Making Home Together" Gifts of our green hearts for Mother Earth on Valentine's Day!

Dear Friends,

Today is a good day to fill our heart in our own bodies with green light from the center of the earth mixing with the light of the sun. Not sending out but rather in deep loving relationship with the earth. Green is the color in our bodies energy center or chakras in our heart area. Instead of a red valentine or heart this year imagine your heart filled with green light and love from the earth and for the earth. Instead of sending it out allow yourself to be with your green heart like a huge tree that is deeply rooted in the earth as well as reaching out toward the sun. May your heart area today radiate a vibrant green love that invites you to make yourself at home here on earth. We may often imagine her as a blue jewel, but she is also like a huge tree, for she is the tree of life where our hearts live, deep underground and reaching toward the sunlight in love.

What looks like 47,000 separate trees spread out over 106 acres in Utah are actually all offshoots from a single, massive Aspen tree root. It's known as Pando and it is believed to be the largest living organism on Earth. But scientists say that overgrazing by deer and elk is now threatening Pando's survival.

"Making home together" is a beautiful turn of phrase David Spangler uses in his book, Apprenticed to Spirit. He shares that many of us may not always feel that we should be here or want to be here on earth. "Gaian consciousness is a consciousness of the earth as home. It also recognizes that the "home" we may call the sacred, the place where we feel we most belong and feel most safe and loved, isn't a place to go out from and into; it is a condition to create. It is a gift to share.......hospitality, the reaching out to welcome and embrace the other and help him or her feel at home......to give expression to the power of hospitality and the making of home together."

Please join us as we welcome you to 'Make Home Together' with us at Church for Our Common Home. This Sunday please join our Prayer and Healing Worship Service, Sunday, February 17 at 5 pm. Join us for a vegetarian potluck dinner immediately following at the Mary Magdalene Cafe. We need you as we explore this "Making Home Together" at Church for Our Common Home and share ideas on how to find land to build an ecologic artistic church to pray for the earth, grow our own organic food and to love one another in intentional intergenerational community. As elders we are called to create loving sanctuary for our children and grandchildren, for all children and grandchildren and great grandchildren for they are all our own.

Sending love always,

Bonnie

P.S. Please watch this video about Pando some call the largest living organism on earth, a tree groove in Utah with a huge root system connecting all the trees as one living organism in Utah.

More info call Bonnie (858) 248-5123

Invitation to Dance with Gaia and One Billion Rising this Sunday Feb 10th 5 pm

Dear Friends,

Our Earth Mother, Gaia, was asleep to me, but now I am awakened and awake with her and it makes me want to DANCE! A wooden statue of Mother Mary came to life for me as a child in a vision. She has guided and loved me and now I am a grandmother called to protect all children and grandchildren. Now I must give up childish ways and as an adult treat her as someone with flesh and blood feelings that has given me life! She is our common Mother Earth, Gaia. As a human family we have forgotten how to be in real loving relationship with her. Now science and all the ancient wisdom traditions teach us that she is a feeling being. Our Earth Mother has been treated as if she was dead but she has come to life for many of us and our human consciousness is RISING about our ecologic crisis and creative new ways to embody an ecologic civilization. We must learn this in our own bodies. One class room for a crash course to learn embodiment is the dance floor.  It is time to celebrate and dance with her, to dance and celebrate our own bodies, to dance with one another in joy that we are still alive. One Billion of us will Rise this next week to dance with you, on you, in you, all around you. Thank you for your holy body, for our holy bodies, for all of our bodies moving and swaying in and out in miraculous relationship with one another. We will dance in the interconnected intertwining movement of love to heal you, to heal ourselves, to heal one another and every creature.

