Noon Ecumenical Service with Rev. Alice Cabotaje, Director of Spiritual Care at Stanford Health Care, preaching. Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent at Stanford Memorial Church and takes place 46 days before Easter.

Guest Preacher's Bio:

Rev. Alice Cabotaje, MDiv., BCC, ACPE Certified Educator
Director of Spiritual Care

Alice is a Certified Educator from the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) and a Board Certified Chaplain through the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC).  

Prior to Stanford Health Care, Alice was Director of Spiritual Care and Education at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, Massachusetts. Before MGH, she was at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center where she served as a Chaplain and underwent supervisory education to become an ACPE Certified Educator of Clinical Pastoral Education. 

She is an Ordained Minister with the Metropolitan Community Church and an authorized Zen Teacher and Dharma Heir in the Rinzai Zen School Empty Cloud lineage.  She has a Master of Divinity from the Pacific School of Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of the Philippines.