Meditation “It’s no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or non-existence.” “...we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
Lighting of Candles
Welcome/ Check in (How are you feeling?)
Sharing of Invitations (see back of order of worship)
Reading ”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.” 1.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
Call and Response Prayer
One: Dear God, We give thanks for all those who have loved us into being. May we make a decision to love our enemies as Jesus taught.
Many: God have mercy on us.
One: Help us to learn habits of truth telling and give up our habits of denial and fear.
Many: God have mercy on us.
One: May we awaken to your ways of radical inclusive and merciful love as we dedicate our lives to love you
God with all our heart, soul and mind.
Many: God have mercy on us.
One: May we co-create with you as we love our neighbors all as extensions of ourselves and including the plants and animals. Guide Church for Our Common Home as we move to Oregon and spread a net of love and prayer around our common home Mother Earth.
Many: God have mercy on us. Amen
Musical Response Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
1. I looked over Jordan and what did I see …There was a band of angels comin after me….2. I’m sometimes up and sometime down, ….But I know my soul is heavenly bound….3. If you get there before I do…Tell all my friends that I comin too.
Prayer Requests (Please send ahead of time to revtarwater@yahoo.com)
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
Scripture Gospel of John 8:31-32 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
Readings Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King said in 1967 that the U.S. is the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world today” and that the U.S has, "the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism"
“...we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
“It’s no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or non-existence.”
Reflection MLK and Jesus: The Truth Will Set You Free and How to Love Our Enemies
Lectio Divina What word or phrase strikes you? What does this have to do with your current life? What is God calling you to do or be or transform into?
Musical Response We Shall Overcome
Drawing Story of Birds and smiling faces on houses, trees, suns etc.
Offering for the ministry of the church
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
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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.
Mary Magdalene Café: Our pot luck dinner is our holy communion.
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.
WORSHIP WILL CONTINUE ON ZOOM in OREGON Thank you Martha Garcia!
Please come visit us in Oregon!
Change in prayer requests during worship. Please send by email before worship.
Lectio Divina and Centering Prayer Contemplation of scriptures and Centering Prayer is an ancient Christian contemplative silent prayer practice, TBA
Monthly Taize Chanting service first Sunday of every month.
Prayer and Healing Service third Sunday of the month.
Dream Circle Time is undecided at this time TBA.
Committee on Ministry next Sunday Jan. 26 th 3rd Sunday, 3:30-4:30 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.