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Time to think about summer camp: Youngsters celebrate after sleeping out under the stars at Camp Stevens, which offers camps for children 8 - 16 during the summer months, as well as year-round on- and off-campus sessions for families, teens, adults, women and other groups. For more about the camp’s offerings, see story at right or visit www.campstevens.org.

The Rev. Ed Bacon, rector, will lead “The Breath of Buddha;

the Mind of Christ,” a Lenten quiet day at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Saturday, March 21, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. in the All Saints Learning Cen-ter. “St. Paul calls for us to have a new mind: the mind of Christ,” says the event announcement. “One way we can transform ourselves is by renewing our minds through Buddhist mind-

fulness techniques and Dr. Dan Sie-gel’s ‘Wheel of Awareness.’” Bacon will offer this retreat based on the Epistles of St. Paul, the life of Jesus, the teaching of Pema Chödrön, and Siegel’s book Mindsight. For infor-mation, contact Stasia Dahlstrom, 626.796.1172 or sdahlstrom@all saints-pas.org. There is no charge. All Saints Church is located at 132

North Euclid Avenue, Pasadena 91101. ?

Camp Stevens gets ready for spring, summer camps

‘Breath of Buddha, Mind of Christ’ is quiet day theme

Ed Bacon

As spring approaches, Camp Stevens, the diocesan camp located in Julian, in the

mountains east of San Diego, invites adults and families to take advantage of its spring-time retreat schedule, and to start thinking about summer camp offerings for children, youth and fam-ilies.

Retreats are held in lodges with comfort-able meeting rooms with fireplaces, and bedrooms that accommodate three to eight people. Offer-ings this spring include the Women’s Retreat April 10 - 12, with the theme “Sabbath for the Soul,” led by the Rev. Lisa Rotchford; and a May 8 - 10 retreat led by the Very Rev. Gary Hall, dean of Washington National Ca-thedral, studying the work of Trappist monk, writer and artist Thomas Merton.

Upcoming family camps include a new program, “Sprout: Spring Family Weekend,” a time of gardening, crafts, play and relax-ation April 17 - 19, as well as the camp’s traditional Memorial Day Weekend Mary 23 - 25. These sessions are open to families, couples, singles and groups.

And, of course, there’s summer camp for children and young people. Camp Stevens of-fers six-day summer camp sessions for chil-dren ages 8 - 16 and wilderness adventure trips for teens, with sessions beginning July 5 and continuing through Aug. 8. A 10-day counselor training camp, for ages 16 and up, begins June 21.

In addition, the Adult & Family Basecamp Backpacking Trip (July 10-18) takes begin-ning and more experienced backpackers on a breathtaking trip in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, with mules to carry the gear.

Summer camp brochures are now available in all congregations. Camperships are avail-able. For more information or to register for any camping session, visit www.campstevens.org or email to ashley@campstevens.org.

Fishing during a backpacking trip.

Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States and The Death

of Innocents: An Eyewitness of Wrongful Executions, will speak at “An Evening with Helen Prejean,” an event benefiting Prism Restorative Jus-tice at the Church of Our Saviour in San Gabriel, beginning at 7 p.m. on April 15. A book signing will follow.

Admission is $25 at the door, and books will be available for purchase. For information, call 626.703.4474, or email to info@cdlmonks.org. The Church of Our Saviour is located at 535 W. Roses Road, San Gabriel

91775. Prism is a ministry of the Diocese of Los Angeles that provides chaplains and other services to patients and prisoners in Los Angeles County hospitals and jails. ?

‘Dead Man Walking’ author to speak at Prism event

The collect for today, the fourth Sunday in Lent, articulates a very beautiful metaphor:

Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him.

Bread is an incredible symbol. It signifies well the meaning of life and of death. Bread comes from wheat, itself the fruit of a seed that has been put into the ground and has died. In fact, bread making is a process in which each element dies so that a new cre-ation can come into being. In a way, it is a good model of conversion. The seed dies in the ground so that the wheat may live. The wheat is crushed to produce grain that can be converted into flour. The flour is mixed with other ingredients and finally baked so that the bread may be brought forth.

At each stage of the bread making, hu-man energy is expended. Many people join together to produce the loaf. The farmer toils to plant the seed and harvest the wheat. Mill-ers grind the wheat into grain, and truckers carry it to the granary. Bakers mix the flour and yeast and carefully tend to the baking. Human life and energy is given every step along the way as the seed becomes the loaf. Bread symbolizes the life of the many who work together to produce that which feeds and give life to all. In the Holy Eucharist, we are not simply offering to God the gifts of God’s own earth, untouched by human hands. If that were the case, we would bring to the altar wheat and grapes. We are also of-fering ourselves, and the products of our lives and labor, and so we bring before God bread and wine — the wheat and grapes that have been converted into that which nourishes and

sustains us.In the recognition

of this holy process, we bless, we conse-crate the bread and the wine in the Eucharist, and it becomes for us the Body and Blood of Christ, that which nourishes and sustains us spiritually as well as physically. We are all fed by the same holy bread. And we, in a sense, become that which we eat, the Body of Christ. Further, it is in the breaking of the bread that we each, as indi-viduals, are made available to others in com-munity. The Jesuit priest Peter van Breemen puts it this way:

You eat a piece of bread. The bread ceas-es to be bread and becomes a part of you. It rises to a new life. Similarly, we (like bread) are consumed in the gift of ourselves to our fellow men and women. We die in order to rise to new life.

—As Bread that Is BrokenDimension Books, Inc. 1974

The Eucharistic liturgy never ends with the communion rite. It never ends with our sim-ply being fed. We are always sent out into the world to be bread for the world. ?

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F R O M T H E B I S H O P S — SUNDAY, MARCH 15 —

4 p.m. Women’s Evensong Invitational St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 122 South California Avenue, Monrovia Information: 626.357.7071

4 p.m. Choral Evensong St. Francis Episcopal Church 2200 Via Rosa, Palos Verdes Estates Information: 310.375.4617

5 p.m. Chamber Music: Alessandro Scarlatti All Saints’ Episcopal Church 504 N Camden Drive, Beverly Hills Information: 310.275.0123

5 p.m. Lenten EvensongAll Saints Episcopal Church 132 North Euclid Avenue, Pasadena Information: 626.583.2750

— TUESDAY, MARCH 17 —7 p.m. Versed - Holy WeekThe Cathedral Center of St. Paul 840 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles 90026 Information: ctumilty@ladiocese.org Registration: bit.ly/1B6VdyI

— WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 —7 p.m. Peace & Justice Films: ‘Gasland’ Church of the Messiah 614 N. Bush Street, Santa Ana 92701 Information: 714.543.9389

— FRIDAY, MARCH 20 —9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Teach Them How to Forgive: Workshop for Clergy/Mental Health Professionals Trinity Episcopal Church 2400 N. Canal Street, Orange 92665 Information: www.appreciativeway.com

— SATURDAY, MARCH 21 —9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Resolving Resentment: A Retreat for Personal Healing Trinity Episcopal Church 2400 N. Canal Street, Orange 92665Information: www.appreciativeway.com

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Bilingual volunteer mental health professionals in private practice are needed immediately to assist with psychological evaluations related to refugee children’s court cases and for longer-term courses of treatment. California-licensed attorneys are needed to represent children pro bono in state-court proceedings and as guard-ians ad litem, according to Troy Elder, bishop’s legate for global partnership.

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