Year B (E-Delivery)
This special 4-week Advent Study offers an exploration of the season using rich visual art and music. Many congregations choose to mark these Sundays with the lighting of candles in the Advent wreath, balancing the dark days of winter with the promise of a coming spring.
Year A (E-Delivery)
This special 4-week Advent Study offers an exploration of the season using rich visual art and music. Many congregations choose to mark these Sundays with the lighting of candles in the Advent wreath, balancing the dark days of winter with the promise of a coming spring.
On this St. Patrick's Day it is fitting to receive a blessing from a grand Irishman whose writing reaches into my soul. Followers of this blog know that John O'Donohue is one of my favourite sages. I am indebted to a follower of the blog for sending me this podcast of Krista Tripett's interview of John O'Donohue recorded shortly before his death in 2008. O'Donohue's words continue to open my soul.
Shymaa, a little 4 yr old girl who laid in a comma in a GAZA hospital, during the summer of 2014. She would recover to find her entire family was murdered during an Israeli bombing. Her story sparked the 2 Unite All benefit album with 30 world famed musicians like Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters, Stewart Copeland, Philip Lawrence (Bruno Mars) and the Love All Love Wins / UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) movement.
From the Seasoned Celebration Collection
1. Winter is the season of the revelation of basic structure. If I was to strip away all the paraphernalia of my life what form would it have? How many of the things which I do are related to the roots of my spirit. 2. Winter is the season for hibernation. What rhythm do I have for reflection as well as action? What frequency and length of time do I need in solitude in order to facilitate the growth and quality of my spirituality?
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.
From the Seasoned Celebration collection
1. The seasons of the human heart reflect the seasons of nature. 2. For most things there is a right time but for some things such as manipulation, oppression and injustice there is never a right time.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
Until we discern the riches of the other tradition, any union will simply be a matter of absorption. Uniting two traditions can create a space where a third and more life- giving form of spirituality can emerge.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
Unlike our bodies our spirits need not be wearied by age but can become more and more lively day by day. To grow in spirit requires a vision that holds all things together.
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.
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
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 Festive Worship collection
The mystery of the Eucharist (Holy Communion, Mass) is only fully perceived when all flesh is seen as embodying both the suffering and the delight of God.
Theme: The Everywhere God
If we allowed ourselves to meet God everywhere, each day would become a Christmas. Christmas is not so much a season of the year as a season of the human heart.
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.
From the Festive Worship Collection
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.
Written by Martha Graham
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening That is translated through you into action, And because there is only one of you in all time, This expression is unique.
We are here to praise and enjoy God with body and soul, mind and heart, with song and word, with hands and feet. We are here to give because of the abundance God has given us, to share with each other, and to receive, because God has created us to depend on each other. We are here to celebrate the differences that otherwise might divide us: differences of age, of body, of culture, of opinion, of ability, of religious conviction. We are here to put things in perspective: to celebrate what matters, to laugh about things we take too seriously, to cry about things that truly touch our hearts. So may it be this morning: Amen!
Clearing lifetimes of Karma through my heart a portal of healing draws us into love beyond our fears of separation
In the beginning, was Logos. Logos -- logic -- reason -- demonstration -- Logos the Word: But Logos could not be heard.
Before the Beginning, Being, The Egg, Simply, infinitely being, Unimpeded, and Bang! The Word.
The Conscious Aging Alliance is comprised of several organizations that are making a positive contribution to a new vision of aging
God is Love
Lend your ears, lend your hands, Lend your movement, anything you can. Come to teach, come to be taught. Come in the likeness in the image of God. Cause, you can be like that. With all that humbleness, and all that respect.
I am what comes before sand and sandstone Chickens and eggs. I am the unproven truth On which all proofs depend.
English and Spanish verses of the song traditionally sung as Joseph and Mary search for shelter.