June 27, 2009 Gathering

NOTE: Next week The Pub Church will meet at Jaclyn, Jesse and Xochitl's place for a BBQ!

Email if you need directions :-) thepubchurch(at)gmail(dot)com

MUSICAL PRELUDE

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 READING

Meister Eckhart, Thirteenth Century

What good is it to me if Mary gave birth to Jesus 1400 years ago if I do not also give birth to him in my time and in my culture?

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

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON

Mark 3:13-19

Then he goes up on the mountain and summons those he wanted, and they came to him. He formed a group of twelve to be his companions, and to be sent out to speak, and to have authority to drive out demons.

And to Simon he gave the nickname Rock, and to James, the son of Zebedee, and to John, his brother, he also gave a nickname, Boanerges, which means “Thunder Brothers”; and Andrew and Philip and Bartholomew and Matthew and Thomas and James, the son of Alphaeus; and Thaddeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who, in the end, turned him in.

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· What is Jesus up to so far?

· Preparing a revolution?

· What is up with the demon focus?

· A reading from Archbishop Oscar Romero, from Voice of the Voiceless, p. 71.

SHARING OF RESOURCES

COMMUNION

THE INVITATION

One: God is with us.

All: Yes she is.

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

BENEDICTION

“The time is up!

God’s way is closing in. “

Go now in peace, with Spirit - to break the silences, to resist the tyrannies,

and to drink in the Spirit!

MUSICAL POSTLUDE

June 20th Gathering

MUSICAL PRELUDE

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 READING

Adapted with words from Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider, p.41

What are the words you do not yet have?

What do you need to say?

What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own,

until you will sicken and die from them,

still in silence?

Jesus said, “The time is up! God’s way is closing in. Change your ways and

put your trust in the good news!”

Today is an invitation to Say our words!

Resist the tyrannies, change our ways,

and do our work!

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

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON

Mark 3:7-15

Then Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a huge crowd from Galilee followed. When they heard what he was doing, a huge crowd from Judea, and from around Tyre and Sidon, collected around him. And he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him on account of the crowd, so they would not mob him. (After all, he had healed so many, that all who had diseases were pushing forward t touch him.) The unclean spirits also, wherever they faced him, would fall down before him and shout out, “You son of God, you!”

But he always warned them not to tell who he was.

Then he goes up on the mountain and summons those he wanted, and they came to him. He formed a group of twelve to be his companions, and to be sent out to speak, and to have authority to drive out demons.

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· Any initial thoughts on today’s reading.

· Danger in the crowds?

· Preparing a revolution?

· Warned them not to tell – why?

SHARING OF RESOURCES

COMMUNION

THE INVITATION

One: God is with us.

All: Yes she is.

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

BENEDICTION

“The time is up!

God’s way is closing in.

Change your ways and

put your trust in the good news!”

Go, Say your words! Break the Silence,

Resist the tyrannies, Change your ways,

Do your work and Drink in the Spirit!

MUSICAL POSTLUDE

May 23, 2009 Gathering - BBQ Afterward!!

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 READING

By Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook (p. 120)

 

This I have always known – that if I did not live my life immersed in the one activity which suits me, and which also, to tell the truth, keeps me utterly happy and intrigued, I would come someday to bitter and mortal regret.

 

SILENT MEDITATION

Be Still and Aware of the Divine presence within and all around us.

 

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!

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON 

Mark 2: 13-22

 

Again, he went out by the sea. And with a huge crowd gathered around him, he started teaching. 

¹⁴As he was walking along, he caught sight of Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the toll booth, and he says to him, “Follow me!” And he got up and followed him. ¹⁵ Then, Jesus happened to recline at table in (Levi’s) house, along with many toll collectors and sinners and Jesus’ disciples. (Remember, there were many of these people and they were all following him.) ¹⁶And whenever the Pharisees’ scholars saw him eating with sinners and toll collectors, they would question his disciples: “What’s he doing eating with the toll collectors and sinners?” ¹⁷When Jesus overhears, he says to them: “Since when do the able-bodied need a doctor? It’s the sick who do. I did not come to enlist religious folks but sinners!”

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were in the habit of fasting, and they come and ask him, “Why do the disciples of John fast and the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples don’t?” ¹⁹And Jesus says to them: “The groom’s friends can’t fast while the groom is around, can they? So long as the groom is around, you can’t expect them to fast. ²⁰But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast, on that day.

²¹“Nobody sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, otherwise, the new, unshrunk patch pulls away from the old and creates a worse tear. ²²And nobody pours young wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and destroy both the wine and the skins. Instead, young wine is for new wineskins.

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·        Thoughts on today’s reading.

·        Questions?

·        Why don’t religious folks need a doctor?

 

SHARING OF RESOURCES

COMMUNION

 THE INVITATION

One:  God is with us.

All:  Yes she is.

 

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

CLOSING PRAYER

 

Great, living God, never fully known,

joyful darkness far beyond our seeing,

closer yet than breathing,

go with us now as we continue to drink in the spirit! 

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