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Thursday, January 21, 2016
"We Are All Flint, Michigan!"
Michael Moore is asking us
to sign an online petition.  Michael Moore says, “Michigan Governor Rick Snyder...has effectively poisoned the children of other toxins to enter their drinking water.... For this outrageous catastrophe, Gov. Snyder must resign—and go to jail.” Stand up for Flint. Sign the petition. | |
Are you as outraged as we are by the
reckless disregard
for life Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has repeatedly
shown? Last summer, Progressive Democrats of America
and People Demanding Action joined with our allies to defend the basic human
right to water in Detroit
A broad coalition marched, organized call-in days, and otherwise protested against Snyder’s unfair austerity policies. We fought him and we won. We’d hoped that he'd learned his lesson. Clearly he hasn't.
Now, we're asking you to join with PDA and our allies—notably Bernie Sanders, and award-winning documentarian andFlint
Bernie released a statement last Saturday saying, “Thousands may have been exposed to potential brain damage from lead. Gov. Snyder should resign.”
Michael Moore goes even further. He says “Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, along with the premeditated actions of his administrators, has effectively poisoned the children ofFlint
Michael Moore is asking us to join him through an online petition.
What do you think is the appropriate level of accountability? Is Michael Moore Right? Is Bernie? Both? What Will You Do forFlint
Are you among those demanding politicians be held accountable? Don't we all want to do everything we can do for the babies, the children, the mothers and the fathers ofFlint ,
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Listen to Michael Moore discuss this issue on MSNBC. After you listen, take action! Join with Bernie and Michael demanding accountability for Governor Snyder. Stand up for the people of Flint. Sign the petition.
Austerity is a scam, designed to take our basic human rights, the necessities we take for granted, and hold them hostage. Greedy corporations and their lapdog politicians have denied access to safe water as a weapon to drive people from their homes, and to plunder public treasuries and family savings accounts. All this to enrich the top 1%.
Take action now! Next time, if those who manipulate us through austerity have their way, the misery they cause may be coming to your town, and your state. We will not stand by as corporations and politicians poison or deprive anyone's babies or grand babies. Let's help however we are able—today.
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continue our critically important organizing.A broad coalition marched, organized call-in days, and otherwise protested against Snyder’s unfair austerity policies. We fought him and we won. We’d hoped that he'd learned his lesson. Clearly he hasn't.
Now, we're asking you to join with PDA and our allies—notably Bernie Sanders, and award-winning documentarian and
Bernie released a statement last Saturday saying, “Thousands may have been exposed to potential brain damage from lead. Gov. Snyder should resign.”
Michael Moore goes even further. He says “Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, along with the premeditated actions of his administrators, has effectively poisoned the children of
Michael Moore is asking us to join him through an online petition.
What do you think is the appropriate level of accountability? Is Michael Moore Right? Is Bernie? Both? What Will You Do for
Are you among those demanding politicians be held accountable? Don't we all want to do everything we can do for the babies, the children, the mothers and the fathers of
Listen to Michael Moore discuss this issue on MSNBC. After you listen, take action! Join with Bernie and Michael demanding accountability for Governor Snyder. Stand up for the people of Flint. Sign the petition.
Austerity is a scam, designed to take our basic human rights, the necessities we take for granted, and hold them hostage. Greedy corporations and their lapdog politicians have denied access to safe water as a weapon to drive people from their homes, and to plunder public treasuries and family savings accounts. All this to enrich the top 1%.
Take action now! Next time, if those who manipulate us through austerity have their way, the misery they cause may be coming to your town, and your state. We will not stand by as corporations and politicians poison or deprive anyone's babies or grand babies. Let's help however we are able—today.
Peace,
Conor, Deb, Donna, Janis, Jeanne, Judy, Kimberly, Mike F, and Mike H
Your Progressive Democrats of
Homily at Holy Spirit Catholic Community, 2 Sunday OT, Jan. 24, 2016 by Beverly Bingle, RCWP
In today's first reading we heard
how the people of God stood for six hours
while the book of the Law of Moses, the whole of the Torah—
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy—
was read and interpreted for them.
What were those words that moved them to tears?
I suspect it was Deuteronomy, the last book of the Torah,
where Moses gives them God's law.
It specifically commands only two prayers,
the most important of which
is the definitive statement of Jewish identity, the Shema.
We know it as the response Jesus gave
when he was asked about the greatest commandment:
Sh'ma Yisra'eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.
Hear, Israel, God is our God, God is One.
And you shall love your God with all your heart
and with all your soul
and with all your might.
Even through 70 years of exile and bondage
this prayer remained familiar
to the captive Israelites.
Hearing it read and interpreted
would have resonated in their hearts.
_________________________________________
Then we have today's Gospel
telling us that Jesus went to the synagogue
in his hometown of Nazareth
and taught there.
Is that factual?
Yes, according to the scores of scholars
taking part in the Jesus Seminar.
Jesus really did teach in synagogues throughout Galilee.
Did he know about Isaiah's writings?
That is also probably a fact.
The book of the prophet Isaiah was popular in Jesus' time,
as shown by the great many surviving manuscripts.
As an observant Jew, Jesus would have heard it often.
Could Jesus read?
Probably not.
Fr. Raymond Brown points out that this passage in Luke
is the only indication in all of scripture
that Jesus knew how to read,
and most scholars think that he did not read
because his was an oral society,
particularly for the peasants...
and he was a peasant.
But Luke's story is TRUE.
Jesus did preach the fulfillment of jubilee justice.
It's the message Jesus taught,
and it's the message of the prophets that Isaiah taught,
and it's the message of the law that Ezra taught.
All through our scriptures the jubilee message is clear:
God calls us to the works of justice.
The anawim—the sick, the poor, the slaves,
the oppressed, the powerless—
are God's highest priority.
_________________________________________
And no one is exempt from doing justice.
Paul, in our second reading, tells the Corinthians
that fulfilling the word of God
needs each one of them and all of them—
readers, interpreters, listeners, workers, and pray-ers.
No one does everything,
and each one does something.
_________________________________________
This afternoon we gather, just as our forebears gathered,
to hear about Ezra reading the Torah to the returning exiles,
about Paul preaching the word to the Corinthians,
and about Jesus preaching to the people of his hometown.
