Lighting of Candles/ Welcome/ Check in (How are you feeling?)
Sharing of Invitations (see back of order of worship) http://rudolfsteiner.podbean.com/category/agriculture/
Share ”12 Step Program and 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.
Passing of the Peace God Loves You and There is Nothing You Can Do About It
Prayer (in unison) Dear God May wisdom shine through me, may love grow within me, may strength penetrate me, that in me may arise a helper of human kind, a servant of sacred things selfless and true. Amen (Rudolph Steiner)
Taize (see insert)
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 Jewish Bible Book of Joel Chapter 2:13 The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian Translation
13 Tear open your heart, not your clothes!” Return to YHWH your God, who is gracious and deeply loving as a mother, quick to forgive, abundantly tender-hearted—and relents from inflicting disaster.
Reflection God Can’t and Biodynamic Farming Healing our Relationship with God and the Earth
Sharing God Can’t Questions 1. What answers have you heard for why God causes or allows evil? What do you think of them? 2. What experiences of evil—personal or public—have shaped your view of God? 3. Why do some people think all evil is necessary for some greater good? 4. Why does it matter that what God considers loving matches what we consider loving? 5. Why should we think some pain and suffering is unnecessary or pointless? 6. Is it easy for you to believe God is always good? Why or why not?
7. What question do you hope this book will answer?― from "God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils"
Offering for the ministry of 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.
“WALK FORTH God has great hopes and plans for you.”
Mary Magdalene Café: Our pot luck dinner is our holy communion.
Taize Readings from biodynamic.com and demeter-usa.org
Reading Biodynamics is a holistic, ecological, and ethical approach to farming, gardening, food, and nutrition. Biodynamics is rooted in the work of philosopher and scientist Dr. Rudolf Steiner, whose 1924 lectures to farmers opened a new way to integrate scientific understanding with a recognition of spirit in nature.”
Chant I know this rose will open. I know my fear will burn away. I know my soul will unfurl its wings. I know this rose will open. (Repeat)
Silence
Reading “In our society growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest one that can –and will- overturn the corporate powers that be. By the process of directly working in harmony with nature, we do the one thing most essential to change the world-we change ourselves.” Jules Dervaes, The Urban Homestead
Chant Live in charity and steadfast love, live in charity God will dwell in you. Ubi ca-ri-tas, et a-mor, ubi ca-ri-tsas De-us i-bi est. (repeat)
Silence
Reading Biodynamic farms and gardens are inspired by the biodiversity of natural ecosystems and the uniqueness of each landscape. Annual and perennial vegetables, herbs, flowers, berries, fruits, nuts, grains, pasture, forage, native plants, and pollinator hedgerows can all contribute to plant diversity, amplifying the health and resilience of the farm organism. Diversity in domestic animals is also beneficial, as each animal species brings a different relationship to the land and unique quality of manure. The diversity of plant and animal life can be developed over time, starting with a few primary crops and one or two species of animals (even as small as earthworms or honeybees), and adding more species as the farm organism matures.
Chant Come and fill my heart with your peace, you the God of love are holy. Come and fill our hearts with your peace. (repeat)
Silence
Reading The concept of dynamic practice those practices associated with non-physical forces in nature like vitality, life force, ki, subtle energy and related concepts is a commonality that also underlies many systems of alternative and complementary medicine. It is this latter aspect of biodynamics which gives rise to the characterization of biodynamics as a spiritual or mystical approach to alternative agriculture…
Chant Alleluia (repeat)
Silence
Reading …Biodynamic practitioners also endeavor to listen to the land, to sense what may want to emerge through it, and to develop and evolve their farm as a unique individuality…..Biodynamics cultivates biodiversity, in a nutshell, biodynamics can be understood as a combination of “biological dynamic” agriculture practices. “Biological” practices include a series of well-known organic farming techniques that improve soil health. “Dynamic” practices are intended to influence biological as well as metaphysical aspects of the farm (such as increasing vital life force), or to adapt the farm to natural rhythms (such as planting seeds during certain lunar phases).
Chant O God hear my prayer, O God hear my prayer, When I call answer me. O God hear my prayer, O God hear my prayer, come and listen to me. (repeat)
Silence
Reading The higher, non-physical realms include etheric, astral, and ego. It is the complicated terminology and underlying metaphysical concepts of Steiner which makes biodynamics hard to grasp…. Life energy is a colloquial way of saying etheric life force. Again, Steiner’s use of terms like etheric forces and astral forces are part and parcel of biodynamic agriculture…..Both human beings and plants have an etheric body according to Steiner. Although the etheric or “life-body” is invisible to the untrained eye, it can be ascertained by looking at life phenomena. ... Feelings and emotions belong to the realm of the astral body, the third member of the human being.
Chant Our God is our light, our light and salvation In God I trust, in God I trust. (repeat)
Silence
Reading A fundamental tenet of biodynamic agriculture is that food raised biodynamically is nutritionally superior and tastes better than foods produced by conventional methods. This is a common thread in alternative agriculture, because other ecological farming systems make similar claims for their products……While biodynamics parallels organic farming in many ways specifically with regard to cultural and biological farming practices it is set apart from other organic agriculture systems by its association with the spiritual science of anthroposophy founded by Steiner, and in its emphasis on farming practices intended to achieve balance between the physical and higher, non-physical realms; to acknowledge the influence of cosmic and terrestrial forces….
Chanting Donna, donna donna, donna (repeat)
Silence
Scripture Jewish Bible Book of Joel Chapter 2:13 The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian Translation 13 Tear open your heart, not your clothes!” Return to YHWH your God, who is gracious and deeply loving as a mother, quick to forgive, abundantly tender-hearted—and relents from inflicting disaster.