Dear Family of Love and Prayer Pilgrims!
Today like all Wednesdays, I have the privilege to serve with our rector at the Wednesday Holy Eucharist and Healing service at 10;00 a.m. It is a small but mighty group of Prayer Pilgrims who come together for a smaller more contemplative Rite One service. Rite One for those of you who aren't Episcopalian is a traditional service with flavors from the old 1928 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER in the 1979 version. We always repeat the lessons from the past Sunday to give our guests who haven't had a chance to hear them an opportunity to do so. It struck me today that this little community is a powerful praying force who don't just meet for their needs of healing and unction but for our family members as well. We do very much the same thing here at Walk With Me On Our Journey. The prayer walking has lessened but we still pray, meditate, love, and support each other. We have become as the title of tonight suggests A Community of Prayer Pilgrims Being CALM (Compassionate, Accepting, Loving, and Merciful). Community is what being a family and followers of Jesus is all about. In last week's Gospel of John, we find Jesus and his disciples spending time together and eating and feasting on what Jesus still has to teach them. For those of you who haven't read or seen last week's Gospel it is below following my nightly sign off. Please note that it is a bit long but we don't want to leave anything out. But first we need to pray in community and feel the strong bonds of love and fellowship as we meet together in our cyber place of worship.
Let us begin!
Be Still and Know That I am God.
Be Still and Know.
Be Still.
Be.
Be Still and Know That I am God.
Be Still and Know.
Be Still.
Be.
Be Still and Know That I am God.
Be Still and Know.
Be Still.
Be.
Gracious and loving God as we meet in community this evening to pray and light candles let us remember all of our family members who do not have community, family, where loving shoulders and soft places in which to fall are available. We pray for the lost, lonely, and afraid that they may be found and brought into the family of God and wrapped in a quilt of comfort. We pray for our family members who are refugees, asylum seekers, children in foster care, children who are seeking to be adopted and all who are waiting for their forever homes wherever that may be. We pray that we may practice radical hospitality and welcome all of our family members and especially the strangers who are in our midst. We pray that we may keep our eyes on all of our loved ones and pray that no one, not one will fall through the cracks. We pray that a community of CALM (Compassion, Acceptance, Love, and Mercy) may spring up around the world and especially where there is hatred, violence, terror, and division. We pray that peace, justice, and mercy may prevail upon Earth, that we may be peacemakers and called the Children of God. Amen.
We Join together in prayer
We join our hearts with all of our brothers and sisters all over the world God as your family of love, peace, and mercy to pray for our family members who have become refugees, outcasts, and the persecuted.
We join our hands and hearts in love and pray for peace. God may we with you become peace makers.
We join our hands, feet, eyes, ears, and voices in service to you God.
We join our voices to speak truth to power and to speak out for the least of these.
We join our minds to help become the educated Children of God.
We join our hands and hearts in prayers for those who have come to us asking for prayers on behalf of others.
We join our hearts in prayer with those who mourn and those who are keeping vigil at the bedside of their loved ones who are transitioning into the glorious Heavenly Thin Places.
We join our prayers for those who are dying and those who have died today.
We join our bodies to help become stewards of God's Cathedral of life.
We join our hearts in love and pray for an end to hate and violence.
We join together to pray that there may be an end to war and terror in this Your Fragile and broken world O God.
We join together to add our prayers, thanksgivings, celebrations, and remembrances to you now O God. Accept these our prayers in the Name of your only Son Jesus. Amen.
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Good Night dear Family of Love! May we join together in a prayer circle of love, prayer. and peace and be as one this night and always. I love you . May you have a restful and peaceful night. Tomorrow is Being Thoughtful and Thankful Thursday. Let's make our gratitude list and pray it tomorrow .
Love, blessings,peace and joy be always yours,
Sara
Last Sunday's Gospel Lesson
John 21:1-19
Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and he showed himself in this way. Gathered there together were Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples. Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We will go with you." They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.
Just after daybreak, Jesus stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, "Children, you have no fish, have you?" They answered him, "No." He said to them, "Cast the net to the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in because there were so many fish. That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on some clothes, for he was naked, and jumped into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, only about a hundred yards off.
When they had gone ashore, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught." So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred fifty-three of them; and though there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?" because they knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs." A second time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Tend my sheep." He said to him the third time, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go." (He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) After this he said to him, "Follow me."
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