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Care for Creation: REFLECT, RENEW, RESPOND

6/30/2020

 
Dear Sisters and Brothers,

St. Boniface, Lindenhurst and St. Thomas,  Farmingdale have joined together to collaborate on a grant called Care for Creation: REFLECT, RENEW, RESPOND. Using the strengths, assets, mission and key opportunities of each parish, our goal is to  to support and expand our churches’ loving, liberating, life-giving relationship with God, with each other and with Creation. With this grant, we will heed the calls to:

REFLECT (Life Giving) – changing our habits and choices to live more simply, humbly and gently on Earth and in community with one another.

RENEW (Loving) – sharing stories of concern for the Earth and connect others to care.
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RESPOND (Liberating) – standing with those most vulnerable to environmental degradation and climate change.

One aspect of this grant is to create the opportunity for learning  ways to experience how to REFLECT, RENEW AND RESPOND - to pause, pray and see beyond ourselves. We would like to open this opportunity to your parish as well.

Join us on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 on a Zoom Meeting from 7- 8 pm as we explore meaningful ways to promote self-reflection, renewal, and re-connection within ourselves, in each other and the natural wonders God has abundantly provided all around us. Hands-on experiences will be offered.

For additional information, and to RSVP, please email: creationcareli@gmail.com

Please RSVP no later than July 13th to receive the ZOOM ID information.

A Flyer is below. Please feel free to share with your parish!


Faithfully,

Diane L. Neuls DeBlasio+,
Priest-in-charge, St. Boniface, Lindenhurst

Christina van Liew+,
​Interim, St. Thomas, Farmingdale
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From your Community Justice Vicar

6/16/2020

 

​1) AG public hearing on police encounters, 2) LGBTQ Pride event from June 7th, 3) Juneteenth Prayerful Protest March in Mineola, and 4) some words from our Pro-Cathedral

Friends and colleagues,
​

I pray that you are all coping alright, and surviving these challenging and complicated days.

There are 4 things that I want to bring to your attention:

1) Tomorrow, Wed. June 17th starting at 11am, our NYS AG Tish James is hosting a virtual public hearing on the interactions between police and the general public during recent protests.  The livestream public hearing can be accessed tomorrow morning from the homepage of the AG’S website.

https://ag.ny.gov/

2) On June 7th, the Pro-Cathedral and the LGBTQ Working Group in the Diocese, along with other co-sponsors, hosted a deep and powerful conversation with Bishop Deon K. Johnson, the newly consecrated bishop in the Diocese of Missouri, and the first openly gay and Caribbean-born bishop in the Episcopal Church.  Here is the link to the recording of the webinar.

http://www.cjministry.info/2020-pride-forum.html


3) There will be a Prayerful Protest March starting at the Supreme Court in Mineola to acknowledge and observe Juneteenth, this Friday, June 19th.  For those unfamiliar with Juneteenth, it is the observance of the “official” proclamations on June 19, 1865 that slavery was “ended,” but obviously it’s far more complicated than that. There are many writings dedicated to this history, and here is just one of them from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on the PBS website: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-is-juneteenth/ 

Here is the link for the Juneteenth Prayerful Protest March on Friday
https://www.facebook.com/events/795513980852512/ and a link for more flyers, 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/83n41sldsm0lx65/AADYy5p9ToQjMzjSOXTJn0yna?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR036XpgbV0X5RXKSMZkd1WcJ7F_4UIB5InP2DCjzGpNwqnyqFQSF5wLVAQ 
 
4) And finally, below is a link to the Pro-Cathedral service last Sunday. Toward the very end of the service, at about the 28 minute mark, we list a number of trusted local (mostly NYC-based) organizations with which St. Ann & the Holy Trinity is familiar. If you’re looking to connect with — or wish to donate to — some great folks in the City doing God’s work, this is a good place to start. (And if you are interested in hearing my sermon, that comes in at about the 9 minute, 30 second mark.)

https://youtu.be/w7UNKRKVpMk


Stay safe and be well.
Peace,
Marie


Rev. Marie A. Tatro
Vicar for Community Justice Ministry,
     Episcopal Diocese of Long Island

2020 Pride -  Conversation with Bishop-elect Deon Johnson

6/3/2020

 
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Dear friends,

It has been a terrible week in America. On top of the immense grief and pain that COVID-19 has already caused in my beloved City of New York, we, like nearly every other city in the country, are now grappling with the anger and heartbreak of more state-sanctioned killings of Black people, and taking to the streets. 

The government’s reaction was to impose a curfew. The last time an official curfew was imposed was in 1943, when then New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia put a curfew in place to halt Harlem protests after police shot and injured an African American soldier.

This email was going to merely encourage you to register for our Pride event coming up this Sunday. We will surely carry on with this event, but will do so with even heavier hearts and a deeper commitment to love our neighbors who bear the brunt of these abuses.

Our conversation with Bishop-elect Deon Johnson will still cover multiple areas of identity, theology, and the politics of belonging. But our conversation will also be textured by recent events, taking place against the backdrop of the murders of our sisters and brothers of African descent, and the public reaction to these injustices.

Please join us on June 7th, and register at this link:
http://www.dioceseli.org/Pride2020


Be blessed and stay safe.

Pursuing justice and peace,

The Rev. Marie Tatro
Vicar for Community Justice Ministry
Episcopal Diocese of Long Island
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NPR: "America: Are we Ready: A National Call-in about Racism, Violence and our Future Together"

6/1/2020

 

The new NPR station, WPPB-FM 88.3 on Long Island, will carry a two-hour program tonight, "America: Are we Ready: A National Call-in about Racism, Violence and our Future Together."

You can listen on-air in Eastern Long Island or
online at 
www.peconicpublicbroadcasting.org.

           CJM
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