liturgical seasons
Easter/Passiontide
Prayers of the people for Palm/Passion Sunday—
Easter hikoi
Prayers of the people for Palm/Passion Sunday—
3 months - 33 brief years
Prayers of the people for Easter Sunday—
Paradox and pun
Poem diptych:
We are the women at the graveyard
We are the men of the upper room
Labour weekend
Reflection/sermon—temporarily removed for editing
Matariki
Karakia (prayer)—Lights of Matariki - let us be light
Prayers of the people - Matariki service—Aroha mai, aroha atu
Reflection (brief)—this year, live as if you matter
Passover / Exodus
Exodus liturgy
(two versions: Next year in Jerusalem and Feast in the Wilderness)
Pentecost
Prayers of the people—Pentecost in Aotearoa
Season of Creation
Reflection - mountain gods
Blessing and dismissal—
As a volcano bursts through the mountain
Thanksgiving
Prayers for World Communion Sunday—We are blessed with enough
Thanks for our city's public gardens [extract from]—Botanical garden prayers
Advent and Christmas
Prayers—1st Sunday in Advent/St Andrew's Day: Framework of Christmas
Christmas Eve reflection—angel messages
Christmas Eve reflection—holy families, outrageous possibilities
Miracles no longer miraculous?I have to differ!
Poem: Comrade (well, they called you the Son of God, street kid
Liturgical poem: entertaining angels
Letters to Elizabeth - imaginary correspondence from Mary to Elizabeth (can be used as a reflection/reading)
Poem: Suddenly there is light all around
Poem: Litany of delight