Last week I was at a talk given by Rev Jono Ryan who works half time with the mission work of Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor. This is a kiwi movement with New Monastic movement approaches. They have 5 principles (incarnation, community, wholism, servanthood, simplicity) and 5 values (grace, celebration, beauty, creativity, rest). We heard
Father, I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will. Whatever you may do, I thank you: I am ready for all, I accept all. Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures – I wish no more than this, O Lord. Into your hands I commend
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I regularly, sadly, find myself in situations where people appear to think that liturgy is essentially singing and reciting lovely poetry to one another. My trying to shift towards some balance by stressing action, gesture, environment, structure, etc. in those contexts is usually met with bemused confusion. Let’s think about silence in liturgy. Claude Debussy
Note: Today is NOT “Easter Saturday”. Easter Saturday is next Saturday, April 10 2010. Easter Monday is April 5 (not last Monday), Easter Tuesday is April 6, etc. Christ descended to the dead A reading from an ancient homily for Holy Saturday What is happening? Today there is a great silence over the earth, a
Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Virtual Chapel with daily updates Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to [Jesus]. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Virtual Chapel with daily updates Matthew 21:33-43 33 [Jesus said] “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Virtual Chapel with daily updates Luke 16:19-31 19 [Jesus said] “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate lay a poor man named
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Matthew 6:7-15 7 [Jesus said] “When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for
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