soul this weekend…

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The Porter's Gate - Wake Up Jesus In July of 2020, The Porter's Gate Worship Project quarantined a small group of musicians at a farmhouse in rural Virginia to write and record new worship so...

For anyone interested in supporting Fr. Bruno as he takes temporary vows with the Benedictines of Holy Wisdom, the Zoom will be Sat, 9/11, at 9:30 AM Central Time. You are invited!

Meeting ID: 896 0196 0558
Passcode: 805230

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Be opened!

⛪ News from San Damiano UPDATE: We now have two donation boxes at the entry of the church — one for food and one for donations to The Van, which works with unsheltered people. Click here for The Van's list of items needed. An addition to the Sunday demonstrations is giving food bags to folks we encounter on the street. T...

Tonight during Parish Council, a vote was taken to go back to virtual (zoom) mass starting this week.
Please check the newsletter for the link!

Love Thy Neighbor 2021: Save the Date The interfaith prayer service will be livestreamed at 6pm on Thursday, September 2, 2021 here on the Interfaith Center’s YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/u...

—With much of Arkansas under a heat advisory, the City of Little Rock, AR - Government is opening cooling areas in five Community Centers to provide places for residents needing to seek relief from the climbing summer temperatures.

Let's turn with one another! ⛪ News from San Damiano Transfiguration. This may be a stretch, but bear with me. Today is the Feast of the Transfiguration. Do you remember the story?

Get out there and bless someone! ⛪ News from San Damiano In an interesting exchange on social media today, a friend raised the question, "How does a human being bless God?" Given his church background, he thinks of blessing as something that is granted "from the top down", and I get that. Hierarchical church structures and genuine power struggles reinfor...

Stop, look, and listen — and love! ⛪ News from San Damiano Late on a Friday night, contemplating everything. Today's Mass readings included the story of Jesus calling Matthew, the tax collector, to follow him. And, as Matthew's gospel (ironically) tells it, Jesus was hanging out with "many tax collectors and sinners", because "those who are well do not need...

We are the Church wherever we are — especially over good food!

Being Church in all kinds of places ⛪ News from San Damiano I had an interesting lunch today, with a daughter of some college friends. Our families vacationed together. We've kept in touch and seen each other off and on — always a smooth reengagement and fun experience when we are together. This felt like much the same. It's an extension of relationship .....

Thursday Vespers is on hiatus until July 1. See you then!!

A new habit! ⛪ News from San Damiano He's getting dressed! I want to tell you about St. Boniface, an eighth-century bishop who is integral to our history in the Old Catholic tradition. His feast is tomorrow! An image of Boniface is in every church that I visited in The Netherlands. You can click here to get started in learning about hi...

Weekly Wednesday Vespers kicks off tomorrow, June 2 at 7 pm - a midweek Zoom prayer event! Log in on Zoom at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81921177465

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