Just like the people in the story, I want to be transformed by the story of Jesus; transformed from someone who cowers in a place of safety, filled with fear and doubts, into a powerful member of a movement to create peace through justice. Im guessing that in vast majority of the interpretations of these parables, the shepherd, the woman, and the father are usually identified as a symbol for the MYSTERY which we call GOD. The week before Easter, known as Holy Week, is very special in the Christian tradition. Anna and Steve were Pentecostals who were convinced that my slack Lutheran ways simply werent serious enough to earn me a coveted spot in the Heaven of their dreams. But I suspect that justice, the kind of justice which ensures that everyone has enough so that everyone can live in peace, is something worth leaving behind everything you have in order to pursue. Justice is what LOVE looks like when LOVE is unleashed here on Earth. Somehow the Parliamentarians managed with their smaller cannons or battering rams to shatter the wall and the cannon, Humpty Dumpty came tumbling down, shattered, irreparable. Death is vanquished. Father's Day Service Outline and Ideas. Today, when each of us is coping with the loss of an hours sleep, perhaps it is easier for us to understand that the way in which we describe reality does indeed change over time. The big challenge of this period in the Church Calendar is that the focus is so very clearly on events that happened to "Someone else" so very long ago. People: We praise you, Lord, for these gifts of bread and wine. My own desire to resist the urge to respond to violence with violence weakens with every report of the injustices perpetrated as innocent lives are lost. Only a fool Would resist the contentment, the satisfaction of a purse fat with nine shiny, weighty coins. jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); At Easter all the themes of the Christian Gospel are held together in one great burst of life. Frame 11: When life hands you a lemon make lemonade!*. Christ is risen indeed! Easter Communion Liturgy Inspired by A Song of Faith. If we look at the stories that have been told about Jesus, the stories that have contributed so much to the creation of the idol that masquerades as the Mystery we call God, we discover a narrative that seems preoccupied with Jesus death. The safety of the mountaintop must have been glorious. Good Shepherd Sunday in Quarantine - Easter 4A. Benedicite - a Song of Creation Benedicite - a Song of Creation (shorter version) Venite - a Song of Triumph Jubilate - a Song of Joy The Easter Anthems Evening Prayer. A Liturgical and Devotional Guide for Lent. The occupying Roman forces not only publicly executed their teacher as a warning to any of Jesus would be followers,The Roman Empire, crucified as many dissenters as they could catch. Some walking away to become refugees, joining the endless flow of the displaced. Bert Polman ([email protected]) is a hymnologist who is a professor and chair of the music department at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. And so in this spirit of brightness and life, we celebrate. Now, O God, with grateful hearts we remember Jesus. by Alydia Smith and the Rev. Anna explained that unless, I was prepared to be born again, under the tutelage of her pastor, I would need to find someplace else to live. We celebrate the table in which we can join together with friends and strangers, loved ones and enemies. This my body, given for you. Nothing was said until dinner the next day, by which time Steve and Anna had been back to church twice. The seed you sow does not germinate unless it dies. Now this doesnt really present much of a problem with the first two parables of loss. So much so that they confessed their desire to stay with Jesus in the splendor of that mountaintop. As a result of this splendid isolation, we spent several weeks as the only family camped in this idyllic bay. Forget for a moment the layers of interpretations offered by generations of Jesus followers who have interpreted that little word ransom as some sort of cosmic escape clause offered by Jesus as a way out of the trials and tribulations of life on this planet. It wasnt until that young Dad buried his face in his daughters chest that I recognized the face of CHRIST. jQuery(document).ready(function(){ Galileo recanted, but the Earth is moving still 2021 All rights Reserved | Site by Fix8, Communion: SALTs Lectionary Commentary for Twelfth Week after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Commentary John 6:51-58, Three and One: SALTs Lectionary Commentary for Trinity Sunday, What Does This Mean? 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Alleluia! document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Or break the very atoms down to see how they are made, One clear shot and Putin would be gone. and of the sufferings that are going on around us, let us pray for the establishment of peace, in our hearts and on earth. Is that right?, Crystal was a little breathless from all the crying she had been doing and all she could manage was a whimpered, Mmm hummm. Honey, tell grandma the truth now. When soap didnt work she reached for the butter. Steve and Anna were very quiet on the ride home. Resist the empires to which we have lost the justice which has the power to create peace. The congregation is encouraged to move around the sanctuary. May this Spirit help us to recognize the Christ-presence in our midst. Heaven is ours to create out of the hells we have made. So, when the possibility arose to actually travel up to Narvik in Norway to see the mid-night sun I was off. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. It wasnt about believing in resurrection it was about practicing resurrection. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. McCourt asks: Who says its an egg?, Of course, its an egg. with the Son, God the Father praising;"Alleluia!" Bit by bit, hope has begun to build upon hope as we look forward to Spring when we call launch forth into fuller more robust living. My youth and inexperience allowed the more ornery side of my nature to come to the fore. Lord, help us to make. If we take off our rose coloured glasses, and pick up a pair of lenses permeated with the desire to resist persecution, violence, and the forces of Empire, these parables have the potential to inspire the kind of passion necessary to recover the one thing which is lost, justice. There is one more face of CHRIST which I would like you to see. (from Heidelberg Catechism Q & A 45). John 1:1-5, Captain Kirk and His Merry Band of Billionaires! Im convinced that it will not be difficult to see the glorious face of CHRIST in this: view on video. For we have been blessed with the ability to grasp so many more details about the Cosmos in which we live and move and have our being, than our ancestors could ever have imagined. Beatitude Nine: Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. We share this bread and drink, as Jesus shared a Passover meal with his disciples, and we partake of it together as our pledge of openness to the Spirit of Love in our midst, and as our remembrance of Jesus who invited us to do even greater things than he did. Her unseen hand was stuck inside her great-grandmothers vase. One: On this day, we embrace the grace which reaches from the tomb. Inflammatory rhetoric is a method of speaking designed to capture the attention of those upon whom it is inflicted. When the peace which is lost breaks out and the lost, the forsaken, and the forlorn greet one another with open arms and go into the feast to celebrate, for what once was lost is found. If you are looking for an Affirmation of Faith for a specific season or celebration (e.g. ), The pattern of death and resurrection is the pattern of all our creating and all our loving. Maybe Jesus was wrong about justice as the only way to peace. Yes, I have my doubts about the possibility of SHALOM, especially now as we peer into the abyss which are the horrors of Ukraine, Syria, Myanmar, and countless other places where injustice has bred violence the likes of which seems unstoppable. Great is the mystery of faith: DONATE NOW! I rented a small room in a basement apartment, which I shared young couple who worked in the same grocery store as I did. Killer whales. reflections upon the Death of God Lent 3, Giving Up GOD for Lent the Journey Begins Lent 1, Commemorating Julian of Norwich (1342-1416), Lent: Letting Go of Our Tightly Held Piety to See Our Need of Confession, METANOIA the First Words Out of Jesus' Mouth - Mark 1:14-15, Like Nicodemus we have blinders on! But we have seen the face of CHRIST, and CHRIST compels us, through CHRISTs tears, to go out from the safety of our lofty positions, down into the violent world to be the LOVE which creates peace through justice. Thank you for sharing this liturgy for communion. Text and image William Livingstone Wallacebut available for free use. to give our thanks and praise. We need to reach our year-end fundraising goal that will determine what we can do for 2023. For those of you preaching on the text fromGenesis 32:3-31: You may not be able to tell from looking at me. Evolving beyond the myth that violence can solve our problems, or bring us peace, is vital. Join Us over Zoom, Tuesdays beginning February 21st at 7pm! Let it go. Sure enough, the vase slipped off as smooth as silk. There werent many of us who made the effort. 1 Corinthians 15. <>>> He rose again in victory because the powers of death cannot overcome the Divine power of Life. Anyway, we did what any self-respecting kid would have done in our position. United States After the wind there was an earthquakebut YHWH was not in the earthquake. Another great reference and guide, if available to you, is The Worship Sourcebook, published by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.It's an excellent collection of prayers, texts, and litanies, with worship resources for every church season. If you have not donated yet, please do so today. Grant that being joined together in him we may attain to the unity of the faith and grow up in all things unto him who is the head, Christ our risen Lord. Easter 5A in Quarantine: Refuge in God. History should have taught us by now that that justice and not violence is the way to peace. But I must tell you, when that first whale jumped up out of the water, and we saw the tell-tale signs of those white patches on its side, we moved faster than youd think two kids in a slowly deflating rubber dingy ought to be able to manage. So, when I was preparing for this worship service, I confess I was tempted to leave out the reading from 1st Corinthians 15 which is prescribed for this particular Sunday by the Revised Common Lectionary. The liturgy was adapted by Dr. Bert Polman from a form prepared by the Liturgical Committee of the Christian Reformed Church for use during an Easter Service; this liturgy can be used for all Sundays in Eastertide. delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made us a new people. Too, many Hollywood movies, inspired me to flirt with violence as I yearned for some secret agents to take him out. The prayer book revision Facebook group, with more than 4,000 members, was created in 2017 by the Rev. Congregational Prayers (may be solicited), which may be preceded by other joyful and appropriate responses to the Easter Gospel. February 11th, 2013. Youll find it in the first Book of Kings. We are an Easter people! The hands are up like a shot. Let us be reckless in our LOVing, Grounded in our service, outrageously generous in our ransoming life on this planet. So, how is it that I deny the resurrection. Easter 3A in Quarantine: God Sightings. So, let us see the wounds inflicted by violence, and practice resurrection. You can put it They were compiled over the years to complement the official resource, the Roman