Urban Mission is hosting OPEN TABLE Sundays where people from the Pomona neighborhood come to enjoy good food, great company and receive spiritual support. 

If you want to help cooking show up at 2:45

Contact Michael michaelramirez@stonetoflesh.org for more info

4:30 - 6:30 Serving food, conversations, prayer for the guests. 

Join us for Wigilia (Vigil), Polish traditional Christmas Eve celebration and dinner that starts Christmas season. 

4:30 Vespers

5:00 Polish Traditional meal with 12 dishes and religious customs

Community Service

Friar Benjamin of the Most Holy Trinity, member of the Franciscans Poor of Jesus Christ, an order which is being established in the Los Angeles, is leading bi-weekly Sunday outreach to the Skid Row (one of the largest stable populations, between 5,000 and 8,000, of homeless people in the United States). Three more friars and four sisters will join in the spring. Two students of Stone to Flesh are committed to this outreach and are forming a small team which will reach out to the homeless and form relationships with the unreached poor for the purpose of preaching the Gospel with hands and words.

People who have hearts for ministry to the poor, including corporal and spiritual works of mercy and want to engage on temporary or consistent basis, contact:

Fabiola Acosta: facosta@magnoliapublicschools.org or Daisy Reis: daysikngs@gmail.com

Schedule:

1pm - Meeting at Daisy's house (address in event's descreption): preparation and packing of the food, prayer.

3pm - Travel to the Skid Row: food distribution, prayer and ministry among the homeless and poor

5:00 The end

What is worship? Is our worship becoming banal and superficial? How to renew your mind and enter into the Presence by applying tools of creativity, innovation, and imagination.

What is the place of sacred music and praise and worship in the Church? What has chanting to do with the presence of God? How singing Lectio Divina will take you to another level of immersion in the Word. 

This Saturday we will be talking about music, praise, worship, chanting, creating, singing, and heaven on earth. This is the only Heartbeat Saturday where all visitors (those whoa re not students of Stone to Flesh School of the Heart) can stay longer (you have to pay for lunch), till 2:30pm.  This day will be super beneficial for all singers and musicians, praise and worship leaders, choir and parish music directors as well as all creatives who ache for the renewal of arts, including sacred arts, that will impact the current culture. 

All young adult leaders who desire to lead a liturgical renewal that draws people into the active cooperation with the Holy Spirit should show up for practical tips on how the beauty of the Word and singing can build a local community of belivers. 

Schedule:

9:00 Opening prayer, testimonies, praise and worship. 

9:30 Teaching and Q&A: A lifeline of worship. - Justin Rizzo (via live video conference)

10:15 Tea/Coffee Break

10:30 Teaching and Q&A: Beauty, creativity, imagination and innovation as the means of encountering God - Matt Meeks

11:30  Singing Lectio Divina

12:00 Lunch (Note: We are in the middle of the Nativity Fast and lunch will be vegan: vegetables, fruits and grains).

1:00 Liturgy of the Hours - The Way to the Heart of Worship - Iwona Bednarz-Major

1:45 Workshop (chanting LOTH, preparing parish groups) - Iwona Bednarz-Major and Greg Lima

2:30 Dessert Break

2:45 Encounter Groups

3::45 Announcements

4:00 The end

Our speakers:

Iwona Bednarz-Major trained youth and young adults from the Encounter.Community she co-founded in chanting Liturgy of the Hours in Steubenville and they were forming small groups of parishioners who would lead Advent, Lent, Easter seasons of Morning and Evening Prayer. Here is Psalm 41 chanted by high schoolers (not trained in music, just typical teens :-)) during one of the Adorations in Stubenville. 

Urban Mission is hosting OPEN TABLE Sundays where people from the Pomona neighborhood come to enjoy good food, great company and receive spiritual support. 

If you want to help cooking show up at 2:30. 

4:30 - 6:30 Serving food, conversations, prayer for the guests. 

SIgn up here:

Community Service

Friar Benjamin of the Most Holy Trinity, member of the Franciscans Poor of Jesus Christ, an order which is being established in the Los Angeles, is leading bi-weekly Sunday outreach to the Skid Row (one of the largest stable populations, between 5,000 and 8,000, of homeless people in the United States). Three more friars and four sisters will join in the spring. Two students of Stone to Flesh are committed to this outreach and are forming a small team which will reach out to the homeless and form relationships with the unreached poor for the purpose of preaching the Gospel with hands and words.

People who have hearts for ministry to the poor, including corporal and spiritual works of mercy and want to engage on temporary or consistent basis, contact:

Fabiola Acosta: facosta@magnoliapublicschools.org or Daisy Reis: daysikngs@gmail.com

Schedule:

1pm - Meeting at Daisy's house (address in event's descreption): preparation and packing of the food, prayer.

3pm - Travel to the Skid Row: food distribution, prayer and ministry among the homeless and poor

5:00 The end

“The danger nowadays is that people no longer know how to celebrate and eat together. (...) 
In order to create unity, to live as a body, we need to know how to take time over meals, to eat well, with good wine or beer. We need to know how to tell stories, our own stories, and to laugh and sing together.”

— JEAN VANIER

Local Stone to Flesh community events centered on building relationships, rest, recharge and chill. People in the reasonable distance from the Community Dinner location are gathering together for an evening of common meal (potluck style) and conversation, ending with short prayer. No specific agenda other than cooking/eating, fellowship around the table/back yard, having fun together. Candlelight, pizza or barbecue... music, dancing or discussions - it's up to you!

Contact - Paloma Gonzalez: Palomagonzalez14@gmail.com

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This is a part of Nativity Fast event. All foods you will bring have to comply with the Nativity Fast. 

Community Dinner AZUSA is one of the local Stone to Flesh community events centered on building relationships, rest, recharge and chill. People in the reasonable distance from the Community Dinner location are gathering together for an evening of common meal (potluck style) and conversation, ending with short prayer. No specific agenda other than cooking/eating, fellowship around the table/back yard, having fun together. Candlelight or barbecue - it's up to you!. Families with kids are welcome. 

I AM COMING and I will bring something

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6 PM MASS

7 PM EUCHARISTIC PROCESSION

8 PM ADORATION