And in each of those scriptures we hear
God calling US to take action for justice—
to bring good news to the poor,
to proclaim liberty to captives,
to let the oppressed go free.
God is calling each one of US
to bring a jubilee of justice to our world.
We can, with Pope Francis, call it mercy.
Or compassion.
Or love.
We can answer the call in many ways,
each of us with our own gifts and, as Paul says,
each of us an essential member of the one body of Christ.
We can work to end human trafficking,
or to reform the criminal justice system,
or to welcome refugees,
or to house the homeless,
or to educate children,
or to care for creation,
or to make peace.
_________________________________________
However and whenever we do the work of justice,
we take our place in the long line of the people of God
who hear the word of God and find a way in our daily lives
to embody the “golden rule”
that is common to every major religious tradition.
As Jesus puts it,
“Do to others
whatever you would have them do to you.
This is the law AND the prophets.”
_________________________________________
So we continue the ancient tradition.
Thanks be to God!
--
Holy Spirit Catholic Community
Saturdays at 4:30 p.m.
Sundays at 5:30 p.m.
at 3925 West Central Avenue (Washington Church)
www.holyspirittoledo.org
Rev. Dr. Bev Bingle, Pastor
Mailing address: 3156 Doyle Street, Toledo, OH 43608-2006
how the people of God stood for six hours
while the book of the Law of Moses, the whole of the Torah—
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy—
was read and interpreted for them.
What were those words that moved them to tears?
I suspect it was Deuteronomy, the last book of the Torah,
where Moses gives them God's law.
It specifically commands only two prayers,
the most important of which
is the definitive statement of Jewish identity, the Shema.
We know it as the response Jesus gave
when he was asked about the greatest commandment:
Sh'ma Yisra'eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.
Hear, Israel, God is our God, God is One.
And you shall love your God with all your heart
and with all your soul
and with all your might.
Even through 70 years of exile and bondage
this prayer remained familiar
to the captive Israelites.
Hearing it read and interpreted
would have resonated in their hearts.
_________________________________________
Then we have today's Gospel
telling us that Jesus went to the synagogue
in his hometown of Nazareth
and taught there.
Is that factual?
Yes, according to the scores of scholars
taking part in the Jesus Seminar.
Jesus really did teach in synagogues throughout Galilee.
Did he know about Isaiah's writings?
That is also probably a fact.
The book of the prophet Isaiah was popular in Jesus' time,
as shown by the great many surviving manuscripts.
As an observant Jew, Jesus would have heard it often.
Could Jesus read?
Probably not.
Fr. Raymond Brown points out that this passage in Luke
is the only indication in all of scripture
that Jesus knew how to read,
and most scholars think that he did not read
because his was an oral society,
particularly for the peasants...
and he was a peasant.
But Luke's story is TRUE.
Jesus did preach the fulfillment of jubilee justice.
It's the message Jesus taught,
and it's the message of the prophets that Isaiah taught,
and it's the message of the law that Ezra taught.
All through our scriptures the jubilee message is clear:
God calls us to the works of justice.
The anawim—the sick, the poor, the slaves,
the oppressed, the powerless—
are God's highest priority.
_________________________________________
And no one is exempt from doing justice.
Paul, in our second reading, tells the Corinthians
that fulfilling the word of God
needs each one of them and all of them—
readers, interpreters, listeners, workers, and pray-ers.
No one does everything,
and each one does something.
_________________________________________
This afternoon we gather, just as our forebears gathered,
to hear about Ezra reading the Torah to the returning exiles,
about Paul preaching the word to the Corinthians,
and about Jesus preaching to the people of his hometown.
And in each of those scriptures we hear
God calling US to take action for justice—
to bring good news to the poor,
to proclaim liberty to captives,
to let the oppressed go free.
God is calling each one of US
to bring a jubilee of justice to our world.
We can, with Pope Francis, call it mercy.
Or compassion.
Or love.
We can answer the call in many ways,
each of us with our own gifts and, as Paul says,
each of us an essential member of the one body of Christ.
We can work to end human trafficking,
or to reform the criminal justice system,
or to welcome refugees,
or to house the homeless,
or to educate children,
or to care for creation,
or to make peace.
_________________________________________
However and whenever we do the work of justice,
we take our place in the long line of the people of God
who hear the word of God and find a way in our daily lives
to embody the “golden rule”
that is common to every major religious tradition.
As Jesus puts it,
“Do to others
whatever you would have them do to you.
This is the law AND the prophets.”
_________________________________________
So we continue the ancient tradition.
Thanks be to God!
--
Holy Spirit Catholic Community
Saturdays at 4:30 p.m.
Sundays at 5:30 p.m.
at 3925 West Central Avenue (Washington Church)
www.holyspirittoledo.org
Rev. Dr. Bev Bingle, Pastor
Mailing address: 3156 Doyle Street, Toledo, OH 43608-2006
Sermon by Pastor Dawn from Canada on Incarceration of Youth and Privatization of Prisons
http://pastordawn.com/2016/01/19/spinning-wheel-a-sermon-on-luke-414-21-for-epiphany-3c/#more-9168
a Lutheran minister in Canada, speaking to the incarceration of youth and the privatization on prisons, as we reflect on the "year of God's favor", or jubilee as she indicates.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Veterans for Peace March in Baltimore on Martin Luther King Jr. Day by Janice Sevre Duszynska, ARCWP
Everyone was
bundled up on MLK Day here in Baltimore where the temperature plunged into the
single digits in cahoots with a blustering wind. We took along a friend’s dog,
Reese, a mature Lab who seemed to lap up the attention given her by the
African-American children who petted her along the route. Their mothers smiled
and waved and chatted with us. About 65 per cent of Baltimore is
African-American. Over the past several months since Freddie Gray’s death we
have participated in marches and vigils in support of Black Lives Matter and an
end to police terror.
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| Left: Janice Sevre Duzynska, ARCWP, Max and Justice Activists from Baltimore, MD. |
We marched with
the Veterans for Peace, Phillip Berrigan chapter, carrying our signs. As the
Capitol police took my banner (Stop the War Machine: Export Peace) on January
12th as evidence until we go to trial, I held up the simple "Give
Peace a Chance" and Max, “Support the Troops, Bring Them Home.”
