May 16, 2009 Gathering

PRELUDE

Music by John Gerard

WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! As a church in a pub, the Spirit is with us. In this space feel free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express ideas openly!  

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. All we bring is welcome; our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.

OPENING PRAYER

By Alfonso Ortiz, Earth Prayers (p. 125) 

Within and around the earth,

within and around the hills,

within and around the mountains,

your authority returns to you.

TELLING OUR STORY

 

PEACE – TOAST 

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!

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

By John

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON 

Mark 2: 1-12 

Some days later he went back to Capernaum and was rumored to be at home. And many people crowded around so there was no longer any room, even outside the door. Then he started speaking to them. Some people then show up with a paralytic being carried by four of them. And when they were not able to get near him on account of the crowd, they removed the roof above him. After digging it out, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus noticed their trust, he says to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.”

Some of the scholars were sitting there and listening wondering: “Why does that fellow say such things? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except the one God?”

            And right away, because Jesus sensed in his spirit that they were raising questions like this among themselves, he says to them: “Why do you entertain questions about these things? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat and walk’?” But so that you may realize that on earth the son of Adam has authority to forgive sins, he says to the paralytic, “You there, get up, pick up your mat and go home!”

            And he got up, picked his mat right up, and walked out as everyone looked on. So they all became ecstatic, extolled God, and exclaimed, “We’ve never seen the likes of this!”

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·        Thoughts on today’s reading – Great News?

·        Interruptions – what do we do with them?

·        Healed to go?

SHARING OF RESOURCES

COMMUNION

 THE INVITATION

One:  God is with us.

All:  Yes she is.

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

BENEDICTION

When will you be Angelic? When will you take off your clothes? When will you look at yourself through the grave? When will you live with naked honesty? When will the world of “heaven” meet the world of earth?’ Until we meet again, let us keep these challenges close to heart. And continue to drink in the spirit!

POSTLUDE

By John

May 9, 2009 Gathering

PRELUDE

Music by Andrew Prete 

WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! As a church in a pub, the Spirit is with us. In this space feel free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express ideas openly!  

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. All we bring is welcome; our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space. 

OPENING PRAYER

by Pat Kozak, Life Prayers (p. 193)

Rise up, child of earth

Let life rise up in you,

full-term, new-born.

Time enough in wondrous darkness,

Echoed sounds of voices, stirrings,

splashings of new life.

Relinquish to memory this one mystery

We yearn to know and will again

in after-death.

So much latent

still to rise

Until our risings lifts us to a depth

that questions every truth

we’ve ever known.

 

Mud-stirred of first clay.

Plaything of a potter who fell in love

with her hands’ work.

Blessed be her handiwork.

Blessed be the work of her hands.

Blessed be.

TELLING OUR STORY

First pub church stories 

PEACE – TOAST 

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!

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

By Andrew 

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON 

Mark 1:1-8 

The good news of Jesus the Anointed begins with something Isaiah the prophet wrote:

            Here is my messenger,

            whom I send on ahead of you

            to prepare your way!

            A voice of someone shouting in the wilderness:

            “Make ready the way of the Lord,

            Make his paths straight.”

So John the Baptizer appeared in the wilderness calling for baptism and a change of heart that lead to forgiveness of sins.

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·        Thoughts on today’s reading – Great News!

·        What we stated with; who are are; how we are to continue

·        Stop, start, continue

SHARING OF RESOURCES

COMMUNION

 THE INVITATION

One:  God is with us.

All:  Yes she is. 

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

BENEDICTION

 When will you be Angelic?

POSTLUDE

By Andrew 

April 18th, 2009 - Gathering

PRELUDE

Music by Andrew Prete

WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! We are a church in a pub and the Spirit is with us. In this space you are free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express your ideas openly! 

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. Our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.

OPENING PRAYER

John 13: 34-35

‘A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’

God, help us to fulfill your commandment and not stumble over lesser things. 

TELLING OUR STORY

PEACE – TOAST 

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!

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

By Andrew

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON 

Psalm 133

1How very good and pleasant it is when brothers and sisters live together in unity! 

2It is like the precious oil on the head, running down upon the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down over the collar of his robes. 

3It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord ordained his blessing, life forevermore. 

Leviticus 8:10-12

10Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. 11He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them. 12He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to sanctify him.

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• Thoughts on today’s reading

• Thoughts on Easter

• Comments or thoughts on sanctification

COMMUNION AND SHARING OF RESOURCES

THE INVITATION

One: God is with us. 

All: Yes she is.

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Updates on thepubchurch.blogspot.

ONE year Anniversary Celebration! 

BENEDICTION

Love one another and through this sacred love be sanctified. Go in peace, Amen.

POSTLUDE

By Andrew 

Resurrection? Really?

April 11, 2009 Gathering

PRELUDE

Music by Hassan El-Tayyab

WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! We are a church in a pub and the Spirit is with us. In this space you are free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express your ideas openly!

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. Our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.

