Welcome and Lighting of Candles
Sharing of Invitations (see back cover) Introduction of Adopted Grandson
Reading 12 Step Program for an Ecologic Civilization (see insert)
Martha Garcia’s Public Health Report
Invocation Medley with Raffi, Miriam Therese Winters music
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.
Chorus 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 (Unmute and share greetings)
God Loves You and There is Nothing You Can Do About It!
Opening Hymn Love is Our Mother Tongue by Raffi
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 nation sung, in every heart reborn, Love is our mother tongue, heart moving consciousness, pulsing the universe, the light in all here is. Love is our Mother tongue. Da, da, da, da, da da.
Love, love, love, love, Earthlings this this is your call, Love your God, with your heart soul and mind for God loves us all.
Scripture Gospel of Matthew 23:37 “How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings.”
Hildegard Reading of Vision “The Cosmic Egg” Book One Vision Three treatise Scivias (Know the Ways) written in 1151
“I saw a huge form, rounded and shadowy, and shaped like an egg… Its outer layer consisted of an atmosphere of bright fire with a kind of dark membrane beneath it… From the outer atmosphere of fire, a wind blew storms. And from the dark membrane beneath, another membrane raged with further storms which moved out in all directions of the globe…And again I heard a heavenly voice speak to me. God—who formed all things in the divine will—created these things for the understanding and honor of the divine name… …which are invisible and eternal.”
Reflection Rev. Bonnie
Hilda’s Garden, Love of God the Mother, Love of Mother Earth,
Prayers (Please unmute and share names all together as we ring bell.)
Silent Prayer for Mother Earth and the John Cobb Farm
Musical Response Garden Song by David Mallett
Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make Hilda’s 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,
Please God warm them from below, till the rain comes tumbling down.
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 by Miriam Therese Winters
(Please contact Rev. Bonnie with prayer requests during the week.)
Closing Hymn Sleep My Child Welsh melody (see insert)
Offering for the church (Tax deductible donations: Pay Pal or check)
Closing Prayer attributed to 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 after Benediction Please stay for a time to share how you are feeling.
Musical 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.
“12 Step program for an Ecologic Civilization”
Church For Our Common Home is God centered and guided and is dedicated to the Earth, Loving Community, Beauty and the Arts. Our vision is to create an artistic ecologic church to love and pray for Mother Earth and the John Cobb biodynamic farm. We work for an Ecologic Civilization with our 12 step program.
1. Share the truth that the current 6th extinction of life on Earth, the only one created by humans, is an invitation for transformation as a human species.
2. Share the history and human habits of dominant over relationships and commit to relationships of collaboration, partnership and co-creativity.
3. Make amends for our alienation and abuse of the natural world and our idolatry of scientism and rationalism using transdisciplinary reconnections of religion, art, psychology, ecology, etc.
4. Explore eco-feminist and process theology, celebrating God and Goddess language, symbols and relationships.
5. Study the teachings of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, including newly found gnostic scriptures and the world’s ancient wisdom traditions.
6. Offer diverse spiritual practices to develop loving relationships with the natural world, Mother Earth and all creation.
7. Honor the invisible realms of dreams, prayer, intuition, parapsychology and imagination.
8. Celebrate the visual and performing arts, ritual making, beauty and creativity as divine spiritual practice.
9. Celebrate intergenerational community by intentionally including and honoring the very young and old.
10. Encourage consciousness raising with integration of body, sexuality, mind, spirit, feelings, intuition and imagination.
11. Work for social justice locally and globally in partnership with other organizations.
12. Experiment with nontraditional church in order to create relevant, spirit filled and loving community.
Sleep My Child adapted lyrics by Alicia S. Carpenter
Sleep, my child, and peace attend you, all through the night.
I who love you shall be near you, all through the night.
Soft the drowsy hours are creeping,
hill and vale in slumber sleeping,
I my loving vigil keeping, all through the night.
Mother, I can feel you near me, all through the night.
Father, I know you can hear me, all through the night.
And when I am your age nearly,
still I will remember clearly,
how you sang and held me dearly, all through the night.
While the moon her watch is keeping, all through the night;
while one-half the world is sleeping, all through the night.
Even while the sun comes stealing,
visions of the day revealing,
breathes a pure and holy feeling, all through the night.
Invitations: Our current ecologic crisis is a call to awaken to the reverence of life and the truth that all nature is alive, sacred and our earth is one organic whole. 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 an 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 as well as newly found gnostic gospels.
New Book Group Forming Hildegard of Bingen and Her Visions of the Feminine by Nancy Fierro contact Bonnie if you are interested.
Dream Group every Wednesday 7-8:30 pm on Zoom
Lectio Divina/ Centering Prayer Tuesday 9-10 am forming on Zoom
Biodynamic Farming audio resources, Rudolph Steiner lectures
Please contact Rev. Bonnie if you would like a pastoral visit on Zoom or phone and/or if you would like to pray or if you have prayer requests.