communion
-
Wilderness Communion for Lent
In the wilderness of Lent, we need nourishment. We need to know that God is with us and to go as far as to taste and see that goodness of relationship. That is what communion offers. Or maybe it’s just… Continue reading
-
All Saints and All Souls Experiences Around the Table and in the Cemetery
There was a cemetery that I used to walk through looking at tombstones when I was a pastor in Maine. A friend showed it to me. She walked her dog there but now I run through cemeteries chasing my children… Continue reading
-
Global Prayers and an Agape Feast for World Communion Sunday
We imagine our connection to the whole wide world on this particular Sunday where the table has no end. It reaches out of the sanctuary over the edge of town and across the borders of this nation. We share this… Continue reading
-
Maundy Thursday Still in Coronatide
This season has not yet ended though mandates are changing. There are enough voices that is saying it’s over even when another wave lurks. Here in Germany, it’s already here and it’s so hard to know what will come. There… Continue reading
-
Pandemic Praying Our Goodbyes
This is one of my very favorite celebrations of the church. I have long lamented that there are not enough spaces in the church calendar to share our grief. This is one of the few. Continue reading
-
Pandemic Prayers for Another World Communion Sunday
The world doesn’t feel like it did last year when I offered pandemic prayers for what I had thought would be the one and only pandemic World Communion Sunday in my lifetime. It feels different now. This is the song… Continue reading
-
Pandemic Liturgy for All Saints Sunday
This is one of my very favorite celebrations of the church. I have long lamented that there are not enough spaces in the church calendar to share our grief. This is one of the few. Continue reading
-
Pandemic Prayers for World Communion Sunday
In the churches I’ve served, this was always a Sunday people looked forward to. It wasn’t a celebration that they remembered from childhood but it was something that has become meaningful and important. There was always careful planning to make… Continue reading
-
Pandemic Prayers for Proper 14
This gorgeous reflection on 1 Kings 19:9-18 by Richard W. Swanson has got me thinking about silence. Silence feels all consuming right now. There is so much of it. Or, at least, there is for me. Continue reading
-
Pandemic Prayers for Proper 13
I’m finding it hard to enter the power of the miracle in Matthew’s Feeding of the Five Thousand. I feel myself withdraw and not in the prayerful and restorative manner that we imagine Jesus does in that thirteenth verse. Continue reading
Cooking with Elsa 