[Parish] Messenger, Funeral, Concert

[Malcolm Young]

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,



On the church calendar Wednesday is the Feast of the Epiphany.  That  
day at 11:00 a.m. we'll be having a funeral with Eucharist for Arlene  
Camm.  Please join us to celebrate her life and the unique light that  
God brought into the world through her.



There is a new Messenger that is available right now.  Please follow  
this link to find it:



http://messenger.ccla.us/



Finally, I wanted to remind you that Christine Brandes, a soprano of  
great skill will be singing at Christ Church on Sunday at 4:00 p.m.   
We are selling tickets to the concert ($15 regular / $10 retired and  
student).  If you are interested in buying tickets, please contact  
Dick Coulter at the following email address:



frandick at comcast.net



Here's a short thought from Frederick Buechner about Christmas on  
these last days of Christmastide:



"For those who believe in God, it means, this birth, that God himself  
is never safe from us, and maybe that is the dark side of Christmas,  
the terror of the silence.  He comes to us in such a way that we can  
always turn him down…  God comes to us in the hungry man we do not  
have to feed, comes to us in the lonely man we do not have to  
comfort, comes to us in all the desperate human need of people  
everywhere that we are always free to turn our backs upon.  It means  
that God puts himself at our mercy not only in the sense of the  
suffering that we can cause him by our blindness and coldness and  
cruelty, but the suffering that we can cause him simply by suffering  
ourselves.  Because that is the way love works, and when someone we  
love suffers, we suffer with him, and we would not have it otherwise  
because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God’s  
love for us.”

May God bless you in your suffering and loving on this California day.

Love,

Malcolm