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For more information on the Commission, its mandate and membership, please click here. (I have searched for the source of this story, withoutsuccess. Or perhaps it is that both are dead. He offered Divine Life to all people suffering under worldly forces of death. Rejecting the concept of original sin or sin nature. I deny the resurrection every time I participate in an unjust system. Dying you destroyed our death, You created the universe and all living things. There is real wisdom, Lord, in the adage. Set free from a Three-Tiered Universe! Now let us greet one another: I honor the Divinity Within you Namaste Peace. Such a strange dualism to entertain on the surface of a frozen lake, beneath a clear blue sky, staring out at a horizon, I have all too often entertained. It is right to give our thanks and praise. 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! Pauls understanding of resurrection was good enough for those early followers of Jesus way. For far too long, my conditioning caused me to see this story as the story about casting away doubts and believing in Jesus physical resurrection. Grandma took a good look at the vase that used to sit on her mothers kitchen table all those years ago. He is risen indeed! What we refer to as the soul was a foreign concept to first century Jews. Crystal was very upset and still very stuck. Christos Aneste! Do you still have a hold of that candy? Mmm humm. But on this autumn day St. Francis words provide warmth and peace. We lift them up to God. 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 . We celebrate the risen Christ in our midst. How dare I posit a GOD who is LOVE? Their pastor had warned them that my countenance was putting us all in danger. 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. Then one day that perfect relationship was severed when for one reason or another the humans disobeyed the rules established by the creator. Like many professional wrestlers my career began when I was but a child. heaven and earth are full of your glory. It wasnt until the 15th century that the flatness of the Earth was seriously challenged by the likes of Columbus. Boys and their toys the put downs come, pardon the pun, a little too easily. One: On this day, we embrace the grace which reaches from the tomb. They may not want to hurl me off a cliff, although some have wished me dead, or at the very least judged and punished by their god of eternal torment. var thisact = jQuery('#submission-action').val(); *All: Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord! 4 0 obj Fosdick Dr. NW #80 We just knew what we knew. 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. jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); Having the atonement become relatively powerless, because it doesn . Even our ancient Greek forebearers, they understood that if horses had gods those gods would be horses. Others, they looked confused and terrified as they are loaded on board trains. He opened the scriptures, explaining everything; and they knew him in the breaking of the bread. People: Almighty God, who through your Son overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life, grant that we who celebrate our Lord'sresurrection may arise from the death of our sin through the renewal of your Holy Spirit and may hear and obey your living Wordof truth;through Jesus Christ our Lord, who now lives and reigns with you and theHoly Spirit, one God forever. For after the fire came a BAT KOL. Prayer of Communion Salvation is about making us whole, ONE with one another and ONE with the ONE who is as Jesus taught with his very life is the LOVE we call GOD. The ravages inflicted by Rome were as horrendous as any barbaric acts of war the world has ever seen. jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); window.location.replace('https://progressivechristianity.org/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); What tombs of conformity does society create in order to control the spirit of fully alive divergence? Even though we may be worshiping in individual spaces, Through the Spirit, we are forever united. But they will not be tears cried in vain. A Progressive Easter Liturgy - Rev Dr Lorraine Parkinson 2 Replies Easter Liturgy [Power Point images] Easter 2022 Quiet music PP The God of Easter - Introduction What on earth can we do with Easter? 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. If you have not donated yet, please do so today. Most of us would prefer a cozy God to a God who shatters our complacency. By the way, theres much more in Chapter 15 of Pauls letter to the followers of Jesus Way in Corinth. My predicament often makes it difficult for me to appreciate the beauty of the heirloom. Above the sky were the Heavens. /* Entering the synagogue on the Sabbath, as was his habit, Jesus stood up to do the reading. As far back as the sixteenth century, a Polish monk named Nicolaus Copernicus calculated that the Earth is not the center of a three-tiered universe. Our focus upon preserving the church gets in the way of our rebirth! I suspect that even offering all you have to a wastrel and a scoundrel is worth a shot if it means finding peace. 