Ahead of us with
yellow and red signs were members of the Healthcare for All, contingent, in
support of single-payer health insurance which means Medicare for all. The
Baltimore Ethical Society and Women in Black comprised the four justice groups.
We saw Dr. Margaret Flowers campaigning for the Senate and fellow Green Party
members who have worked tirelessly against the TPP. Here and there we moved in
sync with the beat of the African drums and the school-age dancers dressed in
shimmering royal blue tights and white tops.
As we walked, I
reflected on Martin Luther King’s stand against racism, militarism and
capitalism. Max reminded me how right wing Republicans opposed this holiday,
including Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and John McCain. In 1986 MLK day was
finally voted in as a national holiday.
Reese the Lab
enjoys her time with us at various protests, but she was exhausted from this
three-mile trek and could barely make it up the hill to our
van.
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Retired Archbishop Quinn of Sacramento, Wants Church to Ordain Women Priest, Stop Denying Eucharist to Divorced
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article55483920.html
The reason for bishop’s longevity
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| Retired Sacramento Bishop Francis Quinn told Marcos Breton that he wants priests to be able to marry and that he thinks the church should consider ordaining women as priests. José Luis Villegas Sacramento Bee file |
Re “Bishop Quinn looks back” (Local, Marcos Breton, Jan. 17): Former Catholic Bishop Francis Quinn stated that he felt that in the priesthood celibacy should be an option, not a requirement. He said, “It’s not psychologically healthy for a priest to be celibate just because the church requires it.”
He also wants his church to consider ordaining women as priests and to stop denying the Eucharist to divorced Catholics who have remarried. At age 94, Quinn questions why God is allowing him to live so long. The answer appears clear. God wants Quinn’s voice for justice, peace and mercy to continue to be heard. More years of God’s blessings, brother!
THE REV. PAUL B. JANKE, SACRAMENTO
A refreshing stand on women
Although not a ringing endorsement, Bishop Francis Quinn’s wish that the Catholic Church consider ordaining women as priests is refreshing.
Most priests are terrified of this issue and, with good reason, concerned they might be disciplined as other priests for supporting the notion of women priests. The idea that women can’t serve as priests is from the 1st century, when women were not held in high esteem. Women didn’t count. Men could divorce women, but women couldn’t divorce men. Women were required to sit behind screens in services so they wouldn’t distract men from prayer. But we should be beyond that now. It’s time for gender equality to mean something real in the Catholic Church.
JOHN WEST, SACRAMENTO
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
"A Favor of Grace" by Lynn Kinlan, Upper Room Inclusive Catholic Community, Albany, New York
A Favor of Grace
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| Lynn Kinlan |
Bereft, we came to Troy looking
For a woman priest we’d heard about.
Only to find a staggering change of
perspective
In a journey that leaves behind more
than patriarchy.
Yearning, we came looking to see what
inclusion looks like
On this earth, in this church.
Only to uncover ourselves included in
A melding of human and divine in the
here and now and soon to come.
Searching, we came looking for a
breath of fresh air
To approach God with fewer shoulds.
Only to be swaddled and challenged by
a Creator
Of coulds.
We came with yearning, decades
old
And fatigue beyond the gripes of
shattered hope.
Only to be immersed and refreshed in
running waters,
Flooded with the Favor of Grace.
Monday, January 18, 2016
Two Other Jesuits Worthier of Georgetown Halls by Colman McCathy in National Catholic Reporter
http://ncronline.org/news/people/two-jesuit-names-worthier-georgetown-halls
Sprawled on the floor of the chandeliered and wood-paneled chamber and being of the iPhone and laptop generation, the students were agile at multitasking. Protest, yes, but abandon texting, no. Self-hushed and well-mannered, they mindfully tried not to disturb the president's secretary as she worked at her desk.
Being a teacher who encourages students to move beyond grinding for grades and resumé-building and, instead, rouse their spirits to take risks for what is just and true, I took time to visit the sit-in and offer some words of support. I was heartened that the students were carrying on the effective tactics of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.: When the other side doesn't see the light, make 'em feel the heat.
In a corner of the chamber was one of the lights: a large-lettered sign, "Change the Names." The students had a demand, among others, that two of the campus buildings be renamed.
In the 1830s, a decade that saw Nat Turner leading a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Va., two Jesuit priests were involved in selling the university's slaves -- said to be more than 272 -- to Louisiana plantation owners. The total payment came to $33,000 -- adjusted for inflation, $900,000 by the university's count. For their fiscal acumen, Jesuit Frs. William McSherry and Thomas Mulledy had two buildings named after them.
The heat of the protest worked quickly. After the second day, a 15-member Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, which included five current students, three Jesuit priests and several professors, recommended that the names be canned. The school's board of directors approved.
" The roils and rumbles that have been shaking the nation's campuses this past fall on racial issues -- at the University of Missouri, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Amherst, Kansas State University, Claremont McKenna, among others -- the student agitators I know best and admire most are ones at Georgetown University. I've been on its adjunct law faculty for 27 years and this past semester have been teaching "Peace Is Possible," an undergraduate course with 50 students.
On a Friday and Saturday in mid-November, some 30 students, many of them active in the Black Leadership Forum, staged a sit-in outside the office of the Jesuit school's president, John DeGioia.
On a Friday and Saturday in mid-November, some 30 students, many of them active in the Black Leadership Forum, staged a sit-in outside the office of the Jesuit school's president, John DeGioia.
Sprawled on the floor of the chandeliered and wood-paneled chamber and being of the iPhone and laptop generation, the students were agile at multitasking. Protest, yes, but abandon texting, no. Self-hushed and well-mannered, they mindfully tried not to disturb the president's secretary as she worked at her desk.
Being a teacher who encourages students to move beyond grinding for grades and resumé-building and, instead, rouse their spirits to take risks for what is just and true, I took time to visit the sit-in and offer some words of support. I was heartened that the students were carrying on the effective tactics of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.: When the other side doesn't see the light, make 'em feel the heat.
In a corner of the chamber was one of the lights: a large-lettered sign, "Change the Names." The students had a demand, among others, that two of the campus buildings be renamed.
In the 1830s, a decade that saw Nat Turner leading a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Va., two Jesuit priests were involved in selling the university's slaves -- said to be more than 272 -- to Louisiana plantation owners. The total payment came to $33,000 -- adjusted for inflation, $900,000 by the university's count. For their fiscal acumen, Jesuit Frs. William McSherry and Thomas Mulledy had two buildings named after them.
