From the Celebrating Mystery collection
Each day can be a life time. Time is the enemy only if we let it control our lives. Time is redeemed by timeless moments.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
Remembering our ancestors gives life to ourselves and also to them, for we are our ancestors and they are us.
I heard a contemporary hymn on Sunday morning during the Eucharist and fell in love with the melody. It was the “Untitled Hymn
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 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.
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When love and hatred engage in mortal conflict it is love which suffers most; but love has the final victory.
On the theme: The Tree, The Carol, the Child
Christmas is a time to move into the world of images and dreams, a time to allow the 'make believe' happen. Let us be still and reflective.
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Theme: Dreamtime Reality -- Season of Hope Thoughts for Reflection To travel hopefully is the mark of a pilgrim. To believe one has arrived is the mark of the insecure.
I support very much the call to ‘create new memories’ for Christmas and I believe the place to begin is with children. However, one of the best known children's Christmas carols is ‘Away in the Manger’, and this much loved carol has many wrong messages imbedded in the words. The second verse of the traditional words speak of Jesus ‘looking down from the sky’ and the last verse has Jesus up in heaven and the singer requesting him to ‘fit us for heaven to live with you there’. I believe my third verse takes the dualism and the ‘away’ Jesus out and replaces it with the Biblical teaching of very last verse of Matthew – ‘And I will be with you always, to the end of the age’. This surely is the Gospel.
From the Boundless Life collection
If cobwebs fill the corners That lurk within our mind Our faith can help us brush aside Each clinging thought we find
Part 2 of Sacred Energy (Mass of the Universe) contains the complete text of the mass
The mass in a form that you can interact with. Each individual musical segment has both an audio file (mp3) and a musical score (pdf).
From the Boundless Life collection
“Knock, knock, knock and the door will surely open, * Seek, seek, seek and the questing heart will find,” All that only seems to lie outside us Also dwells within our heart and mind.
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O God of sky and God of Earth, We honor your presence Within us and beyond.
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God of sky and God of Earth Your bright presence we explore Deep within us and beyond All our reason’s structured lore.
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1. How liberated are those who have learnt to let go; They shall experience the mystery of God.
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(i) How happy are those who have learnt to let go; They shall discover the Christ within.
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Let your eye be single, Jesus urged, See behind Earth’s many things; In the place of all you long to own Choose the sight awareness brings.
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If you want to be happy Let go and trust God Finding pleasure in sharing wealth.
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Beyond the boxes we create, Beyond each image we can spawn The process river flows along To sweep aside the now outworn.
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“The meek shall inherit the Earth” said Christ But what could this mean for the people today? While corp’rates and rich folk gain more and more land The poor live in slums where they’re still forced to stay.
From the Boundless Life collection
My desire for you, my friend, Is the same as for myself To be freed from gross desire For more things or for more wealth Through embracing sharing ways That can nurture inner health.
Celebrate our life together, giving birth in many ways; Father-Mother Love is with us, leading to a better day. Equal partners ‘round the table, family groups of every kind show us how to nurture kindness, new creation’s joy to find.
1. Ancient stars would shed their light, Shining bright, both day and night; Heralding some wondrous birth Of some god’s descent to earth;