Tending Mind & Soul in Los Osos

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Abundance Shop

St. Benedict’s owns and operates The Abundance Shop, a volunteer led second-hand store in Los Osos, California.

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Latest Sermons

Strengthening our Moral Compass

“After his baptism, Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil.” (Lk. 4:1)              The operating word today is PEIRAZO, the Greek word which means to test, to put on trial, to tempt.  While our gospel story translates this word as being tempted, a better translation would be to test or to put on trial. After Jesus had been…

Sermon for Ash Wednesday

Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 Jesus said, “Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. “So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand…

Perception is Everything

Luke 9:28-36 Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him. They appeared in glory and were speaking of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. Now Peter and his companions were weighed down with sleep; but since they had stayed…

Breaking the Cycle of Violence

Luke 6:17-26 Jesus came down with the twelve apostles and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed…