#broken liturgy

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Listen/purchase: holy holy holy by saints & Children.

Really proud of what John Hardt, (not that) Rob Bell, Andrew Yang, Willy Weiant and the folks from Retro City Studios did on this track and on the album.  With @johnhardtmusic.

[christophercocca-blog]

All Hallows' Homily (After Martin Luther)

Clay in  the potter’s hands

Bones in the potter’s field

we fall headlong into you

the sackcloth of your handiwork;

we are torn and broken

we are on the mend.

Did I see you, Sister, when God brought us out of Egypt?

Did I see you, Brother, when God made us from the dirt?

And the breath of God is mossy;

Life enthrones God’s shout across the cosmos

In the quiet of the garden,

in the chaos of poor birth, bloody, shit-stained, real.  

In the quiet of a compline,

In the scandal of God’s murder,

In the God-forsaken God made like us,

bloody, shit-stained, real.  

The breath of God is muddy, the breath of God is sorry, the breath of God is spent.

And God descended into Hades, Death, the Void, a gap, our Hell

A place without God,

God occupied

In solidarity with the living clay, the dry bones in the field, entrails spilled in shame for silver, power and the devil’s game, control.

And by knowing life without God, God suddenly knew us.

And God realized  God was cold, and moved then toward the fire.  

And God realized God was hungry, and prepared then for a feast.

And God realized God was lonely, and God set a table for us.

And God’s love burned away the hellfire

And God’s hunger swallowed up the grave

And God’s longing made a place for us;

Eat, for all is ready

Come, for all are welcome,

Know shelter in the Mighty Fortress of our God

In the potter’s field, where broken shards are cast aside;

where broken people, cast aside, sleep in common graves

the new fruits of God’s kingdom push up from the clay

Nourished in the blood of God

reformed and reforming

we are shaped by wounded hands

bloody, holy, real

crafted by the Living God

treasured by the One who formed us first from earth

with mossy breath

and here again in blood and love and holy fire

remade and remaking.