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Last Sunday’s Playlist: Farmer’s Market Prayers

farmer’s market prayers : sunday 26th october 2014  ordinary 30a

welcome

blessed be god the word, who came to his own and his own received him not, for in this way god glorifies the stranger…

ALL: Oh God, show us your image in all we meet today that we may welcome them, and you, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Christians follow a Master who was known for eating with others, recognised for his distinctive way of giving thanks for food, and who asked to be remembered in bread and wine.

Following in his steps we give thanks for our food; following in the steps of the prophets and teachers of Israel we oppose injustice in its production; we acknowledge that we gather on the land of which the Wurundjeri have been custodians from time immemorial and we look for a world of reconciliation where every family dwells under its vine and fig tree, where needs can be met without greed, and in a spirit of solidarity and sharing.

Leader: All creatures look to you in hope, O God, and you give them food in due season.

Leader: Come now all who thirst

ALL: And drink the water of life.

Leader: Come now all who hunger

ALL: And be filled with good things.

Leader: Come now all who labour

ALL: And you shall find rest.

confession (poc)

Leader: We recall what food means in an unjust world. We remember that one sixth of the world’s population goes hungry each day. We remember the thousands of children who die each day for lack of access to clean water. We remember the labourers, women and men, denied a living wage. We remember the farmers in our own country forced, by the operations of ‘the market’, to sell their produce for less than the cost of production. We remember that, whether we choose to or not, we live at their expense. We acknowledge that we have demanded cheap food and forgotten the price paid in unsustainable ways of farming and fishing, threatening the welfare of others and the very future of coming generations.

We ask for God’s forgiveness and for the renewal of the Holy Spirit

Silence

Leader: Before God, with the people of God,

I confess to my brokenness:

to the carelessness with which I buy and eat and produce my food;

I confess to the ways I wound my life,

the lives of others,

and the life of the world.

ALL: May God forgive you, Christ renew you, 

and the Spirit enable you to grow in love.

Leader: Amen

ALL: Before God, with the people of God, 

we confess to our brokenness: 

to the carelessness with which we buy and eat and produce our food 

We confess to the ways we wound our lives, 

the lives of others, 

and the life of the world.

Leader: May God forgive you, Christ renew you,

And the Spirit enable you to grow in love.

ALL: Amen  

( A Liturgy for Food and Farming, http://www.cws.org.nz/files/Food%20Week%20liturgy.pdf)

ministry of the word (mow)

what is it?

communion

“Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you: fruit of the earth and work of human hands, it will become for us the bread of life.”

ALL: Blessed be God forever

“Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your goodness we have received the wine we offer you: fruit of the vine and work of human hands, it will become our spiritual drink.”

ALL: Blessed be God forever

Eucharistic Prayer / Sharing of Elements

response/ sending

We give thanks for those farmers who through their own work of production have shared with us something of your Great Economy of Grace and abundance today at Flemington Farmers Market.  We give thanks for…

God of our future and our present,

Help us to enable

Life’s great feast to happen here and now,

To open hearts and hands, baskets and pockets;

To share bread with our neighbours

To share peace with our neighbours,

So that in the most ordinary of miracles

All are fed.

Amen

[Joy Mead, adapted; Holy Ground, ed. Paynter and Boothroyd, Wild Goose Publications, 2005: p.80]

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Slow Sunday Brunch Service

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Looking forward to gathering in our historic Spanish Hall space this Sunday with the winter sun streaming in the window for the first of our EAT gatherings in our new monthly cycle…

This Sunday’s Brunch will include:

  • Sharing food including the blessing and sharing of bread and wine.
  • Reading the Sunday Newspapers and offering our prayers for others.
  • Pondering this Sunday’s Lectionary story of the Good Samaritan and considering its implications for our  ‘People’s Pantry’.. I found this article thought provoking… “When Robbers and Innkeepers Profit from Good Samaritans” 
  • Responsive prayer stations
  • Sharing our food traditions and stories that capture something of the hospitality of God including acknowledgement of the commencement of the Islamic festival of Ramadan that shapes the month for many of our neighbours.

