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Holy Trinity Sunday
Welcome and Theme: Deb: + In the Name of Peace, and Love and Grace. +
We continue to contemplate the Divine in many ways as last week we finished the official Easter Season and this week we began again in Ordinary Time. But celebrating our faith is not ordinary. We are called to quietly and consistently witness to the Holy One all around us. For this Trinity Sunday, we find a way to look at the world with new eyes, with Love in our Hearts, and acknowledging our part in Divinity.
Opening Prayer:
-Holy One, we bless you and thank you for showing up in our lives.
-Lead us in Gratitude and Awareness of your many facets and help us to Know you.
-Walk with us as we live on this precious earth and help us to Love like you.
-Engage us in our own calling and help us to Feel your presence in our lives. Amen.
Opening Song: You are a Blessing to the World. Karen Drucker.
LITURGY OF THE WORD
Reading: Our First Reading is from Black Elk.
Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being . . . And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy . . .
But anywhere is the center of the world.
A reading from Black Elk, Oglala Sioux, and our community affirms this by saying, Amen.
Alleluia
Gospel: A reading from the Gospel of John, 16: 12-15.
I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.
Yet on arrival, the Spirit of Truth will guide you into all truth; for this one will not speak on its own authority but will speak of all that it hears; and will tell you of the things that are to come.
This one will glorify me, and will take of what is mine, and will tell it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that the helper takes of what is mine, and will tell it to you.
These are words from the Gospel of John and the New, New Testament with Hal Taussig, and we as community affirm them by saying: AMEN.
Homily and Shared Reflection: Deb
Last week we celebrated the Holy Spirit coming down on the disciples of Jesus with Tongues of Fire on the Heads of all. Our visual aids as stated in the readings help us as human beings to imagine the Holy Spirit in concrete terms. Similarly, our continued use of a vision of God as Triune helps us to put into words and concepts the complicated and infinite nature of the Holy One, who is Creator, Lover and Helper. How can this be so?
The concept (and belief) of the Triune God gives us a perspective that is more than one, two or even three dimensional. By providing us with a concept of the Great One that is beyond ONE, we can begin the process of realizing that there are more than just a few dimensions to the world around us. Since we are finite beings, we can only TRY to imagine what Infinity means. Black Elk’s beautiful vision gives us a hint of that.
But Trinity is more than perspective of the infinite. Our concept of God as Love is enhanced in the communion of these three images of the Holy One. We become companions with our Creator, who gives us examples of Love as well as Communication through the Helper who is Spirit. We also are ALL ONE.
As we go about our days, may we pick up our lives and examine our own perspectives. May we see the many facets of God shining through us, the diamonds here on Earth. May we see that same spark of Creation, Connection and Communion in each encounter we have with earth and with each other.
And so Dear Friends, what did you hear, what does it mean to you, what will you do about it? Thank you for sharing.
Statement of Faith
We believe in the Holy One, a divine mystery
beyond all definition and rational understanding,
the heart of all that has ever existed,
that exists now, or that ever will exist.
We believe in Jesus, messenger of the Divine Word,
bringer of healing, heart of Divine compassion,
bright star in the firmament of the Holy One's
prophets, mystics, and saints.
We believe that We are called to follow Jesus
as a vehicle of divine love,
a source of wisdom and truth,
and an instrument of peace in the world.
We believe in the Spirit of the Holy One,
the life that is our innermost life,
the breath moving in our being,
the depth living in each of us.
We believe that the Divine kin-dom is here and now,
stretched out all around us for those
with eyes to see it, hearts to receive it,
and hands to make it happen.
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Presider: As we prepare for our sacred meals, we recognize that just as Jesus is anointed, so is each of us. We bring blessings, cares and concerns to the table beginning with the words, I bring to the table.
We pray for all blessings, cares, concerns and all unspoken prayers. Amen.
Please join in praying the Eucharistic prayer together: (Portions from Diarmuid O’Murchu and from ARWCP worship resources)
All: O Holy One, you are always with us. In the blessed abundance of creation, we gather to celebrate Your nourishing gift of life. May our hearts be open to You as You invite us to participate in the wise and wonderful work of co-creation.
May we be ever aware of Your Spirit within and among us as our world unfolds amid pain and beauty into the fullness of life.
We are grateful for Your Spirit whose breath inspired the primal waters, calling into being the variety and abundance we see around us. Your Spirit sustains and animates our every endeavor, inviting us to act in wisdom and in truth.
In gratitude and joy we embrace our calling and we lift our voices to proclaim a song of praise:
Holy, Holy, Holy by Karen Drucker
We are Holy, Holy, Holy…3x (Karen Drucker)
We are whole.
Spirit divine, Come to me
Feeling love, Healing me.
Open my heart, Allow me to see,
Beauty & love, Lives in me.
You are Holy, Holy, Holy…
All: As a community, we gather in the power of your Spirit, refreshing wind, purifying fire and living breath, for the variety and diversity of life. We seek to live as Jesus taught us, wise and holy as Spirit-filled people, courageous and prophetic, ever obedient to your call.
Presider: Please extend your hands in blessing.
All: We invoke Your Spirit upon the gifts of this Eucharistic table, bread of the grain and wine of the grape, that they may become gifts of wisdom, light and truth which remind us of our call to be the body of Christ to the world.
On the night before he faced his own death, Jesus sat at the Seder supper with his companions and friends. He reminded them of all that he taught them, and to fix that memory clearly with them, he bent down and washed their feet.
All lift their plate as the community prays the following:
When he returned to his place, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and offered it to them saying:
Take this bread and eat it;
This is my very self.
(pause)
All lift their cup as community prays the following:
Jesus then raised a cup of blessing, spoke the grace and offered the wine saying:
Take and drink of the covenant
Made new again through my life in you.
Whenever you remember me like this,
I am among you.
(pause)
What we have heard with our ears, we will live with our lives. As we share communion, we will become communion, both loves nourishment and love’s challenge.
Please receive the bread and cup with the words, We are One through the Spirit.
Communion Meditation: Fire of Love, Kathy Sherman.
All: In union with all peoples living and dead, we unite our thoughts and prayers, asking wisdom and courage to discern more wisely your call to us in the circumstances of our daily lives: to act justly and courageously in confronting the pain and suffering that desecrates the Earth and its peoples; to take risks in being creative and proactive on behalf of the poor and marginalized; and to love all people with generosity of heart, beyond the labels of race, creed and color.
Holy One, your transforming energy is always moving within us and working through us. Like Jesus, we will open up wide all that has been closed about us, and we will live compassionate lives,
for it is through living as Jesus lived,
That we awaken to your Spirit within,
Moving us to glorify you,
O Holy One,
At this time and all ways.
Amen.
Presider: Let us pray the prayer Jesus:
All: O Holy One, who is within, around and among 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 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 (Miriam Therese Winter)
BLESSING
Presider: Let us pray our closing prayer:
May the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
bring fire to the earth
so that the presence of God
may be seen
in a new light,
in new places,
in new ways.
May our own hearts
burst into flame
so that no obstacle,
no matter how great,
ever obstructs the message
of the God within each of us.
May we come to trust
the Word of God in our heart,
to speak it with courage,
to follow it faithfully
and to fan it to flame in others.
amen
Excerpt from prayer by Joan Chittister, OSB
Closing Song: Grateful by Empty Hands Music
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