Dear Associates of CCMJ,
The Eucharistic Service uses the Lord’s Prayer twice to ram it home. But ‘home’ evolves with life itself, which is one aspect of a Church Times article last Friday to which, on ‘a prayer and a wing’ evolving as an email, I sent this reflection to the Editor. I suggested it might sow the seeds of an article.
Fools rushing in where angels fear to tread is one of the requirements of pastoral/prophets – that is you and me!!
A reflection on the extract from THE COMING OF GOD’S KIN-DOM
by Stephen Cherry published in the CHURCH TIMES on 26th February
HABITUAL PRAYER ENHANCING COMMON GOOD
or
TOURING OUR ENVIRONMENT
Consider our kith and kin,
merging neatly into kin-ship
as the ground of all being
set perpetually in Christian daily prayer
as the Kingdom of God.
Flowing from Hebraic reverence for
the awesome greatness of ‘I Am’,
this care plan of Jehovah,
advances our comprehension
in rich inter-play of many metaphors
thus bonding context with application
in the formation of kin[g]dom,
we sense the real ground of all being.
Here lies the heart of inter-dependence;
kinship in cosmic life entire
with its wee blue dot which
we magnify to find this planet earth,
narrowing down our kith and kin
to manageable human scale
to advance the Common Good.
Do you have any bold ways of evolving/modernising the language, liturgy, metaphors etc, of the church??
Yours, Peter
