1. The earth may be our mother but we can be her mid¬wife or her funeral director.
2. Nature is a web of interdependency not a series of separate hierarchical layers.
THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION
1. In the beyond lies the everywhere, in the within dwells our heaven.
2. The only heaven God lives in is the heaven that is everywhere; for God is not limited to any time or space, but is present in all equally.
1. Easter is the festival of the irrepressible God whom not even death can contain.
2. Most of us would prefer a cozy God to a God who shatters our complacency. Yet Easter is about a God who bursts tombs of the familiar, the ordinary and the mediocre.
May the fire in us nurture the Earth and not consume its life.
May the fire in us consume our greed and save this sacred Earth.
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There is no Easter without making one’s peace with the dead and with the forces of destruction that lurk within the human psyche.
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When love and hatred engage in mortal conflict it is love which suffers most; but love has the final victory.
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Holy is my birth and sacred is my mother.
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Give me warmth in my loving,
Strength through forgiving,
Peace in my being,
Today and all my life.
Leader: Creator God to you we pray; –
All: Help us hear your children’s cry.
Leader: Most joyful God to you we pray; ‑
All: Help us share your children’s joy.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen.
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We give thanks for the plants,
Give thanks for the creatures
Whose flesh supplies this meal.
In silence now we join to pray
Listening to the God within.
May rich discernment shape our prayers
As we learn from cosmic laws.
To You, O God, we offer
Our life force and its power,
Your liveliness within us,
Our spirit’s fragrant flow’r.
The mystery of the Eucharist (Holy Communion, Mass) is only fully perceived when all flesh is seen as embodying both the suffering and the delight of God.
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The events of Holy Week reveal the complexity of human nature – of how loyalty and treachery, callousness and tenderness can live side by side in people’s hearts.
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God the One forever making
All the old into the new,
Source of all creative passion
Found in each emerging view,
From the womb of Mother Earth
We are brought by God to birth
With creative tenderness
Through God’s loving life caress.
Within Christ’s complex heart and mind
Three streams emerged and joined as one:
The man who spoke with prophet’s fire
Showed mother-love and childlike fun.
Beyond all words that we can form,
Beyond all thoughts that we can share,
The message of our touch conveys
A world beyond all hate and fear.
I sing a song of the woman’s voice
Tender and strong and clear;
Of those who longed to gain the vote
Despite men’s doubt and fear;
As flesh reveals a path to sacredness,
As body, mind and spirit merge as one,
As life is lived with interweaving links,
We dance the rhythmic pulse of Moon and Sun.
All our dying shares a process
Which unites us into one
As the boundaries change to singing
Cosmic songs that still are sung.
O God of all new visions
Of hope and tenderness,
The source and inspiration
Of love and friendliness,
Enable these two people
Each other to affirm
And find within their marriage
The love for which they yearn.
We sing of human loving’s starting point
Emerging from the Cosmos at its birth.
Repulsion and attraction both were there
Yet from the latter love evolved on Earth .
Is love a grand illusion
That comes and goes at will,
A heart that’s always longing,
A heart that’s never still?
In the wonder of love
Two people appear as one
Without absorbing the other
Each respecting intimacy and solitude.
Awaken O my inner self
Discern your Bethlehem,
Prepare to enter deep within
And wear your diadem.
THEME The Connecting Solitude
THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION
The spiritual desert is not a foe to be conquered but an emptiness to be affirmed: for when we are full, we perceive nothing, but when we are empty we can receive everything.
There’s no two-ness in God the mystic said, *
No two-ness in God at all.
All the things are as one in Jesus Christ, +
All things are as one said Paul.
In the letting go we find life:
For deeper than the striving is the flowing,
Deeper than the searching is the knowing
And deeper than the grieving is the mystery
In which darkness and light are one.
We believe in a mystery we call God,
A mystery beyond definition,
A flame that is glimpsed through darkened glass,
The hope of our human condition.
Not in grasping or in holding shall we find God,
Not in seeking power or serving narrow needs,
But in letting go with joyful expectation
We shall meet the God beyond all creeds.
