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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
After all, when you find the Infinite, where will you put it? In your broken vessel? It will not stay. In a new, whole one? It will not fit.
So you allow your heart to feel broken in bitterness for its confines. And yet it is whole in the joy of a boundless soul.
By Tzvi Freeman
Broken and Whole
Broken and Whole
Tuesday Chapel – May 15th, 2012
1:00 pm in the Fireside Room, Starr King School for the Ministry
Temporary communities such as ours are broken and made whole again with each passing season. Let us celebrate the continuing life of the Starr King community in the final worship of the academic year. We will bless those who enter into transition whether they are going on to clinical pastoral education, internship, or graduating. To mark the breaking of community, we will enter into ritual. Please bring a blue, brown, or green glass object to break. These objects will commemorate your presence at Starr King by becoming part of the garden mosaic. The celebration will be followed by an agape feast!
Also, a note from Noach about low-res participation:
It is crucial that I receive the SKYPE NAME and email address for people who would like to SKYPE in, ASAP. Please also ask students to ADD SKSM.FIRESIDE as a contact in their skype accounts. Third, ask them to WAIT for SKSM to initiate the call, and that they should not call in themselves.
uuca:
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. - Thoreau
Chapel: The Beautiful Feast of Life
Come celebrate this Tuesday, 1:00 p.m. for a Chapel service led by the
“Saving Paradise” class. We will share together in a ritual feast,
creating a contemporary expression of communion based on the
life-affirming practices of first-millennium Christianity. The accent
will be on nourishment for the heart, mind, and body that strengthens
solidarity, connects the living and the dead, and grounds our work for
justice in beauty. Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker will give the homily, which
will invoke our links to those we have come before us, and who founded
our School. (Note: SKSM was incorporated on May 12, 1906). We will
also hear the words of Hassaun-Ali Jones-Bey, and music from Dr.
Parker and the (loosely-defined and ever-morphing) Starr King quartet.
This chapel service will include the collection of a monetary and food
offering - food for the Eucharist feast (fruit especially welcome,
though no melons, please), and money to be donated to a local food
pantry to compliment our ritual with an act of service. Contact
Abbey.Tennis@gmail.com or kerri@unityunitarian.org with questions!
** Weather permitting, this chapel service will take place in the back
courtyard of Starr King.
Chalice Lighting
Some say that you can hear a peaceful chime the moment the sun sets or a candle begins to burn. For this time – while we are gathered together in the Serene Presence – may we continue to let that peace wash over us. May me let go of what followed us in, may we set down what we anticipate is waiting for us when we leave, may we be here now together. Let us worship.
words from 1st Year MDiv Student, Julie Brock (Leadership, Liturgy and Learning Class, spring 2012)
