Heretics.Trinity.2024 — Rex A E Hunt

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or even replacement of, the RCL which is in standard use by many.

A GATHERING LITURGY FOR THE
CELEBRATION OF LIFE

“We are thoroughly nature. To claim otherwise is to attempt to place human beings and everything we do
in some rare unimaginable realm beyond the universe,
thus rendering the power of our origins lost and our obligations vague”

26 May 2024. Trinity B (White/Muti-coloured).
All Heretics Day
Celebrating Community in the Tradition of the Meal

Acknowledgement of Country/First Peoples
(An act towards reconciliation)

For thousands of years Indigenous people have walked
in this land, on their own country.
Their relationship with the land is at the centre of their lives.

We acknowledge the (NN) People of the (NN) Nation, past, present, emerging,
and their stewardship of this land throughout the ages.

First Peoples Statement to the Nation 2017 is called “Uluru Statement from the Heart”
A Response from Common Dreams5 Conference of Religious Progressives,Australia/South Pacific 2019
Both found at Affirmations/Manifestoes

And we recognise and give thanks that we humans
are creatures of the Earth living in the ecosystem
—flowers, trees and insects; land, waters and mountain range—
that is unique to (NN).
May we honour one another and honour life itself.

(NN) is a safe place for all people to worship regardless of
race, creed, age, cultural background or sexual orientation

GATHERING

Rich and Striking Visuals
“The function of beauty… is to make us aware of a reality which is richer and deeper
and more marvellous than anything we can dream or conceive.” (Henry N. Wieman)
Artwork OR Floral/Symbols display (cloths, candles, stones, wood, leaves, flowers, earth, water) OR projection of Film/Video

Gathering Music

Entry into the Celebration
The gong is sounded three times

We gather here as the human ones of creation.
We name ourselves threads in the web of life.
We give thanks for connection,
that we are all part of one another
and that we are part of the sacred. (StAndrew’s, Auckland)

Let us celebrate the richness and diversity of life.
(Silence)

v1 Come, let us gather in this sacred place
Knowing every place is sacred
Where we find peace or energy
Where beauty flourishes
Where we share body, mind and heart…
Come, let us gather in this sacred place. (Adapt.Bronwyn Angela White, 2001).

v2 Let us celebrate the richness and diversity of life.
(Silence)

Lighting of the Community Candle
The Community Candle is lit in silence

Note: Check out 'Special Liturgies’ (this site) for the following:
(i) A suggested process for introducing new hymns is called Hymn of the Month
(ii) Additional Special Purpose Hymns cover major international events or themes. They include these categories: 1. Bush (Brush) Fire, 2. Tsunami, Storms/Cyclones, 3. Earthquakes, 4. War/Remembrance, 5. Caregiving, 6. God as Mother, 7. Human Trafficking, 8. Disabled, 9. Migration/Refugees, 10. Terrorist Attacks, 11. Science/Cosmology
(iii) Specific resources on Terrorism
(iv) On Wonder, Awe, and Nature

Hymn/Song People stand as they are able, to sing
“Through the Star-filled Realms of Evening” (Tune: Ar Hyd Y Nos’, 84.84.88.84) 34 SC
A modern version of ‘God that madest Earth and Heaven’

Through the star-filled realms of evening
Shines heavenly light.
Daylight gives a space for working,
Rest comes with night.

Love and strength from deep within us
Flood our lives when sleep enfolds us,
Dreams reveal the myst’ry in us
Each restful night.

In our waking, in our sleeping,
And as we die,
Myst’ry dwells within our living,
Each laugh and cry.

Darkness has no power to numb us
Nor has light the strength to blind us,
For the presence lives within us
As Earth and Sky. (William L Wallace)

“The Celebration of Life” (Tune: ‘Von Himmel Hoch’, LM) 55 SSCL
Life is our reverence and good;
Our dances voice the body’s praise;
Our temples house life’s theme and mood;
Our songs and poems tell its ways.

Now welcome every living hour;
Delight in every‘ newborn day.
Life is our fame; death has no power
Unless our fear gives death its way.

The pliant muscle fills and bends;
The flesh is soft and will not break,
And healing patiently amends
Endurance for the future’s sake.

