News - February 2019

As a Parish Community, we already do much to break down the walls that can exist between different communities.  From Simple Needs Sundays and Get on the Bus, to Las Vecinas de El Salvador and our Solidarity Network, many parishioners are active in building bridges.

We vote our values at the ballot box and with our wallets. That includes caring for Creation and for people impacted by the environmental crisis we are now experiencing here in California.These values are driving us to hold automakers accountable in the fight to protect the health of our most vulnerable citizens and our economy against attacks on life-saving state and federal clean car standards.

I want to share the wonderful news about nine volunteer singers from our own parish choirs that are in New York this weekend performing as part of a larger choir of over 200 singers in a concert at Carnegie Hall on Monday, Feb. 18th at 7 pm.

As you know, five parishioners from St. Ignatius, five parishioners with Fr. Ray from St. Agnes, and I are engaged in a discernment process guided by Fr. George Murphy, S.J., former rector and current professor and spiritual director at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.