#liturgies

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I'm kind of a Calypso x Lityerses fan 😋

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Almugavar Hours (1510 - 1520 ca), The Walters Art Museum.

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& grief was eating all that I’d let it.

Yves Olade, from “Liturgies,” published in Bombus Press

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The Routines that Shape US

Reading an excellent new book with our church. Tonight was our third moderated discussion at the church covering chapters two and three. I thought pages 18 and 19 were particularly insightful. Here’s a quote of merit on the difference our routines make in our lives. “Sometimes, our lives are shaped by these routines in ways we never even think about. Even then–perhaps especially then–these…

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December 3: Liturgies for Life

A new liturgy for the 3rd day of the month A Morning Call to Worship Psalm 3 and 33 Your God is the glory and the lifter of your head, so lift your head to His smileand march into your day with the LORD at your side.Give Him your attention and your praise.Give Him your thanksgiving with a song in your heart,for He is your protector and guide,and He will not abandon you.Worship Him because His…

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Músicas Católicas - Gloria In Excelsis Deo (latim)

Gloria in excelsis Deo / Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis / Laudamus te / Benedicimus te / Adoramus te / Glorificamus te / Gratias

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I crafted these two liturgies to mark a sad moment with one of our families in our church that lost a husband and father to complications resulting from Covid.

It’s a very difficult process both as a family and a church to walk through death and all its mass of emotions, firsts and lasts. Learning how to be present in a place like a church or friendships in a new way as a spouse whose lost their mate is full of very hard emotions. It’s easy to understand why some would opt out, pull away or avoid. But for those who choose to cling tighter in tough times, there’s a special grace for the ones who push through and on.

These two liturgies are offered to help say the things that need to be said, to recognize, honor and mourn with meaningful words and practice. To face the facts of the cold moment in warmth and love. We are a culture that trivializes death and at the same time avoids it or tries to minimizes it with emotional minimalism and programmed or distanced distraction. The ancient way is to face it boldly and gently, truthfully and to purposefully mark moments with sacred clarity. The soul needs ritual as well as relational support.

A Blessing for those Passing through the Valley of the Shadow of Death Liturgy:

Moving through the valley of the shadow of losing those we love,

is not moving past or beyond the one whom we will always remember, it is recognizing and reordering their place within us.

Emptiness, sorrow, bewilderment and anger, tears flowing or a drought of feeling, words that come easily, or a mute heart, all find their moment in the journey of grief.

Be made whole in your mending,

Comforted in your suffering,

Counseled in your confusion and concern and helped by God’s mercy and care.

Memory is now the sanctuary and sacrament of love and honor.

Thought, feeling and reflected image are now the practice and privilege of remembering.

To those who bear the family name given at birth, it is a name to be upheld and valued in life and the line back that connects to what lies ahead.

In respect to the one who has passed, value what was praised and prohibited, and choose to cherish and hallow, through purpose and practice, what was the best of them in word and deed.

To the beloved:

all the vows promised,

the union of flesh, heart and mind,

the heights ascended,

and the depths descended,

all the years passed,

find their place bookended between, what was and what isn’t.

What was bound together in life,

is now released through death.

It was your love story

to be read and remembered

yet, it was a story

among many stories,

and in the days forward

if grace and hope desire,

another can be written

in its proper time and place.

Blessed be the Name,

author of all good and treasured gifts, the Lord gives and takes away

may God grant in the season of this death, the rich promises of life:

peace, provision and protection.

Glory to the Father,

and to the Son,

and to the Holy Spirit:

as it was in the beginning,

is now, and will be forever.

Amen

The Memorial Candle Liturgy

This candle is to be lit, to remember the one whom you loved.

It’s flame reminds of us, of the unending nature of light.

Once light comes to be, it travels on, even after it has been extinguished, granting light and warmth to those near and far.

When we gaze up into the night heavens, we behold the light of stars and planets, many that have long since died a celestial death,

yet, we see and we feel their presence, we are witnesses…to them, having been.

This candle comes to you already having been lit, to remind all around it of a life well-lived and dearly remembered.

On the anniversary of your loved one’s death, light it again in honor of their life, and the place they will always have within your heart and mind.

Light it now:

in love and honor,

in grief and sorrow,

in memory and mystery,

in hope and promise of the resurrection, life eternal,

redeemed and reunited.

Praises to the Living One,

The first-born from the dead,

To Him be all glory and honor, forever and ever,

Amen.