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WEEKLY EVENTS Saturdays, 10 am
Revolution team meeting:
Come discuss the campaigns and calls for action in the current issue of Revolution. Followed by mass distribution of the newspaper.
2nd, 3rd & 4th Thursdays, 7 pm
Revolution newspaper discussion
MUSIC & ART AT REVOLUTION BOOKSSunday, Aug 2, 3-5 pm
Live jazz with Chicago 7: Rosalynn DeRoos - reeds, Marc Smason - trombone, Greg Powers - tuba.
Organized by trombonist, marc smason, the band is a salute to, and extension of, the polyphonic early hot jazz styles of new orleans, chicago and new york. The Chicago 7 has played concerts and clubs around the Pacific N.W. for several years and garnered quite a following! Repertoire ranges from Louis Armstrong to Charles Mingus and includes original material as well.August 6, Thursday, 12 - 9 pm
First Thursday Artwalk Exhibit – Artist’s Reception and Poetry Reading at 7pmBIRTH, DEATH, AND OTHER INJUSTICES. Anthony DiMichele works in traditional printmaking media, such as etching and mezzotint engraving. His themes range from Birth and Death, to other social injustices, including poverty, wage slavery, and ecological issues. He also is a poet, whose verse is mainly political/social satire.COMING UPAugust 19, Wednesday, 7pm
Author Reading: Rowena Wright. This sci-fi author's Polis Series melds trippy fantasy with geopolitics. Join us as Wright reads from her books A Loop In Time and Bard King.
2009-07-31
live horn trio sunday
Cloud Gangs
Never Trust a Street Gang in Heaven
One day St. Peter saw a street gang walking up to the Pearly Gates.
St. Peter ran to God and said, "God, there are some low-life street gang members at the Gates. What do I do?" God relied, "Just do what you normally do with that type. Redirect them." St. Peter went back to carry out the order, but he suddenly came running back and yelling, "God, God, they’re gone! They’re gone!""The street gang?"
"No, the Pearly Gates!"
Friday Morning Refills
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Oh thank Heaven...
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
The founder of the Jesuits was on his way to military fame and fortune when a cannon ball shattered his leg. Because there were no books of romance on hand during his convalescence, he whiled away the time reading a life of Christ and lives of the saints. His conscience was deeply touched, and a long, painful turning to Christ began. Having seen the Mother of God in a vision, he made a pilgrimage to her shrine at Montserrat (near Barcelona). He remained for almost a year at nearby Manresa, sometimes with the Dominicans, sometimes in a pauper’s hospice, often in a cave in the hills praying. After a period of great peace of mind, he went through a harrowing trial of scruples. There was no comfort in anything—prayer, fasting, sacraments, penance. At length, his peace of mind returned.
It was during this year of conversion that he began to write down material that later became his greatest work, the Spiritual Exercises.
He finally achieved his purpose of going to the Holy Land, but could not remain, as he planned, because of the hostility of the Turks. He spent the next 11 years in various European universities, studying with great difficulty, beginning almost as a child. Like many others, he fell victim twice to the suspicions of the time, and was twice jailed for brief periods.
In 1534, at the age of 43, he and six others (one of whom was St. Francis Xavier) vowed to live in poverty and chastity and to go to the Holy Land. If this became impossible, they vowed to offer themselves to the apostolic service of the pope. The latter became the only choice. Four years later Ignatius made the association permanent. The new Society of Jesus was approved by Paul III, and Ignatius was elected to serve as the first general.
When companions were sent on various missions by the pope, Ignatius remained in Rome, consolidating the new venture, but still finding time to found homes for orphans, catechumens and penitents. He founded the Roman College, intended to be the model of all othercolleges of the Society.
Ignatius was a true mystic. He centered his spiritual life on theessential foundations of Christianity—the Trinity, Christ, the Eucharist. His spirituality is expressed in the Jesuit motto, ad majorem Dei gloriam—“for the greater glory of God.” In his concept, obedience was to be the prominent virtue, to assure the effectiveness and mobility of his men. All activity was to be guided by a true love of the Church and unconditional obedience to the Holy Father, for which reason all professed members took a fourth vow to go wherever the pope should send them for the salvation of souls.