Please join us for a worship of dancing this Sunday, Feb 10th 5 pm as we dance with Gaia and One Billion Rising! Eve Ensler who wrote the brilliant play, Vagina Monologues began One Billion Rising as a global movement, to end rape and sexual violence against women. It was started in 2012 as part of the V-Day movement. The "billion" refers to the UN statistic that one in three women will be raped or beaten in her lifetime, or about one billion."1 in 3 women across the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. That’s ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. Every February, we rise – in countries across the world – to show our local communities and the world what one billion looks like and shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors most often face. We rise through dance to express joy and community and celebrate the fact that we have not been defeated by this violence. We rise to show we are determined to create a new kind of consciousness – one where violence will be resisted until it is unthinkable." We rise dancing for dancing heals our bodies and together when we dance we are doing a prayer of movement and music for our Mother Earths body. What we have done to women's bodies we have done to the earth's body for we are one.

Join us for a vegetarian potluck dinner immediately following. We need you to continue strengthening our vision with conversation about how to find and live on gifted land, build an ecologic artistic church to pray for the earth, grow our own organic food and to love one another in intentional intergenerational community. As elders we must create loving sanctuary for our children and grandchildren and all children and grandchildren and great grandchildren for they are all our own.

Sending love always,

Bonnie

P.S. Special thanks to the artist Sherri Dimmick who gave me this painting of Our Lady dancing with Mother Earth many years ago with these words written on the back. "You are the caretaker of the generations. You are the birth giver," the sun told the woman, "You will be the carrier of this universe." Brule Sioux, Sun Creation Myth

Upcoming invitations:

Lectio Divina  and Centering Prayer Contemplation of scriptures for Sunday and Centering Prayer, an ancient Christian contemplative prayer practice, every Wednesday 10 am.

Monthly Taize Chanting service first Sunday of every month

Beach candle light worship every second Sunday at Torrey Pines State Park at 5 pm. It gets cold and dark so please dress warmly.

Prayer and Healing Service third Sunday worship at 5 pm.

Dream Circle every first and third Sunday before worship 3-5 pm.

Committee on Ministry meeting every third Sunday evening after church and pot luck

Webinar with Environmental Justice Practitioners Network co-sponsored by First UU Church and Church for Our Common Home, once a month call Jamie Long (619) 436-9435.  

New live stream worship on church web site, some Sunday’s 5 pm (PST) Churchforourcommonhome.com More info call (858) 248-5123

www.churchforourcommonhome.com

Our Common Home Counseling Center’s services: Addiction Issues, PTSD, Individual and Group Therapy, Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Counseling, Dream Honoring, Creative Art Therapies etc.

www.ourcommonhomecounselingcenter.com

You are invited to the Gaia Dance! Please bring all those who you love, human and non-human creatures for Valentines Day this year!

Please come walk the Goddess Ariadne Snake Labyrinth on New Years Eve!

Dear Friends,

Please join us New Years Eve, 6-9 pm as we journey to confront our deepest fears and grief. We will ask; What needs to be slain and grieved within us in order to begin creative work in the New Year? We will ask and explore these questions in prayer, at our new Wailing Wall, as well as in walking the snake labyrinth in candle light, music and dancing, dream sharing and incubation, art making and a fire ritual. We will begin at the Wailing Wall where we will write and leave prayers to God in the tradition of the ancient Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. We will share the story of Ariadne the Greek Goddess of the labyrinth, the snake goddess, and tell her story of falling in love with the hero Theseus. Ariadne however is also a heroine in this tale for it is the two working together that enable them to conquer what has been undoable by others. She saves Theseus who has to journey into the labyrinth to slay the monster, but because of the red thread she gives him he finds his way back to her. Ariadna means 'holy one' and this Cretan Princess who was the daughter of King Minos and the daughter of the moon-goddess Pasiphae later is dumped by Theseus and then marries Dionysus. She is a goddess who does not give up no matter how difficult the life challenges she faces.

