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Communion beyond the table — Anna Blaedel, USA

Bread & Blessing Still Thoughts on communion… These days, I mostly celebrate communion outside of sanctuaries, no words of institution, no formal liturgy. Consecrated by the intention of savouring and sharing. The sacred practice of paying attention to bodies and bellies, to beauty, and longing, and hunger, and delight, and enoughness, and need. The sacrament […]

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Yes! to Care — Anna Blaedel, USA

Care. Tender care. Soul care. Spiritual care. Material care. Collective care. Not self care, no. Or, rather, not only self care. Because no self is separable from the multitude of our relations, and we are made for murmurations, and our lives and legacies and futures are bound up together, even now, even now. So, yes, […]

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Blessing for a New Year — enfleshed, USA

In threshold places, where endings meet beginnings, we are invited to listen backwards as we move forward. What can we learn from the year past – from how evil played its cards, or from relationships gained and lost? What brought you deep delight, when everything was swirling? To whom were you able to turn to […]

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