The heat of the protest worked quickly. After the second day, a 15-member Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, which included five current students, three Jesuit priests and several professors, recommended that the names be canned. The school's board of directors approved.
Interim names, Remembrance Hall and Freedom Hall, were selected -- with permanent names to be chosen in the spring. The working group has publicly said it welcomes suggestions.
I have two: Jesuits Fr. Richard McSorley and Daniel Berrigan, both all heart, both pacifists steeled in the works of peacemaking, racial justice and fidelity to Christ's teachings on nonviolence.
McSorley, a Jesuit for 70 years until his death in 2002, founded Georgetown's Center for Peace Studies, a one-man operation that survived on pennies. He routinely protested the school's hosting of the military's ROTC program. His persistent question for the school's administration was "Should we teach life and love or death and hate?"
After his ordination in the late 1940s, he was assigned to St. James Parish in southern Maryland, where the overt racism meant that blacks and whites sat and took Communion separately. The young priest rebelled.
"As I consulted brother Jesuits," he recalled in his 1996 autobiography, My Path to Peace and Justice, "this was the advice I received: If you speak out about segregation, you will never be appointed to any position of honor in the Jesuit order. I knew of no one else in the province who spoke out against segregation. I would be alone."
It turned out that way. Realizing that his politics and pacifism were too far to the left of Georgetown Jesuits, he moved off campus to satisfy his needs for community by living in the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House, which he co-founded in Washington's Petworth neighborhood in the 1980s.
Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit for 76 years, now frail at age 94 and living in New York City, is mostly likely to be remembered, along with Day and Thomas Merton, as one of Catholicism's giants of the 20th century.
As with McSorley, Berrigan was a dissenter who fiercely opposed America's military might and did hard time in prisons for his repeated acts of civil disobedience. His militancy also edged him to the fringes of his order.
He wrote in his autobiography, To Dwell in Peace, one of his four dozen books, that too often Jesuits "fall victim to worldly ways; that we allow ourselves to be pelted with that filth that goes by the name of 'riches, honors, the credit of a great name.' "
"Now and again, this has been our shame," he wrote. "Jesuits have woven the Byzantine toils and mazes of Roman politics, have laid out little and paid up nothing. We have sought institutional prospering, and whored after the rich; and so built up a kingdom of twilight."
Not surprisingly, Berrigan has never received an honorary degree from Georgetown, spoken at commencement or been asked to teach.
At the beginning of the semester last September, I asked my undergraduates if any had read the writings of McSorley or Berrigan. No hand rose. Perhaps if the university graces itself with McSorley and Berrigan halls, future Georgetown students may take it upon themselves to learn about these two prophetic and steadfast souls and be energized to carry on their missions to increase peace and decrease violence."
[Colman McCarthy, a former columnist for The Washington Post, directs the Center for Teaching Peace, a Washington nonprofit.]
I have two: Jesuits Fr. Richard McSorley and Daniel Berrigan, both all heart, both pacifists steeled in the works of peacemaking, racial justice and fidelity to Christ's teachings on nonviolence.
McSorley, a Jesuit for 70 years until his death in 2002, founded Georgetown's Center for Peace Studies, a one-man operation that survived on pennies. He routinely protested the school's hosting of the military's ROTC program. His persistent question for the school's administration was "Should we teach life and love or death and hate?"
After his ordination in the late 1940s, he was assigned to St. James Parish in southern Maryland, where the overt racism meant that blacks and whites sat and took Communion separately. The young priest rebelled.
"As I consulted brother Jesuits," he recalled in his 1996 autobiography, My Path to Peace and Justice, "this was the advice I received: If you speak out about segregation, you will never be appointed to any position of honor in the Jesuit order. I knew of no one else in the province who spoke out against segregation. I would be alone."
It turned out that way. Realizing that his politics and pacifism were too far to the left of Georgetown Jesuits, he moved off campus to satisfy his needs for community by living in the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House, which he co-founded in Washington's Petworth neighborhood in the 1980s.
Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit for 76 years, now frail at age 94 and living in New York City, is mostly likely to be remembered, along with Day and Thomas Merton, as one of Catholicism's giants of the 20th century.
As with McSorley, Berrigan was a dissenter who fiercely opposed America's military might and did hard time in prisons for his repeated acts of civil disobedience. His militancy also edged him to the fringes of his order.
He wrote in his autobiography, To Dwell in Peace, one of his four dozen books, that too often Jesuits "fall victim to worldly ways; that we allow ourselves to be pelted with that filth that goes by the name of 'riches, honors, the credit of a great name.' "
"Now and again, this has been our shame," he wrote. "Jesuits have woven the Byzantine toils and mazes of Roman politics, have laid out little and paid up nothing. We have sought institutional prospering, and whored after the rich; and so built up a kingdom of twilight."
Not surprisingly, Berrigan has never received an honorary degree from Georgetown, spoken at commencement or been asked to teach.
At the beginning of the semester last September, I asked my undergraduates if any had read the writings of McSorley or Berrigan. No hand rose. Perhaps if the university graces itself with McSorley and Berrigan halls, future Georgetown students may take it upon themselves to learn about these two prophetic and steadfast souls and be energized to carry on their missions to increase peace and decrease violence."
[Colman McCarthy, a former columnist for The Washington Post, directs the Center for Teaching Peace, a Washington nonprofit.]
"Martin Luther King, Jr. legacy" by Joan Chittister, Links to articles on Dr. King's Speeches, Article on Praying Dr. Martin Luther King by Judy Lee, RCW{P
Martin
Luther King, Jr. legacy
Martin Luther King was assassinated at the age of thirty-nine, young by one standard but far too late to destroy what he had begun, not only in this country but throughout the world.
King followed a light, saw a star, felt a pulse, was consumed by a vision that few of us ever see. He may have had to grapple with his own inner discipline, but he was deeply and consistently converted from the “ways things are” to the ways of the Will of God for us, and in his concentration on the things of God he converted us all. Though angry, he was also committed to nonviolence. Though depressed, he was also awash in hope. Though struggling with the pressures of sensuality, he was also loving beyond measure. King knew that sin was not as simple as a lack of personal discipline and that sanctity was not as simple as the gauge of personal control.
