A quiet day for remembering

SOUL FOOD

That next Wednesday will be the one-year anniversary of the Sept.

11 terrorist attacks on this nation is hard for me to believe. It

seems like it could just as well have been yesterday.

In the 12 months that have passed, I have written about that day

at least a dozen times. I wrote about it the day it happened. I tried

to describe what I’d seen and heard. I called the day another chink

in our collective illusion of invulnerability, a chink to add to

other chinks like Pearl Harbor and the assassinations of John F.

Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Two of my husband’s colleagues perished in those attacks on Sept.

11. Another colleague was spared. She should have been on American

Airline Flight 11, but through some turn of events, wasn’t. So, when

she gave birth to her baby Victoria last January, I found myself

thinking, and writing, about Sept. 11 again. The last time I wrote

about that day was June, which, oddly, right now seems longer ago

than September.

Next week the events of Sept. 11 and those lost in those tragic

events and their families will be remembered in churches and

synagogues throughout our city.

Calvary Baptist Church will hold “A 9/11 Remembrance Candlelight

Prayer Vigil and Service” on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. It will include a

multi-media presentation of encouragement and hope. Firefighters and

police officers will be present to offer words of encouragement to

children in grades K-6.

St. Wilfrid of York Episcopal Church will hold a two-hour open

door prayer vigil from 5:45 to 7:45 a.m. Bells will ring calling to

prayer throughout the early morning in accord with Eastern Standard

Time at the times of the plane crashes and the collapses of the World

Trade Center towers. There will be two shorter services at noon and 7

p.m. The church will be open for prayer and meditation from 8 a.m. to

8 p.m.

Many other churches in the area will hold services and open their

sanctuary throughout the day for prayer. It will be a day to

remember.

Calvary Baptist Church

8281 Garfield Ave.

962-6860

Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. -A 9/11 Remembrance Candlelight Prayer Vigil

and

Service

Christ Presbyterian Church

20112 Magnolia St.

968-4940

Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. -Service of Remembrance

Community Bible Church

401 6th St.

536-4255

Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. -Service of Remembrance

Community United Methodist Church

6652 Heil Ave.

842-4461

Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. -Remembrance Service

Sanctuary will be open for prayer from 9 a.m. -5 p.m.

First Christian Church

of Huntington Beach

1207 Main St.

536-2589

Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. -Prayer and Remembrance

Fountain Spring Church

6462 Industry Way, Unit B

1-866-3spring

Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. -Candlelight Prayer Vigil

Grace Lutheran Church

6931 Edinger Ave.

897-0361

Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. -Remembrance Service

Huntington Beach

Baptist Church

Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. --Service of Remembrance

Huntington Beach Church

of Religious Science

7641 Talbert Ave.

596-0900

Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. -A Service for Forgiveness, Healing and Release

and

A Time of Reflection

Lutheran Church

of the Resurrection

9812 Hamilton Ave.

962-5005

Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. -A Service of Healing and Hope: Message, “The

Anguish of a Crystal Ball”

Seabreeze Church

At the Huntington Beach Central Library Theatre

7111 Talbert Ave.

969-7622

Sunday, Sept. 8 at 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. -9/11 Remembered

St. Wilfred of York

Episcopal Church

18631 Chapel Lane

962-7512

Sept. 11 at 5:45 -two-hour open door prayer vigil

Shorter services at noon and 7 p.m.

The church will be open all day, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for prayer and

meditation