At this Easter gathering, we take bread, as Jesus took bread, and we remember, as Jesus remembered, the constant presence of the spirit of life and love. Yes, the woman should have been content with her 99 coins. The way that the Jesus story has been told has crafted, molded and shaped the idol that masquerades as the MYSTERY we call God. 2023 ProgressiveChristianity.org, 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. The grace and passion to love wastefully, CLOSING We Will Rise Again David Haas, *Parts of the liturgy were taken and modified from Michael Morwoods Praying a New Story, **Slideshow was taken and modified from Sapphire Productions. When we focus upon the life of Jesus of Nazareth rather than the death of Jesus, we can begin to hear some of the things that Jesus was passionate about. So, let me get to the point, so that those who like nothing better than to use the Bible to bludgeon anyone who dares to stray from their narrow understanding of the text, they can simply hit ALL CAPS in their keyboards, without having to read any further. The Easter Peace is shared *Hymn This Is the Day Yet, with the unique calling and nature of Jesus, and the unique character of these events, it can be a stretch to find ways to [], admin2023-02-20T10:39:19+02:00Feb 6th, 2023|0 Comments, admin2023-02-13T17:15:16+02:00Feb 6th, 2023|0 Comments, admin2023-02-06T21:15:25+02:00Feb 6th, 2023|0 Comments, Copyright 2012 - 2020 | Sacredise | All Rights Reserved, Sacredise | Liturgical Resources for Progressive Communities. Still no luck. Only a foolWould know the joy, the absolute delight of finding what really isnt needed. One: It is through our neighbors and creation that we see the rising of Christ, O God. Amen. Blessings on your Holy Week observance and Easter celebrations! 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. Jean and Mike give some personal examples of deaths and resurrections in their lives, both big and small. As Jesus invited his friends to drink, mindful of a relationship of love and trust between ourselves and the spirit of life, Surly, even Putin will come to his senses. We lose our capacity for peace and joy, we struggle to show compassion and to connect with others, and we may find ourselves slipping into toxic and destructive attitudes and habits. Included here are just a few calls to worship, prayers, Scripture passages, and songs you can use in your Easter worship. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. Easter communion liturgy, involving children Ana Gobledale, UK. Jesus called them together and said, You know how among the Gentiles those who exercise authority are domineering and arrogant; those great ones know how to make their own importance felt. Practicing resurrection happens when we gather to build communities of compassion. Repent from the Greek word metanoia to think new thoughts. The first face of CHRIST belongs to a Ukrainian Father who is struggling to say good-bye to his young daughter. Good Shepherd Sunday in Quarantine - Easter 4A. The followers of Jesus were lifted up from a crouching or cowering position as they boldly proclaimed what they had learned from Jesus. Only a fool Would resist the contentment, the satisfaction of a purse fat with nine shiny, weighty coins. Our Hebrew storyteller paints such a vivid picture of the Thin Place in which Elijah stands. Support our mission with a tax-deductible donation! I can also hear the voice of reason condemning me as a fool. Her unseen hand was stuck inside her great-grandmothers vase. What can Jesus teach us? Think for a moment. Alleluia! You created the universe and all living things. I knew I was about to drown. Leader: Brothers and sisters in Christ, the gospels tell us that on the first day of the week, the same day on which our Lord rose from the dead, he appeared to his disciples and was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. Heidi Carrington Heath, Sabbath: SALT's Lectionary Commentary for Second Week after Pentecost, Year B, Into the World: SALTs Lectionary Commentary for Easter 7. var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); *Leader: O sing unto the Lord, for he has done excellent things. Reformed Worship 2023 by Worship Ministries of the Christian Reformed Church. Worship Resources by Lisa Frenz, Mt. I confess, that I cant quite see CHRIST in that face yet. I also want you to resist making the story all about you. So, I waved and was gifted by their own energetic response. Let it go. Sure enough, the vase slipped off as smooth as silk. Alleluia! To believe in the historicity of the resurrection is one thing. by our unbelief and lack of understanding of Gods presence in us. Anna had copied it from the Good News for Modern Man paraphrase of New Testament. easter with prayers and blessings for easter services. 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. I dont mind confessing my own fear. 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. Their pastor had warned them that my countenance was putting us all in danger. Entering the synagogue on the Sabbath, as was his habit, Jesus stood up to do the reading. They were compiled over the years to complement the official resource, the Roman Missal. I say quote to be polite, which is generally not the way these Christians impart these words of Scripture to me. However, Pete goes on, there are moments when I affirm that resurrection, few and far between as they are. We proclaim and celebrate this Easter season because it links Jesus with all life, with transformation, and with possibility of life beyond our imagining. Forget about the rude remarks. So, I invite you to see for yourselves. 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. var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); Imagine if you will, trying to understand the life of Martin Luther King, or Mahatma Gandhi simply by focusing upon their death. jQuery(document).ready(function(){ During the breaking of bread, the Lamb of God or other appropriate song or chant is sung. Christ is risen indeed! 