Im a scientific kind of guy and to tell you the truth 2014-04-20 liturgy [Easter sunrise] Author: Mike Farley 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. Michelle L. Torigian. Amen. For the LOVE expressed in the life and death of Jesus lives in you and in me. Their beloved leader had been brutally executed by the powers that be and they were terrified that they would be next. Where, O Death is your victory? Amen. healed those who believed in him, received all who sought him. Thich Nhat Hanh. So, let me just cling to what I have accumulated and pay lip-service to the need for sacrifice. Disco dancing is one thing, but being slain in the SPIRIT, well lets just say, Theres a reason Im a Lutheran pastor. (I have searched for the source of this story, withoutsuccess. Set free from a Three-Tiered Universe! Imagine if you will, trying to understand the life of Martin Luther King, or Mahatma Gandhi simply by focusing upon their death. Gods love pours out from the grave of despair. Comments about the content or usability of this site? Lectionary sermon for 2 October 2022 on Luke 17: 5-10. and proclaim the Resurrected Christ who offers life to all. 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. Why: This is an Evolutionary Moment. All crosses can be transformed into trees of life. }); Join thousands of others like you who are contributing their voice to Progressive Christianity and list your church, organization or yourself in our global directory. I confess, I was in denial. By your Spirit unite us with the living Christ and with all who seek to follow in his life-giving way, 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. The season of the church year called Eastertide lasts fifty days and includes Ascension, the day when we rejoice in the reign of Christ at God's right hand. Contemplating the miracle that these parables survived, were told over and over again, written down and preserved by people persecuted by empire, I have to believe that they are more than nice little stories all about how we should live.They have to be more than mere speculation about the character of YAHWEH, casting the CREATOR of ALL that is, was, and ever more shall be as a fool. Crystal cried out, Mommy Im stuck. Only a fool Would rather be relentlessly looking for one small, lone coin when nine, known and countable, are all that are really needed. 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. When humankind struggles, we all struggle together. } But Alan and I, we knew exactly what they were, and they certainly werent beautiful orcas to us. var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); Not because I had been driven out of my home. Let me remind you that a generation before our anonymous gospel-storyteller wrote his account of Thomas doubts, somewhere around the years 50 to 53, the Apostle Paul wrote in his first letter to the Corinthian followers of the Way, that such questions about physical resurrection were in fact stupid. 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. The sermon is broken up into three short homilies. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. Lord Jesus, come in glory. Resurrection is not a solitary endeavor. Good Shepherd Sunday in Quarantine - Easter 4A. They were compiled over the years to complement the official resource, the Roman Missal. When the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, he unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of our God is upon me: because the Most High has anointed me to bring Good News to those who are poor. What matters is that LOVE rises. It can be deadly. Get their attention and then, deliver your point! For none of us can do this kind of relentless, reckless abandon constantly. EASTER WORSHIP SERVICES The liturgy, and particularly the liturgies of Holy Week and Easter, are never a re-enactment of the events that happened two thousand years ago. He had the extraordinary capacity to recognize the Divinity in all human beings. He blessed it and broke it, and shared it with the disciples. Only a fool, would run head-long, open armed to kiss such a wayward fool, extravagantly bestow more household treasures, and expect the faithful to join in the rejoicing.Only a fool, would cajole the self-righteous, indignant child to join the celebration. 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. *The ThanksgivingLeader: Lift up your hearts. 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. Welcome to Contemporary Liturgy website. You all know this story. Even though we may be worshiping in individual spaces, Through the Spirit, we are forever united. Only a fool would rejoice with such extravagance. Breathe forth the goodness that is within you. Living accommodations were not a priority. Im not sure how many whales entered the bay. And count the countless aeons in the banding of the stone. Only a fool would be such a steward as this. Easter offers meaning and hope to all people. Not all flesh is the same. Christ's peace is ours forever! We ask you to bless this bread and this cup. When I arrived, the place was empty, and I thought I was going to make a clean get-away. <> Alleluia! DONATE NOW! The first face of CHRIST belongs to a Ukrainian Father who is struggling to say good-bye to his young daughter. Crystals mother called for re-enforcements. jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); Its not all about you. Our friend, Dom Crossan makes the point that, it is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally. I believe that in order to understand the power of this particular story of resurrection we must move beyond simplistic literal explanations and open ourselves to the more-than-literal symbolic dare I say it, spiritual understanding of resurrection. This communion liturgy seeks to be worshipful, educational and inspirational. These tiny, humble, wordless things how shall they tell us lies? But there are times. Frame 1: We are about to enter a world of life-giving beauty. if ( thisact == "contact" ) { I had been watching the media reports for days, not really believing that war was imminent. If we fix our gaze upon the surface, we limit the power of these parables to do what parables are designed to do, to turn worlds and lives upside down and inside out. . You see Paul was skilled in the ancient art of rhetoric and would recognize my own rhetoric for what it is. From desert cliff and mountaintop we trace the wide design, /* The proud questioned your power, devised your death. Where, O death is your sting?. that we gather this morning and remember together that . Time for quiet reflection: I am eternally linked with the source of all life, Please respond Amen after each of the following affirmations of our Eucharistic Prayer. 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. The way of the cross and the way of the dance, an earthquake that destroys complacency and, The Risen Christ is the liberated Inner Child which is allowed to dance,to skip, to sing for as Jesus said, unless you become as a little child you are unable to enter the Kingdom of God (the commonwealth of God, the dancing space of God), Kingdom of heaven (your heaven. God at that moment was transformed into a violent, murderer, willing to put my beloved Jesus to a torturous death. Through this meal, make us the body of Christ, that we may join with you in promoting the well-being of all creation. LOVE and not violence. We need to reach our year-end fundraising goal that will determine what we can do for 2023. 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. Children and youth might be used as servers and/or readers. After all, could one rise without a body to rise in? But they will not be tears cried in vain. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words we would like to share a slideshow with you that gives life both visually and in its various messages. Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote life. Seeking out the darkest place, to better see the light. Let LOVE live in, us, through us, and beyond us, for now as always, LOVE lives, LOVE dies, and LOVE rises, again, and again, and again. (SYSJ). Settle into your seat, close your eyes and imagine a place that brings you comfort and peace. My predicament often makes it difficult for me to appreciate the beauty of the heirloom. As a result of this splendid isolation, we spent several weeks as the only family camped in this idyllic bay. One: On this day, we shout Hallelujah! and to the one in the 1789 English Moravian Hymnal. Beautiful! Beautiful liturgy. And while we are at it, it is long past time for us to project LOVE onto the MYSTERY which is DIVINITY. The apartment manager got out some WD40. Please come, the meal is ready. So, let us repent. an ethic of justice and peace, and for the promise of transformation made manifest in his life, death and resurrection. Later, at work, Anna sat down with me in the lunchroom to explain that their pastor had explained to them that he suspected that I didnt believe that God sent Jesus to die for my sins. Frame 17: Look for the resurrections in your life. 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. If that means violence, well maybe Im not the pacifist I claim to be. Youre not a lost sheep, or a lost coin, or even a lost child. Entering the synagogue on the Sabbath, as was his habit, Jesus stood up to do the reading. Amen. She used warm soapy water to try to loosen the toddlers hand, which was stuck all right. Christ is risen indeed! John 20:19-31, Parables of Loss Through the Lenses of Resistance Luke 15, CLICK HERE to DOWNLOAD THE WORSHIP BULLETIN. Jesus lived and died giving his life to ransom us from ourselves, from our fears, so that free from the captivity in which our fear has confined us, we might walk freely away from our own self-centredness. And each and every time we find what has been lost is a time for celebration. 