CELEBRATING THE EUCHARIST OUR SISTERS AND FAMILY WITH THE EASTER MARGOT: Olga Lucia Álvarez Benjumea ARCWP *

https://evangelizadorasdelosapostoles.wordpress.com/2016/09/03/celebrando-la-eucaristia-con-nuestras-hermanas-y-familiares-la-pascua-de-margot-olga-lucia-alvarez-benjumea-arcwp/

We met on this occasion, not only for Food Aid, but to celebrate the life of our sister Margot and thank the Divine, his presence in our midst and for allowing us to share many moments with her on this trip life.

We celebrate the Eucharist in the Embroidery Hand Foundation, where Margot left us his footsteps with joy, His humor friendship, fraternal solidarity, their suffering and anguish.

We were several of us who knew and new ones that just came to the Foundation, the latter, explain why the celebration, and why was a woman who was celebrating and role to play in the Foundation. It was a good dialogue, giving the opportunity to share concerns and ask questions.

GRAPHIC REPORT CELEBRATION IN HAND EMBROIDERY FOUNDATION.

Elena Palace, founder of the FBM explains the program of the Foundation to the new and my presence as presbyter.

Explaining the structure of the liturgy, and why. Where and how the Church was born, with a celebration of gratitude to the Divine, where all / I actively participate.

               Beginning the celebration, invoking the Divine Presence.

Little Emanuel joins us in the celebration and their presence is already a share. Meanwhile Saturia, raises his hand and asks to speak, we want to give his testimony about Margot

What have we come to offer to the Divine and what we want to give thanks. I open my hands and getting past the feelings of each participant to present our Father-Mother.

Each step where attendees, collecting: The Glory to God in the height, the Credo, their requests at the time of the Prayer of the Faithful. It is they who are celebrating the Eucharist in a participatory manner.     

Food Aid present, was part of the Communion. The gifts of Divinity for the people of God. Take them in remembrance that Christ offered by all nosotras./os...

Consecration and communion was participatory. Here grandmother Olga Mary and Joseph, distribute the Eucharist.It was a moment of profound recollection so that whoever took the pictures he put aside the camera and also participated.

We ended up thanking the Divine for their presence and life of Margot.

Let's go out with joy to the world, to proclaim the Gospel!

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Management Foundation Hand Embroidery: Carrera 50 # 68-21

Leuven district Medellin, Antioquia

E-Mail: fundacionbordadoamano @ gmail.com 

* Roman Catholic presbyter

Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Catholic Liturgy Celebrating Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Co-Presiders Imogene and Michael Rigdon, Sept 3, 2016

“If I ever become a saint, I will surely be

a  saint of darkness. I’ll continually be absent

from heaven to be the light of those who are

in darkness on earth.” NCR     

Mary Mother of Jesus

Inclusive Catholic Community

Saint Teresa of Calcutta

September 3, 2016

Imogene & Michael Rigdon 

Presiding

Mindy Lou Simmons, 

Music Minister

Welcome!


Moment of silence


Gathering Song: #604 Christ, 
Be Our Light vs 1-3


All: In the name of God our creator, and of Jesus our brother, 
and of the Holy Spirit our wisdom. Amen.


Presider: God is with you. All: Namaste!

Opening Prayer. Presider: Let us pray.

All: Dear Mother Teresa, you lived a life of immense love and 
charity toward others. You inspired us with your words, such as 
“You can save only one at a time. We can love only one at a time.” 
You truly believed that loving others, especially the most 
destitute, was the purpose of our life 
and that God put each of us here on earth 
to do something beautiful for God. 
Inspire us to learn what particular mission 
God has in mind for us in our life. Amen. 
(Women Saints, MS Compton)


Rite of Forgiveness. All, with hand extended in prayer: 
O God of all mercy, through his life Jesus revealed that nothing 
can separate us from your love. May God give us pardon 
and peace, and may we forgive each other our failures to care 
for one another and for our earth, in the name of Abba 
God, and of our brother Jesus, and 
of Spirit Sophia. Amen


All sing: Glory to God, glory. O praise God, alleluia. 
Glory to God, glory. O praise the name of our God. 
(x3)


1st reading: Quotes from Mother Teresa


Response: #760 My God is my light ; my salvation, 
of whom should I be afraid, of whom should I be afraid?


2nd reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa


Gospel Acclamation: #931 Celtic Alleluia


A reading from the Gospel of Matthew 25


Response. All: Glory; praise to Jesus the Christ!