King preached, “If a person hasn’t found something they will die for, they aren’t fit to live.” Martin Luther King takes the indifference of all of us and turns it into the stuff of sin. He takes the powerlessness of all of us and turns it into the stuff of strength if we will only pay its price. He casts the shadow of conversion in a new light. Conversion is not so much what we struggle with, perhaps, as it is what we are at our best. If, indeed, as Julian of Norwich says, “Sin is behovable”—necessary, in other words—then Martin Luther King learned his limits so that we could come within the aura of his greatness with confidence and consider it possible for ourselves as well. Martin Luther King’s sins became as public as his powerful heart perhaps so that small people like ourselves could feel comfortable in his presence and challenged by his dream. Martin Luther King, Jr. isn’t above any of us. He is simply more committed than most of us.
King left us four things: the courage to confront evil square on without the hope of being able to ignore it; the courage to confront ourselves square on without the luxury of despair; the courage to love when hate is more satisfying; and the courage to continue to live until death so that others may have life.
—from A Passion for Life: Fragments of the Face of God by Joan Chittister (Orbis)
https://judyabl.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/praying-with-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-on-his-day/
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Dr.-Kings-Unfinished-Revolution-20150114-0041.html
; http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Some-of-Martin-Luther-King-Jr.s-Most-Radical-Statements-20160118-0013.html
; http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-End-of-Impunity-in-El-Salvador--20160118-0007.html
Martin Luther King was assassinated at the age of thirty-nine, young by one standard but far too late to destroy what he had begun, not only in this country but throughout the world.
King followed a light, saw a star, felt a pulse, was consumed by a vision that few of us ever see. He may have had to grapple with his own inner discipline, but he was deeply and consistently converted from the “ways things are” to the ways of the Will of God for us, and in his concentration on the things of God he converted us all. Though angry, he was also committed to nonviolence. Though depressed, he was also awash in hope. Though struggling with the pressures of sensuality, he was also loving beyond measure. King knew that sin was not as simple as a lack of personal discipline and that sanctity was not as simple as the gauge of personal control.
King preached, “If a person hasn’t found something they will die for, they aren’t fit to live.” Martin Luther King takes the indifference of all of us and turns it into the stuff of sin. He takes the powerlessness of all of us and turns it into the stuff of strength if we will only pay its price. He casts the shadow of conversion in a new light. Conversion is not so much what we struggle with, perhaps, as it is what we are at our best. If, indeed, as Julian of Norwich says, “Sin is behovable”—necessary, in other words—then Martin Luther King learned his limits so that we could come within the aura of his greatness with confidence and consider it possible for ourselves as well. Martin Luther King’s sins became as public as his powerful heart perhaps so that small people like ourselves could feel comfortable in his presence and challenged by his dream. Martin Luther King, Jr. isn’t above any of us. He is simply more committed than most of us.
King left us four things: the courage to confront evil square on without the hope of being able to ignore it; the courage to confront ourselves square on without the luxury of despair; the courage to love when hate is more satisfying; and the courage to continue to live until death so that others may have life.
—from A Passion for Life: Fragments of the Face of God by Joan Chittister (Orbis)
https://judyabl.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/praying-with-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-on-his-day/
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Dr.-Kings-Unfinished-Revolution-20150114-0041.html
; http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Some-of-Martin-Luther-King-Jr.s-Most-Radical-Statements-20160118-0013.html
; http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-End-of-Impunity-in-El-Salvador--20160118-0007.html
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Love God in What Is Right in Front of You by Richard Rohr, Jan. 17, 2016
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Liturgy for Holy Year of Mercy: Journey into the Heart of Compassion by Bridget Mary Meehan, ARCWP
GATHERING SONG:
"Womb of All Creation Flowing"
Jann Aldredge-Clanton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O08rI_AN15M
In the Hebrew Scriptures the word "rahum" is literally translated "womb-love,"
and is used to convey divine compassion, graciousness, and mercy. "Rahum" ("womb-love")
pictures a Creator who continually loves and nurtures us.
GREETING
Presider: Let us begin in the name of our God, a God of Love, Wisdom, and Liberation.
ALL: Amen
PENITENTIAL RITE
Presider: God of tender compassion ,You are our peace. ALL: Now and forever, we will be your peace.
Litany of Peace by Dan Schutte (sung): “Let us be your peace”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YldPJMxELYM
Gloria: Glory to God, glory. O praise God, alleluia.
Glory to God, glory. O praise the name of our God.
Or
Glory to God In The Highest by Dan Schutte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbYTlcRSsM
(Gloria is omitted in Lent)
OPENING PRAYER
Presider: O Lover of All, in this journey into the heart of compassion, we celebrate your love unfolding in the healing and wholeness of everyone and of every living thing.
You call us to see goodness and beauty everywhere and to live in harmony with creation. You call us to heal the wounds of hatred and violence, discrimination and oppression in our world. You call us to warmly welcome everyone who comes through our doors as your presence among us.
In communion with Jesus, our brother, and in the power of the Your Spirit, we will live your love poured out each day. ALL: Amen.
LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading
Second Reading
Responsorial Psalm
Gospel Acclamation: Praise, honor and glory to our God. Be compassionate as God is compassionate, praise honor and glory to our God.
Gospel: Reader: A reading from the Gospel according to . . . ALL: Glory to you O God.
Reader: The good news of Jesus, the Christ!
ALL: Glory and praise to you, Jesus the Christ!
HOMILY
Creed :
We believe in a God of extravagant love who dwells within us, rejoices with us in our blessed selves and who weeps with us in our struggles, losses and sufferings.
We believe that we are one with all creatures great and small in a dynamic, evolving cosmos.
We believe in Jesus, whose life, death and resurrection, shows us how to live fully and joyfully and to serve others especially the outcaste and heavy burdened.
We believe in Your Spirit, who works through us for justice and peace and to overcome oppression of all kinds whether based on gender, sexual orientation, race or class.
We believe that we are called to live in mutual respect as disciples and equals in inclusive communities of empowerment.
We believe that we are forgiven, healed and whole in the heart of divine mercy.
We believe that we are united forever with all who have gone before us in the communion of saints.