Symbolically we have inner monsters that we must symbolically slay. As we journey in and out of the labyrinth, guided by the spirit of partnership of Theseus and Ariadne, we will ask for her genius to help us find simple solutions and his courage and strength to slay our inner demons. Many Greek myths tell stories of a hero who can only triumph over challenges with the help of a woman. There is an inner partnership of the divine feminine and the divine masculine we all need in the New Year. "The harder the journey, the more and the tougher obstacles in his/her path, the more the initiate will be transformed and acquire a new self in the course of the voyage of initiation." Penguin Dictionary of Symbols, Chevailer and Gheerbrant Regardless of the personal and collective dangers we now face with climate and ecological catastrophe we must never give up and have faith that when we face the truth of present dangers we will rise to the occasion especially as we work in partnership with others.

The photo below is a statue of a woman holding two snakes from the Greek island of Crete. It is a Minoan sculpture from about 1500 BC. In Greek religion and mythology and in many ancient cultures the snake was a symbol of wisdom and fertility. Come join us in a beautiful and rich evening of wisdom. Come walk the snake labyrinth as we explore many wisdom traditions from the ancient world to find a way when there seems to be no way. No alcohol will be served and we ask for you to please bring finger foods to share. Please call with any questions.

Sending love always,

Bonnie

New Year’s Eve Dec. 31 6-9 pm no alcohol, dream sharing, dream incubation, guided mediation, fire ritual, walking the snake labyrinth, with music and candle light and NEW WAILING WALL., please bring finger foods.

Upcoming invitations:

Lectio Divina  and Centering Prayer Contemplation of scriptures for Sunday and Centering Prayer, an ancient Christian contemplative prayer practice, every Wednesday 10 am.

Monthly Taize Chanting service first Sunday of every month

Beach candle light worship every second Sunday at Torrey Pines State Park at 5 pm. It gets cold and dark so please dress warmly.

Healing Service third Sunday worship at 5 pm.

Dream Circle every first and third Sunday before worship 3-5 pm.

Committee on Ministry meeting every third Sunday evening after church and pot luck.

Webinar with Environmental Justice Practitioners Network co-sponsored by First UU Church and Church for Our Common Home, once a month call Jamie Long (619) 436-9435.  

MLK All People’s Breakfast January 21th, 9-12 noon $75 join Walt and Bonnie buy tickets www.alliancesd.org/all-peoples-celebration-sponsorship

New live stream worship on church web site, some Sunday’s 5 pm (PST) Churchforourcommonhome.com More info call (858) 248-5123

www.churchforourcommonhome.com

Our Common Home Counseling Center’s services: Addiction Issues, PTSD, Individual and Group Therapy, Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Counseling, Dream Honoring, Creative Art Therapies etc.

www.ourcommonhomecounselingcenter.com

Christmas and New Year's Blessings

Dear Friends,

When I was six years old I had a vision in the underground tomb of Mother Mary, in Jerusalem at the Dormition Abbey. A dead woman came to life, a sleeping woman woke up, a wooden woman turned to flesh. This God experience has been a guiding metaphor for my life and ministry. The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Black Madonna of the Americas, and the event of her asking and receiving a church built in her honor is alive, awake and real again. The divine feminine face of God is encouraging us to build her a church dedicated to the earth called, Church for Our Common Home. We ask you to help us find a donation of land to build an artist church to pray for the earth. Our Common Home Counseling Center currently funds the ministry of the church with Walt’s work as a marriage and family therapist and Bonnie’s work as a pastoral counselor and spiritual director.

Walt and I are grateful for you, our friends, colleagues and family, and we want to share the good news that this past year, we were granted a nonprofit 501C3 tax status for Our Common Home, a church and counseling center. Although we are not accustomed to asking people for money, the reality is that we depend on tax deductible donations in order to keep Church for Our Common Home alive. If you don’t have money to donate, or don’t wish to donate, we understand and ask that you hold the church in your heart and prayers. We hold you in our hearts and prayers and have enclosed an envelope for you to send us your prayer requests. Please connect us to people who you may know who have land they would like to donate and or individuals and/or organization who may be interested in collaborating with us.

