Remember the precarious nature of the lives of the people who first heard these parables. Im afraid that sacrificing more than just a pittance of my own wealth and privilege wont accomplish much more than landing me among povertys captives. All rights reserved. The profoundest act of worship is to try to understand. Maybe Jesus was wrong about justice as the only way to peace. Anna had copied it from the Good News for Modern Man paraphrase of New Testament. It was Solon's Feb. 1 post that drew the Facebook group's attention to the Washington resolution. Ask congregation if they have any resurrections they would like to share. Continue reading . 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. 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. [Meal is shared according to custom of congregation.]. Your email address will not be published. Friends, let us come out of the darkness and join together in the light of Gods love. One day, Elijah demanded of the voice, I have been very zealous for YHWH God Omnipotent. we invite your Spirit to lead us ever more faithfully to be the body of Christ in the world. Let us metanoia Let us think new thoughts about who Jesus was and why Jesus died. that we gather this morning and remember together that . Deep in flower and in flesh, in star and soil and seed, All week long, I have been emersed in the anonymous gospel-storyteller we know as Lukes account of Jesus first sermon, in which Jesus declares that he has been anointed to bring Good News, and it wasnt until my own frozen epiphany set me to dancing on ice that I actually noticed that part of the Good News of which Jesus speaks involves the proclamation of liberty to those held captive! Listen to the way the anonymous gospel-storyteller recounts Jesus words: Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and his reputation spread throughout the region. But we must honour the suffering of generations, by doing something now, so that generations from now little families wont have to cry all over again. var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); People: It is right for us to give thanks,It is our joy and peaceat all times and in all placesto give thanks to you, almighty, everlasting God,through Christ, our Lord. Amen. April 17, 2022 (Readings on USCCB website) . And God called thefirmamentHeaven.. Let it be so among us. Wellspring Liturgies. And each and every time we find what has been lost is a time for celebration. Surely, today, when troops are again amassing in Europe and the world cant seem to sake itself loose from the myth of redemptive violence, surely today, it is time for us to move beyond thinking of DIVINITY as the ultimate purveyor of violence and Jesus as the ultimate sacrifice. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. With humility, with awareness of the existence of life. Because if the dead are not raised, then Christ is not raised, and if Christ is not raised, your faith is worthless. God is with you! From desert cliff and mountaintop we trace the wide design, May we remember to give out the grace and forgiveness that you have freely given us, The conflation with Spring and new life is no coincidence we are grateful for the cycle of renewal in all its forms. Sometimes boundaries must be crossed in order to achieve justice.Peace-making requires risk-taking, and the reckless abandonment of some things we hold very dear. May we be transfigured by her courage to do our part to turn her mourning into dancing. Only a fool would leave to search for the stray who might be wounded, damaged, dying, not interested in being rescued. Ive told this story before, but then havent we all heard the story of Thomas, every Easter. We need to reach our year-end fundraising goal that will determine what we can do for 2023. Traditional interpretations of the life of Jesus insist that Jesus sacrificed himself, took all our respective punishment onto his shoulders, died for us, upon a cross, so that our relationship to our creator could be restored. When I read the accounts of those early followers of the way who abandoned the tomb of the upper-room to gather together to build communities of compassion it is clear to me who was raised up by images of resurrection. jQuery.noConflict(); Many: On this day, we embrace faith by committing to love in action. The apartment manager got out some WD40. After what seemed like hours but was probably just a few minutes, the whales moved on and I was left to clumsily put words onto the depth of my experiences, in what the ancient Celts would call a Thin Place; a place where the lines between the ordinary and the sacred are thin, and we can see, feel, touch, hear the MYSTERY which lies at the very heart of reality. that we may further your reign of peace and justice in every place. They were an unusual couple in that we shared the uncommon habit of going to church. But it does have the power to transfigure. Not all flesh is the same. There we stood, we three kindred creatures, waving together as ONE, held in a vast Cosmos touched by the MYSTERY which is the LOVE which permeates ALL that IS, including us, for we are ONE, ONE with DIVINITY. Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote life. We know we still have work to do. All risings of the human spirit are preceded by brokenness, loss or rejection. We are privileged. Through a simple meal of grain and grape, we, your children, unite. What can we see in the wounds which are depicted in this story? The Resurrection is witness to the golden incandescence at the heart of life which neither suffering nor death can destroy. Close with quote from Michael Morwood: In nature we see superb aspects of transformation in supernovas exploding and in their dying giving birth to new possibilities resurrection producing abundant life. The way that the Jesus story has been told has crafted, molded and shaped the idol that masquerades as the MYSTERY we call God. Vladimir Putin created in the image of the DIVINE. It was so good to be there, where they could see in Jesus the face of CHRIST. Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountain apart and shattered the rocks by YHWEHs powerbut YHWH was not in the whirlwind. For Paul, Jesus was not God but a human in which God was revealed. My friend and I were doing our level best not to laugh, we were too young to be sensitive, and to this day I find it difficult to keep a straight face in the presence of that particular kind of spirited movement. Liturgies. May this Spirit help us to recognize the Christ-presence in our midst. Amen. We know that humans were not created as perfectly formed creatures who fell into sin. Anyway, poor old Elijah suffered in his quest to bring the WORD of YHWH to his people and in the midst of his turmoil, Elijah was lost and fearing for his life. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. Prayer of Communion But sometimes letting go is the only way to preserve the integrity of the heirloom. So, in the same way, we, of the Namaste Church, honor the Divinity in all people and this is why we called this church Namaste which means We honor the Divinity Within You.. We rejoice that Jesus lives on, as we all will, in the reality we call God. Life in the spirit continues in ways beyond our imagining. I take my hat off to the master. You placed within us and within each plant and animal of your creation amazing abilities to form and nurture new life, so that your creation might be renewed, reborn, season by season, child by child. For heavens sake, when you sow a seed into the ground and it bursts forth into new life, that new life doesnt come in the form of a seed, it comes to life as a plant! All your creatures testify to your mighty deeds! LONG LIVE GOD! Reformed Worship 2023 by Worship Ministries of the Christian Reformed Church. Read More. read more A Good Friday Prayer by Lenny Duncan on March 1, 2021 | 0 Comments Lord, help us to make. with the Source and Sustainer of all that exists. Amen. by Alydia Smith. Abundant life is the Shalom we long for, for without justice there can be no peace, and without peace there can only be abundance for some and not for all. I was lucky to get myself out of bed on a Sunday morning, while they seemed to be in church almost daily, sometimes several times a day. You would be correct to conclude that I do believe in resurrection. healed those who believed in him, received all who sought him. (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"). Scholars tell us that the letter was written between the years 53 and 57. She used warm soapy water to try to loosen the toddlers hand, which was stuck all right. When asked what he thought was the solution to the planetary crisis, Cosmologist Brian Swimme said, "It would be to reinvent ourselves, at the . Lectionary Liturgies, Easter B, 2015, Thom M. Shuman, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). *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! When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: Death has been swallowed up in victory. Repent: Metanoia: to think new thoughts Let us repent, metanoia Let us think new thoughts. For a very long time, the story of Jesus appearance in the upper room where his followers were huddled in fear, conditioned me to focus my attention upon Jesus wounds, Thomas doubts, and back again to Jesus wounds, and then to Thomas belief. THEME The Connecting Solitude THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION The spiritual desert is not a foe to be conquered but an emptiness to be affirmed: for when we are full, we perceive nothing, but when we are empty we can receive everything. Through his resurrection Life you gave birth to your church, In his new book, Unbelievable, our friend, Jack Spong writes: The laws by which the world operates have not changed since the dawn of time, but the way human beings explain and understand those laws has changed dramatically over the centuries of human history. Jack has a way of reminding us of the obvious. *Leader: O sing unto the Lord, for he has done excellent things. Why: This is an Evolutionary Moment. Perhaps someone will ask, How are the dead to be raised up? We know that humans have been evolving over millennia. Embrace the HOLY foolishness which lives, in, with, through, and beyond you. jQuery(document).ready(function(){ Not because I had been driven out of my home. pour out your Holy Spirit upon us and upon these your gifts of bread and cup. Alleluia! Im not so sure however, that Jesus response to his disciples indignation is all comforting. //jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=contact&pau_form=contact_form'); jQuery.noConflict(); } The SPIRIT of DIVINITY is BEYOND Creation, BEYOND the Cosmos, even as it is in, and with, and through, all of Creation, all of the Cosmos. This is my song, O God of all the nations, a song of peace for lands afar and mine; this is my home, the country where my heart is; here are my hopes, my dreams, my . These tears will wash away our illusions of a quick fix and wipe away our delusions that by violently enforcing the status quo we can create peace. You can see it in the reckless passion of justice-seekers fighting for affordable housing, equitable healthcare, and food security. The hands are up like a shot. This story provides the raw material for the idol that we have created to serve as our god. Hell, I dont want to see it. I dont know. Traditionally, the season of Lent is a time of repentance. This week, I have been transfigured by the face of CHRIST, not glowing on a mountaintop, but weeping. 