GENERAL INTERCESSIONS
Presider: With hearts filled with loving compassion, we lift up the needs of our community at this time.
Presider: That those who suffer abuse, may be healed and empowered, we pray.
Response: God of all compassion, love through us.
Presider: That those bound by hatred, hostility, and violence will be set free, we pray. R.
Presider: That the sick may be healed, especially (mention names), we pray. R.
Presider: That the dead may live forever in God's presence, we pray. R. (Other Intentions)
Presider: We hold these and all our unspoken intentions in our hearts as we gather around the Banquet Table today.
PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS
Presider: Blessed are you, God of all life, through your goodness we have bread, wine, all creation, and our own lives to offer. Through this sacred meal may we become your new creation.
ALL: Blessed be God forever.
Presider: God is with us, loving and showing mercy through us.
ALL: Namaste
Presider: Lift up your hearts.
ALL: We lift them up in tender love, open to serve.
Presider: Let us give thanks to our God.
ALL: It is our joy to give God thanks and praise.
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER
Voice One: Gracious Wisdom, You embrace us with extravagant affection in our blessedness and brokenness. We thank you that in this festive meal, your Spirit continues to be poured out among the circle of disciples gathered here in our giving and receiving forgiveness and offering the gift of your shalom/peace. We join with the angels and saints and people of every race, faith and nation to glorify your presence as we sing:
ALL: Holy, holy, holy. Karen Drucker
http://karendrucker.com/lyricpdf/Drucker%20Lyric%20Books/Lyric%20Book-Songs%20of%20the%20Spirit%20II.pdf
Voice Two: Gracious God, you set the banquet table and invite all to the feast of unending delight. Here we encounter the glory of God in an evolving cosmos. Here divine compassion connects us to the young, the old, the least and the last, to everyone everywhere on our journey into the heart of mercy.
Voice Three; We especially thank you, Nurturing God, for Jesus, Your anointed, who shows us how to love with a peaceful and courageous spirit. In Jesus, you show us how to care for those who face illness, and grief and how to help those who experience rejection and marginalization.
Voice Four: God of tenderness, Jesus showed us the heart of mercy when he preached good news to the poor, release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, healing to the broken. Jesus called women to be apostles and disciples and treated them as equals in his circle of companions.
Voice Five In response to people’s sufferings, Jesus broke rules and violated religious taboos. He shared meals with women, saved a woman from being stoned and said that prostitutes would enter heaven before religious leaders. He healed the sick and comforted the lonely. He challenged the priestly class and political leaders of his time and so they ridiculed, tortured and put him to death.
Voice Six: In faithful love, You raised the crucified Jesus, radiant and glorious to new life. Like the holy ones throughout the ages, Moses and Miriam who led their people from oppression to freedom, Jesus’ life, death and resurrection shows us how to live freely and joyously in the midst of injustice, darkness and evil and death.
(Please all extend hands as we recite the Epiclesis and Consecration together)
All: May your Spirit, present in these gifts and in us, fill us with a new outpouring of love that makes us more deeply one Body in the Cosmic Christ living the fullness of your compassion.
Presider: On the night before he was betrayed, Jesus gathered with his friends for a meal. He took bread into his hands, broke it and said
ALL: Take this all of you. This is my body. Do this to remember me.
Presider: In the same way after supper, Jesus took the cup, raised it with love beyond all telling. Jesus gave thanks and shared the cup with those at table and said:
ALL: Take this all of you and drink from it. This is the cup of my life blood, of the new and everlasting covenant. Every time you drink of it, remember me.
Presider: Now then, in sacred memory, let us proclaim the mystery of our faith:
ALL: In every creature that has ever breathed, we see your tenderness; in every living being that has passed on before us, we see your goodness; in everything yet to be, Christ will come again! In our breaking of the bread of earth, Christ of the Cosmos is being re-membered!
Voice Seven: Holy One, your transforming energy is always moving within us and working through us. We give thanks for all holy women and men who have been your face in our lives. They showed us how to forgive self and others, let go of guilt, refrain from judging others and see the good in people who irritate us. Let us pause to remember and name some of these holy women and men aloud or in the silence of our hearts.
Voice Eight: God, who opens doors and hearts, enlighten our religious ministers and political leaders. May they welcome refugees, transform poverty into plenty, and work for human dignity and justice for all. We pray for our pope and bishops, especially _____ , and all God’s holy people.
Voice Nine: We remember those who are sick and suffering. May they be healed and strengthened, and filled with every blessing in your loving presence. We remember Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary Magdala, Peter, Paul, Junia, our patron saints and all the saints and angels who surround us with loving prayer each day. We remember our loved ones and all those who have died into your embrace.
ALL: Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ, all praise and glory are yours, Loving God. Amen.
THE PRAYER OF JESUS
ALL: Our Father and Mother . . .
THE SIGN OF PEACE
Presider: God, we pray for peace and unity as we join hands in a circle of love and sing one of the following hymns; “Peace is flowing like a River” or “Let there be peace on earth” or Peace before us, Peace behind us, Peace under our feet, Peace within us, let all around us be peace.”
LITANY FOR THE BREAKING OF BREAD
ALL: Loving God, You call us to live mercy, we will do so. Loving God, You call us to live justice, we will do so. Loving God, You call us to live equality, we will do so.
Presider: This is Jesus, who calls us to open doors that are closed and share our bread on the altar of the world. All are invited to eat and drink at this sacred banquet of love.
ALL: Jesus we are worthy to receive you and to be your compassion in our world. We are the Body of Christ.
Presider: Let us share the Body of Christ with the Body of Christ! ALL: Amen.
Communion: The Face Of God by Karen Drucker
http://karendrucker.com/lyricpdf/Drucker%20Lyric%20Books/Lyric%20Book-Songs%20of%20the%20Spirit%20II.pdf
Words: Reverend Karyl Huntley & Karen Drucker music: Karen Drucker
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 love
I hold you in my heart You are my family
You are the face of God...
And/ or
There Is Only Love by Karen Drucker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhMTfIRrB7o&list=PLjHTKsnl473APrhiokLdi-6DR8XtES1uX
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Presider: O God of Compassion, Jesus showed us how to love one another and heal our hearts. Through the power of Your liberating Spirit at work within us, we will give and receive forgiveness, live joyously, and work for healing, justice and equality for our earth and for all God’s holy people. ALL: Amen
CONCLUDING RITE
Presider: Our God is with you.
