God with the Sick Bats and with You Also!

Sunday, April 5, 2020
5:00 PM 7:00 PM 17:00 19:00

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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.

Lighting of Candles/ Welcome/ Check in (How are you feeling? And what do you need, what do you want to give?

Sharing of Invitations (see back of order of worship)

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.

Silent Prayer for Mother Earth.

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

Reflection “Walk Forth in Love with Jesus and Mary Magdalene this Holy Week”

God Can’t Postscript of by Thomas J. Oord

Biodynamic Principle #6 Life Force

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 pray today on Palm Sunday and through Holy Week for your vision and courage to walk forth in love with Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Whatever dangers and fears lie ahead, we ask you God of love to guide us on this often dangerous journey. (Silence) We ask for blessings and love for the earth our Mother, our common home and all her creatures. From the smallest cells and bugs to the largest whales and galaxies we give thanks and ask for blessings upon all sacred life. We come to celebrate our interconnected organic wholeness. (Silence) We give thanks and ask for blessings on the flowers and sunshine, the miracle and natural beauty of spring and the earth. (Silence) We pray for all the business and political leaders who work for the Powers and the system of Empire and pray for their conversion to love and justice. (Silence) We pray for religious chaplains, nurses, doctors, care givers and service providers of all kinds who are working tirelessly and in steadfast love, regardless of danger or hardship. We pray for Church for Our Common Home during this crisis and ask for you to blessing as we create loving community for the least of these. (Silence) We pray for the bats in Wuhan China and all animal creatures who are sick, homeless and too often have been forgotten by the human family. (Silence) We pray for all those with the coronavirus including Eugene Shirley. (Silence) We pray for all those who are sick or in need including Jay Mc Daniels….. (please call out names of those you want to pray for) Fill us with your love that we may also learn to love our enemies as Jesus taught us. (Silence) Amen

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

Taize

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

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. Mary Magdalene Café will resume potluck dinners, our holy communion asap with DANCING!

Taize

Scripture “Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does” ((1 Corinthians 14:1 The Message)

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

Scripture “I give you a new commandment , that you love one another . just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. (John 13:34)

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

Scripture “Abba/ Amma God, the glory that you have given me I have given them so that they may be one as we are one, I in them and you in me.” (John 17:22-23 (adapted by Bonnie)

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

Scripture “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because s/he first loved us.” John 4:18

Chant Alleluia. (repeat) Kiss the Bride of Christ Mary Magdalene (repeat)

Silence

Reading “Even with death waiting in the wings,(during Holy Week) Jesus will allow no separation between God and humans, no separation between humans and

humans (and humans and creatures) because the sap flowing through everything is love itself.” The Wisdom Jesus by Cynthia Bourgeault, my added italics

Chant Love that will not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee, I give thee back the life I owe, that in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be (repeat)

Silence

Reading “…Between reality as such and actual things there can be no ranking of superiors and inferiors. Such ranking makes sense only among actuality’s. Among actualities God is ultimate…..God is the being that includes all beings. “ Dr. John B. Cobb Jr.

Chant Our God is our light, our light and salvation In God I trust, in God I trust. (repeat)

Silence

Scripture “Love your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-39)

Chanting How the winds are laughing they laugh with all their might. Laugh and laugh the whole day through and half the summer night. Donna, donna, donna, donna (repeat)

Silence

Scripture “My beloved spoke and said to me,“Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me. See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.” Song of Songs

Chanting Love is our Mother tongue, ultimate freedom song, on lips of old and young, the breadth of life begun. Love is our Mother tongue, Gaia’s communion song, in every nations sung in every heart reborn. Love is our mother tongue (repeat) Raffi

wInvitations: 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.

Dream Group every Wednesday 7 pm on Zoom

Lectio Divina and Centering Prayer Tuesday 10-11 am Zoom

Contact us if you are interested in Support Group on Friday morning

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

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.