A Meditation: Say Your Suffering and Bless It [Eps 15]
Blessing changes our experience. Liturgy gives voice to groanings and prayer we don’t have the words to say. This episode is a meditation with readings of blessing for today’s struggles of pandemic and injustice. It includes texts from poet John O’Donohue and author Douglas McKelvey. The sequence includes a blessing for our lives, a blessing upon the world, and a liturgy for a time of widespread suffering.
Full liturgy text HERE or at everymomentholy.com/liturgies.
The readings:
1. “For One Who Is Exhausted” from John O’Donohue’s book To Bless the Space Between Us.
2. Excerpt from a section in that same book “Blessing Our World Now.”
3. “Liturgy for a Time of Widespread Suffering” by Douglas McKelvey. Also found at Everymomentholy.com/liturgies. Available in the new book called: Death, Grief and Hope, Liturgies for Seasons of Dying and Grieving, available in fall 2020 from Rabbit Room Press.
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