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! We are sent out with these words Do this in remembrance of me. When I opened it, I found several passages of scripture written out in Annas immaculate style. My reign as world champion would have continued if it werent for the abrupt ending of my amateur status. View the full Transfiguration Worship Video below, Yes! Peace begins with non-violent resistance. For he is risen! One day, Elijah demanded of the voice, I have been very zealous for YHWH God Omnipotent. You wouldnt know very much about the civil rights movement, about Dr. Kings dream, his vision of equality, his struggle for inclusion, his cries for justice for the poor, his vision economic equality, or his passion for peace, and his commitment to non-violent resistance. Resurrection is not about the physical resuscitation of a corpse. Repent: Metanoia: to think new thoughts. Too many Hollywood movies tempt me to flirt with violence, as I yearn for some secret agents to just take him out! As a result of this splendid isolation, we spent several weeks as the only family camped in this idyllic bay. Resources for planning and leading worship, Lift Up Your Heartsand Voices: Involving the congregation in the Communion liturgy through song, The Three Days: Celebrating the summit of Holy Week with four services and two sacraments. Petes words remind me over and over, and over again that Jesus lived and died embodying the CHRIST which is the DIVINE LOVE which rises in with through and beyond you and I, again, and again, and again. Jesus poured out his life in the service of LOVE. jQuery(document).on('change', '#submission-action', function(){ One: On this day, we celebrate the risen Christ 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. Easter is the sky that encloses the broken egg. Disappointed I resigned myself to abandoning our plans to camp on the hillsides which envelope the port of Narvik. Humans were cast out of the perfection of the garden and alienated for their creator. Forgive us, Merciful One. Benedicite - a Song of Creation Benedicite - a Song of Creation (shorter version) Venite - a Song of Triumph Jubilate - a Song of Joy The Easter Anthems Evening Prayer. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of our God. Now, today, let us become Good News for the poor, let us embrace our freedom to be LOVE in the world! jQuery('#submit-action').click(); Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote the rocks. The story I want to tell you comes from the Irish author Frank McCourts autobiography entitled Tis. Why did they repeat these stories over and over again? The free worship planning material is easy to locate using an extensive index. There are heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies. Not all bodies are the same. 2023 ProgressiveChristianity.org, Re-Pitching the Tent: Reordering the Church Building for Worship and Mission, Transforming the Stone: Preaching Through Resistance to Change, 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, There are different kinds of life and death: our physical bodies most obvious but we also experience a kind of life and death emotionally and in our interaction with others, We all experience death and resurrection in our everyday lives, New Life we are constantly recreating life, We dont want to change dont want to let go but in the dying, new life emerges. 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? We are not fallen creatures. 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. Resist reading into the parables a too small personal shepherd, woman, or father to act the part of a too small recklessly, foolish god. Lets extend our hands over one another for a final blessing: May you have the power to live life fully. That left my chamber-maiding at a local lodge where the housekeeper was always kind enough to keep my Sunday mornings free so that I could go to church, while hung-over colleagues struggled to clean up. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. BAT KOL, the DAUGHTER OF A SOUND or as some translations put it the DAUGHTER OF A VOICE. When I arrived, the place was empty, and I thought I was going to make a clean get-away. jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=pauContent&pau_type='+thisact); *This liturgy is an adaptation of the traditional Great Thanksgiving liturgy. Today, thanks to daylight savings time, the earth hasnt quickened its course around the sun. Prayer of Thanksgiving Or are we afraid that stripped of the security which our wealth affords us, our privileged positions will disappear, and we too shall find ourselves dependent upon the goodness of others? That is the gospel, the message that I preached to you. Not all flesh is the same. 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. Let us give thanks to our Creator. 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. 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. All tears are part of the river of life. Easter Day: All Things Are Made New: a service of light with Holy Communion. 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. Well, with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek let me blame it on a dog. So, when the possibility arose to actually travel up to Narvik in Norway to see the mid-night sun I was off. Jesus knew this. May 23, 2022 | Father's Day, Mini-Movies. } and the capacity to give people an experience of God. 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. For we are ONE with an evolving DEITY. petitions prayers for strength a selection of modern petitions asking for God's strength to come, with a prayer for those grieving and a prayer for hope. The agency connects leaders with needed resourcing, training, consulting, and networking that support spiritual Together, by your grace, we accept the life you offer. It didnt take very long before the many layers of clothing, with which I had hoped to insulate myself from the dangers of the cold, failed to keep me moving very far into the expanse of white snow drifts which glistened as the Suns glorious rays danced incapable of warming much of anything but my heart. For: Only a fool. I can hear them now, those held captive to by our ancestors limited understanding, I can hear them. Settle into your seat, close your eyes and imagine a place that brings you comfort and peace. Jeremiah 33:14-16. Your email address will not be published. Beautiful liturgy. But Anna and Steve were always at it. When we say that we believe in the resurrection of the dead, we are proclaiming that no matter how dead someone may appear to be, no matter how dead we may feel, new life is always possible. if ( '' != thisact ) { Where, O