Meditation "’Walk forth, you gentle and humble ones, for your gentleness is your strength.’” The earth resists those who are violent, and offers herself to those who respect her....To act more gently is not to act more feebly or slowly, it is to act with more consciousness and love. Now we begin to understand why the earth is given as the rightful heritage of the gentle, and denied to the violent." (The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, translated by Jean-Yves Leloup) 

Welcome/ Check in (How are you feeling?)

Sharing of Invitations (see back of the order of worship)    

Reading of Church vision “12 Step Program for Ecologic Civilization” 

Invocation           Our Dear, Dear Mother                            by   Raffi                

Our dear, dear Mother, daily provider, earth be your name. The time has come, to honor you, to know you and to show our love. You give us each day our daily grain, kissed by the sun and kissed by the rain. Teach us now to find a way to care for you in our work and play. Chorus

Passing of the Peace God Loves You and There is Nothing You Can Do About It!

Musical Offering The Garden Song by   John Denver    

Gospel of Mary Magdalene last line

Gospel of Matthew Chapter 5 the Beatitudes

 “Walk Forth and announce God’s Kingdom aka an Ecologic Civilization!” (Translated by Bonnie)  

"Walk forth, you gentle and humble ones, for your gentleness is your strength.”

Gospel of John Chapter 15:1-5

I am the true vine, and my Abba is the vine grower who cuts off every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, but prunes the fruitful ones to increase their yield. You’ve been pruned already, thanks to the word that I have spoken to you. Live on in me, as I do in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit of itself apart from the vine, neither can you bear fruit apart from me.  I am the vine; you are the branches.  Those who live in me and I in them will bear abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

― from "The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian Translation"

Reflection Walk Forth with God Into Our Biodynamic Farm     Rev. Bonnie 

Musical Response            We are Marching in the Light of God 

Prayer   (In unison)    God of Walking and Co-creative Growing, We give thanks for the energy and inspiration that fills us and every living creature, plant and animal that propels us forward this Thanksgiving. Thank you for all of creation and our part in it. Please guide us as we walk forth together in love and courage to create an ecologic civilization.  Please prune our  fear  so that we may be like beautiful plants who co-create with making a paradise life  here on earth. We give thanks Gracious God for the teachings of Jesus and Mary Magdalene that empower us with new life.  We give thanks for farmers, gardens and all that we eat. Our hearts sing with joy this Thanksgiving.  Amen  

Prayer of Thanksgiving       Thanks A Lot     by Raffi            (see insert)                          

Prayer Requests (Please offer name and condition briefly.)  

Prayer  (in unison) Our Mother Father God who is within us we celebrate your many names. Your wisdom come,  your will be done, unfolding from 

the depths within us. Each day you give us all that we need. You remind us of our limits and we let go. You support us in our power and we act with 

courage. For you are the dwelling place within us the empowerment around us and the celebration among us now and forever. Amen

Offering for Church (Please make your tax deductible checks out to Church for Our Common Home and the basket is in the dining room.) 

Closing Prayer St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi Prayer

Make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy, And where there is sadness, joy, joy, joy. God grant that I may not so much seek; To be consoled as to console; To be understood, as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we pardoned. And it is in dying that we are born, to Eternal Life. Amen, Amen, Amen

Check out              How are you feeling?

Benediction                Blessing Song           by Miriam Therese Winters

May the blessings of God go before you. May her grace and peace abound. May her spirit live within you. May her love wrap you round. May her blessings remain with you always. May you walk on holy ground.

Communion is our vegetarian pot luck dinner at the Mary Magdalene Café!

The Garden Song by   John Denver   Inch by inch, row by row, Gonna make this garden grow All it takes is a rake and a hoe, And a piece of fertile ground. Inch by inch, row by row, Someone bless these seeds I sow. Someone warm them from below, Till the rain comes tumbling down. 