The seed will fill the emptied spire,
And ebbing clear the sweep to thrive;
The ashes grow the woods to fire,
And death is food to all that live,

We have eternity in full
In this quick sample of our days;
No terror, then, can render null
The joy of all our life and praise. (Kenneth L Patton, 1967)

“I am a Part of the Pulse of Creation” (Tune: ‘Pulse of Creation/Colin Gibson)
I am a part of the pulse of creation,
eternity caught in a moment of time,
part of the myst’ry, part of the beauty,
part of the wonderful gifting of God.

Mine is the world of the stars and the galaxies,
limitless energy, movement and mass,
mine the unfolding, mine the far-reaching,
gift of the infinite goodness of God.

I take my share in the act of creation,
finding new wonders, new worlds to explore,
faith’s evolution, hope’s resolution,
loving in tune with the music of God.

Born in the Spirit and waking to freedom,
seeking to grow to the measure of Christ,
part of the myst’ry, part of the beauty,
part of th wonder creation of God. (© Colin Gibson)

Opening Sentences
v1 Water! Earth! Air! Fire!

v2 Water: nurturer of life, sustainer of growth,
basic to every living thing;

v3 Earth: where every seedling takes root;
the ground of our being,
our home and point of outlook;

v4 Air: in every breath we acknowledge
the atmosphere wherein we live;
the elixir of our existence;

v5 Fire: thwarter of cold, light against the darkness,
symbol of the burning human spirit.

v1 Water! Earth! Air! Fire!

All These signify the larger unity of all life
and the glory of creation wherein our spirits
are embraced. (PRaible)

Words of Awareness
Here, in this space made sacred by our shared lives and yearnings,
may we find new courage,
new generosity of spirit,
forgiveness given and received,
and rededication to the higher purposes of our lives.

We pray:
Source of Life and Love we name God
in you we live and move and have our being.

Jesus, Companion and Liberator,
with you we walk the way of love.

Empowering and Imaginative Spirit,
through you we are made one.

God, trinity of love, we seek you in the dance of life.
We embrace your love.
We would dance.
This is the meaning of the resurrection, that we can dance.
Alleluia. (Adapt.Kathy Galloway/cw)
Amen.

Hymn/Song “Honouring Life” (Tune: Metre 87.87)
God of courage, God of wisdom,
with our eyes we long to see
how to love each other fully,
honour our divinity.

Hurtful power, hate-filled living,
break the soul and rend the heart.
Ending human harmful action,
fear and tyranny depart.

Life is sacred, life is precious,
life of each, a gift of grace.
God's own beauty finds expression
in each cherished human face.

When we see all life has value,
healing stirs the heart awake.
Cherishing all human living,
bitter chains of hate we break.

When we claim the power within us
to uphold all human life,
we give birth to love's own kingdom,
peace and justice ease our strife. (© Peggy McDonagh, 2003/Adapt)

“O Threefold God” (Tune: ‘Unity') 110 AA
O threefold God of tender unity,
life’s great unknown that binds and sets us free:
felt in our loving, greater than our thought,
you are the mystery found, the mystery sought.

O blaze of radiance, source of light that blinds,
the fiery splendour of prophetic minds,
you live in mystery, yet within us dwell;
life springs from you as from a living well.

Most loving Parent, Child of joys and pains,
creative Spirit, life-force that sustains,
in bone and flesh, in blood we touch your hand,
your face we see in water, air and land.

In every making, each creative dream
and in the flowing of life’s healing stream,
when love is born or people reconciled,
we share your life, O Parent, Spirit, Child.

O threefold God of tender unity,
life’s great unknown that binds and sets us free:
felt in our loving, greater than our thought,
you are the mystery found, the mystery sought. (William L Wallace)
People sit

Welcome
Or in your own words

A warm welcome is extended to all.
Especially those who are gathering at (NN) for the first time,
or who have returned after an absence.

Your presence both enriches us and this time of celebration together.
Refer to printed liturgy.
Fellowship hour following the Gathering
Those visiting, please sign our Visitors book.

CENTERING

Meditation
"Welcome stranger!"
By Susan Hardwick. Entertaining Angels/3.

Welcome, Stranger!
Place your palm
against my own.

Let us interlace
our fingers.

Then together
we will weave
the threads of our lives
into a wondrous vision;

a bright new
tapestry of dreams,
of times to come.

