O Dear One, we are overwhelmed with frustration with the impossibility of fully accepting this unacceptable death.
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We come before you today in abject pain and anguish
There are no words to describe the distress of losing someone
You love very deeply
ALL: Jesus said “Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted”
One: A Blessing on you who are poor
Many Yours is the household of God
One A blessing on you who mourn
Many: you shall be comforted
O God, our Divine Parent, may your presence be ever revered. May your peace and justice dwell among us. May your love and compassion live within and between us. Nourish us daily with the necessities of life; sustenance for our bodies, and inspiration for our spirits.
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Jesus travelled from town to town, healing people who were sick
All: Help us to heal broken bodies
1. Without an overview of the Bible it is very easy to gain an erroneous impression of what the Bible is all about.
2. Look behind the words to the people.
Good Shepherd,
We are a small flock of Your disciples meeting here in this little room. We come with our questions, our doubts and suspicions, our fears and worries. We come with a hunger to know the truth.
1. Every tear is a womb which can birth new life.
2. Grief is the narrow passage through which we pass from death to life.
Nothing lasts forever in the same form.
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Romance is only healthy within the context of our love for life, for the mystery, for the divine.
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Buried in every beginning is an ending.
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Each day can be a life time.
Time is the enemy only if we let it control our lives.
Time is redeemed by timeless moments.
All of us have experienced mental or physical suffering at the hands of other people. But each of us has also brought suffering to others.
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No shallow prayer
but words which plumb
the depth of our desire,
to which we might aspire.
We light these lights
for the instigators and the refusers
the obstinate and unyielding
for the ones who kept marching
Birth is a miracle but not magic.
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Ceremonies are points of cohesion beyond the boundaries of reason, a journey into the shadowy mystical world of the human spirit …
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