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This week at St Ben’s – what’s happening and what’s not.

Dear Friends: Everything changes fast these days so here is the current line-up from St Ben’s. As we make decisions about our common life we will live by three principles: 1) we are a community based on God’s love and we need to find new/different ways to live that out 2) we should abide by CDC, state or local Health Department guidelines  (ReadySLO.org) 3) occasionally, in extreme circumstances, we may be asked to minister to others in a way that…

Prado: When the Bread Finally Arrives

Alice Welter Daniel Berrigan, Catholic priest, poet, teacher, peace activist and convicted felon (civil disobedience) said: “Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a…