PRELUDE
Andrew Prete
WELCOME
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We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. Our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences we participate in a new divine reality and drink in the Spirit! This is sacred space.
OPENING READING
Spirit who is in all places, when we meditate on what we will say and how we will say it, you are present; when we have resolved to come into your sacredness, you are present, but perhaps this truth is not always real to us. So bless this gathering in order that each of us individually and communally will in this hour feel your presence and know that we are with you. **Adapted from The Prayers of Kierkegaard, p. 59.
PEACE – TOAST
Followed by Andrew
In this place we creatively express;
Some of us are focused, some are a mess!
We participate during the sermon
And people do connect, we are learnin’
Greet all with a handshake, toast or a wave
At all times feel free to yell, rant or rave
Fake not friends, we can arrive as we are.
Cheers! Here’s to sacred space in a bar!
TELLING OUR STORY
Story from last week
CONVERSATIONAL SERMON
What new reality?
Last week we ended with communion and with these words:
“As we gather in this present moment
Let us remember that in every moment we are cooperating in some reality, we make something real by our very presence and participation, by our embodied reality, by how we live and relate to one another.
In this moment then, let us make real a community of the Spirit, a people who are peaceable and beautiful in our relations with one another, with the earth, and with the Divine. Let us do that even as we share this bread and this wine now...”
And the week before that we read from…
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~ What would be the new reality we would like to see?
~ In what ways do we participate to make that reality real – embodied?
~ What practices contribute to this new reality?
~ Do we believe a new reality is even possible?
SHARING OF RESOURCES
COMMUNION
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CLOSING
Followed by music from Andrew
Openness to the divine is one of the important aspects of each occasion of experience. And that openness and responsiveness to the lure of the Spirit leads to further openness in the future. Faith can be interpreted as trusting that divine influence each moment.
- From “Process and Faith” (lectionary website)
May we go in peace, with Spirit, and as participants of a new Divine reality.
