From the Celebrating Mystery collection
THEME The path to destruction and the path to new life.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
The unthankful get the misery which they have brought upon themselves Nothing liberates the human mind as much as a thankful spirit.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
1. Imagination is the midwife of compassion. 2. Compassion belongs more to the gut than to the heart or the head. 3. Compassion is sharing the passion of the other as well as walking in their shoes.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
Our senses and our use of them are part of God's creation. To attempt to deny our senses is as much an insult to God as is the misuse of them.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
The establishment of justice and peace, inclusiveness and awareness may seem an impossible dream, but it is only those who are motivated by such a vision who are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to create a better world.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
THEME Healthy and Unhealthy Use of Power The superior/inferior relationship which produces the victim mentality does violence to both parties.
From the Festive Worship collection
THEME The Festival of Empowerment THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION 1. The fire from above like the image of the halo or aura is an outward manifestation that springs from the strangely warmed heart, the heart that has experienced Christ's liberation.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
Peace of mind does not come through struggling to stop thinking, but through focusing the mind on some particular thought or object, and especially on the rhythm of our breathing.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION 1. Evolution is a law of life not just of biology. 2. Only the mystery is permanent. All other apparent permanence is illusion.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
THEME Dreams and Harsh Reality THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION For the rich poverty is obscene. For the poor wealth is obscene. For God both are obscene.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
THEME: The unravelling that relates everything to each other.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
1. The earth may be our mother but we can be her mid¬wife or her funeral director. 2. Nature is a web of interdependency not a series of separate hierarchical layers.
From the Festive Worship collection
THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION 1. In the beyond lies the everywhere, in the within dwells our heaven. 2. The only heaven God lives in is the heaven that is everywhere; for God is not limited to any time or space, but is present in all equally.
From the Festive Worship collection
1. Easter is the festival of the irrepressible God whom not even death can contain. 2. Most of us would prefer a cozy God to a God who shatters our complacency. Yet Easter is about a God who bursts tombs of the familiar, the ordinary and the mediocre.
From the Boundless Life collection
Beyond the rain the sun, Beyond the tears the fun, Within the silence the One.
From the Boundless Life collection
May the fire in us nurture the Earth and not consume its life. May the fire in us consume our greed and save this sacred Earth.
From the Festive Worship collection
There is no Easter without making one’s peace with the dead and with the forces of destruction that lurk within the human psyche.
From the Festive Worship collection
When love and hatred engage in mortal conflict it is love which suffers most; but love has the final victory.
From the Boundless Life collection
Holy is my birth and sacred is my mother.
From the Boundless Life collection
Give me warmth in my loving, Strength through forgiving, Peace in my being, Today and all my life.
From the Boundless Life collection
Leader: Creator God to you we pray; - All: Help us hear your children's cry. Leader: Most joyful God to you we pray; ‑ All: Help us share your children's joy.
From the Boundless Life collection
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen.
From the Boundless Life collection
We give thanks for the plants, Give thanks for the creatures Whose flesh supplies this meal.