ALL: and also with you.
BLESSING
(Everyone please extend your hands in mutual blessing)
ALL: May the God of Abraham and Sarah,
the Blessed One of Jacob and Rachel,
Sophia, Holy Wisdom,
walk with us and all created life
on our journey into the heart of compassion! Amen.
DISMISSAL
Presider: Go in the peace of Christ. Let the service begin! ALL: Thanks be to God.
Recessional: “Room at the Table for Everyone” by Carrie Newcomber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92OM5bdQ4N4
CONCLUDING HYMN
Bridget Mary Meehan
Association of Roman Catholic Woman Priests
http://bridgetmarys.blogspot.com/
www.arcwp.org
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Saturday, January 16, 2016
Homily Starter and Liturgy for Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Catholic Community on Jan. 16, 2016 "They Have No Wine, You Have To Act" by Bridget Mary Meehan, ARCWP
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| Cana by Giotto di Bondone |
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| Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP |
Homily: “They Have No Wine, You Have
to Act”
In the Gospel Mary and Jesus are at a
wonderful wedding celebration.
I don’t know about you, but I love
wedding celebrations especially Irish weddings because all the relatives gather
and there is so much fun, laughter, story- telling and most of all dancing! The
“Siege of Ennis”, a fast Irish folk dance, can last at least 20 minutes! I bet
there are some youtube videos you can see for yourself!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2ObTI5HAX0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2ObTI5HAX0
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| Jim Marsh ARCWP |
In this story,
we meet an assertive Mary, who is a mover and a shaker. She takes charge,
mobilizes Jesus into action, gets the job done, and then, its back to the party!
Does anyone know women like that in our community? I sure do!
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| Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Community Prays Eucharistic Prayer |
Bishop John Shelby Spong wrote
the following in his book: The
Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic: (P82)
“There are six stone jars present that
are meant to be used for the Jewish rites of purification. The mother of Jesus
stands at the nexus between the shortcomings of the ritual activity of the Jews
and the celebration of the new life that Jesus came to bring—new life that is
symbolized by the marriage ceremony. The “old wine” has been spent. There is no
more for the celebration.”
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| Theresa Rodriguez and Bob Ferkenhoff greet each other before liturgy begins |
The time for new wine has come!
In her reflection,
theologian Elizabeth Johnson writes that Mary’s prophetic words echo down
through the centuries:
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| Joe Adler and Bridget Mary Meehan converse |
“They have no wine…no food, no
clean drinking water, no housing, education or health care, no employment, no
security from rape, no human rights.” (Elizabeth Johnson, Abounding in Kindness, p. 299)
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| Kathryn Shea ARCWP and Jim Marsh ARCWP share before liturgy |
One example on the news this week is the residents of Flint Michigan have no clean drinking water.
In this Holy Year of Mercy,
we are called to be new wine to the poor, outcaste and heavily burdened! “We Christians
are called to go out of ourselves to bring the mercy and tenderness of God to
all…No one can be excluded from God’s mercy” Pope Francis said as he promoted
the Year of Mercy.
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| Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP |
In order to bring mercy and
tenderness to all, the hierarchy of the institutional church must begin by
asking forgiveness for its spiritual abuse of the people of God, and bring the
new wine of spiritual renewal and reform to transform oppressive structures and
laws. As a way forward, Pope Francis could ask forgiveness for centuries of
sexism and pour the new wine of love and healing by lifting excommunications
against all Catholics who follow their consciences including women priests and
our supporters!
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| Jim Marsh ARCWP and Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP co-preside at Liturgy |
“Based on her need to stand
against humiliation, the interchange between Mary and Jesus resembles the
interchange between Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr, on an ordinary day
in Montgomery. By refusing to give up her seat on the bus, or give in to
one more instance of the humiliation of her people, Parks provoked a moment in
history, and she provoked King’s entry into that moment as its vital wine and
its transforming agent…And that response became the first of King’s
unforgettable signs, moments of memorable light in a ministry in which he
lived as John’s gospel says Jesus did, offering powerful signs in very ordinary
human situations. (Nancy Rockwell, “Cana an Unexpected Time”)
So too, today, like Mary and Jesus,
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., we, in the Roman Catholic Women Priests
Movement and in Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Catholic Community, are pouring
new wine into new wineskins to promote gender equality in our church. We are
definitely breaking some rules and unjust laws! And we are trying, trying to provoke
the hierarchy to act to transform the church into a more inclusive home where
all are welcome.
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| Bridget Mary Meehan,, ARCWP and Jim Marsh, ARCWP co-preside at liturgy |
In our struggles for justice and loving
inclusivity, we are living Jesus vision of the kindom , a word that translated from the
ancient Aramaic means a companionship
of empowerment. Here, at Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Catholic
Community, we welcome all to join us in sacred circle of disciples and equals
to celebrate Eucharist at the Banquet Table of God’s extravagant love. The
Feast has begun! The wine is flowing. Abundance is ours.
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| Left to right: Mary, Jack and Marge share Eucharist |
Like Rosa Parks , Martin Luther King
and Mary, Mother of Jesus, we are prophets of justice who know that they have
no wine and we must act!
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| Left to right, Mary Al, Mary, Jack and Marge |
Shared Homily Reflection Question.
1. In what situations, relationships do
we experience abundance, “new wine”?
2. How are we prophets and advocates for
justice, announcing there is no wine for the poor, refugees, women in the world
and church?
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| Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Catholic Community review budget at annual meeting of 501-c-3 |
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| Sally Brochu ARCWP, treasurer of MMOJ non-profit shares budget information |
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| Kathryn Shea, ARCWP shares birthday cake with community in celebration of Bridget Mary's birthday |
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| Bridget Mary Meehan blows candle on delicious chocolate birthday cake |
Liturgy: Celebrating New Life as Midwives of Grace
GATHERING SONG AND GREETING
Presider: In the name of God, Midwife of Grace, and of Jesus our brother, and of the Holy Spirit, our Liberator. ALL: Amen
Presider: My sisters and brothers, God loves us infinitely and is with us always. ALL: and also with you.
PENITENTIAL RITE
Presider: Let us pause now for reflection. Place your hand over your heart and breathe in God’s passionate love for you…breathe out God’s, extravagant love for everyone….
