SACRED GROUND and SACRED BEING SESSIONS
In the Episcopal Church we are guided by the vision of Becoming Beloved Community, our church’s long-term commitment to racial justice, healing and reconciliation. We are all on a lifelong journey toward God’s dream, and it is all of our work to do as we take intentional and faithful steps forward, as if moving through a labyrinth.
All Saints Pasadena is committed to being part of this nationwide church initiative for racial reconciliation and in the next weeks and months we will be offering two opportunities for us all to do the work of moving closer to Beloved Community.
Sacred Ground — a film-based race dialogue series for white community members — will launch on May 4. Click here to learn more and register to participate in a Sacred Ground circle. (Sacred Ground encourages white people to do the work they need to do to fully enter into partnership with people of color. All Saints Pasadena resonates deeply with this challenge and will offer Sacred Ground for those who identify as white in this initial iteration.)
- 11 Sessions over 22 weeks-May to September 2025
- Online and in-person options for small group dialogue
- Register here.
Orientation will be held on Sunday, April 27th, 12:00-2:00 p.m. in Sweetland Hall. Please plan to attend!
Registration will begin April 6 and the launch of the 11-part series of dialogue circles will begin May 4. There will be opportunities for both in-person and online, daytime and evening, weekday and weekend groups. Trained facilitators will be working in collaboration with Sacred Ground Coordinators MaryAnn Ahart and Lori Kizzia and under the direction of staff member Thomas Diaz, Director of Connection & Care. For more information, please contact SacredGroundASC@gmail.com.
Sacred Being – an opportunity for people of color to come together to find a pathway of liberation from internalized racial oppression – will launch soon. This is an opportunity for people of color at All Saints to come into the awareness of, and heal from, the ways in which we have internalized racial oppression here in America. Oppressive structures, systems, hierarchies, belief systems and values don’t just live in our laws and in our society, but they take up residence in our minds, cultures, and very bodies. We must find a pathway of liberation from this, a pathway that reclaims our lives, bodies, and very beings as sacred: a reclamation that transcends the bounds and definitions of white supremacy. Please pre-register your interest to recieve updates regarding the launching of this important program.
Whoever you are and wherever you find yourself on the journey of faith there is a place for you as we all do the work of Becoming Beloved Community.
Here’s what former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry had to say about Sacred Ground:
See our “Telling The Whole Story: All Saints’ History of Jim Crow Segregation and St. Barnabas Church” webpage.
