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Our parish is a community that seeks God and the fullness of creation by finding ourselves in relation to others. Our giving to the common, to the other, our sharing of ourselves is our commitment to this endeavour. |
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Year BSunday, 9.15am Holy Communion see also Readings LectionaryThe full text of the readings for Sunday are available in our Sunday's Readings section. Other ResourcesTextweek The Text This Week - Revised Common Lectionary, Scripture Study and Worship Links Online Revised Common Lectionary Vanderbilt Divinity Library Earlier Thoughts Year B 0506 Year C 0607 Year A 0708 Sunday, 9.15am Holy Communion LITURGICAL NOTE: From the start of Advent we follow the YEAR C readings in the three-year lectionary cycle. See the inside back cover for more about the liturgical year. Before entering the sanctuary or the vestry… +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ When he established the heavens, I was there +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ May Christ's peace invade, flood and shake the foundations of our hearts and lives. In this Community, in our daily lives, in our witness to the world; Let peace break out! St Hilda Community +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “The Trinity is the largest embrace in the universe…. All of us live within the circle of the Trinity. No one or no thing can fall out of this circle. In God there is no outside… regardless of how numbed, ordinary or dull a life might seem to itself or to others, each life is urgent with divinity… Each of us is born out of a different place in the circle of God’s heart. This is the reason why each individual is unique: each comes from a different nest in the divine. It is towards this nest that our deepest longing tends; it is only here that the soul can discover her true poise and rhythm.” From “The priestliness of the Human Heart” by John O’Donohue +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ There is a sense that in the community here we mirror (even if somewhat dimly) the “Divine Embrace” of the Trinity as we open ourselves to each other and to all....... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ May the God who dances in creation, who embraces us with human love, who shakes our lives like thunder, Bless us and drive us out with power to fill the world with justice. And the blessing of God, the eternal goodwill of God, the shalom of God, the wildness and warmth of God be among us and between us now and always, Amen Blessing - The St Hilda Community +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ May Christ's peace invade, flood and shake the foundations of our hearts and lives. In this Community, in our daily lives, in our witness to the world; Let peace break out! St Hilda Community +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Is the life you are living too small for the soul’s desire? James Hollis +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Was Pentecost a miracle of speaking, or one of hearing and understanding?" The Journey with Jesus: Notes to Myself, Daniel B. Clendenin +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “Images which arise out of the depths, be they the burning bush of biblical imagery, the complaint of the body, or the dream we dream tonight, link us to that throbbing, insistent hum which is the sound of the eternal. As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.” James Hollis +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From last week’s sermon: ‘All who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God’. You’re all there in the reading - children of God. If you’re not sure what that’s about, go on to the next reading, for there it tells us what it means to be children of God. ‘Very truly, I tell you,’ – this is Christ, the word made flesh – ‘the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.’ Do not look back to what Christ did: rather look forward to doing even greater works than those. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Reflection from Pentecost Sermon 2008 Trinity Sunday 18 May 2008 The Bible is a mirror for our soul, it’s a reflection of our very being, and it’s a revelation of the Divine. Imagine if Israel could hear Palestine and if Palestine could hear Israel; imagine if America could hear Iraq and Iraq could hear America; imagine if I could hear the pain and joy of another and another could hear my pain and joy. In that imagining, we would find ourselves all together in one place. +++++++++++++++++++ Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, or surpass it, or to limit it. Hildegard of Bingen +++++++++++++++++++
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The Elm DanceAfter the choir sings the postlude on Sunday morning, those who wish to join in “The Elm Dance” gather in the circle dance area outside the church before going up to coffee in the hall. The Elm Dance ******************** The Divine Gift of Life, Light and Love +++++++++++++++++++
There is nothing in all the Universe so much like God as silence. +++++++++++++++++++ Sacred Space, Liturgy & our Community @ Worship 1. Silence before worship enables us to be ‘gathered’ into the introit sung by the choir +++++++++++++++++++ We meditate on the glory of the Creator; _________________________________________ Peace ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) May creatures all abound in wealth and peace; Giving made easy +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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