2009-07-30
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Prayer
A man who vigorously pursues a goal may produce results far beyond his expectations and his intentions. Thus it was with Peter of the Golden Words, as he was called, who as a young man became bishop of Ravenna, the capital of the empire in the West.
At the time there were abuses and vestiges of paganism evident in his diocese, and these he was determined to battle and overcome. His principal weapon was the short sermon, and many of them have come down to us. They do not contain great originality of thought. They are, however, full of moral applications, sound in doctrine and historically significant in that they reveal Christian life in fifth-century Ravenna. So authentic were the contents of his sermons that, some 13 centuries later, he was declared a doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XIII. He who had earnestly sought to teach and motivate his own flock was recognized as a teacher of the universal Church.
In addition to his zeal in the exercise of his office, Peter Chrysologus was distinguished by a fierce loyalty to the Church, not only in its teaching, but in its authority as well. He looked upon learning not as a mere opportunity but as an obligation for all, both as a development of God-given faculties and as a solid support for the worship of God.
Some time before his death, St. Peter returned to Imola, his birthplace, where he died around A.D. 450.
Overdoing
The Pious Man and the Atheist
A very religious man lived right next door to an atheist. While the religious one prayed day in, day out, and was constantly on his knees in communion with his Lord, the atheist never even looked twice at a church.
However, the atheist's life was good, he had a well-paying job and a beautiful wife, and his children were healthy and good-natured, whereas the pious man's job was strenuous and his wages were low, his wife was getting fatter every day and his kids wouldn't give him the time of the day.So one day, deep in prayer as usual, the pious man raised his eyes towards heaven and asked: "Oh God, I honor you every day, I ask your advice for every problem and confess to you my every sin. Yet my neighbor, who doesn't even believe in you and certainly never prays, seems blessed with every happiness, while I go poor and suffer many an indignity. Why is this?" And a great voice was heard from above... "BECAUSE HE DOESN'T BOTHER ME ALL THE TIME!"St. Martha
St. Martha
Martha, Mary and their brother Lazarus were evidently close friends of Jesus. He came to their home simply as a welcomed guest, rather than as one celebrating the conversion of a sinner like Zacchaeus or one unceremoniously received by a suspicious Pharisee. The sisters feel free to call on Jesus at their brother’s death, even though a return to Judea at that time seems almost certain death.
No doubt Martha was an active sort of person. On one occasion (see Luke 10:38-42) she prepares the meal for Jesus and possibly his fellow guests and forthrightly states the obvious: All hands should pitch in to help with the dinner.
Yet, as Father John McKenzie points out, she need not be rated as an “unrecollected activist.” The evangelist is emphasizing what our Lord said on several occasions about the primacy of the spiritual: “...[D]o not worry about your life, what you will eat [or drink], or about your body, what you will wear….But seek first the kingdom [of God] and his righteousness” (Matthew 6:25b, 33a); “One does not live by bread alone” (Luke 4:4b); “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness…” (Matthew 5:6a).
Martha’s great glory is her simple and strong statement of faith in Jesus after her brother’s death. “Jesus told her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?’ She said to him, ‘Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world’” (John 11:25-27).
2009-07-29
Heaven can wait!
Little Angel?
Little Johnny's new baby brother was screaming up a storm.
Johnny asked his mom, “Where’d he come from?” “He came from heaven, Johnny.” “Wow! I can see why they threw him out!”2009-07-26
The sound in August
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Sunday August 2 3 – 5 pm Chicago 7 Rosalynn DeRoos – reeds Marc Smason – trombone Greg Powers – tuba *Revolution Books 89 S. Washington 206 325-7415 www.revolutionbookssea.org
Jammin’ in the Junction! 1st & 3rd Mondays 9 pm Better World diva, Joanne Klein Marc Smason Bruce Barnard Ken Strong Chris Jimenez You 2nd & 4th Mondays (except 7/27) 9 pm Falingo Machaz Marc Smason Orrin Sand Brian Flanagan Ken Strong Pavel Shepp You Poggie Tavern 4717 California S.W. 206 937-2165 Jam Session!
