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                     MORNING STAR ZENDO

50 Glenwood Ave. Apt 408, Jersey City, NJ  07306

  201-985-1515 ∙ morningstarzen@gmail.com ∙  www.morningstarzendo.org

September 18, 2023

Dear Morning Star-

Greetings and best wishes to you.

First, I just heard of the death of Father and Roshi Patrick Eastman in Swindon, England. Patrick was an Anglican priest and a married man with grown children when he and his wife, Maureen, converted to Catholicism at a time when married priests were not accepted in England. So, Patrick accepted the invitation of the Bishop of Tulsa, Oklahoma where he served for 10 years and where I met him. When married priests were accepted in England Patrick and Maureen returned to Cricklade on Thames and Patrick celebrated the liturgy at a Catholic parish in the area. Patrick is joyfully remembered in the Anglican, Catholic and Buddhist communities he so faithfully served.

And once again my deepest gratitude to Morning Star for the wonderfully festive ninetieth birthday celebration for me and my many relatives. Many cousins met for the first time. They still talk about it. They will never forget it.

Morning Star continues to be busy: 

from Grand Coteau, Louisiana to Molloy College on Long Island, NY;

from the Athletic department of Rutgers University, NJ, to Mercy by the Sea in Madison, CT;

from Skidmore College in Sarasota Springs, NY, to Living Water Zen Community in San Antonio, TX;

from the prisons of Mexico, Ireland, and Ecuador to the Aran Islands six miles out in the Atlantic off Galway Bay.

Also, by the end of November we will see the completion of Dónal Ó’Céilleachair’s hour-long film Are We One, the story of Morning Star and its broad reach to so many parts of the world, which will be distributed by Morning Star.

And so once again, every year Morning Star holds out our begging bowl relying on your generosity to keep our doors open and have a place for visitors to come to sit and to rest.

Roshi