Old St. Patrick's Bulletin

The CROSSROADS Old St. Patrick’s Bulletin A Catholic Community in Chicago's West Loop LIVING INTO THE VISION SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2021 Three Evenings of Prayer, Song, and Reflection 2 | Just a Thought VISION 2020January 27, February 3, and February 10 at 7 pm Leading a movement of change within the 3 | Awakenings OnCatholic Pentecost church markedSunday by 2020, radical Old inclusivity, St. Patrick’s articulatedexquisite worship, a shared and transformative vision for the kinship. future of our 4 | Mission Sunday church.We believe we Ascan find we meaningcontinue and purpose to inlive our lives into and thisbuild a vision,better world wethrough invite a vibrant you and distinctiveto join faithus experience.(via livestream) We envision this tofor be community- three driven, lay-led, and Christ-centered in a way that challenges and supports the institutional special evenings as we prayerfully explore the 6 | Pancake Breakfast deepestchurch, acting aspirations as a model for the future of ourof Catholic church. communities in our city. Leading us onward and upholding our vision is an emphasis on community, justice, spirituality, and service. RadicalRadical Inclusivity: Inclusivity A Reflection led 7 | Giving The Realityby Rabbi Chava Bahle •Human Wednesday, communities suffer fromJanuary policy- 27For | through 7 pm faith, you are all children driven barriers and a polarized socio- of God... all of you who were baptized economic landscape. Exclusion as the norm into Christ have clothed yourselves with 8 | Living into the Vision impoverishes our communities and creates Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, harmful divisions that not only hinder there is neither slave nor free person, Exquisitefull participation, Worship: but jeopardize justice A Reflectionthere is not male led and female; for you are equality andby self-actualization. Ms. Kate Williamsall one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:26–28 9 | Domestic Violence Our• Wednesday, Response February 3 | 7 pm We welcome and value the leadership of women in ministry, What You Can Do Webinar prayer, and preaching. Invite and bring someone who feels Transformative We receive with open arms Kinship: those A Reflectionexcluded from the broader church. who are institutionally excluded, Support civic, business, and religious especiallyled by LGBTQ Rev. individuals. Dr. Otis Mossleaders III who stand for unity, inclusion, 10 | First Friday • Wednesday,We will continue to invite February and 10and | justice. 7 pm embrace racial, ethnic, generational, Actively challenge systems and attitudes and economic diversity and inclusion. that marginalize and exclude. EachWe promote evening’s a culture of healthy program Expand can yourselfbe —beyond existing leadership through equality in relationships—toward the margins and11 | Evenings with Encore word andviewed action and collaborative on Livestream. risk forming new relationships. dialogue between clergy, ministers, and members. livestream.com/oldstpats/vision We create a community of 12 | Community Life Old St. Pat’s that is distinctly and Pleaseunapologetically see page inclusive. eight for more details. 13 | Hearts & Prayers 14 | Directory old st. patrick’s church oldstpats oldstpatschicago WE ARE FALLING ON OUR FACE BECAUSE WE ARE JUMPING HIGH directory just a thought A dash of perspective in a dark hour By Anand Giridharadas | Originally published on The.Ink on January 15 ,2021 Intro by Keara Ette, Director of Ministries at Old St. Pat's Since long before we, at Old St. Pat's, began rolling out a new Vision in the summer of 2020, I have felt both exhilarated and terrified about the whole venture. I have been working at Old St. Pat's for 13 years, and the idea of having something that helps guide the 'who do we want to be?' as well as the 'how do we want to get there?' of doing church was a dream come true. And yet, with this bold vision of "leading a movement of change marked by radical inclusivity, exquisite worship, and transformative kinship," I had a deep sense that we were stretching ourselves in a direction and toward a goal that would most certainly include stumbling, falling, and rising only to do it over and over again. And all of that is not pretty, and it is not comfortable. For even as we were finalizing the images for our web page and bulletin for the week of Pentecost (May 31, 2020), the stark reality of the racism, injustice, fear, division, and the psychology of scarcity still deeply rooted in our country's history (and therefore, too, its present) began to rage once again. Author and Time Magazine Editor-at-Large, Anand Giridharadas, wrote something recently that felt both deeply true and deeply hopeful. And perhaps his message might also be one that can give us courage and fortitude as the Old St. Pat's community strives to be leaders in a critical movement and at a critical moment in our church and our world. It’s scary out there right now. It’s going to be scary for some time to come. What has been unleashed, what has been revealed, is ugly. It is what makes democracies die. In the despair, it is easy to lose perspective. I certainly do all the time. But from time to time, I step back and try to remember where we are as a country on the arc of things. And I see then that this is both a very dark time and, potentially, a very bright time. It's important to hold these truths together. When I look down at the ground of the present right now, I feel depressed. If I lift my head to the horizon, I see a different picture. Look at India and China. I love India. My parents are from India. India is never going to be a nation of immigrants. It's never going This is not the chaos of the beginning of something. This is the chaos to be a country of people from all the world. It can barely get unity of the end of something. with people just from India. China is never going to be a nation of immigrants. No shade. That's just not their history. It's not who they Because the 40 years of this plutocratic takeover — of the ideology are. that said if you're torn between doing what's good for money and what's good for people, always do what’s good for money; these We are falling on our face because we are jumping very high right stories about lazy workers and welfare queens; and any number of now. We are trying to do something that does not work in theory. other fraudulent tales that were meant to justify life in the Hamptons — if I allow myself to feel this way on a good day, it all actually feels To be a country of all the world, a country made up of all the like it's burning down. countries, a country without a center of identity, without a default idea of what a human being is or looks like, without a shared And on matters of race and identity, likewise, the Trump era doesn't religious belief, without a shared language that is people's first have the crackle of a launch. It has been a mourning. A mourning for language at home. And what we're trying to do is awesome. It is white power. A mourning for a time when simply to be white and literally awesome in the correct sense of that word. show up was enough. A mourning for an era in which simply to be a man, and not necessarily an especially capable one, could get you And, therefore, that we are having insurrections on the Mall or ahead of other people. A mourning for a time when you could be the four years of an autocratic attempt or racism oozing through default idea of an American and not have to share your toys. the television and social media portals is both terrifying and a completely predictable, inevitable result of people in power We must understand that what we've been living through is exploiting these transitional anxieties for their own pecuniary gain. backlash. Backlash. It's not the engine of history. It is the revolt against the engine of history. Then we might remember — just to And what we have to do is get smarter than those powerful people. pat ourselves on the back for a second — that what we are actually Get more organized than them, and understand that there is a endeavoring to do right now is to become a kind of society that different story to tell those who mistakenly went to the Mall and the has seldom, if ever, existed in history. Which is become a majority- 12 percent of Americans who actually supported that terrorist attack, minority, democratic superpower. and everybody else — a story to tell them about something great we are trying to do. We will actually create a country that's better I have a lot of love for my friends in Europe, but actually none of you for every single person. But we have to be willing to tell that story all have your immigration rates and naturalization rates at a high forcefully. We have to be willing to fight those people tooth and nail, enough level to get there anytime soon. And you all may never get and we have to fight to win. We are living through a revolt against there. the future. The future will prevail. 2 visit us at oldstpats.org directory Awakenings | Sunday, January 24, 2021 awakenings By Bernadette Gibson Mark 1: 14-20 | On the shores of the lake, in an inconceivable time, the first community of disciples of Christ were born… This week as we unfold the Gospel of Mark, we join the story just after the baptism of Jesus and he has then spent 40 days in the wilderness, being tempted by sin.

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