Liturgies
Monday, March 31st
Prayer & Work – Liturgy March 30, 2025
Prayer and Work – The Benedictine Rule. As we continue our Lenten focus on issues highlighted in Soul Murmurings by Andrew Kennelly, Liz will explore the interwovenness between our spirituality and our work – both paid and non-paid.
Monday, March 24th
Reclaiming the Wisdom teaching of Jesus – Liturgy March 23, 2025
This week Margaret will be discussing the importance of reclaiming the Wisdom teaching of Jesus about non-dual consciousness. Margaret will also be drawing from Andrew Kennelly’s book, Soul Murmurings, to explain how reflecting on life experiences, such as enjoying arts and travel, can begin the journey into the heart and then out into the world again, to a lived experience of the connectedness of all.
Tuesday, March 18th
Everyday Rituals That Bring us Together – Liturgy March 16, 2025
This week, Narelle Mullins uses thoughts from Andrew Kennelly’s book “Soul Murmurings” with the focus being on the significance of rituals in our lives’’ ’everyday rituals and those that bring us together in shared spiritual experiences. Given the unfolding of the future of St Mary’s in Exile, there is an even greater need for meaningful rituals that express memories, gratitude, wonder, joy, laughter as well as possibly grief and loss and definitely enduring hope.
Thursday, March 6th
Soul Murmurings - Liturgy March 2, 2025
As we approach Lent this year and we prepare to celebrate Easter, we are choosing as our theme ‘Soul Murmurings’. It is taken from Andrew Kennelly’s new book with the same name. Andrew writes: ‘Soul Murmurings offers a new interpretation of spirituality.
Sunday, February 23rd
Trick or Trio – Liturgy February 23, 2025
This week Liz will explore a contemporary understanding of the Doctrine of Trinity. John Shelby Spong said that Trinity is not a definition of God, but a description of how we experience the ultimate reality of the sacred.
Sunday, February 16th
Coming Home – Liturgy February 16, 2025
Terry will be sharing some insights from his recent retreat. A time to slow down can be an invitation to return to our deeper selves. To be grounded in the present moment where life is truly worth living.
Sunday, February 9th
Micah Projects 30 Years – Liturgy February 9, 2025
We are beginning this year with a liturgy which focuses on Micah Projects. This year Micah celebrates 30 years of service to the community. We will be watching a wonderful brief documentary that highlights who and what Micah has meant to so many people.
Thursday, January 16th
Christmas 2024
Our Christmas Vigil celebration was wonderful. Beautiful music, thought provoking homily from Terry, presided so well by Heather and Tony and a liturgy that was inspired - we were on holy ground. Wow, this community is really something special.
Monday, January 13th
The Joy of Waiting in Times of Uncertainty and Fear – December 22, 2024
As we continue our Advent theme of The Joy of Waiting in Times of Uncertainty and Fear, Liz will explore what our sacred scriptures contribute to the topic.
Tuesday, December 17th
Waiting in Hope – Liturgy December 15, 2024
Margaret will reflect on Advent as a time of waiting, a time of transformation, a time of tapping into the living hope within and allowing it to shape our way of seeing, coping, interacting and being in our world.