ON-GOING ACTIVITIES AT ST. BEN’S
ABUNDANCE SHOP– Thrift shop at 2025 9th St. (If you would like to volunteer, please contact at (805) 528-1370)
COMMUNITY DINNER – Providing and serving food at SBCC, on 1st Thursday of odd-numbered months, in conjunction with Los Osos Cares.
EARTHCARE – Zoom 3rd Wednesdays 3pm. Discussion/action group seeking spiritual and practical solutions to environmental concerns. MEN’S GROUP – Morning social gathering, 3rd Saturdays – 9am at Celia’s Garden Cafe.
HEALING SERVICE – FACEBOOK – A time for prayers for healing at the 10:30 service on 5th Sundays.
HOLLISTER INSTITUTE – Opportunities for stimulating discussion and thoughtful exploration on Tuesdays at 10:15am on Zoom.
LAUNDRY LOVE – Helping low-income families with funds, soap, and friendly assistance at Osos Clean Laundry. 11-1pm and 4-6pm on last Wednesdays
PEOPLE’S KITCHEN – Providing and serving lunch at 40 Prado, 1st Saturday of even-numbered months
VESPERS AND CONVERSATION – Zoom – 5:30 pm Tuesdays
VESTRY / PARISH COUNCIL – ZOOM – 3rd Sundays at 12:30pm.
- Maureen Titus, Presiding Warden
- Lisa Gonzalez, Treasurer
- Berkeley Johnson, People’s Warden
- Pamela Bleisch
- Cathy Gildea
- Esta Kandarian
- Michael Lucas
- Brian Spolarich
- Sandy Fisher
We are grateful for God’s financial providence and blessing. Thank you for making your offerings by mail to our PO Box, or on-line.
THIS WEEK’S ANNOUNCEMENTS
Request for Sunday May 5 donations to Navajoland – In this Benediction Weekly you have been able to read the information regarding Navajoland and the plan to ask for a change from an Area Mission to a Missionary Diocese. This will be requested at the upcoming General Convention. Recently at the Clergy conference the Deacons and Bishop Lucinda selected support for Navajoland as the Spring Renewal Project. They are asking congregations to donate to the Navajoland delegates to attend the General Convention. These funds will assist them with the travel costs to this meeting.
This coming Sunday May 5 , St. Benedict’s plate offering will be directed to Navajoland, any cash or checks you wish to donate will go to Navajoland. Please consider this fundraiser to further support this group of delegates. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.
St. Benedict’s will keep Navajoland in the Prayers of the People for the month of May.
Join us at Central Coast Pride events! St Benedict’s Discovery Team continues its work to reach out to the community around us. Upcoming plans include staffing booths at local Central Coast Pride events. Each year the central coast LGBTQ+ community comes together in joyful celebration, and we will be there representing St. Ben’s, offering blessings, prayer, and some water or lemonade instead of our traditional coffee. All are welcome to join and share in our support for our local LGBTQ+ community. You could even help at the booth and then enjoy the rest of Pride Fest. Join us as we share the love!
Festive pride attire is recommended but not required.
- Trans Pride Saturday May 11 in Meadow Park from 11-4 pm
- Pride in the Plaza Saturday June 1 from 11-5 pm
- Pride in the Park on Sunday June 2 from 1-6
https://www.slopride.com/events
The Tuesday Spiritual Discussion group – The Tuesday morning Spiritual conversation will conclude our discussion on the book How to Live: What the Rule of St. Benedict Teaches Us About Happiness, Meaning and Community by Judith Valente on May 7th. We will not meet on May 14th. Beginning May 21st we will be taking a look at Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis, which is “a powerful consideration of the profound meanings and promise of God’s enduring covenant with humanity. This magisterial book radiates gratitude for the constancy and benevolence of God’s abiding faith in Creation.”
You do not have to read the book to participate. Tuesdays at 10:30 on Zoom.
Please join the EDECR Social Justice Committee in a discussion of the Life and Times of Dietrich Bonhoeffer so that together we can learn from his example. We are meeting via Zoom on Tuesday evenings in May at 7pm starting May 7. REGISTER HERE.
The Life and Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A four week on-line Conversation
Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and professor known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to genocidal persecution of the Jews.
This four-week on-line discussion will explore the major themes of his writing and speaking and how he not only helped transform an entire faith community in Germany during World War II, but how his beliefs continue to impact the Christian faith of people throughout the world today. It will challenge us to re-examine some of our own ideas in the light of his clarity of thought.
Each week a 20 minute video will introduce a discussion of the church and our calling as Christians to respond to the challenges of our time. The four sessions are titled:
- What is the Church?