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. How solid? The moss, the kelp, the zebrafish, the very mice and flies, We join our tears to theirs and when we have no more tears to cry, we roll up our sleeves and we do what we can to help them. Perhaps someone will ask, How are the dead to be raised up? Alleluia! Thats the thing with stories, one story, if it is even remotely engaging, that one story will inevitably lead to many more stories. - Trinity Sunday, Moon-Dancing Bears, Jesus and Nicodemus: a sermon on John 3:1-17. Life finds a way. This story provides the raw material for the idol that we have created to serve as our god. So, let me just cling to what I have accumulated and pay lip-service to the need for sacrifice. THEME The Rapturous Awakening The Irrepressible God The Ever-present Mystery, From Good Fridays gruesome darkness. There are heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies. Not all bodies are the same. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Set free from a Three-Tiered Universe! Let us metanoia Let us think new thoughts about who Jesus was and why Jesus died. //jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); 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. The SPIRIT of DIVINITY is within all Creation, permeating all of the Cosmos! jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); Would leave ninety-nine sheep to look for one lost sheep. Today, on this International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, how many of us will satisfy ourselves with righteous indignation rather than sacrifice? 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? Im not sure how many whales entered the bay. A small but secure fortune in hand. Then I discovered the card placed in the center of my bed. I first heard it at a retreat on the West Coast a lifetime ago), In this fast paced world of ours, I often find myself in little Crystals predicament. The text beginning with the Invitation is read by pastor and people from the hymnal. 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. *All: Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord! So much so that they confessed their desire to stay with Jesus in the splendor of that mountaintop. This time also allows a moment for the congregation to "get settled" and ready to hear God's written word. They were an unusual couple in that we shared the uncommon habit of going to church. Practicing resurrection requires that we gather sharing our gifts, talents and treasure for the good of all. I am using it this Sunday and sharing your credit information! 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. Prayers. I dont know. Christ is risen! 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! Humans were cast out of the perfection of the garden and alienated for their creator. *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! All risings of the human spirit are preceded by brokenness, loss or rejection. Through this meal which has stood the test of time, we covenant to love you, God. Thank you for sharing this liturgy for communion. Indeed, we are shown to be false witnesses of God, for we solemnly swore that God raised Christ from the deadwhich did not happen if in fact the dead are not raised. None of us believe that we live in a three-tiered universe. who was compassionate and stood up for justice. But there is more going on in this story than just the literal words on the page. Through a simple meal of grain and grape, we, your children, unite. Julian is the author of the first English book ever to have been written by a woman: Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love. We celebrate the table in which we can join together with friends and strangers, loved ones and enemies. Sacrifice one for the sake of the many. 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! The profoundest act of worship is to try to understand. How safe? How the living things that are descend from things that were. 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. It is an image which will not leave me. United States Wellspring Liturgies. I thought, or hoped, sometimes even believed that the myth of redemptive violence could no longer tempt me. The Third Sunday of Easter - April 18, 2021 Acts 3:12-19 Psalm 4 I John 3:1-7 Luke 24:36b-48 You can't manage or control a resurrection. 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. 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. endobj } The magnitude of loss was positively unbearable. good times, bad times - give me some of that: blogging on faith and life. Frame 6: You are a special and unique image of God. We gaze upon creation where erosion makes it known, Alas, the sun does indeed shine at midnight in the summer months, but in Norway summer does not include the month of August. United States The Cross and Easter are two faces of the one mystery. Let us pray for the intentions within our hearts: We know that when we raise our minds and hearts to the Presence among us, extraordinary things happen. SPRING - EASTER The Dance Of Transformation. For all who are striving to form new governments, for thepeople of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine: that God will enlighten and inspiretheir leaders to build structures that will respect rights, promote life andhealth and establish educational and economic opportunities. But it does have the power to transfigure. When soap didnt work she reached for the butter. Some of the people remained in the fragmented remnants and developed compensating mantras. This year, we at Holy Cross are giving up God for Lent. Do you still have a hold of that candy? 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