it is a luxury to lose ourselves in the drama of a holy week to place ourselves in the ancient story that unfolds with political intrigue and theological mystery it is a luxury to be trawling for video clips and music, to be contemplating the quirky moment that will make this week’s worship memorable, scratching…
i wish i were holding holy week services this week, so i could ditch them and instead lead something to honour those who are living their own version of holy week today…
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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thanks to Blythe for saving the day with photos… The theme of the space was ‘break of day’. The space was laid out roughly like this: At the entry we had michelle painting “my god my god why have you forsaken me” onto the wall. along the wall behind the corner, almost hidden out of…
i realised a few years ago [after years of living with an extravert… it’s always the ‘other’ who makes us understand ourselves!] that i have a quota of words that i can say each day, and when i’ve used it up, that’s it. that’s happened with easter this year. i have no words left to…
wishing i had the inspiration to contribute to this… so glad those who do are. It’s a collection of reflections on the journey through holy week. [i’ve just been reading newspaper reports about the tsunami in the solomon islands. i know it’s nowhere near the scale of the boxing day tsunami a few years ago,…
I said what about my eyes? “Keep them on the road.” I said what about my passion? “Keep it burning.” I said what about my heart? “Tell me what you hold inside it?” I said pain and sorrow. He said: “stay with it.” Rumi
i’m ready for easter… actually, i’m nowhere near ready for easter, but i wish it were here. i know this will be a week of 2 am wakeups. The week before an event is always like this… filled with anxiety about whether it’s good enough, creative enough, clever enough… I keep wanting to tell people…
These are just some random bits from the good friday stuff. It basically follows John’s telling of the story, with short reflections between the bible readings. The reflections are below, the full liturgy can be downloaded here: goodfridayprison.pdf [the recorded music includes Johnny Cash’s “Hurt”, and Sufjan Stevens “O God, where are you now”, with…
a reminder about the Easter Saturday sacred space / art installation… saturday april 7, in the basement at 130 Lt Collins Street We met yesterday to keep planning the installation. some parts of it are just wonderful – i love it when we all have the same idea at the same time, even though we’re…
