March 27: Oscar Romero Presente!!

March 27: We will Gather at Grace Cathedral

Dear Sophia in Trinity Community--Instead of meeting for Eucharist, we will gather as a community at 10:45am at the labyrinth core in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. At 11am we will celebrate Bishop Romero's life with many other inter-faith sisters and brothers. Come to the Celebration Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador. Following the reception there will be a 2:00pm Immigration Forum.

March 13: Sherri Maurin to Lead our Homily

Following our Eucharist, we will also hear from Sherri about her recent trip to Palestine/Israel and Egypt.

February 13 And February 27, 2010

The time since Roy Bourgeois was with us has flown by! February 13 we celebrated a Valentine Eucharist and celebrated all of the good heart work that Judy Liteky, Susan Powers and Michael Bush did in organizing Roy's visit to the Bay Area. Our great thanks as a community to each of you and all the volunteers for creating an inspiring event that featured Roy, Anna Lange-Soto [Episcopal priest] and myself/Victoria. A very special thanks to Judy for coordinating all of the Northern California speaking engagements for Roy. What magnificent work! Thank you!


Our Eucharist on February 27 opened our season of Lent together. We are following a theme: Listening, Deep. We looked at the landless movement in Brazil and discussed what a birthrite might be: a place to live, food, shelter, education. We understood that hope drives one's birthrite. And hope emerges from discontent. Perhaps many of us share a Sacred Discontent--for the Holy One has given us a spiritual birthrite: the land of ourselves to plant and to grow.
We asked ourselves what are our discontents and our hopes for ourselves, our church and our world.

January 23: Opening the Stained Glass Ceiling

On this joyous day, we celebrated Eucharist and among us
was Fr.Roy Bourgeois, Maryknoll priest. Fr. Roy Bourgeois is calling for the ordination
of women priests in the Roman Catholic Church. On this day we gave thanks for the
ordination of women priests as a matter of justice,
and pray that the Vatican sees the Light and recognizes the "sensus fidelum"
---that the People of God want women priests.
The reading from Corinthians says it well:
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons,
and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.

Jimmy Carter also says it well:
Today, when religious institutions exclude women from their hierarchies and rituals, the inevitable implication is that females are inferior. "The Elders" are right that religious groups should stand up for a simple ethical principle: any person’s human rights should be sacred, and not depend on something as earthly as their genitals.

January 9, 2010: Epiphany and Baptism

At our Eucharist, we celebrated the Nativity, the Epiphany, and the Theophany all in one. We were reminded in our shared homily that the in breaking of G-O-D into time is sometimes brilliant LIGHT, but just as often, beholding life in a soft LIGHT, even sometimes slightly out of focus. And too that the rupture, the parting of the clouds over our brother Jesus in the Jordan was most astonishing in saying "This is my Beloved." That this in breaking heralds for all of us if we but claim it that we too are called "Beloved" by the Holy. Yes, astonishing!

James Joyce wrote that the epiphany was the sudden "revelation of the whatness of a thing," the moment when "the soul of the commonest object ... seems to us radiant."
Yes, we, as our brother Jesus has shown, are all radiant to the Holy in our common humanity.

And now, sisters and brothers, as radiant beloved people let us turn our Light and Love to the needs of others in our world as Howard Thurman reminds us:
The Work of Christmas?
When the song of angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the wise men and wise women are back home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild nations,
To bring peace to all,
To make music in the heart.
Howard Thurman (adapted)

NOV. 28: The Empty Crib

As part of our Eucharist on Nov. 28 we created embodied prayer
with this lovely poem:

This crib is the waiting space of our emptiness.
This crib is the waiting space of our loneliness.
This crib is the waiting space of our longing.
This crib is the waiting space of our hunger and our desire
for intimacy
for justice
for truth
Come ,O Christ-child
into the cradle of our emptiness
into the crib of our loneliness
into the space of our longing,
into the arms of our hunger,
into the heart of our desire.
In this crib we are laying this cloth of our woven dreams and aspirations.
We are bringing the fabric of our lives:
many textured,
multi-colored,
torn, frayed and fragile,
yet tense with a strength woven out of conflice, laughter and tears.
Come, O Christ-child
Clothe yourself with the cloth of our humanity.
Wrap us in the your vulnerability, compassion and tenderness.
Come and live among us.

[from Praying Like a Woman, Nicola Slee]


A blessed Advent to all.
We will gather for a Christmas Yule Prayer Sing on Saturday December 26, 10:30am.
Lead by our director of song, Evelie Delfino Posch.