This webinar is BETTER TOGETHER and how we do an online EASTER SERVICE. I offer some ideas, and ways of creating a service for Easter that incorporates elements we find so meaningful to this season, yet doing things differently. Participants include their own ideas as well, so check out the CHAT download document below, hopefully it supports you in getting your creative juices flowing.
You can do this!
Easter is all year long, we are always moving through deaths and resurrections. Right now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are moving through several, literally and metaphysically. Watch and glean some creative ways to have a powerful, connecting, meaningful Easter season, from your home, with your peeps! Also included under the video are several links tom documents I refer to in the video.
Here are multiple documents referenced in the webinar, as well as extra goodies to help you plan meaningful ceremonies and online connections this Easter season… and well, all year long!
- Differing Resurrection Accounts – 4 Gospels
- Easter Discussion with Children
- Fasting and Feasting Examples
- Spring Ceremony – Four Directions
- Good Friday – Myrtle Fillmore Threefold Healing Taize Style
- Webinar – Creating Easter Online Slides
- Webinar – Chat Stream (only makes sense if you are watching the video, more ideas)
Some Thoughts About Communion
Words, as we know, have power. We use words to express ourselves and explain our world, our relationships and even God. Yet at times we know words can fall short. When this happens, we have still another language, the language of ritual. The most ancient and primal ritual of all is the ritual of physical embrace. It can say and do what words cannot.
For thousands of years we humans have come together to dance around the tribal fire to engage in ritual. The times that we come together to worship are generally marked by ceremony or ritual because it often helps us feel connected to ourselves, to each other, and the world. As we are led step by step through ritual, we experience union with the divine. Ritual binds us to creation and in this bond we experience the sacred.
In every ritual is held 2 aspects, intention and action. THE HEART and THE HAND. Intention is the purpose of the ritual. Action is what we physically do, it’s the acting out of our intention. The metaphysical embrace with God of our heart and hands.
The ritual of Communion is no different. Many of us may think of Communion and have negative feelings or thoughts having been raised in faiths that practiced Communion regularly, others may know nothing about it and feel some excitement, while others may think it is not something for Unity.
Communion means coming together. It’s also known as the Eucharist, which comes from the Greek and means thankfulness. This ritual of Communion is our coming together to give thanks, that is our intention, our heart song. The symbols we use for giving thanks are bread and wine, or grape juice.
The bread represents Substance, the universal presence of the Christ consciousness, the body of divine ideas. The wine symbolizes the life force, the activity of circulating those divine ideas, through us, in us and as us, freeing us so that we can experience the infinite possibilities of God.
Through this Communion of Substance and Life we are experiencing the embrace of the divine, remembering our oneness with all that is, the I AM.
You might try using multiple types of bread for your Communion ritual, like Pita, Jewish Rye, Challah Bread, Naan, Tortilla, Focaccia, Wheat, Cornbread, Biscuit, etc., to truly represent the “body” of the Christ, the interconnectedness of all life.