Tuesday August 4 6:30 -9 pm Alfonse Somebody & the Jr. Detectives *Night out Seattle – Block Party 18th S. & Hinds - Beacon Hill 206 760-1764
Wednesday August 5 7 – 9 pm N.W. Choro Collective – Brazil 1920! *Capitol Music Center 1032 N.E. 65th 206 622-0171 www.capitolmusiccenter.com
Friday August 7 Alfonse Somebody & the Jr. Detectives Marc Smason Brian Flanagan Ken Strong *Local Color 1606 Pike Place (in the Market) 206 728-1717 www.localcolorseattle.com $6
Friday August 14 Alfonse Somebody & the Jr. Detectives Marc Smason Brian Flanagan Ken Strong *Laughing Ladies Café 17551 15th N.E. – Shoreline 206 362-2026 www.laughingladiescafe.com
Saturday August 15 1 – 2 pm Yellow Hat Band *Tukwila Days 10 am – 3 pm Tukwila Community Center 12424 42nd S. (@ S. 124th) – Tukwila http://www.ci.tukwila.wa.us/recreation/tukwiladays.html www.yellowhatband.org
Seattle WA unless otherwise noted * all ages no cover unless noted removal upon request, of course. CDs, available - Hit reply or www.cdbaby.com or call 206 760-1764 “Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking.” Antonio Machado Make art, not war
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2009-07-25
the sound in august
Music with Marc Smason - August www.marcsmason.com
Sunday August 2 3 – 5 pm Chicago 7 Rosalynn DeRoos – reeds Marc Smason – trombone Greg Powers – tuba *Revolution Books 89 S. Washington 206 325-7415 www.revolutionbookssea.org
Jammin’ in the Junction! 1st & 3rd Mondays 9 pm Better World diva, Joanne Klein Marc Smason Bruce Barnard Ken Strong Chris Jimenez You 2nd & 4th Mondays (except 7/27) 9 pm Falingo Machaz Marc Smason Orrin Sand Brian Flanagan Ken Strong Pavel Shepp You Poggie Tavern 4717 California S.W. 206 937-2165 Jam Session!
Tuesday August 4 6:30 -9 pm Alfonse Somebody & the Jr. Detectives *Night out Seattle – Block Party 18th S. & Hinds - Beacon Hill 206 760-1764
Wednesday August 5 7 – 9 pm N.W. Choro Collective – Brazil 1920! *Capitol Music Center 1032 N.E. 65th 206 622-0171 www.capitolmusiccenter.com
Friday August 7 Alfonse Somebody & the Jr. Detectives Marc Smason Brian Flanagan Ken Strong *Local Color 1606 Pike Place (in the Market) 206 728-1717 www.localcolorseattle.com $6
Friday August 14 Alfonse Somebody & the Jr. Detectives Marc Smason Brian Flanagan Ken Strong *Laughing Ladies Café 17551 15th N.E. – Shoreline 206 362-2026 www.laughingladiescafe.com
Saturday August 15 1 – 2 pm Yellow Hat Band *Tukwila Days 10 am – 3 pm Tukwila Community Center 12424 42nd S. (@ S. 124th) – Tukwila http://www.ci.tukwila.wa.us/recreation/tukwiladays.html www.yellowhatband.org
Seattle WA unless otherwise noted * all ages no cover unless noted removal upon request, of course. CDs, available - Hit reply or www.cdbaby.com or call 206 760-1764 “Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking.” Antonio Machado Make art, not war
2009-07-24
At least in the Seattle Area FRidays are
for FREE REFILLS at 7 Eleven in the mornings.
The best big gulp is a free big gulp.
The best big gulp is a free big gulp.
Counting Crows tweeted (and more updates)
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Upcoming Concerts 25 jul
| Akon at White River Amphitheatre | Tomorrow @ 2:00 PM |
| Soulja Boy Tell 'Em at White River Amphitheatre | Tomorrow @ 2:00 PM |
| Ludacris at White River Amphitheatre | Tomorrow @ 2:00 PM |
| Sean Paul at White River Amphitheatre | Tomorrow @ 2:00 PM |
| The Fray at Paramount Theatre - Seattle | Aug 6 @ 7:00 PM |
Nelly Furtado posted a video.
