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- Pentecost: Uniquely Embodied Gifts
On Pentecost Sunday, Gena Minnix reflects on how the Spirit transforms our embodied selves and wounds into unique gifts that enliven the body of Christ. Molly Clack also shares her reflections on this text [1 Corinthians 12:4-12].
Reflection
- When you’re feeling most alive in your embodied self, what are you usually doing?
- How might your unique gift to the community of Christ come from your own place of woundedness?
Spiritual Practice
- This week, notice what you’re doing when you feel most alive and at home in your embodied self -- how might that point to a gift of the Spirit unique to who you are?
- Spend time this week reflecting on a part of yourself you think of as wounded, weak, or imperfect -- how might that wound be transformed into an embodied gift needed by the community of Christ?
Resources
- Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay
- Book: New Seeds of Contemplation (Thomas Merton)
- Song: Serenade by Franz Schubert (Itzhak Perlman on violin)
- Movie: All or Nothing: New Zealand All Blacks
34 min - Waiting
Weylin Lee reflects on what God is inviting us into during our season or experience of waiting. Kelli Knight and Kristy Robinson also share their reflections on this text [Acts 1:6-14].
Reflection
- How can we participate in unexpected ways during our season of waiting?
- What might be some things we’re invited to let go of as we wait in loss?
- What could be some meaningful practices of prayer as we wait?
Spiritual Practice
- Welcome Prayer. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I welcome everything that comes to me today because I know it's for my healing. I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions, persons, situations, and conditions. I let go of my desire for power and control. I let go of my desire for affection, esteem, approval and pleasure. I let go of my desire for survival and security. I let go of my desire to change any situation, condition, person or myself. I open to the love and presence of God and God's action within. Amen.
Resources
- Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay
27 min - Doorway to Presence
Gideon Tsang reflects on how we’re invited to dwell in our present moment. Danielle Dalsey Kimball also shares her reflections on this text [John 14:15-17].
Reflection
- Are you present to what's alive in you?
- What practices can bring you back to the present moment this coming week?
Spiritual Practice
- Contemplative Prayer. Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment.
Resources
- Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay
- Podcast: On Being (Ocean Vuong)
23 min - On Earth as It Is in Heaven
Gideon Tsang reflects on how we can slowly practice getting out of the hell of our minds and into the experience of heaven that’s at hand. Christina Cotham and Judy Peterson also share their reflections on this text [Acts 7:54-60].
Reflection
- What does heaven on earth feel like for you?
- How can you cherish the moments when you're at home without shame in this world?
Spiritual Practice
- Contemplative Prayer. Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment.
Resources
- Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay
38 min - Wanting
Jason Minnix reflects on our needs and how God is present in our deepest desires. Caroline Cody also shares her reflections on this text [Psalm 23].
Reflection
- What does it look like to invite God to be with me in my longing?
- How am I being held amidst the unsettling meal before me?
- Where have I been followed by goodness and mercy in my journey?
Spiritual Practice
- Bring the tension of wanting and not-yet-getting into God’s guiding presence. Speak or read Psalm 23 slowly with your breath. Name the tension you’re in as best you can. Close with another slow reading of Psalm 23.
- Make an object out of a difficult emotion for you this week and see how you relate to it.
- Name the threads of goodness and mercy that are returning you to a deeper life.
Resources
- Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay
32 min - Listening
Virginia Cumberbatch reflects on what it means to listen during this season of isolation and separation. Candice Boehm and Jennifer Cumberbatch also share their reflections on this text [Psalm 113].
Reflection
- How have you listened to yourself and God during the quarantine?
- What does it look like this week to create intentional space to listen?
Resources
- Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay
- Video: Quarantine Goals
- Song: I’m Listening (Chris McClarney)
29 min - Peace Be With You
Weylin Lee reflects on the spaces in our lives right now where we’re invited to experience peace. Kelly Cutbirth, John & Catie Brewster and Liz Schepel also share their reflections on this text [John 20:19-29].
Reflection
- How might we engage our senses in order to experience peace and extend peace to others?
- What are our spaces of disbelief that might offer ways to experience peace in an unexpected way?
- How might wounds serve as a reminder that our story isn’t finished?
Spiritual Practice
- Embodied Peace. What do you need to touch, see, hear, smell or taste to feel peace? How can you share embodied peace with someone else?
Resources
- Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay
- Podcast: Brene Brown and David Kessler on Grief
36 min - The Paradox of Rebirth
Gideon Tsang reflects on the paradox of rebirth on this Easter Sunday. Matt Inman, Gena Minnix and Virginia Cumberbatch also share their reflections on this text [Matthew 28:1-10].
Reflection
- What have you experienced during this gestation period before an eventual rebirth?
- How can you hold the paradox of fear and joy this week?
Spiritual Practice
- Create a tomb in your home to place the sources and feelings associated with loss that you have experienced.
- Leave yourself a reminder to “embrace the suck” during this challenging season.
Resources
- Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay
34 min - Places of Thirst
As we observe Palm Sunday and experience our first online liturgy, Jason Minnix reflects on our places of thirst during this global pandemic and season of physical separation. Claudia Harding and Brittany Acosta also share their reflections on this text [Exodus 17:1-7].
Reflection
- What are my places of thirst today?
- If I had permission to complain, what would I say during this time?
- Could God be a place of standing for me when the world’s on fire?
- What is my honest prayer this morning?
Spiritual Practice
- Name the places of thirst.
- Prayer of Complaint: Make a place to post your prayers and complaints to God this week
- Have an honest conversation with God this week about how you’re doing, about what’s happening.
Resources
- Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay
- Podcast: On Being (Padraig O Tuama)
40 min - A New Conversation
As we continue in the season of Lent, Matt Inman reflects on how our faith intersects with our belonging [Romans 4:13-17].
Reflection
- What parts of your story might need to be honored more for you to feel a greater sense of belonging?
- What kinds of new conversations do you long for? Who in your life do you trust enough to allow them to interrupt you?
Spiritual Practice
- Journal through these three questions. Where have you felt loving connection with your parents/guardians? Where might your parents have struggled to know how to love you? Imagine what acceptance and belonging might have looked like in those spaces.
- Conversation. Have a conversation with a friend or a colleague about where fear of punishment finds its way into your faith, thoughts, relationships and dreams.
Resources
- Film: Billy Elliot
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About Vox Veniae Podcast
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The work of the people. Our weekly rhythm of being together as a larger community to worship and confess, to engage scripture and prayer, to celebrate eucharist, and to be sent back into the city with…
a benediction each and every week.