- Living in Christian Community
- Religionless Christianity
- Come and Die
This conversation is offered by the diocesan Social Justice Committee on Tuesdays at 7pm during May; starting May 7th. Please register in advance here.
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwudemuqzwtHNGgFw_JMhLmMQWrgG8GpBgC
PERSONAL PRAYER – If you’d like prayer support during the week, contact Lisa Gonzalez (805) 441-3386. If no answer, please leave a message and your call will be returned. Prayer requests may also be emailed at any time to prayers@stbenslososos.org and requests for pastoral care may be sent to pastoralcare@stbenslososos.org.
Birthdays – Sharon Dalrymple, May 10
This Week at St Ben’s
Sunday
- 10:30a Eucharist, in-person and livestreamed on FB
- Potluck
Monday
- 3:30p Liturgy Committee Zoom
Tuesday
Sunday
Service leaflets for Sunday services and Vespers are available under the Worship tab on our website:
https://www.stbenslososos.org/category/service-bulletin/
ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
RALPH’S CARD: Please consider registering your Food for Less or Ralph’s card as donating to St Benedict’s. In the last quarter 20 households contributed this way and we received over $200. Searching by our organization number HV013 is much easier when signing up.
Take Action on Our Church’s Values: The Episcopal Church provides a great set of Action Alerts on key issues before Congress. The alerts help Episcopalians automate expressing our views to our representatives in Congress. You also can edit your messages to personalize your concerns. A recent Alert of note is “Urge Congress to Pass Voting Rights Legislation.”https://www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/office-government-relations/action-alerts/?vvsrc=%2fCampaigns%2f100768%2fRespond
A reminder that all organic waste must now be put into a green container not into the trash. Thank you to Ron Thompson for getting us a new compost container – note that it is WHITE. Less organic waste in the landfill means less methane and less global warming. In SLO County green waste means food waste and paper napkins/paper towels that have been used for food waste, flowers and other organic material but NOT items that are labeled compostable like plates, cutlery etc. Thank you for caring for the planet and obeying the law. No bags of any kind may go in the compost or the recycle bins.
BIDDING BOOK PRAYERS – If you’d like to request prayers for someone to have their names read out during the worship services on Sunday, please write them in the bidding book on the stand by the usher’s station as you come into church.
UKRAINIAN REFUGEES in Poland need help. We are sending money to Caro’s sisters church in Nowy Sacz, Poland. Please put “Ukraine” on your check or on-line gift.
NAME TAGS – We are asking everyone to wear a name tag. Please check the name tag board by the door for yours. If you don’t have one, or if an old one has become too shabby, please ask the office to make one for you. In the meantime, you can fill out an adhesive tag for the day.
HOW TO FIND OUR SERVICES
Our 8am and 10:30 am Sunday services are Eucharist services, held indoors at the church for anyone wishing to attend in person.
The 8:00 am service will also be available on Zoom. There is no 8am service on the first Sunday of each month.
The 10:30 am service will also be live-streamed for those who watch remotely — either on Facebook at www.facebook.com/stbenslososos/ or through our website at http://www.stbenslososos.org/facebook-including-live-stream/
Service leaflets for both services are available under the Worship tab on our website: https://www.stbenslososos.org/category/service-bulletin/
Unless otherwise stated, our meetings happen on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7977776046?pwd=VUFZSXY3UVpNVitJaDl2VmhPS3E2UT09 Passcode is: 93402
ON-GOING ACTIVITIES AT ST. BEN’S
ABUNDANCE SHOP– Thrift shop at 2025 9th St.
COMMUNITY DINNER – Providing and serving food at SBCC, on 1st Wednesday of odd-numbered months, in conjunction with Los Osos Cares.
EARTHCARE – Discussion/action group seeking local solutions to environmental concerns. 3rd Wednesdays 3:00 pm on ZOOM
HEALING SERVICE – A time for prayers for healing at the 10:30 service on 5th Sundays.
HOLLISTER INSTITUTE – Opportunities for stimulating discussion and thoughtful exploration on Tuesdays at 10:15am on ZOOM.
LAUNDRY LOVE – Helping low-income families with funds, soap, and friendly assistance at Osos Clean Laundry. 11am and 4pm on last Wednesday of each month.
MEN’S BREAKFAST GROUP – Morning social gathering, 3rd Saturdays 9am at Celia’s Garden Cafe
PEOPLE’S KITCHEN – Providing and serving lunch at 40 Prado, 1st Saturday of even numbered months
SPIRITUAL CONVERSATION – a lively on-line conversation, often based on a book. Tuesdays 10:15am
VESPERS AND CONVERSATION – 5:30 pm Tuesdays