Nelly Furtado a cappella "Más" Nelly cantando un pedacito de Más parte de su nuevo album Mi Plan More
Other artists have updates: J Minus. See update »
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| I Love College by Asher Roth | |
| Better with you by Dean Krippaehne (Free MP3) | |
| Dance Along With Me by Gustav Magnusson (Free MP3) |
St. Sharbel Makhlouf
St. Sharbel Makhlouf (1828-1898)
Although this saint never traveled far from the Lebanese village of Beka-Kafra, where he was born, his influence has spread widely.
Joseph Zaroun Maklouf was raised by an uncle because his father, a mule driver, died when Joseph was only three. At the age of 23, Joseph joined the Monastery of St. Maron at Annaya, Lebanon, and took the name Sharbel in honor of a second-century martyr. He professed his final vows in 1853 and was ordained six years later.
Following the example of the fifth-century St. Maron, Sharbel lived as a hermit from 1875 until his death. His reputation for holiness prompted people to seek him to receive a blessing and to be remembered in his prayers. He followed a strict fast and was very devoted to the Blessed Sacrament. When his superiors occasionally asked him to administer the sacraments to nearby villages, Sharbel did so gladly.
He died in the late afternoon on Christmas Eve. Christians and non-Christians soon made his tomb a place of pilgrimage and of cures. Pope Paul VI beatified him in 1965 and canonized him in 1977.
2009-07-23
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The Race
Run, Sister, Run!
Two nuns are running away from a bear, who is gaining on them. “Do you think we’ll be able to outrun him, Sister?” one of the nuns asks the other.
“I don’t have to outrun him, Sister,” said the other nun. “I only have to outrun you.”
2009-07-22
Mary Magdalene: The Second Lady
St. Mary Magdalene
Except for the mother of Jesus, few women are more honored in the Bible than Mary Magdalene. Yet she could well be the patron of the slandered, since there has been a persistent legend in the Church that she is the unnamed sinful woman who anointed the feet of Jesus in Luke 7:36-50.
Most Scripture scholars today point out that there is no scriptural basis for confusing the two women. Mary Magdalene, that is, “of Magdala,” was the one from whom Christ cast out “seven demons” (Luke 8:2)—an indication, at the worst, of extreme demonic possession or, possibly, severe illness.
Father W.J. Harrington, O.P., writing in the New Catholic Commentary, says that “seven demons” “does not mean that Mary had lived an immoral life—a conclusion reached only by means of a mistaken identification with the anonymous woman of Luke 7:36.” Father Edward Mally, S.J., writing in the Jerome Biblical Commentary, agrees that she “is not...the same as the sinner of Luke 7:37, despite the later Western romantic tradition about her.”
Mary Magdalene was one of the many “who were assisting them [Jesus and the Twelve] out of their means.” She was one of those who stood by the cross of Jesus with his mother. And, of all the “official” witnesses that might have been chosen for the first awareness of the Resurrection, she was the one to whom that privilege was given.
The Sign Said You Had to Have a Membership Card to Get inside
Authorized Personnel Only
A homeless man, down on his luck, went into a Catholic church that was known for its rather “uppity” social reputation. Spotting the man’s dirty clothes, the ushers stopped him outside the church door and asked if he needed help. The man told them, “I was praying and the Lord told me to come to this church.”
The ushers suggested that the man go away and pray some more and me might get a different answer.
The following Sunday the man returned and the ushers again stopped him at the door. “Well, did you get a different answer?” they asked him.
“Yes, I did,” said the man. “I told the Lord that you don’t want me here, but the Lord said, ‘Keep trying, son. I’ve been trying to get into that church for years and I haven’t made it yet either.”
2009-07-20
St. Apollinaris
St. Apollinaris (1st century)
According to tradition, St. Peter sent Apollinaris to Ravenna, Italy, as its first bishop. His preaching of the Good News was so successful that the pagans there beat him and drove him from the city. He returned, however, and was exiled a second time. After preaching in the area surrounding Ravenna, he entered the city again. After being cruelly tortured, he was put on a ship heading to Greece. Pagans there caused him to be expelled to Italy, where he went to Ravenna for a fourth time. He died from wounds received during a savage beating at Classis, a suburb of Ravenna. A beautiful basilica honoring him was built there in the sixth century.
