A star exploding or a leaf falling: both offer new possibilities and will live on in ways unknown to stars and leaves. Let it be so among us. Thanks be to ALL that is HOLY! But I refused to believe that it would go as far as war. CHRIST was sent to die for you!. "Ground Us and Grow Us in Love," rtf or pdf file of liturgy at Worship Ways. Peace be with you. Growing up I had a very clear advantage as I developed my wrestling skills. And so in this spirit of brightness and life, we celebrate. thanksgiving prayers Out of the familiar emerges the extraordinary that transformsthe ordinary. Holy Scriptures about Communion. Lord Jesus, come in glory. As the embodiment of LOVE, LOVE ensures that Jesus never dies. To aid us on our journey, we have decided to radically alter the way we worship together. Your rhetoric is sublime! All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. Christ the Lord is risen today Alleluia! 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. //jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=contact&pau_form=contact_form'); He conveyed to us the importance of love and compassion. According to Paul, the earthly body; the physical body must die in order for the heavenly or the spiritual body to be born. yet again to the Spirit raising. I expect people to act. we gratefully receive the Easter offering. Pachena Bay with its warm Pacific waters, heated even more by virtue of its shallow depths, attracted schools of salmon, ling cod and halibut, who make up a veritable smorgasbord for the pods of whales, that continue to visit the bay to this very day. We are not alone! Follow Michelle L. Torigian on WordPress.com, musings about liturgical adventures, poetic journeys and such, Wednesday Prayer Searching for Gratitude. jQuery('#submit-action').click(); Steve and Anna were very quiet on the ride home. Embrace the HOLY foolishness which lives, in, with, through, and beyond you. Christmas, Mother's Day, etc. 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. All tears are part of the river of life. The following liturgy was submitted by Rev. When humankind struggles, we all struggle together. *People sing: ("Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain," stanza 3)"Alleluia!" This page features the work of the Liturgy Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia. that they may be washed away by the mercy of our risen Lord. Leader: We give thanks to God the Father that our Savior, Jesus Christ, gave us this memorial of his sacrifice, until his coming again. } else { But when we begin to see the DIVINE MYSTERY, the CREATOR of the Cosmos, and try to imagine the ONE WHICH IS the GREAT I AM, WHO I AM, I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE, YAHWEHas so much more than a person, well the idea of a shepherd, or a woman, or even the father who loses his son, these mere personifications begin to lose their ability to symbolize the MYSTERY. 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. healing, overcoming divisions, welcoming all. There is so much more we can do and offer our readership with your support! 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. In a world driven mad with bloodlust, we peddle as pleasurable, fascinating, and entertaining, the kind of violence which can efficiently torture and kill distant populations at the push of a button. In the same way he took the cup, saying: (I have searched for the source of this story, withoutsuccess. But as for our question about an actual physical body, Paul insists that this is simply a stupid question. Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. 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. Are we prepared to make sacrifices in order to ransom those who suffer the indignities of the hell we have created here on Earth for the one and a half billion people held in the captivity of poverty? 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. 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. We remember that the women came, early in the morning, on the third day. 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. Amen. Anyway, we did what any self-respecting kid would have done in our position. Lets try to focus on what is actually happening in the story. Faced with the needs of so very many, what can I do? Well, for now, we weep. Fosdick Dr. NW #80 Like many professional wrestlers my career began when I was but a child. Frame 6: You are a special and unique image of God. Salvation is not about saving us for life after death. Only a foolWould search and look and scour and puzzle, bend and peer, lift and move everything, to find a single coin. (LogOut/ I affirm the resurrection each and every time I look into your eyes and see the face of CHRIST.. While greasing her childs wrist like a cake pan, she asked the obvious mother question. How in the world did you do this, child? Crystal carefully explained that she had dropped candy down into the vase to see if she could still see it when it was at the very bottom. 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. Lent & Holy Week BEYOND Atonement! 