When humankind struggles, we all struggle together. Resurrection is about the wisdom and the courage to proclaim with our lives that Jesus vision of the Reign of LOVE continues to rise in us. (from Heidelberg Catechism Q & A 45). Let us confess our sins. They were both more than a little relieved to have Grandmas calming presence. BAT KOL, the DAUGHTER OF A SOUND or as some translations put it the DAUGHTER OF A VOICE. Exposed to the vastness of the Cosmos, it was the ancient story of a Three-tiered Universe that inspired not murderous intentions in me, but rather the euphoria of freedom from captivity to the limitations of our ancestors imaginations. I only know that they appeared to follow in my footsteps in the snow as they ventured out to the place where the Cosmos had made itself known to me. But try as we might we are in bondage to sin and we cannot free ourselves. } else { Our very own lifestyles, demand what they are selling. This year, we at Holy Cross are giving up God for Lent. Death is vanquished. Now, O God, with grateful hearts we remember Jesus. Well, we never did manage to escape. We pray to theLord. the Divine thrives in our world. I can only hope that each of you, have endured such moments in your life. My words are not up to the task of describing CHRIST weeping in this way. Easter is the festival of the irrepressible God whom not even death can contain. Introit "The Strive Is O'er"(Voices United (VU) 159) "Christ Is Risen from the Dead"(VU 167) "Now Christ Is Risen"(VU 172) "Halle, halle, halle" (VU 958) Call to Worship. 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. Thank you! Maybe Jesus was wrong about justice as the only way to peace. You might say my countenance betrayed me, because it wasnt long before I took my body and its language out of the apartment to the nearest bar, where among friends, I began to look for a new place to live. We know that humans were not created as perfectly formed creatures who fell into sin. Pete said it this way, and I couldnt agree with him more: I deny the resurrection of CHRIST every time I do not serve at the feet of the oppressed, each day that I turn my back on the poor; I deny the resurrection of CHRIST when I close my ears to the cries of the downtrodden and the oppressed. Not all flesh is the same. Amen. Then Grandma rubbed little Crystals back, held her close and gentle, but firmly said: Let it go, child. 2023 ProgressiveChristianity.org, Common Prayers: Faith, Family, and a Christians Journey Through the Jewish Year, A Joyful Path, Childrens Curriculum Sample Lessons for Years One, Two and Three, Find Faith Communities Using A Joyful Path, The Core Values of Progressive Christianity, Bishop Spong Newsletter Progressing Spirit, Advertising on ProgressiveChristianity.org. We are free to live in the abundance of life here and now, in a Cosmos permeated by the DIVINE MYSTERY which is LOVE. So, there could have been half a dozen or there could have been only one whale. The sun has one kind of brightness, the moon another, and the stars another. I will only attempt to take you where this story took me out there on the ice of Lake Simcoe. Do we have the courage to hear the word ransom as sacrifice? The eradication of poverty is the work of LOVE in the world, this world, here and now, on this wonderful bountiful planet, upon which there is already more than enough to nourish abundant life for all. I dont think that Jesus, or his followers, or Luke, told these parables in order to teach their listeners about the character of YAHWEH. You created the world by speaking life into being. Because if the dead are not raised, then Christ is not raised, and if Christ is not raised, your faith is worthless. We need a saviour to rescue us from our sinfulness. McCourts story forces me to confess that for most of my life, I believed that Humpty Dumpty was an egg; a magical egg to be sure, with a face, and legs, and hands, a jolly fellow, but an egg none the less. These tiny, humble, wordless things how shall they tell us lies? As we prepare for todays celebration, let us express our regret for the limits we have put on Gods Spirit at work in us. So, longing to escape the confines of my cozy isolation, out onto to the ice I trudged, as the cold air sharpened my vision. O God, help us to let go of those mental pictures of you which prevent us from accepting that we will never know you fully and save us from pointless theological argument which reflects our insecurity rather than your mystery. Frame 4: A smile from you can bring joy to anyone and everyone you encounter. If you have already donated, thank you! 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. He was teaching in the Galilean synagogues, and all were loud in their praise. Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, Mass During the Day: O God, who on this day, through your Only Begotten . (BL), www.methodist.org.nz/resources/hymns/boundlesslife, http://www.methodist.org.nz/resources/hymns/the_mystery_telling, Singing the Sacred, Vol 1 2011 World Library Publications, Jesus Christ is alive and lives in me. /* The way that the Jesus story has been told has crafted, molded and shaped the idol that masquerades as the MYSTERY we call God. Frame 12: Good friends are like stars, you dont always see them but you know they are there. Just before my blow connected with its victim, I realized that I was doomed. And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven, we praise your name and join their unending hymn: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. United States The truth has left its living word for anyone to read. Remember those first gatherings of the people who followed Jesus teachings met in secret because they feared for their lives. Once again, I struggled to keep a straight face. Living accommodations were not a priority. Now the green blade rises from the buried grain; Wheat that in dark earth for may days has lain; Love lives again, that with the dead has been: Love is come again like wheat that rises green. Sacrifice one for the sake of the many. You will find service ideas, readings, prayers, seasonal resources and much more-many you can search by scripture text. Today, it is Easter Sunday for orthodox Christians. Together, at this table, you have offered us life. You covenanted with your people and gave them Law that showed the way of Lifea path of peace, justice, mercy, reverence, love. Jesus reveals CHRIST. (During the distribution Scripture may be read or the congregation may sing songs such as the following: "He Is Lord," "Abba, Father," "Eat This Bread," "In the Quiet Consecration"). If you have not donated yet, please do so today. Thoughts on Readings, Prayers & Hymn Suggestions. The face of CHRIST which must be seen if we are to end this madness. If our hopes in Christ are limited to this life only, we are the most pitiful of all the human race. Anyone among you, those who aspires to greatness must serve the rest; whoever wants to rank first among you must serve the needs of all. O Easter God, who shatters all the familiar tombs which we create, enable us to move beyond slavish conformity either to old understandings or to new fashions and with joy embrace your ever-changing, ever challenging future. I expect things to be resolved. Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountain apart and shattered the rocks by YHWEHs powerbut YHWH was not in the whirlwind. I am using it this Sunday and sharing your credit information! Old and New Testament Canticles at Morning and Evening Prayer. Let us be LOVE in the world, by fearlessly serving the poor. and the capacity to give people an experience of God. In this, the 21st century, there is a movement among progressive Christians that focuses more on who Jesus was and why he had such an impact on the world rather than his death. The followers of Jesus were lifted up from a crouching or cowering position as they boldly proclaimed what they had learned from Jesus. After the wind there was an earthquakebut YHWH was not in the earthquake. I expect solutions. For the death of what it took me years to learn about, the death of atonement theories has given birth to the resurrection of DIVINITY, a DIVINITY liberated from ancient projections onto the DIVINE of the myth of redemptive violence. Thats when I heard the small voice. You sent your only-begotten,in whom your fullness dwells, Especially not when the Pastor insisted that there were sinners in need of prayer and headed over to the two of us and gathered us all in a prayer, a like no prayer, Id ever been part of. Did Jesus really believe that people ought to forsake everything they have in order to find the one thing they have lost? window.location.replace('https://progressivechristianity.org/paupress/?rel=contact&pau_form=contact_form'); Unlike our ancestors who succeeded the writers of the bible and went on to develop the theology of the church, we dont believe that the round earth is the center of the universe. 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. Not because I had been driven out of my home. It took the Church until 1991 to concede that Galileo and not the writer of Joshua was right and that the Earth did indeed revolve around the Sun. Breathe forth the goodness that is within you. Social Justice Lectionary, Bruce Sweet, 2014. The pastor is often on vacation; the choir scales back. As tensions escalated and our world held our collective breath, the fragility of the peace we cling to, the peace built through military might, and threats of violence and mutual annihilation, this illusion of peace was threatened by the ambitions of a powerful oligarch obsessed with delusions of restoring tribal supremacy for his once mighty nation. It wasnt until the 15th century that the flatness of the Earth was seriously challenged by the likes of Columbus. After work, I convinced the housekeeper at the lodged where I worked, to rent me a room for a couple of nights at a reduced rate and I headed over to the apartment to pack up my things. Jesus poured out his life in the service of LOVE. SPRING - EASTER The Dance Of Transformation. 