Let's hear it for E flat minor!
They only told me about dragons and dogs no one ever said anything about Polar Bears!
2009-07-19
Impressions~~Images by Joel Schilling
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long long long ago I had a friend of the same name, I wonder if this could be him. The Photographer that is not the Bird!
Servant of God Francis Garces and Companions
Servant of God Francis Garces and Companions (c. 1781)
Government interference in the missions and landgrabbing sparked the Indian uprising which cost these friars their lives.
A contemporary of the American Revolution and of Blessed Junipero Serra, Francisco Garcés was born in 1738 in Spain, where he joined the Franciscans. After ordination in 1763, he was sent to Mexico. Five years later he was assigned to San Xavier del Bac near Tucson, one of several missions the Jesuits had founded in Arizona and New Mexico before being expelled in 1767 from all territories controlled by the Catholic king of Spain. In Arizona, Francisco worked among the Papago, Yuma, Pima and Apache Native Americans. His missionary travels took him to the Grand Canyon and to California.
Friar Francisco Palou, a contemporary, writes that Father Garcés was greatly loved by the indigenous peoples, among whom he lived unharmed for a long time. They regularly gave him food and referred to him as "Viva Jesus," which was the greeting he taught them to use.
For the sake of their indigenous converts, the Spanish missionaries wanted to organize settlements away from the Spanish soldiers and colonists. But the commandant in Mexico insisted that two new missions on the Colorado River, Misión San Pedro y San Pablo and Misión La Purísima Concepción, be mixed settlements.
A revolt among the Yumas against the Spanish left Friars Juan Diaz and Matias Moreno dead at Misión San Pedro y San Pablo. Friars Francisco Garcés and Juan Barreneche were killed at Misión La Purísima Concepción (the site of Fort Yuma).
Bulletin Mistakes: Blame the Front Desk
Bulletin Bloopers
At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What Is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.
Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use the large double door at the side entrance.
Mrs. Johnson will be entering the hospital this week for testes.
Please join us as we show our support for Amy and Alan who are preparing for the girth of their first child.
The Lutheran Men's group will meet at 6 PM. Steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, bread and dessert will be served for a nominal feel.
2009-07-18
Scott Ritchie has shared a Huffington Post article with you
Scott Ritchie has shared a Huffington Post article with you:
Vatican: Harry Potter Film Shows Good Vs Evil
They also included a personal note:
The Vatican has supported Harry Potter series through out all of the films
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Holy Water Spills
The Healing Power of Holy Water?
One morning a man came into the church on crutches. He stopped in front of the holy water, put some on both legs, and then threw away his crutches.An altar boy witnessed the scene and then ran into the rectory to tell the priest what he'd just seen.
"Son, you've just witnessed a miracle!" the priest said. "Tell me where is this man now?"
"Flat on his butt over by the holy water!" the boy informed him.
Blessed Angeline of Marsciano
Blessed Angeline of Marsciano (1374-1435)
Blessed Angeline founded the first community of Franciscan women other than Poor Clares to receive papal approval.
Angeline was born to the Duke of Marsciano (near Orvieto). She was 12 when her mother died. Three years later the young woman made a vow of perpetual chastity. That same year, however, she yielded to her father’s decision that she marry the Duke of Civitella. Her husband agreed to respect her previous vow.
When he died two years later, Angeline joined the Secular Franciscans and with several other women dedicated herself to caring for the sick, the poor, widows and orphans. When many other young women were attracted to Angeline’s community, some people accused her of condemning the married vocation. Legend has it that when she came before the King of Naples to answer these charges, she had burning coals hidden in the folds of her cloak. When she proclaimed her innocence and showed the king that these coals had not harmed her, he dropped the case.
Angeline and her companions later went to Foligno, where her community of Third Order sisters received papal approval in 1397. She soon established 15 similar communities of women in other Italian cities.
Angeline died on July 14, 1435, and was beatified in 1825.
Autobiographies
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn
2009-07-17
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