Feminism and Faith in Union
Blessings for the Feminism and Faith in Union Event on January 21. This is not just an event, but a movement!
Read the blessings here.
At 2:00, the trinity of priests, Episcopal Church of the Ascension, NYC, Rev. Liz Maxwell, Rector, Rev. Posey Krakowsky and Rev. Hershey Mallette Stephens -- We bless you, Holy One, for the marvelous diversity of women, of many ages and faiths, races and backgrounds, gender identities and sexual orientations, abilities, needs, passions and stories. Help us to see and honor your image in each of our sisters, as well as our brothers. Fill us with fierce and tender love for one another and for your whole creation. Grant us good companions, courage and joy in the long struggle for justice and wholeness. Help us to offer our gifts boldly, to support one another generously, and never to lose heart. Bless and inspire the work we do, for the healing of the world. Amen.
At 5:50, Sonia Ingram, Lakota Nation, lay leader of interdenominational Riverside Church, NYC -- Wakan Tanka, Great Mystery, teach me how to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body, the blessings of my spirit. Teach me to trust these things so that I may enter my sacred space and love beyond my fear , anger, hurt, hate, jealousy, self pity. Look way down deeper where the dreams lie and thus walk in beauty with the passing of each glorious sun. Find your dream. It’s the pursuit of the dream that heals you.
The Sioux Nation has asked all women to embrace their sacred connection to water by joining Indian Nations in daily prayer for water at dawn. They’ve asked that every day women go their local water and pray for its healing and protection, joining women across the world thru prayers. Love water. If a person cannot make it to a source of water at a specific time in the morning, then a cord can be mentally created in mediation to send prayers to the water.
May you dream that we carry the positive effects we have on each other and that we lighten the load by giving it away to others. Amen.
At 9:40, Deborah Rose-Milavec, Executive Director, FutureChurch -- In every generation, women have, and continue to faithfully and generously respond to the call to serve God and God’s holy people. They have been apostles and disciples, leaders, preachers, educators, counselors, musicians, artists, writers, comforters, pastoral ministers, chaplains, and yes, priestly people offering their gifts to The Body Of Christ. Yet our church now suffers a poverty of spirit brought about by the exclusion of women from full participation in the life, ministry and leadership of the church. Today, we women and men, sisters and brothers, grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles, mothers and fathers, godparents, members of The Body Of Christ, gather together as one family to pray for a church that is truly inclusive and alive with the gifts, spirit and potential of all its members. We gather in thanksgiving for, and celebration of, the women who came before us, our foremothers in faith, whose too-often forgotten stories instruct and inspire us. We gather in solidarity with the women of today, whose demands for justice and inclusion call us to conversation and conversion.
We gather in hope for our daughters, the next generation, whose God-given possibility and potential compels us to work for a church for our daughters and for all women and men. Good and loving God, Creator of women and men in your own image, create in us a desire for the wholeness you planned. Word made flesh and born of woman, empower us to hear and speak your redeeming truth. Spirit companion of women throughout space and time guide us as we work to build a church for all our sisters and brother here in our community and throughout the world. Amen. ... See more