Spirituality

Fuselier: A Visitor From The Past

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By BOB FUSELIER
Los Alamos

Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series about the NPH’s work in Latin America.

It’s a rare event when I cross paths with someone who I hadn’t seen or spoken with in 35 or so years. Such was the case when Marlon Velasquez recently visited IHM Catholic Church. I hadn’t seen Marlon since the time Susie and I, along with our two children at the time (Jenny and Mike), were volunteering in the late 80’s at an orphanage known as Ranch Santa Fe or “the Ranch”. The home was set on a large piece of land in the mountains outside Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

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Unitarian Church Invites Community To ‘Welcome In’ Service

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Unitarian Church of Los Alamos News:

The Unitarian Church of Los Alamos invites the community to a “Welcome In” service, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at 1738 N. Sage Loop St.

Unitarian Church of Los Alamos Minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, will present “You Are Welcome Here, You Are Not Alone”. In the face of so much uncertainty and chaos in our world, we’re all looking for a way to forge meaningful connections and make a difference. None of us are alone in this desire. Rev. Cullinan reflects on what Unitarian Universalism has to offer those in search of meaning in community.

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Los Alamos Jewish Center To Host Intro to Adult Judaism On Mondays Aug. 14, 21, 28

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By Rabbi Jack Shlachter
Los Alamos Jewish Center

          • Standing on One Foot: A Three-Part Refresher/Intro to Adult Judaism class

The story is told in the Talmud about the great and kindly sage, Rabbi Hillel of Babylonia, who was approached by a non-Jew offering to convert to Judaism if Hillel could teach him all of Jewish teachings while standing on one foot. Having earlier been rebuffed brusquely by Hillel’s colleague, the non-Jew anticipated a similar experience. “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is all; the rest is commentary,” said Hillel, “now go and study it!”

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Fr. Glenn: Make It So

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

I was meeting some people who had had a recent death in the family recently, and in the conversation they spoke both about the various virtues and quirks of the deceased—of the kindnesses of which they had been the fortunate recipients, and also chuckling about the quirky things that drove some of them nuts at times. Concerning the latter, one incisive comment that was offered when things got a little too uncharitable: “Yeah, but she never had meanness or a bad intention.” Not a bad, though rather sideways, compliment. Would that we could say that about all people.

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Fr. Glenn: Real Value

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

People certainly have varying ideas of what is truly valuable these days. Most people would point to family and friends first of all, I think, for what is life without love and fellowship, which we crave above all other things?

After all, wealth makes one comfortable and may enable many worldly advantages, but with it often come false friends, treachery, theft, etc. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.” (Proverbs 15:17), and “Wakefulness over wealth wastes away one’s flesh, and anxiety about it removes sleep.” (Sirach 31:1)—both of these Read More

All Shall Be Well: Written On Our Hearts

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Clergy from left, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired; Pastor Nicolé Ferry, Associate Rector Lynn Finnegan and Pastor Deb Church. Courtesy photo

By Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb
ELCA

33But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord… (Jeremiah 31:32-34b, NRSV)

Humanity Read More