4810 Pt. Jesus existed within time whereas the CHRIST exists in and beyond time. } Humans were cast out of the perfection of the garden and alienated for their creator. Christmas, Mother's Day, etc. When I can bring myself to read these parables through the lenses of resistance, I can begin to tell these stories as a call to resist. and proclaim the Resurrected Christ who offers life to all. But then I looked at the readings assigned for next Sunday and discovered that, yet another section of 1st Corinthians 15 is included. The Earth, the Heavens, and the seas.Now even though the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras proposed that the Earth was round in the 6th century before the common era. Peace begins with non-violent resistance. I dont know how to stop this loop from playing. Let me attempt to be kinder than the Apostle, whose willingness to call his opponents stupid, I do not share. healed those who believed in him, received all who sought him. So, when the possibility arose to actually travel up to Narvik in Norway to see the mid-night sun I was off. We covenant to love as Jesus the Christ loved us- loving our neighbors as ourselves. Just as Jesus empowered the people he encountered to believe in themselves, we want you to walk away with an awareness not of how ordinary you are not of how unworthy you are but an awareness of your greatness and lovability. Sometimes, when I manage to muster up my courage and try to view these parables of loss through lenses of resistance, I can begin to feel a kind of reckless abandon welling up in me, inspiring the kind of passion, which tempts me to take leave of my senses, to risk everything for the sake of what is currently being lost. Some walking away to become refugees, joining the endless flow of the displaced. See if you can pick them out. However, Pete goes on, there are moments when I affirm that resurrection, few and far between as they are. I suspect that most of us have heard these parables of loss so many times that it is the many and varied of interpretations of these parables, which tend to stick with us, rather than the details and circumstances under which these particular parables were born and raised. 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. His eyes are too beady. You can also watch the videos of the homilies our videorgrapher is enjoying the Family Day weekend so my head is missing from the first parts but thanks to a volunteers intervention my head is restored in the third video. Well, for now, we weep. You are holy, O God of Life, and holy is Jesus Christ, your Son, the resurrected One. In preparation for communion, please join us in reciting the Prayer of Unity that is in your program. //jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); We believe that faith can move mountains, and that caterpillars can be transformed into butterflies. Fosdick Dr. NW #80 Free from misguided struggles to appease the idol god of our design, we are free to see beyond our blind self-centered desire for a life beyond this life, free to see the face of DIVINITY in our neighbours face, free to see DIVINITY in the majesty of the Cosmos, and in the beauty of the Earth. 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Gracious God, Too, many Hollywood movies, inspired me to flirt with violence as I yearned for some secret agents to take him out. Christs peace is ours forever! Through his resurrection Life you gave birth to your church, High above the mountaintops, where only distance bars, Seeking out the darkest place, to better see the light. Others, they looked confused and terrified as they are loaded on board trains. If you are looking for an Affirmation of Faith for a specific season or celebration (e.g. with the Son, God the Father praising;"Alleluia!" Believe it or not, my wrestling skills actually helped me rise to the level of a world champion wrestler. Human beings have one kind, animals have another, birds another, and fish another. Today! In LOVE, we are ransomed from our fear, ransomed from our arrogance and ransomed from our self-centredness, set free to trust the MYSTERY which is LOVE so that we to might live the way of LOVE, so that we might be LOVE in the world, here on this planet. Many of the pages are "decorative" but material can simply be cut and pasted into a word-processing program. A Prayer at the End of a Quarantined Day. When we invite the earth-shattering spirit of Easter into our lives,our images of God recede into the background and we are left walking hand in hand with the unknowable. 