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We hope you had a wonderful weekend! Thank you to all those who attended the Frank Sinatra Tribute featuring Tom Lagravinsese on Saturday evening. It was a lot of fun! Now, check out all that is going on at the Praise and Worship Center this week!
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Morning Prayer
with Pastor Mark
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This Friday, October 16
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
We are also meeting
October 23, and 30
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Our weekly Online Reflections return!
Our PWC Online Reflections return this week, with a reflection from Pastor Mark.
Here is the link:
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This Sunday
October 18 @ 9:45 a.m.
Building 4:12
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Thursday,
October 22
4:45 p.m.
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Please email Deacon Peter Klemens for more information, or sign up at [email protected]
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Pastoral Counseling
with Fr. Mike
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Pastoral counseling is available at PWC
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Fr. Mike Lessard is available for pastoral counseling on Wednesdays & Thursdays at PWC. Please call the church office to make an appointment at 480-649-0300.
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Blood Pressure Checks take place at PWC on the first and third Sundays of the month
from 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Our medical team is providing the blood pressure checks.
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At PWC
your tithing & generosity allow us to minister to so many who come through our doors with their spiritual, emotional, and physical needs.
Thank you for your tithing and
commitment to PWC!
From pastoral counseling to grief support, to bible study and adult education, to providing food through Matthew’s Crossing for families who are economically struggling, to Marriage Enrichment and our funeral ministry -- your consistent giving makes a difference, a big change in people’s lives!
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Here are the different ways you can tithe to PWC:
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• Mail in your gift to: Praise and Worship Center, 2551 N. Arizona Avenue, Chandler, AZ 85225.
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• Sign up for monthly giving with a credit card or voided check. Just call the office at 480-649-0300 or stop by the office.
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Do you want to be inspired again by Fr. Dale or Pastor Mark? You can listen to Fr. Dale or Pastor Mark’s sermons on our podcast page. Here is the link:
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Are you homebound? If so, Deacon John Null can bring you communion. The only exception is if you have or are recovering from COVID. The best way to get in touch with Deacon John is by contacting the church office, at 480-649-0300, and leaving a message.
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A Reflection by
Ronald Rolheiser
Coping with Tragedy
When we are in the middle of a storm, we shouldn’t pretend that the sun is shining or, indeed, that there is anything we can do to stop the storm. What’s needed more than our words is our presence, our sharing in the helplessness, and sharing in the waiting.
The words that we do speak need to honor how deep and resistant to consolation the wound is. They must speak honestly to the senselessness of the situation and how disconsolate it leaves us. I like the words that Rainer Marie Rilke sent to a friend who was beside himself with grief: “Give that heaviness back to the earth; the seas are heavy, the mountains are heavy, the earth is heavy.”
Waiting it out is precisely what is required. The Book of Lamentations tells us that there are times and seasons when all you can do is “put your mouth to the dust and wait.” That’s bitter, stoic advice, but it imparts real hope rather than false optimism.
Consolation will come eventually, but it must be waited for, and in the meantime, we need to keep “vigil”. And that is why we call the service before funeral a “vigil”. We gather not just to celebrate the deceased life, but to, together, “put our mouths to the dust and wait.”
We shouldn’t be afraid to feel afraid, nor despair about feeling despair. Neither negates courage or faith. As Soren Kierkegaard put it, “courage isn’t the absence of despair and fear but the capacity to move ahead in spite of them.”
We believe in life after death, in the resurrection, in the communion of saints, and in God’s infinite tenderness and mercy. Faith can be trusted. In the end there is consolation. However, our God, it would seem, doesn’t always save us from tragedy, but instead eventually redeems tragedy.
Jesus didn’t save his friend Lazarus from death. He raised him up from death after he had died. In the end, no doubt, “all will be well, and all will be well, and every manner of being will be well”, but in the meantime, especially in those moments right after tragedy, senseless accidents, senseless deaths, and senseless loss of all kinds, the consolation and peace of God have to be waited for and we are meant to do that, hand in hand.
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Please remember and pray for those who are struggling with mental illness.
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Love,
Fr. Dale & Pastor Mark
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Please do not reply to this email;
the sending address is not monitored.
Please reply to: [email protected]
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Chris Pfund PhD, MBA, BSN, RN
President Homestead Health
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phone: (602) 755-4508
fax: (602) 691-0283
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