Monthly Archives: August 2008
A wild time
The first SBT day camp T ake 16 incredible kids, abundant activity, bikes, trails, water, silly stories, laughter, mud puddles, tons of running, climbing holds, a bouldering wall, and creativity, mix it all together, and you get the first ever
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Prayer of the people | August 24
O ur Lord God this night we bow before you in worship. Lord God, our creator, you behold beauty which we can only imagine. We are in awe that despite this you chose to gaze on us and this broken
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A strange land
How can we not sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? Retexting the community through art, word and music “Before the message there must be the vision, before the sermon the hymn, before prose the poem.” | Amos Wilder
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Prayer of the people | August 17
The prayers of the people in Christian worship represent one of the chief moments when God’s Word and God’s world engage. As such, they are among the most important responsibilities of the people in Christian public prayer. In the best
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An invitation to the saint benedict’s table community
P lans are currently underway to produce a saint ben’s Book of Hours, a project that will draw on the considerable gifts of people within our community. In the medieval church, a “Book of Hours” was a daily
A Summer Prayer
I received this prayer in an e-mail from Ken Carter, one of the folks I was with on my June 2008 writing workshop at the Collegeville Institute. I think it quite wonderfully encapsulates what we all wish, hope, pray that
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Feeding the Multitudes
A Gospel image which informs how we understand communion T he Gospel reading from the last Sunday evening was the very familiar story of the feeding of the 5000, as told in Matthew 14:13-21. As I suggested in the
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Angles on the Liturgy | part 1
The work of the people This is the first in a series of short reflections on our communion liturgy, in which the insights of several writers will be shared. This series will help us to lay a firmer hold on