Death is your victory? So, today Im inviting you to stop trying to identify the DIVINE MYSTERY as an individual person in these parables. Take, eat. Paul insists that there are natural bodies, which he equates with earthly bodies what we would call physical bodies and there are spiritual bodies which Paul equates with heavenly bodies. We, too, experience new possibilities arising from our failures or disappointments or what has come to an end. Home becomes a tomb when flexibility vanishes, awareness contracts and adventure disappears. Welcome to the liturgy of The Namaste Church! In an instant I wiggled free, spun around and connected with what I figured would be a fatal blow. Leader: We give thanks to God the Father that our Savior, Jesus Christ, gave us this memorial of his sacrifice, until his coming again. Nor can I believe that Jesus saw YAHWEH, the GREAT I AM as a fool. We remember that he was laid in a borrowed grave. Heidi Carrington Heath, Sabbath: SALT's Lectionary Commentary for Second Week after Pentecost, Year B, Into the World: SALTs Lectionary Commentary for Easter 7. The writers of our creeds firmly established that God lived in heaven. Repent from the Greek word metanoia to think new thoughts. With visions of a grand and glorious past they were free from the dangers of the violence being wrought upon their world by the forces of the Roman Empire. Alleluia! Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.. 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. Letting go of our carefully crafted and tightly held images of the ONE who IS the SOURCE of ALL BEING is a daunting task. Maybe if we are unwilling to fight, all we can do is join our tears to the tears of that little Ukrainian family. All crosses can be transformed into trees of life. Yes! Leader: How does Christ's resurrection benefit us? Listen for yourself to the skilled rhetorician Paul, who employs the tactic well in the reading assigned for this Sunday, by the powers behind the Churchs Revised Common Lectionary. Easter Sunrise We encourage you to celebrate the Resurrection with your family (and perhaps with neighbors, safely at a distance outdoors) by worshiping the Lord at sunrise using the liturgy below. Among the passages was the text which is assigned for this very Sunday from Pauls letter to the church in Corinth. May this Spirit help us to recognize the Christ-presence in our midst. So, this morning Id like us to take our focus off Jesus death and all we may have heard, or learned about why Jesus died so that we can see what it was about Jesus life that endeared him to his followers. The third face of CHRIST belongs to a Ukrainian Mother holding back her tears as she embraces her little family. Through this prayer, the people of God sanctify the day by continual praise of God and prayers of intercession for the needs of the world. Hosanna in the highest. We all must take care of ourselves. In the past he was patient and overlooked peoples sins; but in the present time he deals with their sins, in order to demonstrate his righteousness. Let us declare our faith together (you may rise): who welcomes us into the household of faith. More Worship Resources. Frame 5: God is everywhere, in all of creation. Theologian Richard Rohr reminds us that the CHRIST is the Christian code word for REALITY. To feed the hungry? healed those who believed in him, received all who sought him. 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. 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. Deep in flower and in flesh, in star and soil and seed, . Easter offers meaning and hope to all people. 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.. For the Lord Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it (here the minister shall break the bread) and said, "This is my body which is for you. jQuery(document).on('change', '#submission-action', function(){ I can only hope that each of you, have endured such moments in your life. We must put aside our expectations of a quick and easy fix and settle in for the difficult generational evolution of our species. The response is Alithos Aneste! Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. window.location.replace('https://progressivechristianity.org/paupress/?rel=contact&pau_form=contact_form'); Through his resurrection Life you gave birth to your church, It was Solon's Feb. 1 post that drew the Facebook group's attention to the Washington resolution. Nor were they trying to teach us to live as reckless fools. ProgressiveChristianity.org : Easter Prayer Easter Prayer Week of April 3, 2022 Christos Aneste! your love came also to us in your servant Jesus. Easter Sunrise: Outdoor Worship. These tiny, humble, wordless things how shall they tell us lies? Together, at this table, you have offered us life. THEME The Rapturous Awakening The Irrepressible God The Ever-present Mystery, From Good Fridays gruesome darkness. You can skip to the end and leave a response. You created the world by speaking life into being. May 23, 2022 | Father's Day, Uncategorized. The week before Easter, known as Holy Week, is very special in the Christian tradition. We will never know what actually happened two thousand years ago, we will always. The Apostle Paul denies that Jesus resurrection was an actual physical resurrection. We take wine and drink, as Jesus invited his friends to drink, 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. He was teaching in the Galilean synagogues, and all were loud in their praise. As the train finally pulled into Narvik, I couldnt quite believe my eyes. Non-violent resistance is dangerous. But I must tell you, when that first whale jumped up out of the water, and we saw the tell-tale signs of those white patches on its side, we moved faster than youd think two kids in a slowly deflating rubber dingy ought to be able to manage. 