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For those who fish ~ blessing, song, and ritual

Catherine Smith2020-10-01T16:10:55-03:00Categories: Prayers, Resources for Our Gathered Life, Uncategorized|Tags: blessing, fishing, liturgy|

Blessings for those who fish at the opening of the season.

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Longest Night ~ Tears and Blessing

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T11:59:17-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: blessing, Blue Christmas, grief, Hope, Longest Night|

  You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle.  Psalm 56   Sometimes we are gathering words for a [...]

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Return: A Kind of Blessing

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T11:59:18-04:00Categories: Prayers, Uncategorized|Tags: Autumn, blessing, Fall, gratitude, Labor Day Prayer, Labour Day, memories, Return to work|

  For you who are returning; turned again to what feels regular, routine, or even pressed. See, just here – droplets of the  moments when your [...]

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Benediction on Christmas Eve

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:08-04:00Categories: Prayers|Tags: Benediction, blessing, Christmas Eve|

May the wonder of this night hold a space in you each night and every day may you know your body blessed by the birth of [...]

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Song of our Bodies; Site of our Blessing

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:08-04:00Categories: Reflections, Uncategorized|Tags: blessing, Creation, Embodiment, Eros, Lectionary September 2nd, Song of Songs|

The one who rises gracefully before us, in this moment, is the Shulammite women. We might listen avidly or uneasily or both for we have heard [...]

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On the Edge of Thanksgiving

Catherine Smith2020-12-09T11:06:15-04:00Categories: Prayers|Tags: blessing, despair, grace, gratitude, Thanksgiving|

As this day closes may you go gently quiet prayers in your pockets, perhaps overflowing. Small blessings, a touch, a voice a memory, beauty, scattered on [...]

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Hallows Eve

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:59-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: All Saints, blessing, community, Hope, Inclusion, time|

Coming to this all hallows evening we hear the call to pay attention to the permeable fabric of time. It is a potent time in which [...]

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Blessings in the world

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:13-04:00Categories: Words|Tags: blessing, relinquishing, Ritual, vulnerability|

Always in life we are relinquishing something or someone, gracefully or with great struggle.  We relinquish childhood for adolescence, adolescence for adulthood and its various stages [...]

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