So we leave to go into the night time. Don’t put your faith in the breaking of day, although that will come, but let your faith be that peace can be found, even in darkness and that love can survive in the longest of nights… – the blessing from tonight’s midwinter service Tonight’s most surreal…
this is something i was thinking of for an event, but we’re going with a different idea. i haven’t quite got it right – i’m not good at writing character stuff – and i can’t spend more time on it. but i really like the idea, so i’ll put it up here.
It’s to go alongside these winelabels, and this prayer
the basic concept is everyone is sitting around the table [on which there’s bread and wine – cleanskins with the above labels attached], and there are a few planted story tellers… judas, mary magdalene, peter, thomas, john. at different points they stand and tell their stories…
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these are words for men in isolation in prison. they’re fed the elements through a slot in the door. bloody hard to write, for a number of reasons that i won’t go into here. this bread tells the story of grace told around the table for thousands of years in the company of millions of…
[i’m writing communion liturgies as part of a collection of liturgies for using in the prison. one of the things we try to emphasise in worship is the connection of the community of faith in the prison with communities of faith throughout history and across the world today] The first time this story was told…
[i wrote this to be used at a blessing on Sunday, for one of the [lay] chaplains who works in the prison system. He’s been chaplain for a while, but has only just been given permission to do the sacraments.] On their own, the bread and wine are nothing. To become a foretaste and a…
a prayer planned for the end of communion, but used at the end of a nosh… maybe in this there has been a glimpse of the kingdom a foretaste a hint a promise let it hold you and let it send you so you will never be at peace until all are fed until all…
i’ve been pulling together a bit of a late night communion for the nosh. Mike and Claire made labels for the wine bottles (download the pdf: NOSH labels_final.pdf – 2.5 mb). They’re designed to be printed on an Avery label sheet – L7169). There’s a liturgy that goes with them which i’ll post after the…
