St Philip Benizi Parish, Fullerton, CA -- Parish News

   Hello, All are invited to a Zoom Interfaith Memorial Prayer Service for OC's Homeless Deceased. Tuesday, Sept 14th at 12:15 PM Another 36 people died "without fixed abode" in August, 2021, bringing the year's total to date to 260 lives lost, or almost exactly TWICE the number, 132, to have died "without fixed abode" from the beginning of the year to the end of August in 2019, the last year before COVID-19.   In 2020 the number of deceased "without fixed abode" at this was 212.  So we are on track to have the worst year for the homeless of Orange County since we started to publicize the death tolls in 2018. Does it have to be this way?  Of course not.  But this is the day-to-day, month-to-month, year-to-year cost of inaction. Once again, let us remember their names. Fr. Dennis Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83641913998 Meeting ID: 836 4191 3998 One tap mobile +16699006833,,83641913998# Prayer Service Text --  https://tinyurl.com/ya9s

 The 2nd Reading for the Office of Readings for today, Sept 8th, the Feast of the Birth of the B.V. Mary, was quite lovely.  I thought to share it here: Office of Readings, Feast of the Birth of the B.V. Mary SECOND READING From a discourse by Saint Andrew of Crete , bishop The old has passed away, all things are made new The fulfillment of the law is Christ himself, who does not so much lead us away from the letter as lift us up to its spirit. For the law’s consummation was this, that the very lawgiver accomplished his work and changed letter into spirit, summing everything up in himself and, though subject to the law, living by grace. He subordinated the law, yet harmoniously united grace with it, not confusing the distinctive characteristics of the one with the other, but effecting the transition in a way most fitting for God. He changed whatever was burdensome, servile and oppressive into what is light and liberating, so that we should be enslaved no longer under the elemen