Centering Silence
Centering silence has its roots in the earliest of monastic traditions of the ‘desert Fathers (abbas)/Mothers (ammas)’
and the Christian mystic tradition… Relaxing into ‘quietness’ creates the space for deep listening and draws you into yourself

May we give thanks for all the silences in our lives:
the silence of sunrise,
the silence of mist on the lake,
the silence at the end of a story,
the silence between notes of music,
the silence between us here…
(Silence)

Music of Reflection

EXPLORING

Wisdom from the Religious/World Traditions
“Wisdom is not just special knowledge about something. Wisdom is a way of being, a way of inhabiting the world.
The beauty of wisdom is harmony, belonging and illumination of thought, action, heart and mind.” (John O’Donohue)

Reader: May we be struck by the wisdom of these words
and marked by hearing them.
All For within story lies meaning, and
within meaning, the wisdom for which we seek. (Gretta Vosper/ab)

• “September Faith”
By Dennis McCarty. Thoughts from a Gentle Atheist/183

This is the nature of faith:
That every religion struggles to breathe life
Into the things it believes,
Struggles to give belief a body
By which it can move through the world.
It is the labor of a religion
To bring faith alive through faithful deeds.
Because only by such faithful action
Is spirituality made real.
Only by faithful action
Does religious belief achieve meaning
And relevance.

• “Australia Street”
By Brenda Saunders. Eureka Street, Vol 22, No. 10. 21/5/2012

I know it's autumn when exotic imports 
lose their cargo of leaves 
Empty branches startle the sky 
Northern cut-outs curling in the sun 
catch on fence wire at the school 
flooding gutters after rain

In summer the gumtree
in our yard
slims down, mindful of the dry spell 
Oily crescents pressed underfoot
soften the asphalt under the line 
Loose bark hangs in strips for weeks 
like forgotten underwear
Gum nuts line the pathway to the bin 
tiny hulls, our hidden progeny.

• John 3:1-9: (NRSV)

Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.
He came to Jesus by night and said,
'Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God;
for no one can do these signs that you do
apart from the presence of God.'

Jesus answered,
'Truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God
without being born from above.'

'But how can anyone be born after having grown old?' Nicodemus said...

'Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?'

Jesus answered,
'Truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God
without being born of water and Spirit.
What is born of the flesh is flesh,
and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

'Do not be astonished that I said to you,
You must be born from above.

'The wind blows where it chooses,
and you hear the sound of it,
but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.

'So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.'

Nicodemus said to Jesus, 'How can these things be…?'

Contemporary Exploration

Silence for Personal Reflection

AFFIRMING

Litany in Praise of the Trinity (Optional)
The people stand as they are able

Worthy of praise from every mouth,
All worthy of confession from every tongue,
worthy of worship from every creature,
All is your glorious name, O Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

For you created the world in your grace,
All and by your compassion you saved the world.

To your majesty, O God,
ten thousand times ten thousand bow down and adore,
All singing and praising without ceasing, and saying:
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts;
heaven and earth are full of your praises.
All Hosanna in the highest. Nestorian Liturgy, 5th Century/UIW

Litany to Cherish your Doubts (Optional)
People stand as they are able

Cherish your doubts, for doubt
is the attendant of truth.
All Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge;
it is the servant of discovery.

A belief which may not be questioned
binds us to error, for there is
incompleteness and imperfection in every belief.
All Doubt is the touchstone of truth;
it is an acid which eats away the false.

Let no one fear for the truth,
that doubt may consume it;
for doubt is a testing of belief.
All The truth stands boldly and unafraid;
it is not shaken by the testing:
for truth, if it be truth, arises
from each testing stronger, more secure.
All Those that would silence doubt are filled with fear;
their houses are built on shifting sands.
But those who do not fear doubt,
and know its use, are founded on rock.
All They shall walk in the light of growing knowledge;
the work of their hands shall endure.

Therefore let us not fear doubt,
but let us rejoice in its help:
All It is to be wise as a staff to the blind;
doubt is the attendant of truth. (Robert T Weston/slt)

“Doubts and Loves”
By Richard Holloway. Leaving Alexandria/348

v1 From the place where we are right
All flowers will never grow
in the Spring.

v2 The place where we are right
All is hard and trampled
like a yard.

v3 But doubts and loves
dig up the world
like a mole, a plough.
All And a whisper will be heard in the place
where the ruined
house once stood.

Sharing 'The Peace'
Let us take a moment to celebrate each other.

