Care that Creates – Loddon Mallee UnitingNow

Welcome to Worship.

As it is Mothers Day this Sunday, we are remembering the sources of care in our lives. Behind this we recall the many ways God creates care for people in the face of hardships.

Here is a full text worship service for you to read at your own time and pace. Loddon Mallee Worship Collective – Easter 5A 2020.

This version you can read on your computer screen, or downloaded. The booklet version is below here.

Pamper mum!

Want ideas to pamper mum this Sunday [or need an ideas list to send someone else?]

Here is all the inspiration anyone would need for a wonderful Mothers Day.

Pamper Mum this Mother’s Day

This version of the full text worship service can be printed as an eight page booklet. Print double sided, and flip on short edge [if that means anything to you!]

Loddon Mallee Worship Collective – Booklet for Easter 5A 2020

Be Not Afraid.

This simple inspiring hymn is sung for us all by Catholic musicians from around the world. Click the youtube link below to Enjoy. Read more about the song here.

Here’s an alternative service for this Sunday, because some of us have room for more than one!

Easter 5 A 2020 May 10 by Ann Scull

a meditation – You are precious as God’s people

You’re invited to continue the post-Easter journey, contemplating ourselves as living stones that could be incorporated in a temple or spiritual shelter, in a path to understanding and wisdom, or some other, beautiful inspiration along the way.

Click WORSHIP MAY 10 2020_PRESBYTERY LABYRINTH _LG to download this prayer guide.

Or select this seven page version without photos. WORSHIP MAY 10 2020 PRESBYTERY LABYRINTH NO PICS LG

Contemplative Corner

Here is an opportunity to go deeper into your own sense of care, drawing on this sculpture.

Read on, or download Contemplative Corner – mother and child -Elizabeth Catlett so you can sit with a cuppa.

What do you think this person is feeling?
What do you think the child is feeling?
Does this image seem male or female to you? Does it matter?
Consider the position of each arm; does that suggest something about the experience of care?
To you, is the child physically with the adult? Or is the child a memory, or a hope? What difference does this make, if any?
Are you aware of yourself as a ‘child’ in some way still? Why might it help to hold a sense of ‘child’?
As you consider this picture, is there a phrase from the Bible or a thought about God that rises for you?
Does a prayer rise as you look here?
How might your expression of care shift in light of this reflection?

Elizabeth Catlett was a twentieth century African-American artist who explored themes relating to race and feminism in her range of sculpture, paintings, and prints. Read more here