Mondays in May

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**Sunday, June 20, 2021**



*Mark 4: 35-41*

On that day, when evening had come, Jesus said to them,

“Let us go across to the other side.”

And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was.

Other boats were with him.

A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat,

so that the boat was already being swamped.

But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him,

“Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”

He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,

“Peace! Be still!”

Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm.

He said to them,

“Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?”

And they were filled with great awe and said to one another,

“Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

Prayer

Brother Jesus,

let us go to the other side,

Let us step away from the conventional and the expected.

Let us move toward

transformation and transition,

conversion and change.

In these moments of prayer and reflection,

let us set our course toward that which is:

most important,

most meaningful, and

most faithful.



(Silence.)

Crucified One,

storms do arise in our lives.

Waves do crash in our communities.

Winds do rage in our world.

Poverty and pollution persist.

Violation and greed continue.

Racism and homophobia reek havoc.

We pray for the tempests and troubles.

Resurrected One,

we can be afraid,

of disapproval and disappointment,

of rejection and failure,

of illness and death.

Once again, please, wake up.

Rise and rebuke the wind.

Speak to the sea.

Bring the storms in us, and on this planet, to silence.

Centre us in your divine peace.

Ground the globe in your sacred stillness.

(Silence)

Lord of Wind and Wave,

who are you?

You do not let the demons have dominion.

You turn chaos into creation.

You have the authority of the ages,

without power games,

without coercive control,

without elaborate ego and display.

Rather you put faith,

in the vision and way of non-domination and non-violence,

in the realm of God’s good news,

in hope and kin-dom of heaven.

And you do not leave us alone on the peril of the sea.

Praise be.



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