 Church for Our Common Home is dedicated to the Earth, the Divine Feminine and the Arts. We worship every Sunday at 5 pm, and celebrate communion with a vegetarian pot luck following worship. This last summer the Holy Spirit called us to take our worship services to the Otay Mesa Detention Center. We do this to save ourselves, for to do nothing is to be in collusion with inhumanity. For six consecutive weeks we made a powerful, prayerful protest to the separation of children from their parents at the border and the refugee crisis caused by our country. Due to the technological genius of Anna Smith, our new Director of Media Communications, we are now able to sometimes offer worship services and other programs on live stream on our church web site. We are committed to experimenting with untraditional ways of doing church and creating beloved community with all earthlings on planet earth.  

We are in the sixth extinction of life on earth, one caused by humans, and it is past time we wake up and tell the truth about the root causes of economic greed and power over violence that has caused ecologic catastrophes, wars and resulting humanitarian crisis. There are 68 million refugees, one in every one hundred people on the planet, half who are under the age of eighteen years.

Our vision includes growing our own food and particularly welcoming children and elders as we explore an intentional intergenerational community. Currently, our programs include, Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina (a Benediction reading, prayer and meditation on scripture) regular worship in nature, Taize chanting worship, Prayer and Healing Services, dream groups, newsletter articles and updates, (please sign up on the church website) book groups, and special programs like our upcoming annual alcohol free celebration on New Year’s Eve December 31, 6-9 pm with art making, dream sharing and incubation, a fire ritual, prayers for the 150-200 species of animals who go extinct every twenty four hours at our new Wailing Wall, and walking the snake labyrinth with music and candle light. This past year we participated in two non-violent civil disobedience actions and several protests and marches. A group of us went on a field trip to Salvation Mountain, three of us went to a week and a half workshop in Temecula on how to build a straw bale ecologic house/church, and we had a booth at the Parliament of World Religions in Toronto, Canada. We worked with San Diego 350.org and First UU Church of San Diego and put on an Earth Day weekend extravaganza with a program on the ‘Reunion of Science and Religion’ with the preeminent climate scientist, Dr. Ramanathan, and Dr. John B. Cobb. Jr. the environmentalist, theologian and philosopher in an intergenerational event with live music and dancing, a reception with local earth justice organizations and were gifted with the Sheikh’s vegetarian community meal or Langar. We give special thanks to Dr. Cobb who was the initial inspiration of our church and the first supporter.

Special thanks to the Unitarian Universalist community who has welcomed me back and I am enjoying serving as the Vice President of the Board of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Community Ministers. Dr. Cobb has recently invited me to write three chapters in his current book about ‘Ecologic Civilization‘ and I am honored and thrilled! Our beloved granddaughter Laina joins us sometimes for Sunday worship and it is as a grandmother that I am called to do whatever I am able to do, to create safe, sustainable and loving community for a very uncertain and dangerous future our children and grandchildren are inheriting. Young people are voicing their concerns prophetically and I invite you to be inspired by fifteen year old, Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg on YouTube. She and Laina give us hope for our future. Please stay in touch and send us news of what you are up to and how Church for Our Common Home can support you in the New Year.

Love and blessings always,

Sending love always,

Bonnie

Dear God, You who fill us with courage to stand up to Empire, bless our journey as we work to save our common home Mother Earth during the current sixth extinction of life on earth, the only one created by us humans. You who are the love dance between mother and child, friends and lovers, music and motion, color and light, planets and stars, egg and sperm, you who are the egg that opens graciously and loves the creative force of sperm into transformation and miraculous new life—you Holy Mama, God of Love, Spirit, you who we call by many names, we give thanks for you and the sacredness of all nature that is alive. You who are up and down, in and out and in-between, you who are amidst our interspecies web of life, we give thanks for your unspeakable beauty and vastness. We are in awe and give thanks for our part of your creation.  We come this Christmas to stand in solidarity with Jesus and the holy family, with the animals, angels, shepherds, wise men and all those who are humble, homeless, holy and vulnerable. We hear your call to live and work in solidarity for justice and love. Fill us with your love and mercy in a world filled with cruelty and lies and teach us to love our enemies. Help us for we often feel overwhelmed and afraid. Save us from our ignorance and arrogance, wake us up to the suffering of human and nonhuman animals and plants. Inspire us to stop thinking and acting small, but to use our crisis as an invitation for bold genius. We give thanks for the inspiration of the story of Christmas and the teachings of Jesus and Mary Magdalene that open our hearts.  May the Christ-Sophia child be born within us this Christmas morning. We ask you for the blessings of a pure heart. Teach us to see with our hearts in the coming New Year. Amen