OPENING PRAYER

Gethsemane ~Mary Olive

The grass never sleeps.
Or the roses.
Nor does the lily have a secret eye that shuts until morning.
Jesus said, wait with me. But the disciples slept.
The cricket has such splendid fringe on its feet,
and it sings, have you noticed, with its whole body,
and heaven knows if it ever sleeps.
Jesus said, wait with me. And maybe the stars did, maybe
the wind wound itself into a silver tree, and didn't move,

maybe, the lake far away, where once he walked as on a blue pavement,
lay still and waited, wild awake.
Oh the dear bodies, slumped and eye-shut,

that could not keep that vigil,

how they must have wept,
so utterly human, knowing this too
must be a part of the story.

TELLING OUR STORY

PEACE – TOAST

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’

(All may join in the following)

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!

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

By Hassan

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON

Mark 16:1-8

And when the sabbath day was over, Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices so that they could go and embalm him. And very early on Sunday they got to the tomb just as the sun was coming up. And they had been asking themselves, "Who will help us roll the stone away from the opening of the tomb?" Then they look up and discover that the stone has been rolled away! (For in fact the stone was very large.)

And when they went into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right, wearing a white robe, and they were apprehensive.

He says to them, "Don’t be alarmed! You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene who was crucified. He was raised, he is not here. Look at the spot where they put him! But go and tell his disciples, including ‘Rock,’ ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee! There you will see him, just as he told you.’

And once they got outside, they ran away from the tomb, because great fear and excitement got the better of them. And they didn’t breathe a word of it to anyone: talk about terrified…

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· What are our initial thoughts and observations about the text?

· What questions does it raise?

· What kind of resurrection is this?!

COMMUNION and SHARING OF RESOURCES

THE INVITATION

XA: God is with us. All: Yes she is.

FEEDBACK and ANNOUNCEMENTS

BLOG: thepubchurch.blogspot.com

BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE

By Hassan

Annoucements: Music and Celebration!

Two things: The one year anniversary of The Pub Church is coming up! And the musicians who play at TPC have other shows that you can go to and enjoy their music :)

Come Join Us!
The Pub Church celebrates its
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
Saturday, April 25th, 2009, 5:00p
at The Dugout

Crazy huh? Our very first gathering was on April 23, 2008
at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square...feels like ages ago!

We'll have food and music and lots of revelry of course ;-)
So don't miss out. It's a great time to come for the first time too!

And Shows from our favorite musicians:

Andrew Prete

• On TV! - 4/8/2009 5:00 PM at Boston Neighborhood Network - Tune in.
• For a GSA Benefit - 4/17/2009 4:00 PM Opening for Josh Estrada’s Band, Nazawrath/ 4 C’s Cafeteria
• At The Pub Church - 4/18/2009 With us, 5:00pm at the Dugout Cafe

Hassan El-Tayyab

• At BGood Burgers - 4/14/2009, 7:30pm, He plays there every other Tuesday. Go eat a burger and listen to fun music!
• At The Pub Church - 4/11/2009 With us, 5:00pm at the Dugout Cafe
• At The Pub Church - 4/18/2009 With us, 5:00pm at the Dugout Cafe

John Gerard

• Lizard Lounge - 4/11/09, TBA (doors open at 7pm), open mic night competition! $10
• Tommy Doyle's - 4/14/2009, 9:00pm
• Tommy Doyle's - 4/28/2009, 9:00pm

So go out and support the arts and our friends. Some of us will probably be going, so come join us!

April 4, 2009 Gathering

PRELUDE

Music by Hassan El-Tayyab

WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! We are a church in a pub and the Spirit is with us. In this space you are free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express your ideas openly!

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. Our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.

OPENING PRAYER

Queerest Divine who exceeds all

categories of definition and control,

Lead us as we discover our own divine identities.

In-Spirit us as we struggle to break

the categories that would define us, confine us.

Help us struggle, Give us strength,

And move in our midst.

TELLING OUR STORY

PEACE – TOAST

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’

(All may join in the following)

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!

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

By Hassan

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON

Mark 11:1-11

When they get close to Jerusalem, near Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sends off two of his disciples with these instructions, "Go into the village across the way, and right after you enter it, you’ll find a colt tied up, one that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone questions you, 'Why are you doing this?' tell them, ‘Its master has need it and he will send it back here right away.'"

They set out and found a colt tied up at the door out on the street, and they untied it. Some of the people standing around started saying to them, "What do you think you’re doing, untying that colt?" But they said just what Jesus had told them to say, so they left them alone.

So they bring the colt to Jesus, and they throw their cloaks over it; then he got on it. And many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut leafy branches from the fields. Those leading the way and those following kept shouting,

"Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!” Blessed is the coming of our father David! “Hosanna” in the highest!

And he went into Jerusalem to the temple area and took stock of everything, but, since the hour was already late, he returned to Bethany with the twelve.

· What are our initial thoughts and observations about the text?

· What questions does it raise?

COMMUNION

SHARING OF RESOURCES

THE INVITATION

XA: God is with us. All: Yes she is.

