Joyful and Triumphant

Handel's Messiah and
The Carols of Christmas

Three choirs, soloists and full orchestra perform Handel's masterwork, Messiah,
along with favorite carols of the season. Enjoy an evening filled with the season's most glorious music, amid the acoustic and visual splendor of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament.

Friday, December 19, 2014, 7:30 pm

See our flyer 

$15 - General Admission $10 - Students
Tickets at the door, or online at
www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/731047

Location:
The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
1017 11th Street, Sacramento, CA  95814

Sacramento Homeless Memorial
Interfaith Service

December 19, 2014

7 PM - service
8 PM - reception

Location:
Trinity Cathedral
2620 Capitol Ave
Sacramento, CA 95816
 
Contact & Additional Information:
Please contact Bob Erlenbusch [SRCEH: 916-993-7708 or bob@srceh.org] for more information. 

Featuring the Award Winning Reverend Alice Baber-Banks
and the

Christian Fellowship Church Gospel Choir

Tuesday, December 23, 7:00 pm ~ See our flyer

Location:
Church of Scientology
1007 6th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

Fifth Annual Interfaith
Legislative Prayer Service

We welcome our legislators to Sacramento and pray for their wisdom, guidance, safety, goodness, insight and sound judgment in our behalf.

Readings From Various Faith Leaders in Greater Sacramento

Prayer: Archbishop Jose Gomez, Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Patriotic Music

Tuesday, January 13, 2015 ~ See our flyer
8:00am

Location:
Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
1017 11th Street, Sacramento, CA  95814 

"The Holocaust did not end with liberation," says Liz Igra.  "We need a deeper understanding of the Holocaust, liberation and what's happened since, not as spectators but by seeing ourselves along the continuum."  CVHEN (Central Valley Holocaust Educators' Network), founded by Igra, will present a community discussion to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps. 

Two Holocaust scholars will use their combined expertise in history and literature, as well as their personal perspectives, in a conversation open to everyone in the Sacramento community.   Dr. Murray Baumgarten, a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Co-Director of Jewish Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz , and Dr. Peter Kenez, a historian specializing in Russian and Eastern European History and Professor Emeritus of History at UCSC have nearly a century of teaching between them.  Both colleagues and comrades, the pair has been teaching the Holocaust for more than 30 years. 

Kenez grew up under Nazism and Communism in Hungary and Baumgarten was conceived in Vienna and born en route to Panama after his family fled Austria.  Among other things, their conversation will be a discussion of Fatelessness by the Nobel Prize-winning author Imre Kertesz and the recently published Diary of Rywka Lipszyc, a Jewish teenage girl who wrote her diary while in the Lodz Ghetto.

Liberation Remembered: A Conversation  is sponsored by CVHEN and will be held Saturday, January 17 beginning at 7:00pm at the KOH Library and Cultural Center, 2300 Sierra Blvd. in Sacramento. There is no cost to attend and refreshments will be served.

Location:
KOH Library, 2300 Sierra Blvd., Sacramento, CA  95825

Contact & Additional Information:
For more information or to RSVP, please contact Liz Igra at Liz@cvhen.com.

(Portions of this announcement were printed with permission from an article by Elissa Provance in the December issue of the VOICE, a publication of the Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region, entitled CVHEN Features Liberation Remembered: A Conversation.) 

The dates we are currently looking to fill are December 21, 24, 26 & 27.

We would absolutely love to work with your organization in encouraging congregations to participate and change the lives of those in need during this holiday season. Fellowship is welcomed by many of our guests who are struggling with their situation. I have attached three documents below providing some more information, and I would be happy to provide more information. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Thank you very much!

Sharyl Caras 

VISTA - Sacramento Intermediary

Sacramento Steps Forward
916.414.9012
scaras@sacstepsforward.org

Documents: Overview  Host Information  Guest Rules

A Multipurpose Senior Service Program intern (Megan) is working on her Thesis. She is in need of a location to bring together seniors and members from the community-at-large in order to develop an intergenerational choir/band with the intent of decreasing feelings of isolation, sadness and anxiety, and improving quality of life for seniors (and others!). 

If you would like to participate - and especially if you can provide a gathering/meeting place for practice and rehearsal -- please contact:

Teresa Ogan, LCSW
Supervising Care Manager
Multipurpose Senior Service Program (MSSP)
California Health Collaborative
(916) 273-1130
TOgan@healthcollaborative.org

"The mission of the Interfaith Council of Greater Sacramento is to promote respect for all faiths and religious human rights for all, to encourage faiths to work together for better understanding and acceptance of all faiths and their people, to encourage a cohesive hand of all faiths in social services, to implement programs for the basic needs in the community and to help protect religious freedom as an element of human rights for all."