Photo above under earth photo is of a human sperm cell that  measures roughly about 0.002 inches and cannot be seen with the human eye, and a human egg which is  about 30 times bigger and is about  the size of a seed that can be seen with the naked eye.

“’A myriad of sperm collaborate to place a singlesperm before the egg, which them opens –volitionally—rather than simply being battered or overwhelmed...…The egg opens to a single sperm,’    She (Nancy Denman, a research embryologist) explained,’ For almost twenty four hours there is stillness. Then all of a sudden, the egg starts vibrating violently. “Ignition!!! We all call it.”’ Then she adds parenthetically, ‘Those of us of a more religious bent might be inclined to describe it as “the descent of the Spirit.””  

Love is the Answer, What is the Questions?

by Cynthia Bourgeault.

New Year’s Eve Dec. 31 6-9 pm no alcohol, dream sharing, dream incubation, guided mediation, fire ritual, walking the snake labyrinth, with music and candle light and NEW WAILING WALL., please bring finger foods.

Upcoming invitations:

Lectio Divina  and Centering Prayer Contemplation of scriptures for Sunday and Centering Prayer, an ancient Christian contemplative prayer practice, every Wednesday 10 am.

Monthly Taize Chanting service first Sunday of every month

Beach candle light worship every second Sunday at Torrey Pines State Park at 5 pm. It gets cold and dark so please dress warmly.

Healing Service third Sunday worship at 5 pm.

Dream Circle every first and third Sunday before worship 3-5 pm.

Committee on Ministry meeting every third Sunday evening after church and pot luck.

Webinar with Environmental Justice Practitioners Network co-sponsored by First UU Church and Church for Our Common Home, once a month call Jamie Long (619) 436-9435.  

MLK All People’s Breakfast January 21th, 9-12 noon $75 join Walt and Bonnie buy tickets www.alliancesd.org/all-peoples-celebration-sponsorship

New live stream worship on church web site, some Sunday’s 5 pm (PST) Churchforourcommonhome.com More info call (858) 248-5123

www.churchforourcommonhome.com

Our Common Home Counseling Center’s services: Addiction Issues, PTSD, Individual and Group Therapy, Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Counseling, Dream Honoring, Creative Art Therapies etc.

www.ourcommonhomecounselingcenter.com

Join us for prayer, Taize, scripture study, discussion of the border humanitarian crisis and civil disobedience

Dear Friends,

The season of Advent gifts us with the Christmas story, a story about a young Mary, pregnant, poor, unwed, as well as prophetic giant who inspires us to listen to God's call. She proclaims, and rejoices about her love for God and God's love for her. No other women in the New Testament speaks with such passion and visionary power. Mary's spirit invites us this Advent to say yes to God's magnificent plan for us together to work and for justice and peace.

The women from Central America who have arrived at the US border many with their children, recognize their own situation as similar to Mary of Nazareth and they recognize that Mary is one of us. Like her they are poor and the poverty and terror they are experiencing is a result of structural injustices. Like Mary they have been traumatized by the double and triple threat of the nightmare of male dominance and violence on top of poverty and corruption.

