March Theme Passion

Easter Sunday
Holy Mystery
As we join together this morning in the light of your presence,
we are reminded that we are all one in the divine heart.
May this longing for oneness transform our world.
May our hearts be opened, in the very depths where we find you, God,
May our hearts be open to the glorious expression of your love found in all our religions and spiritual traditions.
You speak to us, Holy Mystery, in this diversity, and we are enriched and humbled by the breadth and depth of your Words.
May our gathering together this morning signify our hopes for the harmony of our planet, the alleviation of suffering, food for the hungry, shelter for the homeless, and respect for the poor. May this flame be a testimony of our willingness to struggle together toward the peace of inclusiveness, loving all and embracing all in the family of creation.
Amen.



…when those loved ones and His brethren came on that glad morning when the tidings had come to them; those who stood guard heard a fearful voice and saw a light. “The stone has been rolled away” … then they entered into the garden and there Mary first saw the risen Lord. Then came those of his brethren with the faithful women, those who loved His mother, who were her companions in sorrow, and those who were making preparations that the law be kept and there be no desecration even of the ground about His tomb. His friends too, His loved ones and His brethren saw the angels…

Open your eyes, and behold the Glory, even of the Christ present here, now, in your midst! Even as He appeared to them on that day. …

You, too often doubt; you, too often fear. Yet He is surely with you. And at this glad season when you rededicate your life, your body and mind to His service, you too may know as did they, that he lives ... and is [ready] to make intercession for you. If you will believe that He is, you may experience it.

When the Prince of Peace came into came into the earth for the completion of HIS OWN development in the earth, He overcame the flesh AND temptation. So He became the first of those who overcame death in the body, (and this) enabled him to illuminate, to so revivify that body that he could take it up again, even when those fluids of the body had been drained away by the nail holes in His hands and the spear piercing his side.

He came, the Master, in the flesh and blood even as you have come in flesh and blood. Yet as He then proclaimed … there is a cleansing of the body, of the flesh, of the blood, in such measure that it may become illuminated with power unto the Will of the Divine … and thus is an example for Man and only as a man.

The soul was made perfect in the beginning; it passes through the Earth plane where it may obtain its body to present before the Creator.
Adapted from Edgar Cayce’s Story of Jesus


An ending that is only a beginning; Forever renewing… A moon child wanders into a dark wood; into hidden, blackened parts; Finding moonstones and moonflowers; Offers them then, gifts long unclaimed. A Jesus wanders into a desert; into dry and barren parts; Finding through the burning the path of purification; Finding the water in the heart of the prickled cactus; Offers them the, gifts long unclaimed. A solitary figure; You… Me… Wanders into a cave of suffering; Knows the brokenness, the crucifying, the dying, the entombing, Finds through it all an inner self; Rising dusty, shaken, transformed, And offers a gift, long unclaimed. The holy heart; The Heart of Wholeness; Behind all faces; And the stars, in the darkness, nod. Marni P. Harmony




Great Spirit, Divine One, Creatorwho is heaven earth rock wind insect tree foxhuman of every size shape color
Holy are your infinite names chanted sung whisperedshouted in every language, tongue.
We will midwife the rebirth of Gaiaas best we canrestoring the Great Law of Peace.
Guide our hands to the soil and seedhonoring the alchemy of food.Let us remember your abundanceand share the bread of life with any who hunger.
We are for givingand giving and giving.We trust in the give-away.We give and receive.
Let us be humble before the darkness and the lightwalking in harmony amidst them.Give us courage to know them intimatelyboth within and without.
For you have breathed it all---the behind, the above, the below, the beyond.Your awesome power courses in our veinsand animates our hearts.You are the Great Drum.
We thank you.
translation of the lord's prayerfrom King James to Gaian - Claudia L'amoreaux



May the light of the Divine shine upon us
May the love of the Divine heal our struggling world
May the birth of the divine take place again and again
in each of our hearts.
Beverly Lanzetta