Saturday, August 29, 2009

August 28, 2009 Gathering

PRELUDE

Music by Andew Prete


WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! As a church in a pub, the Spirit is with us. In this space feel free to move about, help yourself to drinks/food, doodle, and express ideas openly!

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. All we bring is welcome; our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.


OPENING MEDITATION

Adapted from Mary Daly’s, Wickedary

Ontological Courage is the courage to Be an Other, one who participates in the realm outside the parameters of patriarchal predictability. An Other has the Courage to refuse inclusion in the State of the Living Dead – the Courage to break out from the deadforms of archetypal deadtime – to take leap after leap of Living Faith. An Other has the Courage to Sin – to commit Original Acts of participation in Be-ing; the Courage to be intellectual in the most direct and daring way, claiming and trusting the deep correspondence between the structures/processes of one’s own mind and the structures/processes of reality. An Other has the Courage to Act on one’s own deepest intuitions as they are inspired by the Divine.


TELLING OUR STORY

I see you!

I am here!


PEACE – TOAST

In this place we creatively express;

Some of us are focused, some are a mess!

We participate during the sermon

And people do connect, we are learnin’

Greet all with a handshake, toast or a wave

At all times feel free to yell, rant or rave

Fake not friends, we can arrive as we are.

Cheers! Here’s to sacred space in a bar!


CREATIVE EXPRESSION

By Andrew


CONVERSATIONAL SERMON

Luke 9:57-62

As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I’ll follow you wherever you go.”

And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens, and birds of the sky have nests; but the son of Adam has nowhere to rest his head.”

To another he said, “Follow me.”

But he said, “First, let me go and bury my father.”

Jesus said to him, “Leave it to the dead to bury their own dead; but you, go out and announce God’s imperial rule.”

Another said, “I’ll follow you, sir; but let me first say good-bye to my people at home.”

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is qualified for God’s imperial rule.”

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· Initial thoughts? How do Jesus’ interactions strike you?

· Do we have commitments for which we are willing to Courageously Leap, for which we are willing to not look back?

· What Acts do we do toward these commitments?

· What kinds of support and encouragement can we offer one another toward each Other’s Original Acts?

· Does today’s text shed any light on our discussion?


COMMUNION AND SHARING OF RESOURCES

God is with us.

Yes she is.


FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS


BENEDICTION

May the Goddess bless you and bless you kindly. May you be Courageous, Sin Big and Drink in the Spirit!


POSTLUDE

By Andrew

Saturday, August 22, 2009

August 22, 2009 Gathering

PRELUDE

Music by John Gerard


WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! As a church in a pub, the Spirit is with us. In this space feel free to move about, help yourself to drinks/food, doodle, and express ideas openly!

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. All we bring is welcome; our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.


OPENING MEDITATION

by Donald Jeffrey Hayes, Earth Prayers, p155

Do not stifle me with the strange scent of low growing mountain lilies – do not confuse me with salubrious odor of honeysuckle!

I cannot separate in my mind

Sweetness from sweetness – Mimosa from wild white violets; Magnolia from Cape Jasmine!

I am from the north tide country, I can understand only the scent of seaweed; Salt marsh and scrub pine riding on the breath of an amorous fog!

O do not confuse me

With sweetness upon sweetness;

Let me escape safely from this gentle madness –

Let me go back to the salt of sanity

in the scent of the sea…!


TELLING OUR STORY

I see you!

I am here!


PEACE – TOAST

In this place we creatively express;

Some of us are focused, some are a mess!

We participate during the sermon

And people do connect, we are learnin’

Greet all with a handshake, toast or a wave

At all times feel free to yell, rant or rave

Fake not friends, we can arrive as we are.

Cheers! Here’s to sacred space in a bar!


CREATIVE EXPRESSION

By John


CONVERSATIONAL SERMON

Mark 4:35-41 (end of Ch. 4)

Later in the day, when evening had come, he says to them, “Let’s go across on the other side.”