Open yourself to Spirit energy within the depths of your soul, healing and empowering you…
Now let us praise God by singing Glory to God…
Song of Praise: Glory to God, glory. O praise Glory alleluia.
Glory to God, glory. O praise the name of our God. (x2)
OPENING PRAYER
Presider: God of Love, Midwife of grace, we experience your grace drawing us to new life in the depths of our mystical souls and in our prophetic call .We rejoice with our brother Jesus, through the power of your Spirit. ALL: Amen.
LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading
Responsorial Psalm
Second Reading
Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia
Gospel:
Reader: The good news of Jesus, the Christ!
ALL: Glory and praise to you, Jesus the Christ!
HOMILY
Profession of Faith: ALL: We believe in God who is compassion in our world. We believe in Jesus, whose death and resurrection reveals God’s infinite love. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the breath of Wisdom Sophia, who energizes and guides us to live Christ’s presence. We believe in the communion of saints, our heavenly friends, who inspire us to live holy lives. We believe in the church as the people of God, living in faith, hope and love.
GENERAL INTERCESSIONS
Presider: That we may bring new life into our world, we pray
Response: God of all, love through us
Presider: That we may foster healing of our Earth, we pray. R.
Presider: That the sick may be healed, we pray. R.
Presider: That we may be forever one with our beloved dead in the communion of saints we pray. R. (Other Intentions)
PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS
Presider: Blessed are you, God of all life, through your goodness we have bread, wine, all creation, and our own lives to offer. Through this sacred meal may we become your new creation. (hold up bread and wine)
ALL: Blessed be God forever.
(All come around the table to pray the Eucharistic Prayer, background music may be played)
Presider: God is with you, abounding in love
ALL: and also with you.
Presider: Lift up your hearts in Christ who lives and loves , heals and empowers through you.
ALL: We lift them up to God.
Presider: Let us give thanks to our God.
ALL: It is right to give God thanks and praise.
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER
Voice One: Life-giving Love, You call all persons to be friends of God. United with You, we are one with all beings in the community of creation as we celebrate the new life occurring in our expanding cosmos. We join the angels and saints as we sing:
ALL: Sung “We are holy, holy, holy 3 x Karen Drucker
Spirit Divine, Come to me
Feeling Love, Healing me
Open my heart, Allow me to see
Beauty and love, lives in me.
Voice Two: Gracious God, you set the banquet table and invite all to the feast that celebrates your dazzling love in the universe. As midwives of grace we are Your hands, lifting up those who suffer, the vulnerable and neglected in our world today
Voice Three: We especially thank you, Holy One, for Jesus, the Compassion of God, who came to show us a new vision of community where every person is loved and all relate with mutual respect.
Voice Four:
Jesus threatened the religious and political leaders of his time and so they put him to death. As God raised Jesus to new life, we trust that your promise of faithful love will be with us in our suffering and raise us up to fullness of life.
All: (please all extend hands as we recite the consecration together)
*While sharing a feast at table, Jesus took bread,
blessed you, God of Compassion. Jesus broke the bread, and along with the cup,
shared it among friends and said:
Take this all of you: eat and drink;
this is my body …
After the meal, Jesus took another cup,
poured out in a spirit of solidarity and empowerment.
Jesus gave thanks and handed the cup to those at table saying:
Take this all of you and drink from it;
this is the cup of my life-blood,
the life of the new and everlasting covenant.
In prophetic solidarity, it is poured out for you and for all in love beyond imagination.
Sustain one another in sacred memory.
*Adapted from Diarmuid O’Murchu
Presider: Now then, let us proclaim the mystery of the Christ Presence made new again through you:
ALL: In every creature that has ever breathed, Christ has lived; in every living being that has passed on before us, Christ has died; in everything yet to be, Christ will come again!
Voice Five: . We thank you for ordinary people in our lives who show us how to love tenderly and have revealed the heart of our God, especially (pause to remember and name some of these holy women and men).
Voice Six: And so, liberating God, Midwife of Grace, we hold our religious ministers and political leaders in the light of Christ Sophia, Holy Wisdom. We pray for our pope and bishops, the young and the elders, and all God’s holy people.
Voice Seven: We remember those who are sick and suffering. May they be healed and comforted. We remember Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary Magdala, Peter, Paul, Junia, our patron saints. We remember our loved ones and all those who have died, that they may experience the fullness of life in the embrace of our gracious God.
ALL: Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ, all praise and glory are yours, Holy God, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
THE PRAYER OF JESUS
ALL: Our Father and Mother . . .
and forever. Amen.
THE SIGN OF PEACE
Presider: Let us pray for the peace of Christ in our world as we sing and hold hands in a community prayer for peace (Peace is flowing or other appropriate hymn)
LITANY FOR THE BREAKING OF BREAD
ALL: Loving God, You call us to speak truth to power, we will do so. Loving God, You call us to live the Gospel of peace and justice, we will do so. Loving God, You call us to live as Your presence in the world. We will do so.
Presider: Behold the Body of Christ. All are invited to partake of this sacred banquet of love.
ALL: Jesus we are worthy to receive you and become you for others. We are the Body of Christ.
Presider: Let us share the Body of Christ with the Body of Christ! ALL: Amen.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Presider: Life-giving God, You come to birth each day in our universe through suffering death and new life. Your Spirit is moving in us as we love passionately, and extravagantly to bring your shalom to everyone equally especially the marginalized.
ALL: Amen
CONCLUDING RITE
Presider: Our God is with you.
ALL: and also with you.
BLESSING
(everyone please extend your hands in mutual blessing)
ALL: Holy One, Midwife of Grace, we bless one another as we serve others with loving kindness .
DISMISSAL
Presider: Go, bring forth life as midwives of grace in our world. Let the service begin! ALL: Thanks be to God.
CONCLUDING HYMN
God, A Midwife: Psalm 22:9-10 “Yet You drew me out of the womb, you nestled me to my mother’s bosom; you cradled me in your lap from my birth; from my mother’s womb, you have been my God.”
Bridget Mary Meehan
Association of Roman Catholic Woman Priests
http://bridgetmarys.blogspot.com/
Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests
www.arcwp.org
Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Catholic Community
www.marymotherofjesus.org
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