Hope you can join us…

Marcus

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Morning sunshine and spread from our Easter Sunday brunch…

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People’s Table Liturgy

Sunday 9th September 2012

Ordinary 23B, Colour: Green

At Newmarket Baptist we are asking how  ‘Slow Food’ can help reframe our understanding of what it means to be “church”

The “Slow Food” Movement arose in Italy as a response to the negative impact of multinational food companies and its influence is spreading around the world – slowly!

Slow Food opposes the standardisation of taste, protects cultural identity tied to food and seeks to safeguard processing techniques inherited from tradition.  It involves valuing time to prepare, eat and build community through food.

It is sometimes critiqued as being an elite pursuit, however Jesus himself would often seek out the best feed in town!  Far from extravagant eating, Slow Food is about the celebration of the connections that food can make with sustainable production and local food traditions that are often lost in our economy.

Together we are discovering that that if we read the gospels without getting hungry we aren’t paying attention! The how, what, where and with whom Jesus eats is a central point of gospel conflict. “Understanding about the loaves” (Mark 6:52) is presented as essential to understanding Jesus’ ministry of reconciliation.

This ministry is symbolised in the offer of wilderness bread and of his body and blood in the Eucharist.  Our prayer is that like his  followers at Emmaus, it would be in the offer of hospitality to strangers, and at the breaking of bread that our eyes will be opened and that Christ may be made known among us.

 

 

Reading: Mark 7:24-30

 

From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, ‘Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.’ But she answered him, ‘Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.’ Then he said to her, ‘For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.’ So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness.

Conviviality is healing.

To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.”

 

– Wendell Berry

menu

drinks hors derves:

Welcome Blessing

Acknowledgement of Country

Candle lighting

entree/ starters:

2nd blessing :  Seeds Prayer

Breaking and Sharing of Bread

Introduction of  Guests

mains:

3rd blessing :  Thanks to Guests

Reading and Reflection

dessert:

Sending Blessing: Seeds Prayer

last drinks

A final toast to the way of Christ

Welcome Blessing

Welcome. We invite you to this table with the cry and promise of Jesus

 

“Listen, I stand at the door and knock: if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with you and you with me.”

In the gift of Christ and through the presence of his Spirit, we have tasted God’s gracious hospitality to us.  And so we extend this grace to each other…

Welcome to the table…

What is it you bring?

2nd Blessing Seeds Table Prayer

Holding up the packet of Seeds
Holy community of gracious hospitality, in the midst of our homelessness you extend us an invitation to Grow Home.

We thankyou for your invitation to join the vocation of those who through the ages have vowed to grow new households of love.

Set us free to share our wealth and may the poor always be with us.  May we live in fidelity with your wild creative power respecting the sacred connections between your Spirit, our bodies and all creation. May we be obedient to your power above all others. Grace us with mutual submission. Give us courage to give of ourselves with the same passion with which you lived and died.

Lord hear us.
All: Lord hear our prayer

Holding up the Bible
May we Know the Word. Not ancient words on a page but the living Spirit of Christ among us.  Guide us in our speech at this table, choosing our stories and storying our choices. May this table be rich in story. Give us strength to raise our voice and the discipline to listen for you in the voice of others
Lord hear us.
All: Lord hear our prayer


Holding up the bowl
May we Eat Slow. Make us mindful of all that has been given and received in the process of production and consumption. ( At this point mention could be made about different elements of the meal and what is known of their process of production). May this meal reconcile us with God, creation and others. May our eyes be opened to your presence through the breaking of the bread and may our eating bear witness to the meal to come, to which all are invited and where there is enough for all.

Lord hear us.
All: Lord hear our prayer

Sending Blessing

Holding up the bottle of oil
May we leave this table energised to Go and Engage our world. To speak truth to the powers and to each other; to name and cast out that which is evil in our world and within; and in the midst of our brokenness may we know and share your healing power; your gracious hospitality to us.   Lord hear us.
All: Lord hear our prayer  Amen.