All (sing): Celtic Alleluia


Shared Homily


Moment of silence

Profession of Faith. All: We believe in God, the creator of all, 
whose divinity infuses life with the sacred. 
We believe in Jesus the Christ who leads us 
to the fullness of humanity. 
Through Christ we become new people, 
lifted to the fullness of life. We believe in the Holy Spirit, 
the breath of God on earth, who enlightens those living
 in darkness. We believe in God who is life. 
Amen to courage, to hope, to the spirit of truth, to
 wholeness, to the partnership and equality 
of women and men in God’s plan. 
We believe in justice and peace for all. 
We surely believe in all this!


Community Petitions. Presider: Always mindful of God’s love and
 care for us, we bring the needs of the people to our loving God. 
Response: Christ, be our light!


Presider: Energize us in our works for justice, equality, 
and peace. We pray this with Jesus our brother.


All: Amen


Collection and Presentation of Gifts at the table.


All Sing: #361 Seed Scattered and Sown, 1&;3


Eucharistic Prayer.


All Sing: We are holy holy holy (x3) We are whole. You are holy… 
I am holy… We are holy


All: As we do in this place what you did in an upstairs room, 
send down your Spirit Sophia on us and on these gifts of bread 
and wine that they may become for us your body, healing, 
forgiving, and making us whole. And that we may become 
for you, your body, loving and caring in the world 
until your kindom comes. Amen.


We remember Jesus. All, with hand extended in blessing: 
On the night before he died, while at supper with his friends, 
Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke the bread and 
gave it to them saying, “Take this, all of you, and eat. 
This is my body which will be broken for you.” Pause. 
In the same way, Jesus took a cup of wine. 
He said the blessing, gave the cup to his friends and said,
 “Take this all of you and drink. This is the cup of my life-blood. 
Do this in memory of me.”


All: Remember, gracious God, your Church throughout the world. 
Make us open to receive all believers. In union with all people, 
may we strive to create a world where suffering is diminished, 
and where all people in darkness can live in your light.


Thru Christ, with Christ, in Christ, in union with the Holy Spirit, 
all glory is yours, gracious God. Amen(sing)


Prayer of Jesus (Sing “Our Father and Mother”)


Presider: Let us offer one another a sign of peace.


Instrumental, Peace Before Us (Mindy)


All: This is Jesus who liberates, heals and transforms us 
and our world. All are invited to partake of this banquet of love. 
We are the Body of Christ.


All Sing: Holy gifts for holy people; come, you hungry, and believe. 
Come and take Christ’s body offered, come and be what you receive. 
(Repeat x2)


Communion: Instrumental music (Mindy)


Prayer of Thanksgiving (Didache, Instruction, 100CE)


Men: For the thanksgiving, give thanks this way: 
First, for the cup: We thank you, Abba God, for the sacred 
vine of David your son, whose meaning you made clear to us 
through our brother Jesus, yours ever be the splendor.


Women: And for the bread fragment: We thank you, Abba God, 
for the life and wisdom whose meaning you made clear to us 
through Jesus, yours ever be the splendor.


All: As this fragment was scattered high on hills, but
 by gathering was united into one, so let your people from 
earth’s ends be united into your single reign, 
for yours are splendor and might through 
Jesus Christ down the ages.


Prayers of Thanksgiving. Introductions. 
Announcements.


All sing, hand extended in blessing: You are the face of God, 
I hold you in my heart, You are a part of me, You 
are the face of God. You are the face of God, 
I hold you in my heart,You are my family, 
You are the face of God.


Presider: Go in the peace of Christ, may our loving service 
to all continue! All: Thanks be to God. Alleluia!


Closing song: #604 Christ, Be Our Light vs 4-5


Anointing of those in need

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Our thanks to Lee Breyer who provided the resources 
for this celebration. 
www.marymotherofjesus.org

This bird  stood outside St. Andrew UCC during our liturgy.

"Supporters of Women as Priests See Hope In Pope's Openness to Deacons" By Emily McFarlan Miller

Susan Vaickauski, center, smiles after she is dressed in the stole and chasuble at her ordination to the priesthood by Roman Catholic Womenpriests on June 11, 2016, at the Northbrook United Methodist Church in Northbrook, Illinois. RNS photo by Emily McFarlan Miller

http://religionnews.com/2016/09/02/supporters-of-women-as-priests-see-hope-in-popes-openness-to-deacons/


NORTHBROOK, Illinois (RNS) "Her whole life, Susan Vaickauski felt an internal struggle.

But earlier this summer, as Vaickauski lay prostrate at the foot of the altar of a church in the Chicago suburbs, while friends, family and supporters sang the litany of the saints over her, that struggle disappeared.

