Meeting ID: 302 571 9458 One tap mobile +16699009128,,3025719458# US (West Coast) +16465588656,,3025719458# US (East Coast) Meeting ID: 302 571 9458 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/acT7EuwNOb (Email Martha at martygarcia@cox.net with any Zoom questions.)
Meditation “Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.” Mark Twain
Lighting of Candles/ Welcome/ Check in (How are you feeling? And what do you need and what are your ideas of how to support one another and be of service during this global crisis?
Sharing of Invitations (see back of order of worship) www.michmontreal.com/biodynamic-farming-homeopathic-agriculture/
Martha Garcia’s Public Health Report
Share 12 Step Program, Traditions for Ecologic Civilization (see insert)
Invocation Mother Earth our Home, to you we sing, warm is your womb, wide is your wing, in you we live, move and are fed, sweet flowing milk, life giving bread. Mother Earth our home, to you we bring, all broken hearts, all broken wings. Our dear, dear Mother, daily provider, earth be your name the time has come to honor to know you and to show our love.
Passing of the Peace God Loves You and There is Nothing You Can Do About It
Reading God with the Sick Bats by John Fiedler
Scripture Romans 8:28 We know that God makes everything work together for the good of those who love God and have been called according to God’s purpose. The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian Translation
Reflection God Needs Us
Lent Week 5 God Needs Us Chapter 5, God Can’t God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils" by Thomas R. Oord
Biodynamic Principle #5 Homeopathic Solutions
Musical Offering What a Wonderful World by Sticky Fingaz I've seen trees of green, red roses too, I seen 'em bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, What a wonderful world, I've seen skys of blue and clouds of white, The bright blessed day, The dark sacred night And I think to myself What are wonderful world. The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky, Are also on the faces of people going byI've seen friends shaking hands Sayin' How do you do?
They're really sayin' "I love you" I hear babies cryin' I watch them grow They'll learn much more than I'll ever know And I think to myselfWhat a wonderful world Yes, I think to myself What a wonderful world Ohh, yeahhh
Prayer Dear God, you who we call by many names, We come in prayer to be with you, to love you and to be loved by you. (Silence) We want to make amends for acting as if you were not there or worse, made you responsible for our suffering and evil in the world. (Silence) We give you thanks for calling us to awaken to your still small voice. We pray for all who are suffering and dying during this pandemic in Italy, Spain, China, New York City and everywhere in US and across the planet. (Silence) We rejoice and give thanks for this wonderful world, this awesome universe in which we are apart. (Silence) We pray for you with grateful hearts Holy One, you who are our Beloved. (Silence) We send love to the earth our Mother, our common home and all her creatures. (Silence) We pray for all the political leaders, nurses, doctors, care givers and service providers of all kinds in this time of global crisis who work tirelessly and in steadfast love, regardless of danger or hardship. (Silence) We pray for Church for Our Common Home during this crisis and ask for you to guide us to create loving community, mercy and kindness for the least of these. (Silence) We pray for the bats in Wuhan China. (Silence) Fill us with your love that we learn to love our enemies as Jesus taught us. (Silence) Amen
Musical Response Voice Still and Small (see insert) Voice still and small, deep inside all, I hear you call, singing. In storm and rain, sorrow and pain, still you remain singing. Calming our fears, quenching my tears, through all the years, singing.
Prayer Requests (Contact Bonnie during the week by text, phone or email.)
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 the church (tax deductible donations taken on pay pal, check etc.)
Closing Prayer St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi Prayer
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 will resume potluck dinners, our holy communion asap with DANCING!
God with the Sick Bats by John Fiedler
In a cave in Wuhan bats
cluster on rock faces
noses dripping, gripped by
the same virus splashing
across TV. Nobody pays
them much mind.
While the mind of God
fills with their suffering.
She feels their pain,
offers compassion
and empathy and
perhaps the bats
feel this, perhaps
they respond to these
gentling mercies,
perhaps one of them
is moved to raise
a creaky wing
and spread it over
the hot forehead of
his neighbor on
the rocky ledge,
fanning another beloved
of God, relieving the fever.
Lenten Program
5 pm Sundays, March 1st to Easter, April 12!
Book study and conversation during worship
God Can’t How to believe in God and love after tragedy, abuse or other evils.
by Thomas J. Oord, Intro available on www.godcan’t.com
Each week will intertwine the 6 principles of biodynamic farming;
Week 1. Plant diversity Week 2. Crop rotation Week 3. Animal life
Week 4. Composting 5. Week homeopathic solutions Week 6. Life forces
3/1 Chapter 1 God Can’t Prevent Evil
3/8 Chapter 2 God Feels Our Pain
3/15 Chapter 3 God Works to Heal
3/22 Chapter 4 God Squeezes Good from Bad
3/29 Chapter 5 God Needs Our Cooperation
4/5 Conclusion Organic whole of all ideas about God.
4/12 Easter sunrise worship 7 am followed by a CELEBRATION breakfast at the Mary Magdalene Cafe
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.
Lenten Program5 pm Sundays, March 1st to Easter, April 12 Book study and conversation God Can’t How to believe in God and love after tragedy, abuse or other evils. by Thomas J. Oord, Intro available on www.godcan’t.com Each week will intertwine the 6 principles of biodynamic farming with chapter themes etc.
CALL for musical offerings, poems, art work, etc. Special thanks to John Fielder for his beautiful poem!
Dream Group every Wednesday 7 pm on Zoom
Lectio Devina and Centering Prayer Tuesday 10-11 am
Biodynamic Farming audio resources, Rudolph Steiner lectures http://rudolfsteiner.podbean.com/category/agriculture/
Please send Zoom link to friends and family.
Change in prayer requests during worship. Please send by email or call Bonnie during the week.
Committee on Ministry 3rd Sunday on Zoom 3:30-4:30 pm
Click on this link to join worship service on your computer or smart phone: https://zoom.us/j/3025719458 For audio only, you may call in: Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (West Coast) +1 646 558 8656 US (East Coast)
Meeting ID: 302 571 9458 One tap mobile +16699009128,,3025719458# US (West Coast) +16465588656,,3025719458# US (East Coast) Meeting ID: 302 571 9458 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/acT7EuwNOb (Email Martha at martygarcia@cox.net with any Zoom questions.)
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.
Please call Rev. Bonnie if you would like a pastoral visit on Zoom and/or if you would like to pray or if you have prayer requests. (858) 248-5123.