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. In the same way the cup, after supper (here the minister shall pour the wine and lift up the cup) saying, "This cup is a new covenant of my blood. If you have already donated, thank you! Would restore, would be a shepherd, foolish enough to care enough to save the lost, the wandering, the lonely, the one outside the bounds of the flock. As the earth sheds its snow, it begins to drink in the warm rains and creation comes alive once again. Let it go. Sure enough, the vase slipped off as smooth as silk. Thats the thing with stories, one story, if it is even remotely engaging, that one story will inevitably lead to many more stories. Having this "catch-cry" as a . As we receive Communion, these words are said: You are the Bread of Life. The concluding prayer of thanksgiving was (heavily) adapted from a prayer by Katherine Hawker. "Our Father". The way that the Jesus story has been told has crafted, molded and shaped the idol that masquerades as the MYSTERY we call God. What can we see in the wounds which are depicted in this story? Justice is what LOVE looks like in the world. Alas, if only. 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. Pain and suffering perpetrated by our species vain conviction that violence is the way to peace. 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. So, when you catch a glimpse of the REIGN of LOVE, celebrate and as you celebrate remember to invite others into the party. 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. As individuals, we often find peace, comfort, and a close connection to God in a garden. But like the indignant disciples of old, do we actually see the role we are playing in this race to escape the limitations of our one and only planet? Justice will exact our tears. But it cannot be like that with you. But for a brief time, our longing for Spring stirred expectations in us which heralded better times ahead. 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. jQuery.noConflict(); Furthermore, I suspect that you do to. Would leave ninety-nine sheep to look for one lost sheep. Amen. They not yet but already here EMPIRE of DIVINITY is here in every stranger who welcomes a refugee, in every aid worker, doctor without borders, in every reckless fool who risks it all for the kind of justice which makes peace. 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. Grandma sat little Crystal on her knee. Our Hebrew storyteller paints such a vivid picture of the Thin Place in which Elijah stands. 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. Somehow the Parliamentarians managed with their smaller cannons or battering rams to shatter the wall and the cannon, Humpty Dumpty came tumbling down, shattered, irreparable. Somehow, hed managed to secure me with what we professional wrestlers call an arm bar. Evolving beyond the myth that violence can solve our problems, or bring us peace, is vital. The prayer book revision Facebook group, with more than 4,000 members, was created in 2017 by the Rev. We ask you to bless this bread and this cup. Change). Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. God does this to all who believe in Christ, because there is no difference at all:everyone has sinned and is far away from Gods saving presence. What can Jesus teach us? Sacrifice one for the sake of the many. I was unbeatable. 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. Frame 4: A smile from you can bring joy to anyone and everyone you encounter. Progressive Revival Easter Prayer By Paul Raushenbush Living and Reigning God We give you thanks on this Easter morning for the Resurrection of your son Jesus Christ! Because if the dead are not raised, then Christ is not raised, and if Christ is not raised, your faith is worthless. Listen carefully. 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. We are an Easter people! Now this doesnt really present much of a problem with the first two parables of loss. Let it be so among us. Here at this table your promise of life is made tangible. Because when you look at the shepherd, the woman, and the father in these parables, they come do come off as reckless fools, unless they are risking all that they have for the sake of something worth risking everything for. When we do see ourselves in the story we are usually the lost the lost sheep or the lost coin and we take comfort in the reality that no matter how lost we may become GOD the supernatural being, out there, or up there, will find us. McCourt was a schoolteacher, and he tells this story about a particular class in which he was challenging the assumptions of his young students. Amen. And also with you. Morning Prayer. Jesus said, I have come that they might have life and may live it abundantly! LIFE and not death. If we begin with what is actually happening in these parables, we will have to confess that these parables of the lost and the found are simply outrageous. We know that humans have been evolving over millennia. But in my heart of hearts, I know that I must learn to see the face of CHRIST in my enemy. Thanks be to all that is HOLY! You would be correct to conclude that I do believe in resurrection. Then it is given the body designed for itwith each kind of seed getting its own kind of body. "Ground Us and Grow Us in Love," rtf or pdf file of liturgy at Worship Ways. Sign up for our FREE monthly eNewsletter! So, rather than side-step the subject of resurrection, I decided to include both readings today. Send us your: ResourceEventNewsIdeasnow World in Prayer, the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist, Lodi, California. //jQuery('#submit-action').attr('href','/paupress/?rel=contact&pau_form=contact_form'); Although she has never been canonized by the Roman Catholic Church she is venerated in both the Lutheran and Anglican churches. Im convinced that it will not be difficult to see the glorious face of CHRIST in this: view on video. When I was an amateur wrestler, I was a world-class champion wrestler. 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