In its place, she said, she felt “this overwhelming sense of peace and just God saying, ‘Yes, this is exactly what I was asking of you. This is where I want you to be. This is what I want you to do.’ It’s this feeling of knowing you did what’s being asked of you.”
What she felt God asking her to do — what she always has felt God calling her to do, she said — was to become a Catholic priest, a vocation that has been barred to women.

She answered that call on Saturday, June 11, when she was ordained to the priesthood by Roman Catholic Womenpriests, an international movement to prepare, ordain and support female priests.

Vaickauski’s ceremony was held at a Protestant church, as the Roman Catholic Church officially does not recognize these ordinations. It follows the tradition that priests are modeling Jesus and that the 12 men he called as his apostles — the first priests — were all men. The movement to ordain women priests, however, maintains its bishops continue in the same apostolic succession since its first female priests were ordained by Roman Catholic bishops.


The movement isn’t new: Roman Catholic Womenpriests started with the ordination of seven women in 2002 on the Danube River in Germany, and the U.S. advocacy group Women’s Ordination Conference was founded more than 40 years ago.

But its supporters have seen glimmers of hope for their cause this summer, most recently with Pope Francis appointing a special commission to study whether the Catholic Church should ordain women as deacons.

Even though advocates of ordaining women as deacons have warned it’s not a gateway to ordaining women as priests, it still has given some in the movement reason to be optimistic, however cautiously.


“We are feeling a little bit one step forward, one step back,” said Erin Saiz Hanna, co-director of the Women’s Ordination Conference.

“Pope Francis has opened it in a way that we’re at least talking about it, and that’s a great thing. … The women deacons question has raised the consciousness of being able to talk about women’s ordination a little bit more freely."
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"Priest Suspended for Supporting Gay Groups?" by David Gibson, My Response: Stop Demonizing Gays, Follow Jesus' Example of Inclusivity

https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/nj-priest-suspended-supporting-gay-groups

Fr. Warren Hall in a 2014 photo (Photo by Frances Micklow/courtesy of The Star-Ledger)

"The Catholic archbishop in New Jersey has barred a gay priest from ministry because the cleric supports gay advocacy groups and has backed a Catholic high school counselor who was fired when church officials discovered the woman was in a same-sex marriage.

Fr. Warren Hall said he was notified by phone on that Newark Archbishop John Myers, an outspoken conservative who has submitted his retirement papers to Pope Francis, says Hall's actions are "confusing the faithful."

As a result, Hall will no longer be able to celebrate Mass in public, present himself as a priest or work in the New Jersey parishes where he has been ministering.

"The problem is that we have an archbishop who doesn't believe you can be gay and Catholic," Hall, who is on vacation, wrote in an email."

Bridget Mary's Response
Archbishop John Myers decision to punish Fr. Warren Hall for his service to gay groups demonizes gays in the name of religion. This action contradicts Jesus teaching that God is love and that we are called to love one another as God loves us! Jesus included everyone in God's circle of compassion. He left no one outside on the margins, labelled no one excluded. According to the Gospels there was room for everyone at the table where Jesus dined. So it must be today.

 Therefore, our church must change its toxic teaching on homosexuality because it does not reflect the inclusivity Jesus demonstrated in the Gospel. As followers of Christ, our mission is to do justice and love practically and compassionately. The  Irish writer, James Joyce, once said, Catholic means "here comes everybody."  It is a big tent and we are all part of the family, spiritual equals in the Body of Christ, the beloved of God.

The Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in the LGBTI Community. All are welcome at the Banquet Table to receive Eucharist and all sacraments in our inclusive communities. 

Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP

Visit us at www.arcwp.org 

A NEW STAR across the sky. Olga Lucia Álvarez Benjumea ARCWP *

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                      Elena Palace Margot tells us

Margot History is not shame, is DIGNITY!

A single woman with children of 52 years.

He came to the city displaced by threats.

To save their children from hunger and stigma Society and Religion had been tattooed soul! Six times he crossed the threshold of El Pedregal ...

He reached the Embroidery Hand Foundation, where he worked assembling plates for cars. Good worker, he yielded to the fullest.

She herself told us, "there ... I made more money than here." It is true, he was not even here to a minimum, because there could be more. Margot goes on to tell, "but here, I have peace and quiet, accept me, support me. Here I have the power I are looking for, now I will take ... "

Since the foundation, she was placed in a fixed manner to work in a company, as is done with all. But Margot started not feeling good health and to the disabilities that did not allow him to do his job, was deteriorating every day, with its ups and downs in recovery.