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. This knowledge has an impact on how we interpret the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. 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. Alas, the power of Pauls rhetoric has waned over the centuries. 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. jQuery('#submit-action').click(); How dare I flirt with new ways of understanding REALITY, new discoveries about the Cosmos, new theories about the nature of human consciousness? Come, drink together from the Cup of Gladness! It is long past time for us to move beyond arguments about a physical resuscitation of Jesus body. Death, not even violent death at the hands of a powerful empire could keep Jesus commitment to compassionate resistance to the forces of empire from those who longed for the Shalom of the Reign of GOD which Jesus proclaimed with his life. The underwater sight of two killer whales caused me to open my mouth to scream and water rushed into my lungs. and proclaim the Resurrected Christ who offers life to all. Abundant life, where everyone has enough to live fully, love extravagantly, and be all that they are created to be, this is the basileia ton THEON, the REIGN of DIVINITY, the Empire of the LOVE which is GOD. One quiet afternoon my brother Alan and I were playing on the shore. 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. Certainly, in the church the Bible is considered to be the supreme authority of the nature of God. But when I became an adult, I put childish ways aside. We proclaim and celebrate this Easter season because it links Jesus with all life, with transformation, and with possibility of life beyond our imagining. Thank you, Divine Crafter of the Table, for fashioning us a holy meal unites us with the Body of Christ. Phos hilaron - a Song of the Light Verses from Psalm 141 Verses from Psalm 104. Sure, it would be nice to just sit here in the relative comfort and safety of all that violence has built and maintained for us. All crosses can be transformed into trees of life. According to this story, a bunch of rag-tag Jesus followers were huddled together in fear. The number crunchers tell us that Bezos hubristic space jaunt cost him 5.5 billion dollars for 4 minutes in space, which kinda makes a ticket on Bransons Virgin Galactic sound like a bargain. Bunnies remind us of all the animals You made, and all the beautiful things You created. As individuals, we often find peace, comfort, and a close connection to God in a garden. What kind of body will they have? What a stupid question! My oh, my, oh my In my sacred imagination, I can see Paul sitting up from his letter writing and nodding as if to say, there that out to stop those endless arguments about the resuscitation of a corpse.. Text and image William Livingstone Wallacebut available for free use. After warming myself on my cars heating vent, I caught sight of sundog begin to emerge as the Sun was still setting. Limitations which the evolving nature of our understanding of reality compel us to reject. Settle into your seat, close your eyes and imagine a place that brings you comfort and peace. Lectionary sermon for 2 October 2022 on Luke 17: 5-10. CHRIST was sent to die for you!. Believing, as Jesus believed, that beyond pain and darkness and death, Pauls description of resurrection does not conflict with our 21stcentury inability to accept the suspension of the natural order of the Cosmos. This page features the work of the Liturgy Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia. Only a fool Would rather be relentlessly looking for one small, lone coin when nine, known and countable, are all that are really needed. It was written by Gord Waldie. See if you can pick them out. Share as a whole group some responses: What do you know about the life of Jesus that sheds some light on who and what the MYSTERY that we call God is? And star differs from star in brightness. Evolving beyond the myth that violence can solve our problems, or bring us peace, is vital. The people of Israel have abandoned your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death by the sword. Today, thanks to daylight savings time, the earth hasnt quickened its course around the sun. This time also allows a moment for the congregation to "get settled" and ready to hear God's written word. Can we ever learn to see the face of CHRIST in one such as him? It is right. 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. Alleluia! Surely, Jesus cant be pointing to the GREAT I AM, the MYSTERY which we call GOD and saying that GOD is a fool. 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! This story was written by the anonymous gospel-storyteller we know as John some 70 years after Jesus death, some twenty years after the Jewish war with Rome in which the Empire destroyed the Temple, raised most of Jerusalem to the ground, and sent Jews and the followers of Jesus into exile. For Christ is risen! 