All Saints Easter Gazette!
Blessed Easter from All Saints!
This week:
Prayer meeting on Thursday at 6:00 at Vrijburg
Eucharist (family liturgy) on Sunday at 5:30, also at Vrijburg.
Alleluia! Chirst is risen!
The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia!
(This is how Easter liturgies start, so you'll get used to hearing and saying it.)
Prayer on Thursday at 6:00!
A member our community recently remarked that when members our community come together to pray, God does things. Come join us! We hope to also be joined this week by people from the other communities who meet at Vrijburg, so it would be good to have a bit of a crowd.
What is Abundance?
As a variation on the abundance inventory, we are going to ask you what abundance means to you and share your answers. Annika offers this:
To have all you need whenever you need it. It is not so much material as it is a state of mind or consciousness in which you are able to see that all you need is right here. It is thus deeply rooted in trust in God and a constant awareness of God in and around you.
So it is not so much ‘I have all the money I want’ (you never do…) but rather ‘where I am is good’, ‘who I am is good’, ‘I have the energy, health, talent, friends, community, support network I need’. And in fact, it is ‘I have all this despite the many things I do not have. I just happen to have all I need despite there being so many things I could worry about.’ It is leaving home to go to the grave and finding the stone rolled away already. Or else finding that you are with enough people to roll it away.
In the Quran, paradise is sometimes referred to as ‘gardens under which rivers flow’. And I imagine, it might very much be this invisible source of nourishment that is always there to provide crops and flowers as well as cool air when it gets hot. And you have no idea where it comes from, but you know the crops will grow and the trees will flourish somehow providing food and shade whenever you need it.
Family Liturgy
Our seasonal family liturgy will be this Sunday. We will play with the format of worshiping around a table that we tried last Sunday. So invite people to bring their littler ones of any age, and bring your own if you have them!
Weekend in Munich
How would you like to spend a weekend at a castle in Munich meeting other people from Episcopal churches in Europe and learning some tools to share with our own community? Did I mention that it's (mostly) paid for by someone else? The Convocation is offering a program on Healthy Congregations from May 24-26 in Munich. The Convocation will cover the registration fee (includes meals and accommodation) and reimburse travel about €100 (and we can help more if needed). Anybody up for it? Talk to us and we'll get you registered without the fee.
All Saints People: I am...
Tell us about your name. Mpho is up first! (Video might not work before 14:30 Wednesday)
That's all for today!
Want to talk to a priest? We want to talk to you too!
Website: https://allsaintsamsterdam.church/
Mpho: mpho@allsaintsamsterdam.church
Kyle: kyle@allsaintsamsterdam.church
General: info@allsaintsamsterdam.church