After sending the crowd away, they took him along since he was in the boat, and other boats accompanied him. Then a great squall comes up and the waves begin to pound against the boat, so that the boat suddenly began to fill up. He was in the stern sleeping on a cushion. And they wake him up and say to him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are going to drown?

Then he got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Be quiet, and shut up!” The wind then died down and there was a great calm. He said to them, “Why are you so cowardly? You still don’t trust, do you?”

And they were completely terrified and would say to one another, “Who can this fellow be, that even the wind and sea obey him?”

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· Thoughts on today’s reading?

· Who is this ‘fellow’ anyway???

· What do they find so terrifying?


COMMUNION AND SHARING OF RESOURCES

God is with us.

Yes she is.


FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS


BENEDICTION

And now may the Goddess bless you all and bless you kindly – Be at Peace and Drink in the Spirit!


POSTLUDE

By John

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Video Feature of The Pub Church

August 15, 2009 Gathering

PRELUDE

Music by Maggie Keelan


WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! As a church in a pub, the Spirit is with us. In this space feel free to move about, help yourself to drinks/food, doodle, and express ideas openly!

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. All we bring is welcome; our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.


INVOCATION OF THE FOUR DIRECTIONS

East

South

West

North

Center

Lighting of the Candles


OPENING MEDITATION

I am a million-of-years-old wonder!

I am an international…no…cosmic treasure.

I ought to be safeguarded in a museum somewhere like Paganini’s violin. I out to be gasped at, talked about in hushed, amazed, reverential tones.

Viewers would touch me gently and feel lucky. Daily newspaper headlines could say,

“(your name) exists again today!”

Radio and TV talk shows could discuss me, my ordinary events…that I saw a bluebird with my millions-of-years-old eyes and heard it sing with my highly advanced, evolutionary ears; that my graceful hands with opposable thumbs fed my sensitive mouth delicious strawberries that it tasted. Then, without a conscious thought,

my brilliant brain directed my masterful,

complex digestive system to assimilate and use them for fuel to wash dishes,

write poems, hold hands, laugh, and share kisses. No one would completely understand or

dare to finally say how my marvelous, magical, famous, fine self exists, really.

I am just, bottom line,

a million-of-years-old wonder.

You are too.

Blessed be.


TELLING OUR STORY

I see you!

I am here!


PEACE – TOAST

In this place we creatively express;

Some of us are focused, some are a mess!

We participate during the sermon

And people do connect, we are learnin’

Greet all with a handshake, toast or a wave

At all times feel free to yell, rant or rave

Fake not friends, we can arrive as we are.

Cheers! Here’s to sacred space in a bar!


CREATIVE EXPRESSION

By Maggie


CELEBRATING OUR BODIES

Readings: (various)

All Respond: All bodies are beautiful

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- What has been your journey with your body?

- What would you like it to be like in the future?

- How can you start that journey today?


COMMUNION AND SHARING OF RESOURCES

God is with us.

Yes she is.


FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS


RELEASING THE DIRECTIONS


BENEDICTION

East – South – West - North - Center

The circle is open, but unbroken.

May the peace of the Goddess go in our hearts. Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again. Blessed be.


POSTLUDE

By Maggie

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Musica and Fun!

We have a very special invitation to extend to you all! Our friend John Gerard, who is an awesome musician we love to watch perform, is going to be playing at a very cool venue not far from our house, sooooo We're making a party of it! Please come join us! Good drinks, good music, and great friends!

The Plan:
Thursday, August 13th. 7:30pm
Start at our house: email at thepubchurch(at)gmail(dot)com for directions
7:30 - 9:00pm - Jaclyn will be making delicious cocktails at our house; we have soda, beer and snacks too!
9:00 - 9:15pm - We all walk to The Western Front, less than 15 minutes away! $8 Cover
9:15 - ?????? - We enjoy the music! Other people will also be playing that night too before John goes on.

We hope you can make it. This is John's first time at this venue and we're all very excited about it!

Bring a friend and feel free to pass this along!! :-)