Sunday
March 6
Sacrament as Prayer
By Marsh Chapel
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Came to himself….
Scripture
J Wesley, 5 means of grace
Bible, reading and memory, examples
Luke: what is absent (religion), spiritual not religious, greek and gnostic, Delphic oracle
Bible full of variety, not a single theme (eg Gospels)
Diversity preceded unity in earliest Christianity
Marrow of Gospel; grace, freedom, pardon, acceptance, mercy, reconciliation, peace, acceptance, inclusion, embrace…love
2 Cor
1 John 4: 7
Fasting
Meaning, diet and exercise
Wesley, T\F, horseback, 5am preaching
We, spirit, soul, body
Spiritual Yoga: integration, stillness community
Ministry on campus: worship, relationship, safety
Lent has its point here—though we are not meant to live in Lent, we live in Easter, and Sundays remind us so in Lent
Prayer
Public and private, all year this year at Marsh
Senses, Language, Practice, Architecture, Sacrament of Prayer
Moment, quiet, meditation, walk, pause, own-most self
Have no anxiety about anything…Phil 4
In this nave, week by week—nothing
Well being vs work\ production vs self\immediacy vs imagination
Sacrament
Mystery, definition, two, five rites, sign, grace, simplest elements, entry\journey, belonging\meaning, beginning\sustaining, prevenient\sanctifying
Thanksgiving (eucharist), remembrance, presence
Ever need to take a spiritual shower? (Remember baptism)
Cleanse, from misuse of public forms of rhetoric, meant to allow difference, courtesy maintains a way to disagree, sermon prayer speech address debate, when gears stripped, better angels, ask not, then the path opens from a civil society to social incivility, be careful what you find entertaining, or where, where entertainment ever TRUMPS engagement
Grief as a sacrament
Conversation
Luke 15 is a conversation, barely engaged
The week at Marsh
Circles of 6-12 people
Sherry Turkel 2 books
What is an education—periodic table or finding one’s voice?
Soul and World Soul, Word and Word of God,
Thurman to recite 139
Sacrament as Prayer: mark the means of grace: Scripture, fasting, prayer, sacrament, Christian conversation
– The Reverend Doctor, Robert Allan Hill, Dean.
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