Several times we visited him at the clinic ...

His great concern their daughters / os not lost sanity and placing them courage to go to each and every one, especially the two smaller ... the child and Paulina. All of them / as lived very proud.

Even when he could move, he was always by its Food Aid, accompanied by Paulina (little girl).

With it we learned, their ability to dignify their responsibility to their children / as, their solidarity with their colleagues in neighboring Foundation and the neighborhood where he lived.

She was a woman, anxious and concerned about the pursuit of Divinity.

That was Margot. Our solidarity greeting to his mother and his family. Same for Alejandra, Margot and Pauline who shared at home, their last days. Alejandra, (daughter) we thank you on behalf of Margot care for having so warmly, like her neighbors, Mrs. comadre Miriam and her sister Irene, who also cared for her at home, in the neighborhood lived.

Our loved ones / as well as Margot, still shining, absorbed / as by Divine Energy, these / os, continues to make us their light. The image of God, still present among us / you through the memory. Their energy comes alive. Life of the Divine Essence, which invites us every day to be in Divine Presence reminding us always give thanks for the life. Life does not end here.

                   Margot receives the Eucharist in her sickbed.

"Since none of us lives to himself, of us dies to himself. That as we are of God, if we live for the Lord live, and if we die , we die for the Lord" Romans 14: 8

• Roman Catholic presbyter.

Ireland: Faith, Family, Kinship and Hospitality by Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP

I have many happy memories of my childhood when our family (my mother, Bridie, my Dad, Jack, brothers, Patrick and Sean) lived  in a cozy gray cottage in Coolkerry, County Laois, Ireland. We emigrated to the United States in 1956.

Here I am at the bog in Clonmeen, County Laois

Standing with the stacked turf. Turf or peat, 

is the fuel used in fire places. 

I enjoy sitting in front of a turf fire.

Each night before retiring, our family knelt around the hearth to pray the rosary. My mother, Bridie, who was devoted to the Blessed Mother and and a member of the  "Child of Mary" League, always finished our prayer with the "trimmings" -also known as- the Litany of Loreto. 

 Before I left for Ireland this summer, I started reading When Mary Becomes Cosmic by David Richo. In this wonderful book Dr. Richo makes connections between Mary and the deepest archetypes of the psyche, relating the mystical titles of Mary in the Litany of Loreto to our soul journey. I took the book with me to Ireland, and made the connections between my Irish heritage and the deep mystical spirituality that is embedded in Irish psyche. 

 I have come full circle. I experienced Irish hospitality and kinship everywhere I went- with relatives and friends, with Catholics who celebrated liturgy in Dublin, and with strangers who were gentle and kind including members of the media who interviewed me for an article in the Irish Times, the Ray D' Arcy Show and Midlands Radio. 

 The cows in the emerald green fields, the vibrant, wild flowers, and the rugged seas reflect the beauty of the Creator and nurture my soul. Just being there is a spiritual tonic for my soul that affirms my oneness with  the cosmos.

As I reflect on the Litany of Loreto, this familiar prayer sparks a new interest in Mary of the Cosmos and in my call to be a vessel of the divine presence in our world. Some of the titles are: Mirror of Justice, Cause of our Joy, Vessel of Spirit, Mystical Rose, Tower of David, Tower of Ivory, Gate of Heaven, Ark of the Covenant, Comforter of the Troubled etc.)

David Richo writes: "The Litany of Loreto is a map of the far flung
and inner territories of ourselves in the cosmos. We are those who pass through the gate, and we are the gate through which revelation passes through the world...

Mary is the gate through which Jesus-Divine Consciousness- entered the world. Mary is the middle world gate through which we enter the sacred world of spiritual consciousness. ..

By your grace, may I be the gate of heaven on earth."( pp. 104-107)

As we live joyously, love tenderly and serve generously, we will be the gate of heaven on earth. 

 
Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP, www.arcwp.org 

"Will next synod address ordaining 'elders' -- both women and men?" by Sister Chris Schenk, National Catholic Reporter

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Pope Francis greets the faithful as he arrives to lead his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Aug. 10. (CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters)

http://corpus-blog.blogspot.com/2016/08/will-next-synod-address-ordaining.html

"Anytime Austen Ivereigh offers an opinion about an issue in the Catholic church, I pay attention. His outstanding biography of Pope Francis, The Great Reformer, opened my eyes to what makes Francis tick. It also provided a fascinating window into why the pope's lived experience has given him a unique ability to negotiate delicate political issues and get stuff done.

