Moms, after this challenging year, you deserve to be pampered, thanked, and loved. Kids and Dads, don’t forget it! San Damiano is here to help. Sign up to have brunch with us at about 11:15 AM.
We will be following Covid distancing protocols. The brunch will be limited to 45 guests. Families can sit together.
Please let us know if you wish to come for Mass at 10:00 AM before the brunch. We can only accommodate 25 in the Chapel. There is no charge for Mass, just for the brunch. Thank you in advance for considering others and your resolve to attend prior to signing up for Mass.
Brunch Menu
Mini lox and bagels
Assorted fruits and cheeses
Southern-style biscuit with honey butter
Egg, asparagus & cheese souffle
Housemade red potatoes & Bacon
- May 9, 2021
11:15 am - 8:15 pm
In the Celtic tradition, cross-quarter dates mark the beginning of the season or midpoint between the solstice and the equinox. May Day or Beltane is a celebration of the culmination of spring and the beginning of the light half of the year.
San Damiano welcomes Gerard’Z Bees for this three-hour workshop. Attendees will witness the basics of beekeeping, learn how to build a honeycomb foundation and hive, and observe a live bee colony housed in see-through hives. Beekeepers will teach the processes of honey production, pollen storage, and wax building. The experience transforms from a class to a tasting for the final hour, when students are invited to sample wildly different monofloral honeys from specific locales or plants, such as star thistle, wildflower, and black sage.
In this 90 minute hand labyrinth walk, you’ll experience the labyrinth in a whole new way as we shelter in place. Our Veriditas trained facilitator will lead the walk, where you’ll learn a little about the history of the labyrinth and the modern labyrinth movement in the US. And, we will experience a guided hand labyrinth walk, using a handheld or paper labyrinth (you can print one from home). The walk will wrap up with time for group reflection.
Paula Jenkins is a Veriditas trained labyrinth facilitator, certified life coach, and holds a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale Divinity School. For many years, she led the young adult team at San Damiano. She is the author of Jump Start Your Joy: Heart-Centered Ways to Find Joy in the Messy Middle, and the host of Jump Start Your Joy, a podcast that looks at how people choose joy in their lives, 
Executive Assistant to the President and Vice President of Student Services at Santa Clara University. Prior to his five years at SAT and his 22 years at SCU, Jim was Director of Career Planning and Placement at the University of California Berkeley and Georgetown University. He has a background in theology, career development, and higher education.
Anne and Terry Symens-Bucher are founders of Canticle Farm, an intentional community in Oakland, California experimenting at the intersection of faith, social justice, and Earth-based activism. We believe the political, economic, educational, and ecological crises we are facing in this historical moment are rooted in a spiritual crisis arising from the illusion of the separate, autonomous self. The spiritual journey we are being invited into today is moving from the individual, separate, autonomous consciousness to a communal consciousness, to become persons in community capable of caring for our common home. Canticle Farm is rooted in Franciscan spirituality and the Work That Reconnects, a body of teachings best known through living systems and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy. By reflecting upon Laudato Si and engaging in the experiential exercises of The Work That Reconnects, we can be led to our soul work—the unique and particular work we came into this life to do.
