easter 3: thursday morning
Alleluia! Christ is risen.
The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia!
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Colossians 3.1
a reading from the epistles of st. paul
Colossians 1.24-2.7 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. I became its servant according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil and struggle with all the energy that he powerfully inspires within me.
For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for all who have not seen me face to face. I want their hearts to be encouraged and united in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I am saying this so that no one may deceive you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, and I rejoice to see your morale and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
What words or phrases caught hold of you in your reading?
Enter into a space of silence and solitude with these words.
How can these words/scripture readings become a prayer for you and our community?
What implications do these words have for your life and our community today?
the prayers
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your Name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial,
and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours,
now and forever. Amen.
O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
hope in action: sweatshops
[learn be act]
The following is a sampling of where you can purchase ‘sweat-free’ clothing online:
- No Sweat: 100% union-made apparel
- Ethical Threads: made with love, not sweat
- Justice Clothing: wear you conscience
- Indigenous: fair trade + organic
- autonomie project, inc.: organic, sweatshop free, vegan
- Good Humans
- Maggie’s Organics
- Just Shirts: sweatshop free, fairly-traded clothing
- Nicaraguan Garment Workers Fund
- The Working World: a credit to democracy
- Fair Indigo