“The Magnificat's message is so subversive that for a period during the 1980s the government of Guatemala banned its public recitation, seeing the central point of this song to be the assertion of the holiness of God. Peruvian theologian Gustave Gutierrez argues that any reading is fruitless that "attempts to tone down what Mary's song tells us about the preferential love of God for the lowly and the abused, and about the transformation of history that God's loving will implies."' Elizabeth Johnson, US Catholic Faith and Reality Life, Dec. 20013 

Mary's confidence in God is contagious. Listen to her in the Gospel of Luke's Magnificat 1:46-55. "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his handmaid. For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed, for the One who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.And his mercy is from generation to generation on those who fear him. He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts; he has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted those of low degree; he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, according to the promise he made to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his posterity forever.

Mary, pregnant with new life invites us to be in solidarity with the asylum seekers today at the border here in San Diego and assures us God will be with us. She proclaims and assures us that God is with the lowly and will cast down the mighty from their thrones. God is calling the people in the caravan at the border to seek a better life and God is called us this week to stand in solidarity, support and love with them.

Please join me and Church for Our Common Home as we participate in a civil disobedience organized by the American Friends Service Committee, US Border Mexico Program with a three mile walk to the border on Monday, Dec. 10th.

• We call on the U.S. government to respect the human right to migrate and seek asylum.  People fleeing violence in Central America should be able to present themselves to immigration authorities to express their fears, not illegally turned away or criminalized for entering between ports of entry to seek asylum. 

• We call for an end to border militarization.  Deploying additional law enforcement, immigration enforcement agencies, or military personnel to the southern border endangers the rights of migrants and residents of border communities, wastes taxpayer dollars, and does nothing to make us safer. 

• We call for an immediate end to the detention and deportation of immigrants and oppose any actions to hold immigrants in inhumane detention indefinitely. We call for defunding ICE and CBP. It is crucial to instead protect those seeking refuge, and to provide services and direct assistance to migrating people.

Please join us for our regular second Sunday worship service on Dec. 9 th from 5 -6 pm, at Torrey Pines State Park Beach, for a candlelight service for during winter that time of night is now dark. It will be cold so please dress warmly. You are also invited to join us for an interfaith worship service immediately following our beach worship also on Sunday Dec. 9th at 6:30 pm at the Christian University Church 3900 Cleveland Ave, San Diego, CA 92103 San Diego. We will drive together after our beach worship.

Please join us the first Sunday of Advent, Dec. 2nd for our monthly Taize Chanting worship and we will sing the words of Mary in the Magnificat. We will pray for those at the border and those suffering from oppression everywhere. With Mary we will imagine a world where the mighty are cast from their thrones and the lowly and poor are fed with good things and follow in Mary's faithfulness to God always. We will have a discussion at our weekly potluck after church about the border humanitarian crisis and will collect warm clothing to take to the shelters.

Sending love always,

Bonnie

The artist of the painting above of Mary's Magnificat is Jen Norten

Upcoming invitations:

New live stream worship on church web site, some Sunday’s 5 pm (PST) Churchforourcommonhome.com 

Book group, Jesus Abba, by Dr. John B. Cobb Jr. at 3-4:30 pm before worship Sunday of the month and last class Dec. 9th.

Our Lady of Guadalupe worship on Dec. 16th as a part of our Prayer and Healing third Sunday worship.

Sunday before Christmas, December 23rd at 5 pm Christmas Carol worship and potluck feast.

New Year’s Eve Jan 31 6-9 pm alcohol free, dream sharing, dream incubation, guided mediation, fire ritual, walking the snake labyrinth, with music and candle light.

Lectio Divina  and Centering Prayer Contemplation of scriptures for Sunday and Centering Prayer, an ancient Christian contemplative prayer practice, every Wednesday 10 am.

Monthly Taize Chanting service first Sunday of every month

Beach candle light worship every second Sunday at Torrey Pines State Park at 5 pm. It gets cold and dark so please dress warmly.

Healing Service third Sunday worship at 5 pm.

Dream Circle every first and third Sunday before worship 3-5 pm.

Committee on Ministry meeting every third Sunday evening after church and pot luck.

