[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: FutureChurch Weekend Bulletin - June 10, 2023

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From: FutureChurch <russ at futurechurch.org>
Date: Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 9:04 AM
Subject: FutureChurch Weekend Bulletin - June 10, 2023
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Blessing of the Week

When was the last time you celebrated? I mean *really* celebrated? Sing out
at the top of your lungs, dance in the streets celebrated?

During last weekend’s FutureChurch board retreat, Fr. Anne Tropeano
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joined us to offer a guided reflection on “celebration.” And she posed the
question above - among others - for us to consider and reflect upon quietly
on our own.

I searched my memory and came up with many causes for celebration both
personally and professionally over the years: the first women deacons
commission and the elevation of Mary Magdalene’s memorial to a feast day in
2016; my 15-year-dating, 10-year-married, and 5-year-legally-married
anniversaries in 2020; getting my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in
2021; my 40th birthday and the publication of *Catholic Women Preach:
Raising Voices, Renewing the Church
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*in 2022; and, of course, votes for Catholic women in 2023.

But I had to go back to June 26, 2015 to find the kind of all-out,
make-a-joyful-noise kind of celebration Fr. Anne was talking about. That
was the day the United States Supreme Court ruling on Obergefell v. Hodges
legalized gay marriage throughout the country. On my way home from the
FutureChurch office that Friday, I stopped at DairyQueen and picked up an
ice-cream cake (my favorite!) and asked the decorator to add a rainbow on
top and rainbow drizzle around the sides. My husband Daniel and I danced
and cried tears of joy to (somewhat embarrassingly) Wynonna Judd’s
rendition of “Testify to Love”
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on repeat. We watched the celebrations throughout the country on TV and
eventually put on our rainbow shirts and joined our local celebrations.
That September, Daniel and I realized a dream that had been deferred not
only because of the legal issues but also because of my previous employment
in Catholic parishes.

This month, the LGBTQIA+ community and our allies celebrate Pride. Emerging
out of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising there are marches, parades, festivals,
art installations, protests, celebrations, memorials, mom and dad hugs,
liturgies, and all kinds of events all over the world. Pride is a
recognition that – while there is still so much work to be done – there is
also so much to celebrate. We celebrate - first and foremost - our inherent
human dignity and goodness. We also celebrate our history, our heroes, the
progress we’ve made, the community we’ve built, the future we are forging.

We are – all of us – people who are out to change the Church and the world.
I don’t have to tell you that this is hard, sometimes downright
demoralizing, work. Even when we do make a step in the right direction it
can be easy to downplay it or to jump right into solving to the next
problem, taking the next step. But as Fr. Anne reminded our board and as
Pride reminds us, it is so very important to take time to celebrate: to
rejoice in and for ourselves, our community, and our God.

As our time with Fr. Anne came to a close, each board member was invited to
share one thing they were celebrating and to receive a brief celebration
from the others. It was a blessing to share in those moments – big and
small, silly and poignant – with one another.

So, this weekend, this week, what will you celebrate?

Co-Director
Russ Petrus
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The Just Word "Eucharistic Theology and Ecological Eating" with Jim Robinson
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Writing for The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, Jim
Robinson invites us to explore how Catholic nuns are connecting eucharistic
theology with ecological eating; engage with Pope Francis and Patriarch
Bartholomew, the “Green Patriarch” of the Eastern Orthodox Church and their
depictions of a sacramental worldview; and embody an eco-spiritual approach
to eating:

*As we celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi, and as we engage with
scriptural passages that invite us into the mystery of the Eucharist, may
we take Sr. Miriam McGillis’s witness to heart. May our participation in
the Eucharist inspire us to develop a deepening sensitivity to the
sacramental nature of our daily acts of relating to food: whether through
cooking, growing, harvesting, cleaning, eating, or all of the above. *

*Jim Robinson* is a member of the Religious Studies department at Iona
College, associate director of the Deignan Institute for Earth and Spirit
and a member of Agape’s Mission Council..
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VDMF, Ph.D.
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Preaching for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, Dr. Julia D.E.
Prinz, VDMF offers a reflection on witnessing to the Body of Christ in the
world:

*"Carrying the burden of the presence of God is no easy quest...We are
called to a witness, out of which no fainting is going to liberate us,
because bearing witness is nothing for the faint of heart."*

Dr. Prinz is Adjunct Lecturer in Christian Spirituality and Former Director
Women of Wisdom and Action Initiative at Jesuit School of Theology at Santa
Clara University. Dr. Prinz is a regular speaker at regional and national
theological conferences in Germany and the United States. Her speaking
assignments and publications in general, specifically her book,*
Endangering Hunger for God*, show her commitment to using theological
research for the empowerment of the marginalized.
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this Prayer for Pride Month:

*Creating God;Jesus, who puts flesh to the Holy;Enlivening Spirit.You have
always existed beyond the binary.And you have always created beyond the
binary.*

*Transcendent Three-in-One,You transmit the truth of who you are to us with
prophetic pride:The One who transubstantiates and makes the change
sacredThe One who is TransfiguredThe One whose mystery is translated
through the transfixing love of Christ -- transparently adoring the
entirety of who we are.*

*Lead us not into the temptation of believing we are anything but your
wildly beloved family.Remind us that delight in who You have created us to
beis not a sin, but our sacred right.*

*Strengthen us to transform any unjust law or system that would stifle the
fabulous diversity of your creation.*

*Amen.*

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June 13, 2023 | 7pm ET
The Women Who Led and Ministered in Acts

Professor Teresa Calpino discusses the women who led and ministered in The
Acts of the Apostles, with a particular focus on Tabitha (Acts 9:36–42) and
Lydia (Acts 16:11–15). The women in Acts have routinely been ignored by
scholars or mentioned only in praising the male apostle associated with
their story. As a result, these important characters have been obscured. An
examination of their stories set against the expectations of women in
Greco-Roman antiquity reveals their unconventional situations. In
particular, representations of the “ideal woman” in the Greco-Roman world
are at variance with the portraits of Tabitha and Lydia. Both women are
portrayed as independent, support themselves financially, and are regarded
as benefactresses in their own right. Of course, benefactions from women
were commonplace among elite women of the dominant class, but neither
Tabitha nor Lydia belong to such select families.
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July 11, 2023 | 7pm ET Gender and the Role of Women in Our Liturgical Life

Where are the women when it comes to the liturgical life of the Catholic
Church? What role does gender play? How did our liturgical traditions
develop? Our liturgical history has been shaped substantially by the
invisibility and exclusion of women. How credible can this historical
narrative be with so much of the Body of Christ missing?

Yale Divinity School Professor Teresa Berger has spent a lifetime examining
both past and present liturgical developments from the perspective of
women’s lives. In this presentation she will offer insights into the roles
women played in Early Christianity, the history of women’s liturgical
ministries, and the development of the calendar of saints and the uneven
ways we have come to formally venerate women within the tradition.

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