FEEDBACK and ANNOUNCEMENTS

BLOG: thepubchurch.blogspot.com

BU Journalism Student

BENEDICTION

Divine presence within and all around us, go with us, luring us out, so that the best of ourselves, the divine that is within us, can come into awareness and sing out loud!

POSTLUDE

By Hassan

The Usual

Hi there,

Just wanted to post that even though the most recent liturgies haven't been posted here on the blog these last few weeks, we're still gathering as usual; Saturdays, 5PM at The Dugout Cafe.

We've had different people leading our time together and so the liturgies don't always make it on here.

But come join in anytime :-)

-Xochitl

February 28, 2009 Gathering

PRELUDE

Music by Andrew Prete

WELCOME
Welcome to The Pub Church! We are a church in a pub and the Spirit is with us. In this space you are free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express your ideas openly!

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. Our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.

OPENING PRAYER

Teach us, Spirit Divine, not to torture ourselves, not to make martyrs out of ourselves through stifling reflection, but rather teach us to breathe deeply in faith that you are near to us. – Be near to us then, that we may feel a joyous assurance that you are not far from us, but that we live and move and have our being in you.
*adapted from The Prayers of Kierkegaard, p. 36, 53

TELLING OUR STORY

PEACE – TOAST

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’

(All may join in the following)
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!

CREATIVE EXPRESSION
By Andrew Prete


CONVERSATIONAL SERMON
Mark 1:9-15

During that same period Jesus came from Nazareth, Galilee, and was baptized in the Jordan by John. And just as he got up out of the water, he saw the skies torn open and the spirit descending down like a dove.

There was also a voice from the skies: "You are my favored son – I fully appreciate you.”

And right away the spirit drives him out into the wilderness, where he remained for forty days, being put to the test by Satan. While he was living there with the wild animals, the heavenly messengers looked after him.

After John was locked up, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming God’s good news. His message went: "The time is up: A Divine new way has commenced. Change your ways, and put your trust in this good news!"

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• Thoughts on last week’s movie
• Thoughts on today’s reading
• Thoughts on Lent
• Any connections?

RITUAL OF CONFESSION


COMMUNION
SHARING OF RESOURCES

THE INVITATION
XA: God is with us.
All: Yes she is.

FEEDBACK and ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Up to date information on the BLOG:
thepubchurch.blogspot.com
* Next week and March 14th

BENEDICTION

Today is the beginning of everything. Go in peace, with new life, and Drink in the Spirit!

POSTLUDE
By Andrew Prete

Dinner and Movie Pub Church Gathering

As noted on the calendar

This coming Saturday, February 21st, is our Dinner and Movie Pub Church gathering.
This means that this week we will NOT gather at The Dugout,
Instead we will meet in Cambridge at Jaclyn, Jesse and Xochitl's place.
Email for directions - thepubchurch(at)gmail(dot)com

Dinner starts at 5:00pm (our regular time)
Chicken Fajitas and Veggie Fajitas, rice, beans, salsa and guacamole! All home made of course :)

Movie will start around 6:00pm
We will watch 25th Hour, Rated-R, 2002, a Spike Lee movie with Edward Norton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman

* What revelatory insights or challenges does it offer us?
* We will engage this movie in our conversational sermon next week.

I hope you can make it. Perfect time for first-timers to come too!

February 7, 2009 Gathering

WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! We are a church in a pub and the Spirit is with us. In this space you are free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express your ideas openly!

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. Our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.

OPENING PRAYER

Adapted from We’Moon

Spirit of Creative Power

We seek your great movement

Planet on the edge, Chaos in our lives

We listen for the clarity of your voice,

The roaring imperative in crisis-time

To Choose! Act! Come together!

Center us now, step by mindful step.

TELLING OUR STORY

PEACE – TOAST

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!

READINGS

Mark 1:32-39

That evening, at sundown, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with demons. And the whole city was gathered around the door. And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.

And Simon and his companions hunted for him. When they found him, they said to him, "Everyone is searching for you." He answered, "Let us go on to the neighboring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to do." And he went throughout Galilee, proclaiming the message in their synagogues and casting out demons.

· What are our initial thoughts and observations about the text?

· What questions does it raise?

· What topics does it make us think of and can we make connections with our conversation about Genesis from two weeks ago?

· "How do these texts propose a manifestation of the divine?"

RITUAL OF CONFESSION

In stillness, we find our vision. In stillness, we experience God’s Divine voice amid all the other voices of life. Such stillness strengthens both our sense of self as well as our sense of creative participation. It may also, as Jesus exemplifies, give us guidance for a deeper and broader participation with the Divine.

COMMUNION AND

SHARING OF RESOURCES

THE INVITATION

XA: God is with us.

All: Yes she is.

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

BENEDICTION

May the creative power of the Divine strengthen and guide the creative power in us.

May the forgiving grace of God give the power of forgiving grace to us.

May the Holy Spirit strengthen us in all moments, opening us up to honest love, mindful creativity and unending joy.

Let us go and continue to Drink in the Spirit.

*Adapted from Process and Faith Liturgies.