What forms do your communion elements take during this time of Shelter In Place? See mine, below this entry... from Palm Sunday. Mt Hollywood Church is urging people to take pix of their home-made communion elements - whether wine and bread, milk and cookies, juice and cereal - and posting them on social media
I am indebted to Amy-Jill Levine's book "Short Stories by Jesus" and Bernard Brandon Scott's book "Hear Then the Parable" for challenging me to look beyond the Christian bias of interpreting Jesus' parables through the lens of the repentance and forgiveness and attempting to hear this story in ways more in keeping with Judaism.
Written by Rev. Irene Laudeman
This service is appropriate for a small congregation of 20-60 people. The service is conducted in two settings:
The practice of creating Stations of the Cross for meditative reflection on the final hours of Jesus' life is a very old one. To this day, many Catholic and other churches have gardens or sanctuaries in which the stations are situated.
Hymn lyrics by Rev. Jim Gertmenian
In the brilliant sunshine, in the city street, Hear the bright hosannas, hear the marching feet;
Look at Jesus; hear the story; Probe the purpose of his life; See the struggle and the glory, All the conflict, all the strife.
In his native New Zealand Bryan Bruce writes, directs and hosts the internationally successful crime show THE INVESTIGATOR in which he re- examines unsolved crimes In 2010 he decided to apply his criminal investigative methods to the ultimate cold case : Who Killed Jesus and Why?
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.
This is the Passion story. The story of Jesus' betrayal and his death.