May a heart of peace rest with you.
All And also with you. (David Galston/q)
You are invited to share the peace with your neighbours

Namaste
Facing the person with right hand on your heart and a slight bow of the head…

The Divine in me honours the Divine in you.
OR

The Light in me recognises the Light in you.
OR

The spirit within me sees the spirit within you.

Hymn/Song People stand as they are able, to sing
“God of Diversity” (Tune: ‘Margaret’. By Colin Gibson) 40 HoS
God of diversity, vibrant creation
is bursting with signs of extravagant joy.
In riot of blossom, in species unnumbered
we see that all difference is ours to enjoy.

God of diversity, nations and cultures
tell of the richness life offers to all.
In language and symbol, in story and doctrine
we clothe our experience, respond to your call.

God of diversity, humans embody
the interdependence of ear, eye and hand;
we struggle to learn, in this globe-become-village,
our need of each other in every land.

God of diversity, help us to honour
our different perspectives on things that are true,
as, knowing more deeply the God in Christ Jesus,
we learn how to worship with all who love you. (Margaret Bond)

“Canyons Heave and Mountains Tumble” (Nepal Lament) (Tune: 88.88)
Canyons heave and mountains tumble,
earth beneath will shift and rumble,
quaking buildings tilting and falling
will God never heed our calling?
Like some hell afire with trouble,
children buried in the rubble:
seems there is no hope or reason,
fear unleashed, death finds its season.

Here in utter desperation
harmed by nature's harsh mutation,
will we ask 'is God against us’,
seeking to deny or test us?
When, O when, as life is rattled
and we feel dislodged, embattled,
will an avalanche of praying
turn a God bent on betraying?

Then when rubble ceases moving,
still God's grace, it seems, needs proving.
All our trust and hope is waning,
faith is taut, near breaking, straining.
Yet, as neighbours, sharing grieving,
let us bring God's love, relieving
fears that leave the world unsleeping
seeding trust, God's grace unceasing. (Andrew Pratt. © Stainer & Bell 12/5/2015)

CELEBRATING

In Solidarity
Care Candle:
We are people of all ages who enter this space
bringing our joys and concerns.
Joys and Celebrations; Griefs and Concerns shared

Focused Thoughts:

Listening Response:
As one heart is lifted
All May we share its celebration
As one heart is burdened
All May we share the pain it knows. (Gretta Vosper/wwg)

And so we take this flame and light our special care candle...
The Care Candle is lit

For ourselves, for those named or remembered, and in solidarity with those
 who have not the freedom to express their concern or celebration
for fear of discrimination or condemnation.

In all our joys and in all our concerns, may we be ever mindful
of the presentness of God among us,
and to see new possibilities of the now.

The 'Abba' Prayer: (Optional)
You are invited to pray in the spirit of the Abba/Lord's Prayer, and in your original language, as appropriate

All Life-Giver, Pain-Bearer, Love-Maker.
Source of all that is and that shall be.

Father and Mother of us all,
Loving God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo
through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed
by all peoples of the world!

Your heavenly will be done
by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom
sustain our hope and come on earth.

With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.

For you reign in the glory of the power that is love,
now and forever. Amen. (UIW2)

Conversation with the children
Children gather on conversation mat

Conversation:

"Somewhere Someone”:
The kingdom of love is coming because...
All somewhere someone is kind when others are unkind,
somewhere someone shares with another in need,
somewhere someone refuses to hate, while others hate,
somewhere someone is patient - and waits in love,
somewhere someone returns good for evil,
somewhere someone serves another, in love,
somewhere someone is calm in a storm,
somewhere someone is loving everybody.
Is that someone you? (Binkley & McKeel/jke)

Offerings

Presentation
Eternal Presence of God
may our lives be expanded and enhanced.

Let our gratitude for life be expressed in our generosity.
Let our faith be expressed in good causes.
Let our belief in the future find full expression
in our daily attitude of mind. Francis Macnab/fwb-adapt

CELEBRATING COMMUNITY IN THE TRADITION OF THE MEAL
Introduction (Optional)
Members of the Jesus movements regularly ate a meal together
when they met as a community.

It was a characteristic that they had in common
with virtually every other social group in their world.
It was considered primary to the early developments
in the movements’ meal liturgy.

These meal traditions were not about personal salvation or payment for sin.
Instead, they were about actions and offering hospitality, social identity,
and being in solidarity with those around us.

