Welcome and Lighting of Candles
Sharing of Invitations (see back cover)
“Adopt a Grandchild/Grandparent Biodynamic Farm”
Reading 12 Step Program for an Ecologic Civilization (see insert)
Martha Garcia’s Public Health Report
Invocation Medley with Raffi, Miriam Therese Winters music and more
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!
Introduction to Hildegard of Bigen Rev. Bonnie Tarwater
Dear God,
Please help us to love you and stop denying your existence. We come today to make amends for all the ways we have allowed ourselves to be brainwashed that you do not exist. We know the pain of being ignored and not included and today we ask for your forgiveness and be with us. We promise to love you with all our hearts soul and minds. We believe in things we cannot see, why shouldn’t we God ? Why should we? We ask the spirit of Hildegard to come to be present with us this spring in greening power. May the energy from the being of the sun and the greening energy from the being of the earth come together in love making to create new life within us and amongst us this spring. May the color green live in our heart chakra and enliven us to wake up to the holy communion with you. We humans have made a mess of it here on planet earth and we may only have ten years left, but whatever time we have left we want to make amends and live lives in love and harmony with the plants and animals and all human and non-human creatures. We long for meaning, beauty and love. Your greening power heals, protects, redeems, saves, empowers, inspires, calls, creates, guides, sanctifies, persuades, transforms and loves us and we give thanks. Come to us in our day visions and night dreams that we may feel your holy presence and follow your call in the footsteps of Hildegard and John Cobb to love and faithfully serve all the creatures and the earth our Mother and common home. Amen
TAIZE Hildegard of Bingen (see insert)
Prayers (Please unmute and share names all together as we ring bell.)
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.)
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 John Cobb Farm 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)
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 in (After worship please share your name and where your from and stay for extended check in 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.
Mary Magdalene Café we hope to resume potluck dinners, our holy communion asap with DANCING in person when it is safe!
TAIZE Hildegard of Bingen Chant We believe in things that we cannot see. Why shouldn't we? Why shouldn't we? Let your voice be heard, yes you can, yes you can. Why shouldn't we? Why shouldn't we? So come on darling, feel your spirits rise, Come on children, open up your eyes. God is all around, Buddha's at the gate. Allah hears your prayers, it's not too late.” (repeat) by Mary Chapin Carpenter
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” (Matthew 22:37-38)
Silence
Chant We believe in things that we cannot see. Why shouldn't we? Why shouldn't we? Let your voice be heard, yes you can, yes you can. Why shouldn't we? Why shouldn't we? So come on darling, feel your spirits rise, Come on children, open up your eyes. God is all around, Buddha's at the gate. Allah hears your prayers, it's not too late.
Reading Hildegard At the age of three Hildegard saw visions of a divine light. “I saw such a great light that my soul quaked. I have always seen this vision in my soul,”. She learned that others did not see visions, and it was better to keep them a secret. “A fiery light of exceeding brilliance came and permeated my whole brain, and inflamed my whole heart and my whole breast, not like a burning, but like a warming flame, as the sun warms anything its rays touch.” When asked if she was awake or in a trance when the visions came, she said, “The visions I see I do not perceive by the eyes of the body, or by the ears of the outer self, or in hidden places; I receive them while awake, and seeing with a pure mind and the eyes and ears of the inner self, in open places, as God wills it.”
Silence
Chant We believe in things that we cannot see. Why shouldn't we? Why shouldn't we? Let your voice be heard, yes you can, yes you can. Why shouldn't we? Why shouldn't we? So come on darling, feel your spirits rise, Come on children, open up your eyes. God is all around, Buddha's at the gate. Allah hears your prayers, it's not too late.
Scripture Lady Wisdom, Sophia, the Feminine Face of God in the Bible, “..perhaps first of all the One at the heart of the creative act…She makes all things new.”(Wisdom 7:27) She says, “When God established the foundation of the earth, I was by God’s side, a master craftswomen, delighting God day after day, ever at play by God’s side, at play everywhere in God’s domain, delighting to be with the children of humanity.“ (Proverbs 8:29-31)”She is a part of the ongoing creative process (for) she deploys her strength from one end of the earth to the other, ordering all things for good.” (Ecclesiasticus 8:34)
Silence
Chant We believe in things that we cannot see. Why shouldn't we? Why shouldn't we? Let your voice be heard, yes you can, yes you can. Why shouldn't we? Why shouldn't we? So come on darling, feel your spirits rise, Come on children, open up your eyes. God is all around, Buddha's at the gate. Allah hears your prayers, it's not too late.
Reading Hildegard “O Holy Wisdom, soaring Power, encompass us with wings unfurled, and carry us, encircling all, above, below, and through the world,” “Praise her! She watches over all people and all things in heaven and earth. She is incomprehensible to mortals. She is with all and in all; great is her mystery” “The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.”
Silence
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)
Reading Hildegard “Creation is the song of God,” “Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of divinity,” . “The Earth sweats geminating power from its very pores,” “Humankind is called to co-create, so that we might cultivate the earthly, and thereby create the heavenly.” “The soul is a breath of the living spirit, and with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life. Just so, the breath of the air makes the earth fruitful. Thus the air is the soul of the earth, moistening it, greening it.”
Silence
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)
Reading Hildegard “I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.” “It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.” “Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings. Now, think. What delight God gives to humankind with all these things . All nature is at the disposal of humankind. We are to work with it. For without we cannot survive.” “The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed.”“Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world—everything is hidden in you.” “We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.”
Silence
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)
Reading Hildegard “These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor in a hidden place; but in watching, aware with the pure eyes of the mind and inner ear of the heart.” “It is Love in the power of the everlasting Godhead, full of exquisite beauty, and marvelous in its mysterious gifts.” “The Spirit of the Lord fills the Earth, and this means that no creature lacks a spiritual life.”
Silence
Chanting (Note Donna is the English translation for a name for God in this Yiddish folk song) Donna, donna, donna, donna. 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)
“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. We are creating an artistic ecologic church to love and pray for Mother Earth on 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/dess 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.
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.
Invitation “Adopt a Grandchild/Grandparent on Biodynamic Farm” young and old to visit and work on biodynamic farm!
Planet of the Humans Michael Moore documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
Jane Goodall April 16, 2020 https://youtu.be/RFf7KVk8ObQ
Please volunteer! We need computer/techy skills, editing, websites etc.
Special thanks to Martha Garcia, Richard Livingston and Ron Hines for their support in today’s worship service.
New Book Group on Hildegard please let me know 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 http://rudolfsteiner.podbean.com/category/agriculture/
Committee on Ministry 3rd Sunday 3:30-4:30 pm
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.