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. No sooner than I felt the freedom of union with the DIVINE, than it was time to seek the confines of my car to warm up. Christmas, Mother's Day, etc. Easter communion liturgy, involving children Ana Gobledale, UK. Jesus knew this. May this Spirit help us to recognize the Christ-presence in our midst. Historians tell us that those roads which all lead to Rome, those roads were dotted with thousands of crucifixion sites. We are sent out with these words Happy are we to be called to this Eucharistic celebration. In the Liturgy of the Hours, the Church fulfills Jesus' command to "pray always" (Luke 18:1; see also 1 Thessalonians 5:17). The EMPIRE OF DIVINITY is not yet here. A natural body is sown, and a spiritual body is raised up. I proclaim these words from Pauls conclusion to the chapter at every funeral I have ever presided over. And after the fire came a still small voice., A still small voice. Our English translations do not do the HEBREW justice. We know that humans were not created as perfectly formed creatures who fell into sin. Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote the sky. We pray to theLord. We offer ourselves as your people in your service. February 11th, 2013. Well, as time passed, the situation became more and more serious. So, when the possibility arose to actually travel up to Narvik in Norway to see the mid-night sun I was off. Easter is the eternal moment that supersedes all time; the vision that puts into perspective all visionless living. At the time, I didnt know what the word countenance meant. 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. This week, I have compiled resources that can help in creatively planning worship services. There is so much more we can do and offer our readership with your support! As individuals, we often find peace, comfort, and a close connection to God in a garden. We live a resurrection life. Jesus said, I have come that they might have life and may live it abundantly! LIFE and not death. We give thanks for all the influences in our lives that have helped us see beyond the present and have called us to live in hope and trust whatever endings we have experienced. But when I became an adult, I put childish ways aside. You see having a brother who was just 18 months younger than me meant that I had ample opportunities to hone my wrestling skills. Alleluia, amen. 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. Risen as he said! One day, Elijah demanded of the voice, I have been very zealous for YHWH God Omnipotent. Shalom dear ones. Great is the mystery of faith: But as for our question about an actual physical body, Paul insists that this is simply a stupid question. I went headfirst into the ocean, and I sank like a stone. When the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, he unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of our God is upon me: because the Most High has anointed me to bring Good News to those who are poor. And in acknowledgment of our eternal connectedness with the spirit of life. We thank you, God, for the incredible gift of Jesus, the Word made flesh. Sign up for our FREE monthly eNewsletter! Congregational Prayers (may be solicited), which may be preceded by other joyful and appropriate responses to the Easter Gospel. 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.". Rile em up! 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. Do this in remembrance of me. 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. At this point, we would do well to remember that CHRIST is not Jesus last name. Jean and I have studied the historical Jesus in depth and found him to be someone who had a powerful impact on the world because of his radical perception: He modeled for us how to live in the Truth and stand up for justice. A quick glace toward the shoreline confirmed that I was well beyond where I would safely swim on a summer day and a strange sort of vertigo began to take hold over me. Many Christians understand the sacrament of Holy Communion as a means of grace that nourishes and strengthens our faith for life and ministry in the world. You are invited to this table of life as we join with each other and seek communion with God. When all the people have received, they rise to give thanks.]. 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. give you joy as you share the Easter faith. It is the vison of the foolish who are prepared to risk it all for the sake of what we have lost, the SHALOM we long for. 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. Thats why, as we explore the meaning of [], John van de Laar2023-02-22T21:50:58+02:00Feb 22nd, 2023|0 Comments, John van de Laar2023-02-22T21:48:30+02:00Feb 22nd, 2023|0 Comments, John van de Laar2023-02-22T21:46:03+02:00Feb 22nd, 2023|0 Comments, By admin|2023-02-06T21:10:20+02:00Feb 6th, 2023|Categories: Lectionary Resources, Year A|, 02 April 2023 And so Holy Week begins! My childlike faith died that day. People: Your death, O Christ, we proclaim. }); Heidi Carrington Heath, Sabbath: SALT's Lectionary Commentary for Second Week after Pentecost, Year B, Into the World: SALTs Lectionary Commentary for Easter 7. Glory to the Three-in-One: To the Father, and the Savior, who the victoryhas won;glory to the Holy Spirit, fount of loveand sanctity; alleluia, alleluia to the triune Majesty! of air water, food, shelter, or the chance to live. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it unless it was for nothing that you believed. So, if Jesus isnt describing the characteristics of a personified deity, is Jesus actually teaching us how to embody the LOVE which is DIVINITY here in the world? 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 Book of Common Prayer of 1662 (BCP) continues as a benchmark. The sun has one kind of brightness, the moon another, and the stars another. Together, at this table, you have offered us life. May 23, 2022 | Father's Day, Uncategorized. We were Stayin Alive, Stayin Alive all week long, working toward Saturday Night Fever, when we Should Be Dancing, dancing the night away. However, Pete goes on, there are moments when I affirm that resurrection, few and far between as they are. Yesterday, I travelled out onto the frozen surface of Lake Simcoe. Amen. }); Killer whales. Vladimir Putin created in the image of the DIVINE. Pinging is currently not allowed. Just like Thomas, who had the good sense to doubt the resurrection, most of us have been conditioned to look for the physical resuscitation of a corpse; a bonified, pardon the pun, a bonified, actual physical body, complete with wounds and all. Christianitys utterly loveless atonement theories about substitution and payment, arguing down through the centuries about whether this ransom is paid to God or to the devil insult the very memory of the rabbi himself, whose death saves us not from the wrath of God, but rather from ourselves. Continue reading . If you are watching this on a screen, chances are that your own wealth far exceeds the expectations of billions of people struggling to survive on this planet. Theologian Richard Rohr reminds us that the CHRIST is the Christian code word for REALITY. God offered him, so that by his blood he should become the means by which peoples sins are forgiven through their faith in him. Only a foolWould search and look and scour and puzzle, bend and peer, lift and move everything, to find a single coin. It was recorded Saturday morning, after a rocket exploded in an apartment block in Kiev. Amen. As frightened as I was, I was determined to get close to these magnificent beasts. There are flowers in the sanctuary during Lent! It wasnt until the 15th century that the flatness of the Earth was seriously challenged by the likes of Columbus. Forgive us, Merciful One. Yet Easter is about a God who bursts tombs of the familiar, the ordinary and the mediocre. Let me say it right up front: Yes, I do deny the resurrection! I deny the resurrection. Here's a call to worship and opening prayer for Memorial Day or Remembrance Day. Mortal tongues and angels say: Alleluia! All tears are part of the river of life. While the first century story told by the anonymous gospel-storyteller we call Mark, sees the sons of Zebedee, jockeying for coveted seats at the right and left hand of Jesus, our 21st century story portray the contrasting circumstances of wannabe-astronauts blasting far above our planet with scarcely a thought for the 150 million or so who will slip into the depths of poverty before this year ends. Send us your: ResourceEventNewsIdeasnow window.location.replace('https://progressivechristianity.org/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); According to these traditional interpretations humans were originally created in a state of perfection to live in a perfect creation. Can, will, or indeed, should the Church Survive?. To experience the liveliness of the resurrection is something quite different. My youth and inexperience allowed the more ornery side of my nature to come to the fore. Living the Questions is happy to join other Michael Morwood fans in welcoming the arrival of Michael's newest book, Prayers for Progressive Christians. Lets extend our hands over one another for a final blessing: May you have the power to live life fully. One morning when I was about 13 and my brother was 9 and a half, we were going at it, and to his credit my bother had me in an ingenious hold. 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. 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. 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. What and Where to use this ritual: Altar-building. Amen. 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. good times, bad times - give me some of that: blogging on faith and life. This piece of Scripture was followed by a passage from Pauls letter to the Romans, all of which was underlined in red: God puts people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. Certainly, in the church the Bible is considered to be the supreme authority of the nature of God. But in my heart of hearts, I know that I must learn to see the face of CHRIST in my enemy. The BASILEIA ton THEON may not yet be the world we live in, but the BASILEIA ton THEON is already here. 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