The liturgical movements centred on celebration, presence, and joy.
I invite you into the spirit of those meals…

Welcome to the Table
At this table we give thanks for
justice, love, peace and freedom.
Mn At this table we give thanks for friends and strangers
together in community in this safe place.
Wm At this table we welcome old and young.

v2 A place at the table. And all are invited.

Thanksgiving
We give thanks for the unfolding of matter,
mind,
intelligence,
and life
that has brought us to this moment in time.
All We celebrate our common origin with everything that exists.

v1 We celebrate the mystery we experience and address as ‘God’.
ground and sustainer of everything that exists,
in whom we live and move and have our being.

v2 And we acknowledge this mystery embodied in every human person,
aware that each one of us gives God unique and personal expression.
All God is everywhere present.
In grace-filled moments of sharing.
In carefully created communities of loving solidarity.

We are one with everything, living and nonliving, on this planet.
Connected.
Interrelated.
Interdependent.

The Story
v1 We remember the stories from our tradition...

How on many occasions Jesus would share a meal with friends.
Bread and wine shared in community.
v2 For everyone born, a place at the table...

v1 How the bread would be taken,
a blessing offered, and then shared between them.
And all of them ate.

How some wine would be poured out,
a blessing offered, and then passed between them.
And all of them drank.

v2 May the passion for life as seen in Jesus,
and in the lives and struggles of many other
committed and faithful people then and now,
enable us to dare and to dream and to risk…
All Together may we re-imagine the world.
Together may we work to make all things new.
All Together may we celebrate the possibilities and hope
we each have and are called to share.

v1 For everyone born, a place at the table...

Bread and White Wine
Bread is broken several times

We break the bread for the broken earth,
ravaged and plundered for greed.
All May there be healing of our beautiful blue and green planet.

We break this bread for our broken humanity,
for the powerful and the powerless
trapped by exploitation and oppression.
All May there be the healing of humanity.

We break this bread for those who follow other paths:
for those who follow the noble path of the Buddha,
the yogic path of the Hindus;
the way of the Eternal Guru of the Sikhs;
and for the children of Abraham and Sarah,
the Jews, and the Muslims.
All May there be healing where there is pain and woundedness.

We break this bread for the unhealed hurts
and wounds that lie within us all.
All May we be healed.

White Wine is poured into the cup.
This is the cup of peace and of new life for all.
A sign of love for the community of hope.
All A reminder of the call to live fully,
to love wastefully, and
to be all that we can be.

Communion
To eat and drink together reminds us
of the deeper aspects of human fellowship,
for from time immemorial
the sharing of bread and wine
has been the most universal of all symbols of community.
The Bread and White Wine will be served

SCATTERING

Hymn/Song People stand as they are able, to sing
“God of Unexplored Tomorrows” (Tune: ‘Marching’, 87.87) 27 (v1-2) FFS
God of unexplored tomorrows,
of today and yesterday,
God of rock and flowing river,
be our refuge, be our way.

Guardian rock above, before us,
strong foundation where we build,
landmark through the haze of doubting,
shelter where our fears are stilled,

“Thanks Be for These” (Tune: ‘Transylvania’, LM) 322(v1-3) SLT
Thanks be for these, life's holy times,
moments of grief, days of delight;
triumph and failure intertwine,
shaping our vision of the right.

Thanks be for these, for birth and death;
life in between with meaning full;
holy becomes the quickened breath;
we celebrate life's interval.

Thanks be for these, ennobling art,
images welcome to our sight;
music caressing ear and heart,
inviting us to loftier height.
Remain standing

Parting Words
As we prepare to leave this sacred space
where we have worshipped together,
let us return to our work and school
enlivened and renewed...
The Community Candle is extinguished

Now may our wisdom show itself
in deeds of compassion and
in acts of understanding.
All May the fruits of the spirit
be apparent in our lives. (Adapt.P R Giles)

Words of Blessing
We have come together to share our deepest concerns,
speaking and singing words of inspiration and hope.

We have committed ourselves to do what we can
to ease the burdens of those who suffer,
to stand for decency and compassion.

We have pledged to work for a more wholesome environment
for us and for all the generations that will follow.

But these are just words.
The hymns we sing are just songs.
All our reflections are just idle thoughts.

