Benedictions – Season of Creation
PRAYERS: The following benedictions were written for SSUC – Season of Creation 2022.
‘Repeated listening’
HOMILY: To really love a literary work – a poem, story or philosophical text – is to revisit it. We may not understand them fully, but the words vibrate with potential or promise … there is a “not yet” in the “now” …
‘Slow time … start again’
HOMILY: The Christian challenge (and it is a theological and practical challenge) is to hold these two symbols, “slow time” and “start again”, to acknowledge covenants/promises in the Spirit of Torah and Gospel. A certain imaginative space is required.
‘A fire that divides …’
HOMILY: This week’s gospel presents the paradox of divine fire – both divisive and curative. As poetic device it enables the drawing of fine and far-reaching distinctions. Sooner or later, says Jesus, you’ll have to decide. There’s a fire that divides …
August – action time
GARDEN TIPS: August – a rundown of the most important tasks.
Blak & Blu 2022 – workshops
SATURDAY ART WORKSHOP: Catherine and Andrew will lead simple drawing exercises on August 13 and 27 – using black and blue biros. See below for details regarding this year’s Blak & Blu prize.
‘Steal our hearts away’
HOMILY: The idiom, “steal one’s heart”, seems apt. Online search results list hundreds of hearts stolen – by beauty, mercy, justice, faithfulness … home cities, strange countries, tribal lands and waters … artistic or spiritual visions … muses, music …
‘My soul magnifies …’
GOSPEL CONVERSATION: August 2022.
‘Hidden with Christ’
HOMILY: Jesus says, “Avoid greed in all its forms.” Imagine these words whispered, between the lines that follow, in some sense hidden. Subversive, slowly revealed. The gospel heralds radical social change …
Prayers of intercession
PRAYERS: Prayers of intercession by Miriam, Jane and Andrew, Liturgy Resource Group, SSUC.
