HOMILY: “You love everything that exists / And you don’t hate anything you have created … / You save all things because they are yours …”
Words from the book of Wisdom, a book, as protestants, we don’t often open and read – a book we call apocryphal, or hidden away, amid texts of uncertain authenticity in the eyes of 16th-century reformers.
HOMILY: The tax collector’s prayer invites our humble prayers and heartfelt hymns to grace.
PRAYERS: The following benedictions were written for SSUC – Liturgy Resource group, 2022.
HOMILY: Our reading from Genesis is something of a classic. It is part of the Jacob/Israel saga – the story of a trickster (“Heel Grabber”) who steals a blessing, who leaves home, wrestles with his conscience, his God and himself; a deceiver who is deceived, who loves, who returns home, is forgiven, undergoes conversion, walks thereafter with a limp.
PRAYERS: The following benedictions were written for SSUC – Ordinary Time, Year C, 2022.
HOMILY: The action takes place in a liminal space, in a nameless village somewhere between Galilee and Samaria. Jesus leads disciples to anticipate surprises, healing, new life at the margins, in various border settings …
HOMILY: There are many references to slavery in the Bible. In one sense, the whole Bible is a reflection on slavery and freedom – what it means to overcome oppression and to become free people …
GOSPEL CONVERSATION: October 2022.
HOMILY: Jesus calls the salvation he provides “bread” and calls himself “bread from heaven”. John, arguably the most mystical of the gospels, is artfully constructed, layered. It is sacramental – the material world is a bearer of spiritual meaning, the material participates in the spiritual.
SATURDAY ART WORKSHOP: Our workshops in October will be led by Micaela Christie. The workshops will invite exploration of techniques using rubber tiles for printing – on paper, card, fabric.