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. I dont think that Jesus, or his followers, or Luke, told these parables in order to teach their listeners about the character of YAHWEH. Send us your: ResourceEventNewsIdeasnow Amen. The Cross and Easter are two faces of the one mystery. I expect solutions. May the Spirit open our souls in order for us to see humanity, God and creation through the eyes of Jesus. Contact Us. Easter 5A in Quarantine: Refuge in God. You responded with peace, forgiveness, and new life. When soap didnt work she reached for the butter. Alas, the sun does indeed shine at midnight in the summer months, but in Norway summer does not include the month of August. Amen. Do we have the courage to hear the word ransom as sacrifice? For a mere $450,000 dollars you could join these daring old men in their flying machines. Traditionally, the season of Lent is a time of repentance. Then Grandma rubbed little Crystals back, held her close and gentle, but firmly said: Let it go, child. The vibrancy of the vision is only exceeded by the discovery thatones spirit has a home everywhere. In a world that so often denies or ignores the humanity-robbing effects of pain and suffering, Irrepressible (Personal Spiritual Practice Guide PDF), More Than Words Living What We Pray (PDF), Living in the Promised Land: A Lent Journey (Year B) (PDF). My first conscious memory of hearing the BAT KOL, the Daughter of a Sound, the still small voice of DIVINITY happened on a sojourn into a Thin Place during a summer camping trip when I was just 13. Thats the thing with stories, one story, if it is even remotely engaging, that one story will inevitably lead to many more stories. It wasnt until Christianity moved beyond Judaism that it came into direct conflict with the Greek understanding of reality, which insisted upon the dualism of body and soul. The safety of the mountaintop must have been glorious. 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. xMk@9JPvvg? 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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. 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. 'It is always Springtime in the heart that loves God.'. 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. Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote the world. and out of the death of the old comes the birth of the new. Frame 17: Look for the resurrections in your life. I believe that the anonymous gospel-storyteller wrote his story the way that he wrote to address the fears of the people of his community. I affirm the resurrection when I stand up for those who are forced to live on their knees,I affirm the resurrection when I speak for those who have had their tongues torn out,I affirm the resurrection, when I cry for those who have no more tears left to shed. And when she got stuck she did what all small children do, when they have gotten themselves into a situation that the cant get out of, little Crystal cried for help. A natural body is sown, and a spiritual body is raised up. The spiritual resurrection which Paul describes gave birth to Christianity, within the Jewish context. Blessings on your Holy Week observance and Easter celebrations! 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. You see Paul was skilled in the ancient art of rhetoric and would recognize my own rhetoric for what it is. April 17, 2022 (Readings on USCCB website) . var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); In both Ukraine and in Russia a wounded CHRIST is struggling to rise from death. HOMILY: Resurrection Springing to New Life. I went headfirst into the ocean, and I sank like a stone. and for the mission of justice you have made our own. If there is no resurrection of the dead then not even CHRIST has been raised. Today, it doesnt matter how CHRIST rose nearly 2000 years ago. healed those who believed in him, received all who sought him. Send us your: ResourceEventNewsIdeasnow Christianitys morbid preoccupation with Jesus violent death will not usher in the Kin-dom of DIVINITY which Jesus lived for. We have rested in the depth of your love; Our parents were sound asleep when the whales arrived. /* I was about to hit him again, when for no apparent reason Alan released me from his grip. The term liturgy merely means "the . Hearts to Heaven and Voices Raise," stanza 4) Alleluia, Alleluia! Well, I deny the resurrection in the very same way as I suspect you deny the resurrection. Re-create us too, we pray, by your holy Word. Or perhaps it is that both are dead. I Do Deny the Resurrection! How deep? (1 Kings 19:1-12) It is about a prophet named Elijah, who was struggling to understand the will of the they knew as YHWH, the HEBREW name for the MYSTERY we call God, which can be translated as I AM, WHO AM or I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE or the GREAT I AM. Jesus vision of peace through justice, what he called the BASILEIA ton THEON, the Empire of GOD, is the already but not yet SHALOM we long to find. 3 0 obj
Imagine knowing everything there is to know about that final day in Memphis, about the motel, about the people who were on that balcony when Dr. King was shot, about the shooter, the gun that was used, about the funeral procession, the grieving, and about the people who tried to go on walking in the ways of Dr. King. When we set aside the institutional narrative of atonement that the church has relied upon to interpret the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the idol that masquerades as god, the idol whose contours are reinforced in our worship services, by our hymns, prayers, creeds, choice of scriptures, and rituals, this idol begins to crumble. In the eating of this bread, as Christs body, and in the sharing of this cup, as Christs blood, DONATE NOW! We gaze upon creation where erosion makes it known, It can all tend to become a nice "show" or a good academic exercise, but with little impact on us as we seek to follow this Jesus. 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