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. Springtime is a season of optimism and hope, and the Christian lives a faith centred on hope. view on video. We need to reach our year-end fundraising goal that will determine what we can do for 2023. The week before Easter, known as Holy Week, is very special in the Christian tradition. Practicing resurrection happens when we empower one another to rise.Practicing resurrection happens when we build communities of compassion that live fully, love extravagantly, and empower people to be all that they were created to be. For Paul, like Jesus, lived as a Jew in Palestine under the oppression of Roman Empire, which insisted that peace could only be established and maintained through violence. Lectionary Commentary Elizabeth Myer April 27, 2021 Progressive Lectionary Commentary, Progressive Christian Resources for Advent, Lectionary Commentary, Progressive Liturgical Resources, Revised Common Lectionary Year B, Revised Common Lectionary Easter 5 Year B, Revised Common Lectionary Easter 5, Lectionary Commentary Easter 5 Year B . Easter 5A in Quarantine: Refuge in God. Only a foolWould search and look and scour and puzzle, bend and peer, lift and move everything, to find a single coin. <>>> Support our mission with a tax-deductible donation! of our connectedness with God and with all people. We break and share this bread, as Jesus broke and shared it. ], [The Communion elements are distributed. On first inspection Divinity appeared to the seekers to be like a luminous egg, well rounded, self contained, completely clothed in light and amenable to definition. Welcome to the liturgy of The Namaste Church! Click HERE to DOWNLOAD the Worship Bulletin, ONE with the LOVE which permeates the Cosmos! Amen. jQuery(document).on('change', '#submission-action', function(){ Our continued evolution relies upon our ability to metanoia, to move beyond primitive ways of thinking. People: Your death, O Christ, we proclaim. (I have searched for the source of this story, withoutsuccess. Center for Liturgy, St Louis University. O Little Town of Bethlehem - Spoken Word - Christmas Mini Movie. by our lack of courage to say yes to the Voice within. !P$: \6M8eQU@}gv4f~ _W $>5b?hVQqD%cf(HC +l8Z%ooP~>Q?(`0j4PCI3lho"`1R1ZZsMf7sNG? Continue reading . Alas Paul, if youd been there when the Church was cutting up your letters to be delivered in snippets on Sunday mornings, I can only imagine what you might have said, when they decided to cut you off in mid-stream. Only a fool would welcome home with joy and abandon a wayward child who had used, rejected, dishonoured, and then returned only to try to use them again. heaven and earth are full of your glory. Today, we, ourselves and our neighbours, no longer live captive to the contours of the very tiny universe in which our ancestors confined their thoughts. DONATE NOW! The text beginning with the Invitation is read by pastor and people from the hymnal. There are times when risks must be taken. Liturgy - Easter Liturgy Index Next Easter Day In Western Christianity, Easter marks the end of Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, which begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts forty days (not counting Sundays). The response is Alithos Aneste! Perhaps someone will ask, How are the dead to be raised up? But if all you hear is, this reading, then surely, my denial of the resurrection numbers me among, as Paul would say, the most pitiful of all the human race., So, lets skip ahead to next weeks reading, when Paul makes his point. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.. To live the mystery is to flesh the idea and to share Resurrection. I remember flying out of there in a hot rage. The Gospel this morning comes to us from the anonymous Gospel storyteller that we know as John. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it unless it was for nothing that you believed. Salvation is not about saving us for life after death. and celebrate with joy the eternal Life offered to us through Jesus Christ. Text and image William Livingstone Wallacebut available for free use. jQuery.noConflict(); Some of the people remained in the fragmented remnants and developed compensating mantras. Dont try to see yourself as a character in the story. The Apostle Paul did not need there to be an actual physical resuscitation of a corpse in order to believe that Jesus is risen from the dead. Think about it, Jeff Bezos net worth is estimated at just shy of 200 billion dollars. This story with which we have been conditioned to look at the issues of our doubts about the resurrection itself, was written in the midst of colossal violence, violence which had escalated in the 70 years since the execution of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and his reputation spread throughout the region. Fortunately, the youth hostel was full, and we were forced to hike up and out of town to find a suitable spot to pitch our tents. Prayers. As the ancient storytellers weave their tail, Elijah was familiar with the voice of YHWH, so much so that he dared to argue with the voice. Strip away our biased convictions so that through our selfless giving we can gaze clearly on your vision for our lives. Easter Grace Blessing May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us this day. But