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Study group readings
Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the women, save the world, by Jean Shinoda Bolen
This book was written during the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill – thought to be the biggest disaster in the history of the oil industry. The message resonates even more today – because the warnings that this disaster gave us were not heeded…
A Prayerbook for Peace, by John Philip Newell
Morning and evening prayers for the peace of the whole world. Following the pattern of his popular Celtic Benediction, Philip Newell provides lyrical and theologically profound prayers for morning and evening each day of the week. These devotions celebrate the spiritual legacy shared by Jews, Christians, and Muslims and articulate the longings for peace that are closer to the heart of these spiritual traditions than their divisions. Ideal for personal devotions, this book also provides a versatile liturgical resource appropriate for Christian or interfaith use. Each devotion features:
• A Beatitude
• A Prayer of Awareness
• Meditative Readings from the Psalms, the Gospel of Matthew, and the Qu’ran
• A Prayer for the Life of the World
• A Prayer of Blessing
• Rich full-color illustrations drawn from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic art
A Celtic Mass for Peace, Songs for the Earth
This recording of A Celtic Mass for Peace, Songs for the Earth with musicians and singers from both Scotland and the United States, of many diverse heritages, was made in the Vermont landscape where both words and music were written, and is a reflection and expression of the theology/spirituality of liberation and inclusiveness far beyond the confines of any single tradition. It includes a poignant prayer for the Earth:
Heaven and earth are full of your glory, O God.Your presence fills all things.
Yet what have we done?
Creation marred by neglect and abuse of life-forms torn forever out of the fabric of the universe nature ravaged, wealth wasted, earth’s community divided, nations at war, communities fractured, families broken, the human soul sick and far from home.
Great creating Spirit, hear our plea for mercy, hear our prayers for the earth.