Pulling weeds and picking stones We are made of dreams and bone.  Feel the need to grow my own, Cause the time is close at hand. Grain for grain sun and rain, Find my way in nature's chain. Tune my body and my brain, To the music from the land. Plant your rows straight and long Temper them with prayer and song Mother Earth will make you strong, If you give her love and care Old crow watching me From her perch in yonder tree In my garden I'm as free As that feathered mother   up there

Thanks A Lot by Raffi 

Thanks a lot. 

Thanks for the sun in the sky. 

Thanks a lot. 

Thanks for the whispering wind. 

Thanks a lot. 

Thanks for the moon lit night. 

Thanks a lot. 

Thanks for the wonder in me. 

Thanks a lot.

Thanks for the clouds so high.

Thanks a lot. 

Thanks for the birds in the spring. 

Thanks a lot. 

Thanks for the stars so bright. 

Thanks a lot. 

Thanks for the way we feel. 

Thanks for the animals, thanks for the land,

Thanks for the people everywhere. 

Thank you God, thanks for all we’ve got.

Thank you God for all we’ve got. 

Invitations: Our current ecologic crisis is a call to awaken to the reverence of life and the truth that all nature is alive and sacred. As we witness the sixth extinction of life on earth, the only one created by us humans, we are invited to reclaim the ancient wisdom traditions. We are one organic, interspecies, interconnected whole.   What we do affects everyone else. Every Sunday at 5 pm we acknowledge that we need one another more than ever before  and commune with God called by many names. We celebrate  the  wisdom traditions from  the East, West, indigenous peoples,  new science as we study the teachings of Jesus, Mary Magdalene,  the Bible and  the newly found gnostic gospels.

Dec. 1st Thanksgiving Vegetarian Pot Luck Party and sharing of China and Korea trip after Taize

Dec. 8th Special worship for Our Lady of Guadalupe pelase bring music, danices, flowers or any gifts to Our Lady. 

Christmas worship will be Dec. 22 at 5 pm with a vegetarian pot luck 

Christmas Day worship and making dinner for the homeless at Haven House Interfaith Homeless Shelter 5 pm on Wednesday Dec. 25th meet here 4 pm to cook and car pool to Escondido. 

Annual Alcohol-free New Year’s Eve Celebration, Tuesday, Dec. 31 Celebration, 5 pm. We will show the movie that will make you want to join us in our vision of biodynamic farming,The Littlest Big Farm, with popcorn! We will also have a dream and vision sharing circle, music, dancing, a bonfire ritual to purify and warm us on our journey as we WALK FORTH into the New Year. Please bring finger food to share.

Lectio Divina  and Centering Prayer  Contemplation of scriptures and Centering Prayer, ancient Christian contemplative silent prayer practice, every Wednesday at 10  am

Monthly Taize Chanting service first Sunday of every month.

No Beach worship during winter we will hold worship here at home. 

Prayer and Healing Service third Sunday of the month.

Dream Circle every first and third Sunday before worship 3-5 pm. 

Committee on Ministry meeting every third Sunday each month 7 pm 

Please call Rev. Bonnie if you would like a pastoral visit and/or if you would like to pray or if you have prayer requests.  (858) 248-5123.

“Human Self-Destruction or Healthy Future? Might Whitehead Help?” Class that Dr. John B. Cobb Jr. Please join Rev. Bonnie Tarwater and Church for Our Common Home for an online class 10 weeks 9-11 am (PST) through  the Claremont Institute for Process Studies, https://claremontprocess.org/  The church has paid  and you are welcome to come to my house and enjoy one or all classes as my guest. Oct. 12 Freedom  vs Determinism; Meaning vs Meaninglessness, Oct.19 Organism vs. Mechanism, Oct. 25 Community vs Competitive Individualism, Nov. 2 Nature as Having Value in Itself vs Nature as Only Resources for US, Nov. 9 The Priority of Experience over its Objects, Nov. 16 Experiencing as Synthesizing Relations, Nov. 23 Science and Religions, Nov. 30 God and Idolatry, Dec.7 Radical Religious Pluralism, Dec. 14 The Primacy of Love Dec. 21 make up class.