Grandmothers Counsel at Women’s Retreat

This year, the St. Bede’s Women’s Retreat (Nov. 21-23) will feature, Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet. From the book:

We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life.

We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing are vitally needed today. We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future.

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Religulous

In honor of Gerry Nachman’s visit to St. Bede’s tonight, here’s the trailer for comedian Bill Maher’s latest:

Affordable Housing via Human Investment

HIP Housing (a division of the Human Investment Project) of San Mateo County has just published its list of available home-sharing for the month of October. Click the “read more” link below for the complete listing. Those interested in taking advantage of one of these opportunities should contact HIP Housing at 650-348-6660 to schedule an appointment to discuss home sharing and any other available affordable housing opportunities.

HIP Housing is a non-profit organization that helps thousands of people in San Mateo County find a place to call home.

Of Watersheds and Weeds

Ever since our Youth Group members and their parents (as well as other interested Bede’s folk) have begun work on rehabilitating the San Francisquito Watershed, we’ve had some interesting conversations about the effects of non-native plants on our local environment.

Are non-native plants necessarily bad? How did they get here in the first place? Why dig them up and re-plant native plants? Does this have anything to do with, you know, human beings?

And what, in God’s name, does it have to do with God?

We’d love to hear your opinions here on the blog. And the Youth Group will report back as we attempt to answer these questions.

Next Watershed Service work day is Saturday, November 8. Contact Jamie at jmcelroy@stbedesmenlopark.org for details.