Sunday, November 10, 2024
Emmaus Intentional Eucharistic Community: Sunday Liturgy • November 10, 2024
Join us Today for our Celebration!
We begin with a welcoming at 3:45pm
followed by our liturgy and potluck!
Emmaus Intentional Eucharistic Community: Sunday Liturgy • November 10, 2024
Join us In Person at:
Knox Presbyterian and Thanksgiving Lutheran Church
1650 West 3rd Street
Santa Rosa, 95401
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Victoria: Rings the Singing Bowl X 3 to begin our service and welcomes everyone gathered
Patti: Opening Prayer:
Holy One of all Blessings, Giver of life and the fullness of all creation
Bless us with your healing love this night , A love that calls us into the fullness of being
May your healing presence be at work in and through us so that we may see our inter-connectedness
with all life. That we may provide for and care for one another.
And journey with gentleness for ourselves, And our precious earth home.
Victoria: Bless us O Holy One with the gift of courage to stand in loving solidarity
with all those who suffer and die, To trust in the darkness and pain of life
Knowing that your faithful and steadfast love Is stronger than all that may seem to surround us
Bless us that we may stand together Braving new ground.
Creating new horizons of peace and loving justice.
Patti: Bless us O Holy One with the gift of vision
That we may recognize your living presence around us and within us.
That we may see beyond disguises and listen past differences.
To the magnitude of your spirit here in our midst
May our hearts hear your call to proclaim your truth. Practice your peace.
And live out our lives with your deep compassion. This night and always. Amen /Amen
Opening Song: Be Not Afraid by John Michael Talbott
_______: First Reading: HABAKKUK Chapter 1:1-5
The Oracle that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision.
The Dialogue between the prophet and his God
First the complaint of the prophet: lawlessness prevails:
How long, Yahweh, am I to cry for help
while you will not listen;
to cry “Oppression!” In your ear
and you will not save?
Why do you set in justice before me,
why do you look on where there is tyranny?
Outrage and violence, this is all I see,
all is contention, and discord flourishes.
And so the law loses its hold,
and justice never shows itself.
Yes, the wicked man gets the better of the upright,
and so justice is seen to be distorted.
And, God’s reply:
Cast your eyes over the nations, look,
and be amazed and astounded.
For I am doing something in your own days
that you would not believe, even if you were told of it.
Responsorial Psalm: (What To Do Next by Kayleen Asbo)
What To Do Next
Lie down in grass
And feel the sun on your face.
At night,
Gaze at the stars.
Pick up your pen,
Your paintbrush,
Your instrument.
Weep.
Wail. Sing.
Find the kindest poems you can lay your hands on
Repeat them over and over,
Wrapping them around your aching heart
Like a soft blanket,
And rock yourself
Like you would a baby.
Bury your bare feet
In green grass or soft sand.
Remind yourself:
You still belong here,
No matter how bleak
Today may seem.
Reach out to one person
More scared or suffering than you are.
Send a love note
Make a mandala. Bake cookies. Be extravagant
With praise.
The sorrow is vast:
Do not let it devour you.
As the darkness grows,
May each of us
Become a candle
of light.
Gospel: (A statement by Alexi Navalny)
If you want, I'll talk to you about God and salvation. I'll turn up the volume of heartbreak
to the maximum, so to speak. The fact is that I am a Christian,
which usually rather sets me up as an example for constant ridicule in the
Anti-Corruption Foundation, because mostly our people are atheists,
and I was once quite a militant atheist myself.
But now I am a believer, and that helps me a lot in my activities,
because everything becomes much, much easier. I think about things less.
There are fewer dilemmas in my life, because there is a book in which, in general,
it is more or less clearly written what action to take in every situation.
It's not always easy to follow this book, of course, but I am actually trying.
And so, as I said, it's easier for me, probably, than for many others, to engage in politics
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. "
I've always thought that this particular commandment is more or less an instruction to activity.
And so, while certainly not really enjoying the place where I am,
I have no regrets about coming back, or about what I’m doing.
It's fine, because I did the right thing. On the contrary, I feel a real kind of satisfaction.
Because at some difficult moment I did as required by the instructions,
and did not betray the commandment.
Victoria / All: Dialogue Homily / Reflections:
1. What are you doing right now to take care of yourself;
and what other things might you do in the days and weeks ahead?
2. As we heard Alexi’s statement about: “I did the right thing.”
What is your “right thing?”
Patti: Tonight, from the depth of your heart, please offer what it is you wish to bring to the
table this night...as we now offer our very selves.