Webinar with Environmental Justice Practitioners Network co-sponsored by First UU Church and Church for Our Common Home, once a month call Jamie Long (619) 436-9435.  

MLK All People’s Breakfast January 21th, 9-12 noon $75 join Walt and Bonnie buy tickets www.alliancesd.org/all-peoples-celebration-sponsorship

More info call (858) 248-5123

www.churchforourcommonhome.com

Our Common Home Counseling Center’s services: Addiction Issues, PTSD, Individual and Group Therapy, Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Counseling, Dream Honoring, Creative Art Therapies etc.

Dr. John B. Cobb Jr. will preach on "Jesus' Mission and Ours"

Dear Friends,

Dr. John B. Cobb Jr. will preach on"Jesus' Mission and Ours" 

at Church for Our Common Home from the World Parliament of Religion in Toronto, Canada, on Sunday, Nov 4th. We invite you to join us by live stream on our new Church for Our Common Home YouTube site, but we WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpPkT94JwX3rb17NYwWziMw?view_as=subscriber or type in www.youtube.com. Under search type in Church for Our Common Home and then click on subscribe. We need 85 more subscribers in order to get our YouTube channel operational, otherwise we will use our Church for Our Common Home Facebook page to live stream. We would rather transmit Dr. Cobb on YouTube because we are then able to edit the video and of course we want to edit it so we have a great video of Dr. John Cobb. It is also preferred to have a live stream on our web site rather than the church Facebook page. Call me if you have any questions and I will walk you through the process if you like. (858) 248-5123. THANK YOU!

Church for Our Common Home will have a booth at the World Parliament and we look forward to meeting religious people of many traditions from all over the world.

Sending love always,

Bonnie

Upcoming invitations

Day of the Dead Celebration Sunday October 28th CHANGE OF TIME and we will worship at 11 am and have a Mexican lunch immensely following our Day of the Dead celebration. Come join Rosie Munoz and Alexes Hernandez who will share the Mexican traditions of honoring the dead in on Day of the Dead. Please bring photos of loved ones for the altar and food they liked, enough to share with 8 people if possible. We will have a time of sharing of memories, food followed by a Mexican party and celebration at the Mary Magdalene Cafe.

Please join our new book group, Jesus Abba, by Dr. John B. Cobb Jr. at 3:00 pm before worshipevery 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month.

More info call (858) 248-5123

www.churchforourcommonhome.com

Our Common Home Counseling Center’s services: Addiction Issues, PTSD, Individual and Group Therapy, Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Counseling, Dream Honoring, Creative Art Therapies etc.

www.ourcommonhomecounselingcenter.com

Co-creative Love Animal Blessing with St Francis and St Clare

Dear Friends,

Please bring your animals, four legged, two legged, winged, slithering to our annualAnimal BlessingSunday, October 7th, 5 pm. All humans are animals and will be blessed as well. We will provide flowers to make flower garlands for humans, dogs, and guinea pigs. Also bring photos of animals who have died to honor at our Dog Chapel and we will also honor the 150-200 species of animals that go extinct every 24 hour period.

St. Francis Day is a Catholic feast day that is often celebrated with a blessing of the animals.We know that St. Clare and St. Francis were very close and loved one another. St. Clare was with St. Francis when he died. I just have a feeling she would have loved to have spent more time with him OUTDOORS with the animals so we will invite both of their spirits in our prayers for all living creatures.

Love always,

Bonnie

Please contact us if you would like to request prayers. (858) 248-5123, revtarwater@yahoo.com

Upcoming events

Day of the Dead Celebration Sunday October 28th 5 pm Come worship with Rosie Munoz and Alexes Hernandez from Mexico who will share the Mexican traditions of honoring the dead in Mexico on Day of the Dead. Please bring photos of loved ones for the altar and food they liked, enough to share with 8 people if possible. We will have a time of sharing of memories, food followed by a Mexican party and celebration at the Mary Magdalene Cafe.

Please join our new book group, Jesus Abba , by Dr. John B. Cobb Jr. at 3:30 pm before worshipevery 2nd and 4th Sunday.

