Breaking news...
Preston has received his new prayer material from head office and thinks that perhaps the material might need a bit of reworking...
We received a worship resource here at the parish called "Enough for All", an ecumenical service on the theme of caring for creation. It comes out of The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund and two other ecumenical partners. All good and well. There's some good stuff in there, and we will probably use some of it for our intercessions on an upcoming Sunday.
However, one particular prayer jumped out at me. It goes like this:
We pray for the air - which sustains us with every breath, and regulates a climate where life can flourish. Help us to understand our dependence on a stable atmosphere and recognize our need to reduce dangerous accumulations of the polluting emissions that we humans are responsible for. Teach us to change our careless and wasteful behaviour for the good of the world.
God of the Winds and Gases, show us your glory and hear us.
read the rest here
This prayer will be particularly effective with the 9-13 year old boy crowd...
The winds are breaking. My, my, my.
Posted by: The Sheepcat | February 20, 2008 at 08:10 PM
Gag me with a spoon. PWRDF energy time and funding goes into developing this sort of drivel? That is just great to know. They need to find new "partners" and get back to their basic mandate and just say "no" to the Eco-Justice Committee (Peace and blessings be upon them and this is so their type of thing). "We pray for the air"??!! Gaia should be pleased anyway. But you're right. It is really funny.
Posted by: Susan | February 20, 2008 at 11:10 PM
breakingnews?? Fr. Joe, how could you? (Then again, how could you resist...)
Posted by: Kate | February 21, 2008 at 05:40 AM
Maybe the ladybug has gas and that's why she's so grouchy. Noticed that you've kept with Eric Carle but are no longer with the Hungry Caterpillar. My kids still love that book. Of course it is really called "Die Kleine Raupe Nimmersatt". I hope the kids are doing well.
Posted by: alex | February 22, 2008 at 04:11 PM
alex - there are a few more Eric Carle books on the shelf, but I'm still working on the latin translations...
Posted by: joseph | February 23, 2008 at 12:32 PM
I know of many many seniors for whom a good fart would be the greatest blessing in the world - Let us stand in solidarity with our Brethren and bring on the winds and gases I say!
But seriously - yeah, sometimes people write liturgies and don't take a second look at what they've just written. Ah well, there's lots of other things to get het up about, so I'll cut 'em some slack.
Posted by: Judy | March 04, 2008 at 08:24 PM
Sometimes we just need to inject a little humour around the place.
Posted by: joseph | March 04, 2008 at 08:26 PM