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Advent Sanctuary: GESTATING WOMB of DIVINITY
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Video recordings will be posted Tuesday afternoons – beginning on November 30
ADVENT Moments: WOMB of MYSTERY
Within the womb of MYSTERY, we wait.
Gestating in darkness, we fear the ending we cannot see.
Surrounded by unknown dangers, we wait.
Gestating in darkness, we dread the anticipated demise of treasured ways of being.
Longing for the light, we imagine daemons lurking in the dim recesses of life’s challenges.
Gestating in darkness, we cling to feeble notions of salvation.
Grasping at old and tired prophecies, we are quick to abandon WISDOM.
Gestating in darkness, we forget the SOURCE of our fragile being.
Gulping breathes too shallow to heal us, we settle for the trivial, calming, numbness of mundane pleasures.
Within the womb of MYSTERY, the darkness embraces, nourishes, challenges, refusing to severe the cord which sustains us, until we are ready to see the ending, we could not see beyond our fear.
Gestating in MYSTERY, we wait, for the ending which gives birth to hope.
In our waiting, the darkness tenderly enfolds us until the breaking of the waters of life.
Within this womb of MYSTERY, we wait. Amen.
Advent Sanctuary – Tues. Nov. 30 – 10am over Zoom
ADVENT SANCTUARY
a place to pray, reflect, chant, & CHAT as we worship.
TUESDAYS over Zoom at 10am – Nov. 30th we begin by exploring DARKNESS. We will begin with music and prayer to inspire our CHAT about the darkness as we share the hope we find discovering new ways to be LOVE in the world.
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Topic: ADVENT SANCTUARY
Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime
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If you are unable to join us over Zoom – we will be posting a video recording of our gathering on this site so that you can create your own Advent Sanctuary.
The Season of Advent
Our Advent will take us on a different path this year. We will not be locked down like last year, so in-person gatherings will be possible. Alleluia! We will also continue to offer pre-recorded videos online. Our path will see us travel not along the route usually mapped out by the Revised Common Lectionary but on a new route. A route provided by the work of the Hebrew Bible Scholar and Episcopal priest Wilda C. Gafney in her newly published “A WOMEN’S LECTIONARY FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH”. Our readings will be loosely based on Gafney’s suggestions and the translations of scripture will be hers, and we have chosen themes which will function as signposts along our way. These weekly signposts will guide our exploration of the PARABLES of DIVINITY which have nourished generations of Advent travellers.
PARABLES OF DIVINITY
ADVENT ONE: Annunciations from the Margins
ADVENT TWO: Gestating in Darkness
ADVENT THREE: Magnifying DIVINITY
ADVENT FOUR: Birthing DIVINITY
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