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stainedglass4Service Music For The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost

Proper 15 


Book of Common Prayer - Rite II 

 

Prelude   "Trumpet Tune (Windsor Place)"  Rick Land

 

Processional Hymn  537 

Christ For The World We Sing  

 

Gloria In Excelsis  S 280

 

Responsorial Psalm 67  

 

Sequence  Hymn 470 

There's A Wideness In God's Mercy 

 

Instrumental Offertory  "En Prier"  Gabriel Faure  

 

Sanctus  S 130

    

Communion Hymn  (Insert) 

You Are My All In All 

 

Recessional Hymn  490 

I Want To Walk As A Child Of The Light    

   

Organ Improvisation 

 

 


st matthew's windowLiturgical Support for August 14, 2011
Thanks to those who will be serving us during this Sunday's service: (You can also view the Liturgical Support Calendar by clicking on this link for future reference.) 

LECTORS
Bill Ragsdale
Jan Ragsdale

CHALICE SERVERS 
Bill Ragsdale
Jan Ragsdale

ACOLYTES
Sarah S. - Crucifer
Maxwell M. - Torchbearer
Karon B. - Torchbearer

GREETER 

M. Martindale   

 

USHERS 

R. Martindale   

J. Martindale 

 

Altar Guild  
Jennifer Plunk
Karen Lang

 

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Questions fostainedglass_josephr Self Examination Part II 
  1. What belief patterns did you inherit from your family?    

  2. Which of those belief patterns that still have authority in your thinking can you acknowledge are no longer valid?   

  3. What superstitions do you have? Which have more authority over you than your own reasoning ability?    

  4. Do you have a personal "code of honor"?  What is it?     

  5. Have you ever compromised your sense of honor? If so, have your taken steps to heal it?    

  6. Do you have any unfinished business with your family members? If so, list the reasons that prevent you from healing your family relationships.     

  7. List all the blessings that you feel came from your family.     

  8. If you are now raising a family of your own, list the qualities that you would like your children to learn from you.     

  9. What traditions and rituals do you continue for yourself and your family?     

  10. Describe some rituals and characteristics within yourself that you would like to strengthen and develop. 
 Questions for Spiritual Self Examination (from last week)   
  1. What questions have you sought guidance for during meditation or moments of prayer?    

  2. What answers to these questions would you most fear?      

  3. Do you bargain with God?  Do you complain to God more than you express gratitude?  Do you tend to pray for specific things rather than pray in appreciation?       

  4. Are you devoted to a particular "spiritual path"?     

  5. Do you believe that your God is more authentic than the Divine in other spiritual traditions?     

  6. Are you waiting for God to send you an explanation for your painful experiences?       

  7. How would your life change if God suddenly decided to answer your questions?  And how would it change if the answer was "I have no intention of giving you insight into your questions at this point in your life"?  What would you be prepared to do then?        

  8. Have you started and stopped a meditation practice?  If so, what are the reasons that you failed to maintain it?        

  9. What spiritual truths are you aware of that you do not live by?  List them.         

  10. Are you  afraid of a closer spiritual connection to the Divine because of the changes that it might trigger in your life?

We are living in a time unlike any that has come before.     


We are living between two paradigms of power, or two paradigms of reality  - internal and external, energetic and physical. 

 

We are restructuring ourselves and our relationships to personal and spiritual authority.  Inevitably, that restructuring will reshape every aspect of our world culture in accordance with the spiritual truth that ALL IS ONE.

 

The fact that our global society is now saturated with crisis that touches every nation, every origin, and every system in our global "body" has symbolic significance...we have reached the end of the "divide and conquer" systems of power, and those systems are being replaced by an attempt to unite powers of the different nations in order to survive and move safely into this millennium.

Our interconnected "information age" is the symbol of a global consciousness...we contain the scripture. We contain Divinity. We are Divinity. We are the church, the synagogue, the ashram.  We need but close our eyes and feel the energy of the sacraments...as the energy that fuels our biology.  Ironically, once we realize the stuff of which we are made, we have no choice but to live a spiritual life.

from "Anatomy of the Spirit" p 285 and 290 - Caroline Myss,PH.D   
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