Passion Week

Holy Saturday Meditations

Spring — Mary Oliver And here is the serpent again.Dragging himself out from his nest of darkness,His cave under the black rocks,His winter-death.He loops around the bunches of rising grass,Looking for the sun. Well, who doesn’t want the sun after the long winter?I step aside,He feels the air with his soft tongue,Around the bones of his body […]

Lenten Reflection Day 45 (April 6): WILL NOT BREAK (Isaiah 42:1-9).

SONG: Kevin Rudolf ft Lil Wayne: I Will Not Break: https://youtu.be/mNcSwvo007s POEM: Mark Kirschen: Monet (excerpt): Sunlight will not break us—Rather / We move illumined / Return daily…To save what has been hammered / By the sun / Most of it unmapped, still / Uncharted… QUOTE:  Bob Marley: …he will give you a part of […]

Sabbath II, 1988 — Wendell BerryIt is the destruction of the worldin our own livesthat drives us half insane, and more than half.To destroy that which we were givenin trust: how will we bear it?It is our own bodies that we giveto be broken,our bodies existing before and after usin clod and cloud, worm and […]

Lenten Reflection Day 41 (April 3): UPHOLD (Isaiah 42:1-9).

ONG: The Wynans: Uphold Me: https://youtu.be/xkHfGzAcD6E POEM: Rebecca Hazelton: Vow (excerpt): …  When they looked at their options / it seemed there weren’t really that many / after all. They swore to uphold the bonds / and the principles … QUOTE:  Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: People who have a religion should […]

HOLY WEEK with JCC and around Town

April 10-17 Sun, April 10 – PALM SUNDAY INTERFAITH GATHERING8am • Old Red Library & ZoomJoin us for poetry, prayer, and conversation. Zoom link required. Contact church: [email protected] VIRTUAL CHOIR REHEARSAL9am •  ZoomJoin choir director Rebecca Moore to prepare Palm Sunday & Easter Sunday songs. Zoom link required. Contact church: [email protected] WORSHIP with PALMS10:30am • […]

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