Missal. Yesterday, when the sun was in the same position in the sky as it is now, we insisted that it was an hour later. Where, O Death is your victory? Maybe if we are unwilling to fight, all we can do is join our tears to the tears of that little Ukrainian family. The Gospel this morning comes to us from the anonymous Gospel storyteller that we know as John. The word liturgy means "the work of the people", and it is here that the poetry of prayer finds form and structure. All who are truly sorry for their sins, who sincerely believe in the Lord Jesus as their Savior, and who desire to live in obedience to him, are now invited to come with gladness to the table of the Lord. var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); The Resurrection is witness to the golden incandescence at the heart of life which neither suffering nor death can destroy. The Easter Peace is shared *Hymn This Is the Day Above the passage, Anna had written, The Gospel in a Nutshell. In the tears of that little Ukrainian family, I began to see yet another face of CHRIST, a face I had refused to see before. Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body.". Posted by mictori in Church Life, Holidays, Liturgy, Pop, Communion, Communion Liturgy, Easter, Easter Communion, Easter Communion Liturgy, Easter Morning, Liturgy, non-violent Communion, progressive Christianity, Resurrection. Generations beyond any cameras reach, each with their own pain. I was suspicious of the kind of youth I would meet on a Tuesday at a Pentecostal church, I convinced a fellow chambermaid to come along with me, so that if we had to, Id have company as I hitch-hiked my way back to Jasper. People: First, by his resurrection he has overcome death, so that he might make us share in therighteousness he won for us by his death.Second, by his power we tooare already now resurrected to a new life.Third, Christ's resurrectionis a guarantee of our glorious resurrection.This is our faith and hope. God has sent me to proclaim liberty to those held captive, recovery of sight to those who are blind, and release to those in prison to proclaim the year of Gods favour. Rolling up the scroll, Jesus gave it back to the attendant and sat down. All tears are part of the river of life. He lives, and presides at this Feast! Come, drink together from the Cup of Gladness! Helping you win loyal friends through your communications, All the stuff I should be writing down for a book someday, Soulful leadership in its many manifestations, A Liturgy for Easter Day (with HolyCommunion), Preaching Thomas on Low Sunday Some PossiblePathways, Reflection and Hymn: The Most DeliciousBread, Encampments: In Situ Poems and Found Devotions, This was the Original Episcopal Cafe site. One of the authors of the Book of Genesis described creation like this : And God said, Let there be afirmamentin the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made thefirmament and divided the waters which were under thefirmamentfrom the waters which were above thefirmament: and it was so. Others stretched the wings of their spirituality and flew off into the magic darkness joyfully singing: All will be well and all manner of things shall be well! (Julian of Norwich). Can, will, or indeed, should the Church Survive?. I had to confess right then and there, in my twentieth year of life, I struggled to believe that any GOD who sent His only Child to die, on a cross, is worth getting up on a Sunday morning for. What a stupid argument. So, the next morning I rose early, and as the mist was rising over the water I paddled out toward the mouth of the bay and waited. Today, on this International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, how many of us will satisfy ourselves with righteous indignation rather than sacrifice? The story begins with a familiar nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the kings horses and all the kings men Couldnt put Humpty together again. McCourt asks his young students to tell him whats going on in this nursery rhyme. jQuery.noConflict(); Thank you. We are free from the captivity of a way of thinking which insists that we believe what our own experience confirms is no way to live in the very reality our ancestors were struggling to fathom. Now, the dingy wasnt totally inflated on account of the leak that it had sprung the day before. Hosanna in the highest. Evening Prayer Service Bulletin which is to be printed double-sided. Easter is the eternal moment that supersedes all time; the vision that puts into perspective all visionless living. Or study cells, or living things, seek truth with open hand. O God, how many times have we sought to bury you again, for fear of what you might do to our predictable grayness? Having this "catch-cry" as a . For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. For us, Jesus can be the medium through which the Mystery we call God can be imagined. Would leave ninety-nine sheep to look for one lost sheep. Gig Harbor, WA 98335 Excuse me if I sound a little too indignant but jockeying for a seat during a global pandemic is more than a little tone deaf, when according to the United Nations, yet another 150 million or so people will be plunged into poverty this year, swelling the ranks of the global poor to over one and a half-billion people, over half of which are children. But for a brief time, our longing for Spring stirred expectations in us which heralded better times ahead. Why did they repeat these stories over and over again? But she couldnt see it, so she reached in for her candy and thats when she got stuck and she couldnt get her hand back out. Im not talking about some Pollyanna notion of passivity in the face of violence, and I know that we are not going to solve our addiction to violence anytime soon. How dare I posit a GOD who is LOVE? I am the only one left, and now theyre trying to kill me, too. Elohim (thats an ancient Hebrew word which we translate simply as God or Lord. We need a saviour