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.". But as for our question about an actual physical body, Paul insists that this is simply a stupid question. It is a scary proposition for a pastor to venture out on a journey without the familiar trappings of familiar liturgy. 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. and for the mystery of life beyond death. Easter 5A in Quarantine: Refuge in God. There is so much more we can do and offer our readership with your support! Today, when science confirms that humans did not rise out of the Earth fully formed, but are continuing to evolve, surely today we can metanoia, think beyond the primitive, childish notions of original sin, and begin to see humanity as an incomplete, ever- evolving species which runs the very real risk of extinction if we dont move beyond the myth of redemptive violence. Bert Polman (bdp5@calvin.edu) is a hymnologist who is a professor and chair of the music department at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. As the train finally pulled into Narvik, I couldnt quite believe my eyes. He rose again in victory because the powers of death cannot overcome the Divine power of Life. A natural body is sown, and a spiritual body is raised up. jQuery(document).on('change', '#submission-action', function(){ Easter offers meaning and hope to all people. O God, who gifts us moments of amazement, help us to accept the rhythm of the ordinary and the extraordinary that we may retain a steady awareness of your presence both in grey days and in bright. My rail-pass covered all of Scandinavia, which before I had the opportunity to ride the Scandinavian rails, I had only seen on distorted maps which made it look ever so small in comparison to Canadas vast land mass. Repent: Metanoia: to think new thoughts Let us repent, metanoia Let us think new thoughts. Then there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. 4 0 obj My words are not up to the task of describing CHRIST weeping in this way. They all knew the dangers of traveling to Jerusalem. ], [The Communion elements are distributed. All tears are part of the river of life. It was Jesus who introduced this meal to his followers. 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). Your support is needed to help ProgressiveChristianityorg. Pauls words were interpreted from the King James version of the bible to read like this: And now I want to remind you, my friends, of the Good News which I preached to you, which you received, and on which your faith stands firm. After all, could one rise without a body to rise in? } O God, let us take in the moment of this day of crucifixion, not remembering it in the context of what came after it, but how it left Jesus' disciples and followers in tragic sadness and heart-wrenched disillusionment. The truth has left its footprints in the dust between the stars. For the most part, the Bible points to the Heavens above the firmament as the home of God. Crystal sobbed. As the night lengthened, Jesus took a simple portion of bread. The LOVE which is the SACRED MYSTERY which is the LOVE that we call GOD. The unknown gospel-storyteller which we call Mark, captured something of the pathetic human condition of hubris when he wrote: James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached Jesus and said, Teacher we want you to grant our request. What is it? Jesus asked. Pain and suffering perpetrated by our species vain conviction that violence is the way to peace. A Prayer for Sad Days of the Pandemic. Winter gives way to sprin This despite the fact that the biblical author of the book of Joshua wrote that God stopped the rotation of the sun around the earth in order to provide Joshua with an extended period of daylight in which to kill his enemies. Risk it all for the sake of LOVE. So, how is it that I deny the resurrection. Then Grandma rubbed little Crystals back, held her close and gently, but firmly said: Let it go, child. Alleluia! As we recall the trusting of impotent rocket ships escaping for mere moments the confines of the empires we thrive in, do we have the courage to see our own hypocrisy? I say quote to be polite, which is generally not the way these Christians impart these words of Scripture to me. 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. 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. Or study cells, or living things, seek truth with open hand. Today, in the midst of colossal violence, it is long past time for us to see beyond our conditioning about what to believe about resurrection so that we can focus our attention on practicing resurrection. As we begin the Offertory, we prepare the gifts of this celebration. Now let us greet one another: I honor the Divinity Within you Namaste Peace. Then he said to them, Today, in your hearing, this scripture passage is fulfilled., Words 2004 Hope Publishing Company; LiscenSing 1975, When It Comes to Resurrection, We Look For What We Have Been Conditioned to See! 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. % Easter Grace Blessing May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us this day. Pray deeply, reverently, and then fast-forward to the music. The following liturgy was submitted by Rev. 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