What makes Francis tick is his passion about the pastoral care of people.

So when Crux recently published an article by Ivereigh headlined "Next synod likely to focus on ordaining married men," I took notice. Not only because this is a founding issue of FutureChurch, the church renewal organization I served for more than 20 years, but because I know how important it is to honor all the ministries in the church, not just those of male priests.

I was dismayed by the title Crux gave to Ivereigh's piece because it sensationalized what he actually wrote. What he said is that burning "questions about ministry: access to the sacraments, the role of women and lay people, as well as the role of deacons" are leading some to say that pastoral ministries will be the topic for the next Synod of Bishops.

Pastoral ministries. Not just "ordaining married men." Hmm.

Yes, it is true that Ivereigh repeated Francis' well-publicized openness to ordaining married men after his April 2014 private audience with Brazil's Bishop Erwin Kräutler. At the time, Kräutler spoke about ordaining viri probati (proven men) from local communities to serve local communities, an idea that had been discussed at the 2005 international synod on the Eucharist.

Kräutler and the pope also compared notes about the priest shortage in Latin America and, according to Ivereigh, Francis alluded to some "interesting hypotheses" that had been proposed by retired Bishop Fritz Lobinger of Aliwal, South Africa. Francis then encouraged Kräutler to work with the national bishops' conference to send "bold, concrete proposals" to Rome.

As it turns out, Lobinger's "interesting hypotheses" involve more than ordaining married men. In an intriguing 2010 U.S. Catholic article, he writes:

More than half the Catholic Church's communities [worldwide] have no resident priest. ...  A great number of these 'self-ministering' communities are ready or almost ready for the introduction of teams of ordained elders. ... Because the majority of proven local leaders are women, it is unavoidable that the question of their inclusion among ordained elders will arise, though present church law does not permit it.

Lobinger is proposing two forms of priesthood, citing the example of the early church (Acts 14:23) when Paul and Barnabas appointed local "elders" (presbyters) for churches in Asia Minor. "Both receive the same sacrament of Holy Orders," suggests Lobinger, but would exercise different roles:

The elders would lead the community and administer the sacraments in their own community, while the priests would be the spiritual guides of elders. ... The priests would thus serve the whole diocese but elders would serve only the community where they were ordained. Elders would not be transferred.

At issue, of course, is the crying need for the Eucharist and other Catholic sacraments. Lobinger relates that although "Mass is something rare" in the South African community of Mmusong, "there is no Sunday when the community feels lost. It has several teams of trained leaders who ... conduct a lively and meaningful Sunday service. The people hear a well-prepared sermon every week."

Kräutler's Brazilian diocese of Xingu has just 27 priests for 800 far-flung communities and Catholics attend Mass just two or three times a year.

Lobinger's creativity in seeking ways to serve the pastoral needs of people has caught on in Brazil where, Ivereigh reports, theologian Antonio José de Almeida is advising a high-ranking Brazilian church commission reflecting on these questions.

In February 2015, de Almeida republished a 2013 book he had written about the subject under a new title: Nuevos ministerios: Vocación, carisma y servicio en la comunidad. In it, he singles out not only the 400 married male deacons in Chiapas, Mexico, as signs of new "elder"/"presbyteral" vocations, but also the 40,000 delegados de la palabra (delegates of the word) in Honduras, many of whom are female.

So I was fascinated to read about the proposal Kräutler and Cardinal Cláudio Hummes sent, at the pope's suggestion, to the Brazilian bishops' conference in November 2014. They reportedly spoke of ordaining "married community elders" -- not "proven men." At the time, religious media interpreted this more inclusive term as referring only to married men, but I'm not so sure.

For one thing, how would ordaining only men as "community elders" be received by the thousands of priestless communities now being led by women?

It could be that these Latin American churchmen simply used a more "politically correct" term to avoid ill feelings from the many women who animate and lead base communities.

Could this account for Francis' apparent haste to establish a commission on women deacons? If there is a movement to return to "ordination" models used by the early church to ordain married men, there is little justification for excluding women who were ordained under those same models.

And if "pastoral ministries" are indeed the topic of the next Synod of Bishops, women's ministerial equality should be high on the agenda, right alongside access to the Eucharist.

Maybe we finally will discuss the graced, gender-balanced ministry so desperately needed by the people of God."

[St. Joseph Sr. Christine Schenk served urban families for 18 years as a nurse midwife before co-founding FutureChurch, where she served for 23 years. She holds master's degrees in nursing and theology.]