to rescue us from our sinfulness. It was as if my whole being was alive. But there is more going on in this story than just the literal words on the page. The Prayer of Thanksgiving. As Jesus invited his friends to drink, mindful of a relationship of love and trust between ourselves and the spirit of life, Im not so sure however, that Jesus response to his disciples indignation is all comforting. Reformed Worship 2023 by Worship Ministries of the Christian Reformed Church. Let me attempt to be kinder than the Apostle, whose willingness to call his opponents stupid, I do not share. Enjoy! For we are ONE with an evolving DEITY. It is a scary proposition for a pastor to venture out on a journey without the familiar trappings of familiar liturgy. Resurrection is not a solitary endeavor. Yes, the father should never have trusted his sons with all that he had, and when his lost son showed himself to be untrustworthy, he shouldnt have been welcomed with open arms, and as for the faithful, self-righteous son, well sometimes justice demands that we abandon the rules, if we are to achieve peace. We are free to seek, to know, and to become this LOVE in which we live, and move, and have our being. Thats when I heard the small voice. Lord Jesus, come in glory. We are free to imagine the grace of the MYSTERY capable of exquisite intricacy, unrelenting intimacy, magnanimous generosity, and evolutionary complexity; a MYSTERY which is the very embodiment of LOVE, the LOVE which is eternally becoming. The colossal profits we offer up to billionaires are not simply the result of corporate greed. *Leader: Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, our risen Lord! Everyone knows that.. Our focus upon preserving the church gets in the way of our rebirth! They were an unusual couple in that we shared the uncommon habit of going to church. 4810 Pt. Steve carefully explained to me that I was in mortal danger. According to Nola, the Easter Morning Liturgy in today's Moravian Book of Worship is remarkably similar to that included in the 1778 German Moravian Hymnal (except, of course, ours is in English!) All your creatures testify to your mighty deeds! The Earth was flat. Risen Christ, The world despised and rejected you. The Liturgy of the Hours includes several specified times of prayer. var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); Whether your interpretation of the resurrection is literal or metaphorical, Easter morning is always welcome. Traditionally, the season of Lent is a time of repentance. You can catch glimpses of this LOVE resisting the violence of domination systems, in every champion of the environment, every compassionate advocate for the poor, the oppressed and the marginalized. Perhaps Jesus sensed that even their anger was a type of jockeying for position, when he insisted that, Anyone among you who aspires to greatness must serve the rest; whoever wants to rank first among you must serve the needs of all. The text beginning with the Invitation is read by pastor and people from the hymnal. And each and every time we find what has been lost is a time for celebration. This knowledge has to change the way in which we see our relationship with the MYSTERY that lies at the very source of our being; our Creator if you will. The precious vase had been handed down from her great-grandmother to her grandmother, to her mother. But it does have the power to transfigure. Ready: Perhaps some will ask, How are the dead to be raised up? On this Easter, we pray in Your name. Then there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. and proclaim the Resurrected Christ who offers life to all. Faced with the task of communicating the gospel, the early followers of the risen Christ, began to articulate experiences of the risen Christ in ways that the Greek influenced Roman Empire could understand giving rise (pardon the pun), giving rise to the question of a physical resurrection. Yesterday, I travelled out onto the frozen surface of Lake Simcoe. *All: Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord! Only a foolWould find. christmas featuring two prayers suitable for including in a Christmas card to a friend. As frightened as I was, I was determined to get close to these magnificent beasts. Out or on the Fringe of the Church. [Meal is shared according to custom of congregation.]. That Paul didnt much care about a physical resurrection ought to give us the courage to see the notion of a physical resuscitation of Jesus corpse for the late first century development that it was. Theres nothing wrong with that. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Amen. *All sing: (suggested: "I Serve a Risen Savior" or "Christ Our Lord Is Risen Today"). It was recorded Saturday morning, after a rocket exploded in an apartment block in Kiev. May we remember to give out the grace and forgiveness that you have freely given us, Then it is given the body designed for itwith each kind of seed getting its own kind of body. So, let us forget about what we have been conditioned to look for in order to see what needs to be seen, today in the midst the violence in which our world seems incapable of forsaking. April 17, 2022 (Readings on USCCB website) . She scooped the vase and her little girl up into her arms and carried them to the kitchen sink. }); Then Grandma rubbed little Crystals back, held her close and gentle, but firmly said: Let it go, child. If we begin with what is actually happening in these parables, we will have to confess that these parables of the lost and the found are simply outrageous. jQuery(document).ready(function(){ Jesus taught this. Paul insists that there are natural bodies, which he equates with earthly bodies what we would call physical bodies and there are spiritual bodies which Paul equates with heavenly bodies. healed those who believed in him, received all who sought him. Where, O death is your sting?. 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