we do know that whatever happened it transformed a people hiding from the endless violence into courageous followers of a Way of Being in the world which death could not destroy. We are blessed with riches beyond the wildest dreams of the generations who have gone before us. <>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 594.96 842.04] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> In both Ukraine and in Russia a wounded CHRIST is struggling to rise from death. That is the gospel, the message that I preached to you. Evening Prayer Audio the silences are intentional. For we are ONE with an evolving DEITY. But Anna and Steve were always at it. Gig Harbor, WA 98335 ELOHIM the MYSTERY which IS the god known by our ancestors as the GOD who IS the feminine plural of MAJESTY, the ONE Elijah knew as YHWH, the ONE who IS the verb TO BE, the I AM, this ONE comes to Elijah in the DAUGHTER OF A SOUND. read more A Good Friday Prayer by Lenny Duncan on March 1, 2021 | 0 Comments pour out your Holy Spirit upon us and upon these your gifts of bread and cup. Gods love pours out from the grave of despair. Let us repent, metanoia Let us think new thoughts. In the Liturgy of the Hours, the Church fulfills Jesus' command to "pray always" (Luke 18:1; see also 1 Thessalonians 5:17). The sun is in the same place at the same time as it was yesterday, but today all our clocks insist that it is actually 11:00 and not 10:00. They thought I was in danger of being tormented in the bowels of Hell for all eternity. Frame 10: Always remember the compliments that you received. Years ago, a good many years ago in fact, when my life as an adult had only just begun, I was backpacking around Europe, and I began to hear people talk about the land of the mid-night sun. All tears are part of the river of life. We believe that death is not the end, but rather a transformation into new possibilities. Let us do everything we can possibly do to challenge our own assumptions, to see beyond our own violent tendencies, our own selfish desires, and slowly, painfully slowly learn to love our enemies. This dear friends is what it means for you and me to sit at Jesus side. What is sown is a perishable body, what is raised is incorruptible. What is the anonymous gospel-storyteller we know as Luke trying to tell his community with these parables? There is so much more we can do and offer our readership with your support! Can we now look beyond what we have been conditioned to see, and see the wounded CHRIST standing in the middle of fearful followers, a vision of the impact of violence, saying, SHALOM, Peace be with you! Can we look beyond what we have been conditioned to see the ONE wounded by violence bidding us peace? jQuery.noConflict(); But I refused to believe that it would go as far as war. In the same way he took the cup, saying: This collection of liturgies is . When I was an amateur wrestler, I was a world-class champion wrestler. The text is taken in large part from Martin Luther's Small Catechism, with which Zinzendorf . But lately, the news has encouraged us all to begin to emerge from our pandemic protocols. It was recorded Saturday morning, after a rocket exploded in an apartment block in Kiev. Holy Scriptures about Communion. What we all missed is what was there all along, Humpty Dumpty you see was a cannon. I just knew that if God really did come up with such a barbaric bargain, then God must be in league with the Devil himself. As we enter this season of Easter, we ask that the warm winds of the Spirit encircle this table and accompany us on our journey. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. What can we see in the wounds which are depicted in this story? Christ is risen! The third face of CHRIST belongs to a Ukrainian Mother holding back her tears as she embraces her little family. When our heartbeats returned to normal, we decided that wed made a clean escape and we chose not to share the adventure with our sleeping parents. Frame 13: I would rather have one rose and a kind word from a friend while I am here than a whole truckload when I am gone. Ive got to say that even though we shared the same weight class for most of our childhood, when it came to world class wrestling holds, I had him beat. A Liturgical and Devotional Guide for Lent When we face pain and suffering, we often feel like we become less than human. good times, bad times - give me some of that: blogging on faith and life. 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. To ask the question of whether the resurrection is true, and to mean by this that only a resurrected corpse constitutes such proof, is to impose the standards of the modern mind upon a pre-scientific culture of myth and magic. He is risen indeed! The moss, the kelp, the zebrafish, the very mice and flies, We remember on the night when Jesus and the disciples The concluding prayer of thanksgiving was (heavily) adapted from a prayer by Katherine Hawker. 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