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“You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with magic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.”

-Warren Buffett
Dear Friends and Members,

Life is full of miracles, waking up each day, talking to a stranger (who really is our Homosapien brother or sister!), seeing a squirrel run up a tree and so on.

Warren Buffet, a very successful man financially… has no IPHONE, IPAD, but does enjoy his Egg McMuffin at McDonald’s shares his thoughts above. What can help each of us to have peace and love in our life is the realization that everyone has their own thoughts and words and to “Let Them Be.” Mr. Buffet says, ” If words control you, then everyone else can control you. Breath and allow things to pass.”

The old adage, Sticks and Stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt or break me,” according to Wikipedia has been around since 1862. when it appeared in The Christian Record. a publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, interesting during BLACK HISTORY MONTH.*

As 2021 unfolds for us and as always filled with GOOD NEWS if we see it, let us all BE STRONG and some cases BE STRONGER than we ever were by allowing others to sharetheir thoughts, even when we dont agree. More Good News, or LIFE, will then come our way because as Warren Buffet states, “Breath and allow things to pass.”

TONIGHT, Saturday, 02/06/21, A Piano Concertfor our HEROES, who continue to give of themselves for others. 7 pm est, from the www.montaukmanor.com Paul Sladkus Facebook Live. We will rebroadcast on www.goodnewsplanet.tv, where we have so much more Good News.

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With Peace & Love for ALL,

Reverend Paul Sladkus (All Faiths and Spiritual) and our Team

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PPS – Stay tuned for our MLK SPECIAL BENEFIT CONCERT, translated into Spanish, Chinese and other languages.

* Alexander William Kinglake in his Eothen (written 1830, published in London, John Ollivier, 1844) used “golden sticks and stones”.

It is reported[1] to have appeared in The Christian Recorder of March 1862, a publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, where it is presented as an “old adage” in this form:

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never break me.

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EVENT:   Brooklyn, NY– May 4, 2014

Bishop Jefferts Schori was elected Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in June 2006. She serves as chief pastor and primate to the Episcopal Church’s members in 16 countries and 110 dioceses. She joins with other principal bishops of the 38-member Provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion, seeking a common cause for global good and reconciliation.

Over the course of her nine–year term, Bishop Jefferts Schori is responsible for initiating and developing policy for the Episcopal Church and speaks on behalf of the church regarding the policies, strategies, and programs authorized by General Convention. She has been vocal about the Episcopal Church’s mission priorities, including the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, issues of domestic poverty, climate change and care for the earth, as well as the ongoing need to contextualize the gospel. The Presiding Bishop is charged to speak God’s word to the church and to the world. 

About St. Philip’s Church:

St. Philip’s Episcopal Church has a long history in the Weeksville/Bedford Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. Just at the turn of the 19^th century, a group of African- Americans residing in Brooklyn, having experienced less than acceptance at an Episcopal church not far from where they lived, decided that it was time for them to establish an Episcopal Church near home, then the Weeksville area of Brooklyn. And so, they met at the home of one of their group, Mrs. Esther Reese, for that purpose.

Within a short period of time, they had obtained store-front space at 1887 Pacific Street and in May of 1899, the first service of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church was held. The church became a mission church in the diocese of Long Island. It attracted many Blacks: from the Caribbean, from Virginia and the Carolinas, and native Brooklynites.

In 1926, St Philip’s obtained full status as a parish of the diocese of Long Island and the Reverend Nathaniel Peterson Boyd became its first rector. Today, 115 years laterthe church continues its operations in the community and programs of outreach – among which are a food pantry, AA Program, home to one of the oldest boy’s troops (#263) in scouting, an active girl’s scouting troop, and a program of beautiful music, often shared with the community. It is looking forward to again housing an early childhood center.

For further information please visit our website at www.stphilipsbklyn.org or call us at 718-778-8700.

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