When we convert them all into loving and responsible action throughout the week,
then and only then will this morning become
what we want it to be -- a time of worship. (Robert F Kaufmann)

The blessing of the God of Sarah
and Hagar, as of Abraham…

The blessing of the Son,
born of the woman Mary…

The blessing of the Holy Spirit
who broods over us
as a mother, her children,
be with you all. (Lois Wilson/cw)
All So be it!.

Hymn/Song (Cont). “God of Unexplored Tomorrows” (Tune: ‘Marching’, 87.87) 27(v3-4) FFS
Be the cleansing, quenching water,
irrigate, disturb and move,
stir us from our easy shallows,
current of refreshing love.

God of rock and flowing river
now and ever with us stand,
to transform our land of promise
into each one's promised land. Bob Jones

“Thanks Be for These” (Tune: ‘Transylvania’, LM) 322(v4-5) SLT
Thanks be for these, who question why;
who noble motives do obey;
those who know how to live and die;
comrades who share this holy way.

Thanks be for these, we celebrate;
sing and rejoice, our trust declare;
press all our faith into our fate;
bless now the destiny we share. (Richard S Gilbert & Ioyce Timmerman Gilbert)
The people sit

'This Week' at (NN)
Notices
Birthdays and Anniversaries
Significant Events
Journey Candles

Music

Fellowship
Morning tea is now served.
You are invited to share in this time of fellowship.

You are invited to keep this copy of the liturgy and take it home with you
to share with another member of your family, or with a friend

Please include any reproduction of hymns/songs for local church use
on your Music Licence returns, as appropriate

Some of the Resources used in Shaping this Liturgy:
(AA) Alleluia Aotearoa. Hymns and Songs for all Churches. Raumati. New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, 1993.
Binkley, C. G. & J. M. McKeel. Jesus and his Kingdom of Equals. An International Curriculum on the Life and Teaching of Jesus. Santa Rosa. Polebridge Press, 2001.
Duncan, G. (ed). Entertaining Angels. A Worship Anthology on Sharing Christ’s hospitality. Norwich. The Canterbury Press, 2005.
(FFS) Faith Forever Singing. Songs for a New Day. Raumati. New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, 2000.
Holy Bible. NRSV. Nashville. Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1989.
Macnab, F. A Fine Wind Is Blowing: Psalms of the Bible in Words that Blow You Away. Richmond. Spectrum Publications, 2006.
(WNC) Pratt, A. Whatever Name or Creed. Hymns and Songs. London. Stainer & Bell Ltd, 2002.
(SLT) Singing the Living Tradition. Boston. UUA, 1993.
The St Hilda Community. The New Women Included. A Book of Services and Prayers. London. SPCK, 1996.
Uniting in Worship 2. Sydney. Uniting Church Press, 2005.
Vosper, G. With or Without God. Why the Way we Live is More Important than What we Believe. Canada: Toronto. HarperCollins, 2008.
Vosper, G. Another Breath. Prayers for Celebration and Reflection. Brisbane. The Centre for Progressive Religious Thought Brisbane, 2009/2010.
Ward, H. & J. Wild, J Morley. (ed). Celebrating Women. New edition. London. SPCK, 1995.

Web sites/Other:
Giles, Raible, Kaufmann. UUA Worship Web. Boston. <www.uua.org/spirituallife/worshipweb/>
"Australia Street". Brenda Saunders is a Koori poet from the Wiradjuri Nation.
Bronwyn Angela White, Wellington, New Zealand. < http://www.spirit-and-faith.com/16346232>
Andrew Pratt. “Canyons Heave and Mountains Tumble”. Direct from the author.
Peggy McDonagh. “Honoring Life”. One of several resources from: St Stephen’s Non-Theistic Project. <http://stephen.srv.ualberta.ca/publications/non-theistic-liturgy-resources/#sthash.0Sd5KwzN.wLO2Tlw4.dpbs>
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Colin Gibson. “I am a Part of the Pulse of Creation’. From the author. Used with permission

The Communion Liturgy: Shaped from resources created by and adapted from: Carter Heyward, L Bruce Miller, Michael Morwood, Shirley E Murray, David Bumbaugh, John S Spong, Rex A E Hunt, the Iona Community. It also appears in "Why Weren’t We Told? A Handbook on Progressive Christianity”.

A GATHERING LITURGY FOR THECELEBRATION OF LIFE

Rex A. E. Hunt

A GATHERING LITURGY FOR THE
CELEBRATION OF LIFE