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Tag Archives: Pentecost
Some Pentecost 2020 prayers
1) Pentecost us, God, let us learn to conjugate the Spirit, shed the comfortable accents of churchy insider talk, learn to speak digital, worship virtually fit our mouths to something strange, speaking through a mask of love — mostly verbs, … Continue reading
Guest Post, Heather Kelly, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Heather Kelly of Invercargill sent me a poem. It is a Pentecost poem and it is set in the winter season in which Pentecost comes in the Southern hemisphere. It called to me today — a day when I saw … Continue reading
A poem for the liturgical season
What is red and flows freely? What is waited for but always unexpected? What needs to be translated into personal terms before it can be understood? What draws derision and disparagement from those who are nearby? Perhaps you were thinking … Continue reading
Sophia — poem for worship from Aotearoa
I continue to be unwilling to let Pentecost go … our so-easy avoidance of the Spirit’s call. Rosalie Sugrue writes: Pentecost fell on the date our parish holds its annual ‘Women’s Fellowship Special Project Service’ (a service led by women … Continue reading
The Cost of It
What the festival costs is more than the price of helium in a few small red balloons, and a birthday cake for the church during coffee hour. It costs going out to the streets, speaking words we don’t understand, listening … Continue reading
Prayer for Habana, Cuba
Send your sweet, sweet Spirit of tenderness and comfort upon all who mourn family members and friends, church delegates from a Nazarene conference, tourists and crew members from Mexico after the plane crash at Jose Marti airport. Breathe into this … Continue reading
A Prayer of Benediction for Pentecost from Argentina
A Prayer of Benediction for Pentecost by Gerardo Oberman Que la generosidad de tu soplo de vida transforme nuestra vida y la plenifique. Que la fuerza del viento de tu amor nos inunde y nos desborde. Que el fuego de … Continue reading
Pentecost, 2017
So, if the essence of Pentecost is this — (having set aside the red balloons, and birthday cake for the church) the ability to speak a language that means nothing to me but shares the good news someone needs, (and … Continue reading
Pentecost worship resources — without fire or wind
As a wind-driven wildfire rages across Alberta, Canada, I have committed myself to writing Pentecost worship resources which do not use wind or fire imagery. This is not to say that those metaphors are not rich and vibrant, but that … Continue reading
Pneuma-lingual
(Words change to be more inclusive. Some people make fun of ‘pc,’ but polite compassion has never been a joke to me.) I used to teach ESL – English as a Second Language. So on Pentecost every year I prayed … Continue reading
