During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, the parish church bell rang and all the people gathered for service. Weekdays the bell rang and people stopped work to gather for service or prayer. Today, our parish is much different. Monday morning may find members thousands of miles away from home. Today, we need a new paradigm. The electronic media provides us a way to connect as these earlier Christians did in their parish.
How can we be involved in the church community during the week? The worship service is the center of our church activity, so do we have an avenue open to us to continue the worship experience during the week? Personally, I find the sermon is away to continue the woship experience during the week.
On this blog I discuss points that have spoken t0 me during the worship service and at times since the Sudnay morning experience. Even though this is done alone, it has a sense of community. The bounds of the church community have been expanded to include our solitude during the week.
Ronald Rolheiser writes in The Holy Longing: the Search for a Christian Spirituality: "What church community takes away from us is our false freedom to soar unencumbered, like the birds, believing that we are mature, loving , committed, and not blocking out things that we should be seeing."
The reflections here are make in response to a commitment to the community of faith. A small way of being accountable to the faith community and to God.
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