(Patti will pause briefly for each of us to make these offerings; and we will use our hand motions with each offering, then close by saying:) And, so we gather all these intentions, those spoken, and those silently offered within our hearts, and lift them up to the heart of Our God, which rests within the hearts of us all. Amen.
Victoria: Eucharist Prayer:
You have filled us, and all creation, with your blessing and fed us with your constant love;
you have redeemed us in Christ Jesus and knit us into one body.
Through your Spirit you replenish us and call us to the fullness of life.
And so we join the great cloud of witnesses in proclaiming your glory as we say:
All: Holy Holy Holy, Lord God of hosts, Heaven & earth are full of your glory
hosanna hosanna hosanna in the highest. Blessed are they who come in the name of the Lord.
hosanna hosanna, hosanna in the highest
Patti: On the night before he died, Jesus was at table with his friends.
He took bread, gave thanks to you, broke it, and gave it to his friends saying,
All: “This is my body, broken for you.”
Victoria: As supper was ending, Jesus took the cup of wine. Again he gave thanks to you,
gave it to his friends and said,
All: “This cup is the new covenant of my lifeblood offered for you and for all.
And as often as you do this, do this to remember me.”
Patti:
Now gathered at your table, we offer to you our gifts of bread and wine, and ourselves, a living sacrifice.
Pour out your Spirit upon all these gifts that they may be, and we may be, the Body and Blood of Christ.
Breathe your Spirit over the whole earth and make us your new creation.
Victoria:
In the fullness of time bring us with all your saints from every tribe and language,
from every people and nation to feast at the banquet prepared from the foundation of the world.
(Both presiders hold up the elements as everyone says:)
All: For, it is “Through Him, With Him, and In Him, In the Unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honor is yours; Forever and Ever...Amen!
Patti: Now together, as one community, we offer the prayer our brother, Jesus taught us:
All: O Holy One, and blessed is your true name. We pray for your reign of peace to come.
We pray that your good will be done.
Let heaven and earth become one. Give us this day the bread we need.
Give it to those who have none. Let forgiveness flow like a river between us,
from each one to each one. Lead us to holy innocence beyond the evil of our days.
Come swiftly Mother, Father, come. For yours is the power and the glory and the mercy:
Forever your name is All in One.
Victoria: Now let’s offer a Kiss of Peace first to our Zoom community, and then with one another:
Peace Be With You All!
All: (Everyone will offer a Kiss of Peace to those near them
Patti: Welcome to our table, and your table! This is the table, not of the church,
but of this welcoming community. It is a table made for those who love.
And for those who want to love more. Receive now these gifts of God, for the people of God.
We are the body, and the lifeblood of our Christ! Amen
Patti now invites everyone to receive communion at this time
Communion Song: We Are Many Parts by Marty Haugen
Patti: Communion Meditation:
“Hope inspires the good to reveal itself.” (Emily Dickinson)
Hope inspires goodness to reveal itself. Hope takes goodness seriously, treats it as a data point,
takes it in. This is a virtue for living in and of itself: taking in the good. (Krista Tippett)
Goodness Will Be Goodness (by Kalia Mussetter)
Tyrants will roar their victories,
painting red dreams
on the lids of the nation—
And kindness will be kindness.
Sharp-spooned greed
will scoop out the soft places
leaving only hunger—
and mercy will be mercy.
Fear will cry its hot misguided wrath,
shocking sleepers into dread—
and courage will be courage.
Brutality will shake its tiny fist
gloved thick with power;
people will be killed in shameful ways,
the storms of grief and rage will howl—
and goodness will be goodness.
In the end, no matter the deceit,
no matter how compelling,
we can’t be broken from our truest selves—
we always circle back around
and find our honor where we left it.
Our people, our whole world’s people,
our many-colored threads
stretched tight in warp and weft
between that which knows
its own goodness
and that which does not—
will claim the land again for our children
and the enemy’s children, too,
mending finally all the tears
in the cloth of who we once and still
so the dream of being.
Victoria: A Closing Blessing: Blessing of Hope (by Jan Richardson)
So, may we know
the hope
that is not just
for some day
but for this day---
here, now,
in this moment
that opens to us:
hope not made
of wishes
but of substance,
hope made of sinew
and muscle
and bone,
hope that has breath
and a beating heart,
hope that will not
keep quiet
and be polite,
hope that knows
how to holler
when it is called for,
hope that knows
how to sing
when there seems
little cause,
hope that raises us
from the dead----
not someday
but this day
every day,
again and
again and again.
And the people of this, our beloved Emmaus Community, say: Amen!
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