Call for more info. (858) 248-5123.

Lectio Divina  and Centering Prayer  Contemplation of scriptures for Sunday and Centering Prayer, an ancient Christian contemplative prayer practice with a change of time beginning in September we will meet the 2 nd and 4th Sunday Call for more info.

1st Sunday of every month, 5 pm Taize Chanting(October 7th will be an Animal Blessing and Tiaze will be postponed)

2nd Sunday, 5 pm outdoor beach worship with prostration prayers at Torrey Pines State Park Beach near main entrance and parking lot on the sand.

3rd Sunday 5 pm Prayer and Healing Service

Dream Circle every first and third Sunday before worship 3-5 pm.

World Parliament of Religion in Toronto Nov 1-7, 2018, our church will have a booth and offer a live stream worship and Dr. John B. Cobb Jr. will preach on "Jesus' Mission and Ours." 

Christmas Gifts Program for two needy families, one in Tijuana and one in San Diego. Contact Bonnie for more info. Would you like to shop, wrap, deliver or donate money or all of the above?

Sunday worship soon on live stream on

the Church for Our Common Home web site.

More info call (858) 248-5123

www.churchforourcommonhome.com

Our Common Home Counseling Center’s services : addiction issues, PTSD, individual and group therapy, Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Counseling, Dream Honoring, Creative Art Therapies etc.Contact us now!

www.ourcommonhomecounselingcenter.com

Jamie Long, Jay Shiley and Bonnie are all at the Straw Bale workshop this first week of October learning how to build a straw bale structure and to build our church!

The photo on the left of Walt and Bonnie in front of a house in Mexico whose facade is a naked women. May this image inspire us to create a church that is a sculptural celebration of creation and our beautiful common home, Mother Earth!

Climate March this Saturday, Prayers at 8:30 am and March at 10 am

Dear Friends,

Please join us this Saturday for the 350.org Climate March, at the Civic Center, downtown San Diego, 8:30 am for a prayer service and 10 am to march to the Embarcadero Center, where we will have a church table. Church for Our Common Home will be easy to find for at the head of our procession will be a flower girl sprinkling flower petals on the path of our Giant Rod Puppet Mother Earth.

We will have a flower girl who will be sprinkling flowers on Mother Earth's path during the march for we need to make amends for all the ways we have harmed her and begin to treat her with the love she needs. Please call or text Bonnie if you want to find us and walk with us! (858) 248-5123. We will be giving away, copies of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, and selling Church for Our Common Home T Shirts with new born baby, children and adult sizes.

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Sunday, September 9 we are beginning a new book group, Jesus Abba, by Dr. John B. Cobb Jr. at 3 pm before worship at 5 pm. We will meet every 2nd and 4th Sunday at 3 pm for book group.

This Sunday and the second Sunday of every month we worship at Torrey Pines State Park Beach and do prayer prostrations on the sand.Call for more info. (858) 248-5123.

Straw Bale workshop first week in October. Join Bonnie, Dan and Jamie in Temecula. We work with a group to build a straw bale structure and they in turn will come help us build our church!

Lectio Divina  and Centering Prayer Contemplation of scriptures for Sunday and Centering Prayer, an ancient Christian contemplative prayer practice with a change of time beginning in September we will meet the 2nd and 4th Sunday from 3:30 -4:30 pm.

1st Sunday of every month, 5 pm Taize Chanting service

2nd Sunday, 5 pm y worship with prostration prayers at Torrey Pines State Park Beach every at main entrance

3rd Sunday 5 pm Prayer and Healing Service

Dream Circle every first and third Sunday before worship 3-5 pm.

Worlds Parliament of Religion in Toronto Nov 1-7, 2018, our church will have a booth.

Please call Rev. Bonnie if you would like a pastoral visit or prayers. (858) 248-5123

Sunday worship soon on live stream on

the Church for Our Common Home web site.

More info call (858) 248-5123

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