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Worship Guide - Third Sunday of Easter, Year A

4/23/2020

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Were not our hearts burning within us?
 
The gospel today brings us that familiar story from Luke of the two disciples on the road trying to make sense of a dizzying series of events, when they are joined by a traveling companion who turns out to be the risen Christ. At first it seems this “stranger” is the one out of touch: “Haven't you been watching the news? Do you not know who are leaders are and what they’re up to? ... And where’s your mask?”
 
How quickly things turn around! We look for Jesus where he isn’t, and it turns out he’s right in front of us, leading us back to what saves us. “Were not our hearts burning within us?”
 
What is it that makes for life? What is worth dying for, or better, living for? These are the questions we are confronted with today in worship and in these days of pandemic. Personal testimony, the scriptures, the breaking of the bread—what do you need to pull you back to the center and fullness of life? How about our corporate life? What do we need to be saved?

Set your space for worship and then enter in. What elements do you find essential today? Surely your daily bread, wine or juice, a community, something beautiful. The elements of survival. What we need to thrive.
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Road to Emmaus—Carolingian, 9th c., Cloisters Museum, New York

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Worship Guide - 2nd Sunday of Easter

4/19/2020

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The story of Thomas is the centerpiece of our worship today. He's often called "doubter" which is a bit unfair for one who comes to such courageous belief and conviction amidst death and isolation: “My Lord and my God!”  Perhaps we can relate to him and the others, huddled, quarantined as they are. Locked away for fear and safety. And yet, what happens? Jesus comes to them. It's as if he's affirming, “I will walk through walls if that's what it takes for you to find hope.” Could he come to us as well where we are?
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Christ with Thomas - Rowan and Irene LeCompte, Washington Cathedral, DC
If it helps you, set your space for worship. What elements do you find essential, evocative for this particular Sunday? Take yourself seriously. Give yourself and your spirit space to engage and encounter what is surely a mystery, and one that knows healing and new life.

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Worship Guide - Easter Sunday

4/12/2020

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This is the day that the Lord has made! Let us rejoice and be glad in it!
Our Lord is risen!
Christ is risen indeed!

Prelude “Ode to Joy”

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Worship Guide - Easter Vigil

4/11/2020

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For three days Esther fasted and Judith kept vigil, the exiles came home from Jerusalem and the Hebrews marched to the waters of Marah. For three days darkness afflicted the Egyptians, Hezekiah lay mortally ill, Jonah was entombed in the belly of a fish. And Saul who became Paul waited three days in blindness before he saw.
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On the third day Abraham offered his firstborn son, God came down in fire and wind upon Sinai, the boy Jesus was found “in his Father’s house,” and the man Jesus “performed the first of his signs at Cana of Galilee.” Echoing the words of Hosea, Jesus announced the three-day Passover of his death, rest and resurrection.

The Paschal Triduum, or as we know it in English, the “Three Days of Passover” are for us too days of death, rest and resurrection. Even if only remotely, we march to the waters of baptism. We keep watch for light and for liberation in our own lives. For three days we climb Mount Moriah, Mount Sinai, Mount Golgotha. Those who were lost are found, and those who were exiled come home.

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Worship Guide - Good Friday

4/10/2020

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Our three days service continues tonight at the cross. Good Friday is a day where the church prays for the world - the whole world.  Its a day where we take a close look at suffering and power - its use and misuse, and we pray.

​Light a candle and make some space.  Join us in prayer for the world, and in the memory that the spirit of love and justice is at work making all things new. 
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Worship Guide - Maundy Thursday

4/9/2020

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Our three days service begins tonight. On Maundy Thursday, we recall the meal in the upper room, and our new commandment to love each other as we have been loved. We practice service tonight -- to God, to each other, and to the world. We wash feet and hands, we meet at the table and share a meal, we sing, and we pray. And when we leave, we take the elements and the ornaments, stripping the church bare to await the glory of Easter.

We invite you to have a bowl of water, a towel, a cup of wine or juice, bread, and a lit candle as we begin.


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Worship Guide - Palm/Passion Sunday

4/5/2020

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Here we are, once again. Worship online—such an unfamiliar place for many of us. And the story that guides us is of a crowded scene—​noticeably lacking proper social distancing! How strange that suddenly feels. Shouts and chants, flying inflections and fomites of all sorts. And a story that, like ours, in this Holy Week, will have many ups and downs, many twists and turns before it ends. How will we be different once it is over?

If it helps, set a table for worship today. Keep it simple, but true. Some palms, or greens of any sort. Your favorite coat. Bread and cup. Stuff of the earth, like you. Gather round. Breathe deep. Light a candle. Enter in. Process like no one is watching! When it seems like the right time, pour some water. Feel it on your hands, note its song in your ears. Sing. Remember. Allow yourself to be drawn to one another and to the Holy One who draws near to you, to us, riding on a donkey.
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