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Dates to Prayer Notes R. Inham remember mmoravianoravian - Mark 8:31-38 March 1 [Lent 2] 2015 MARCH mmessengeressenger Founding of the Man of Sorrows, who for our sake suffered many things and was rejected; rising 1 Unitas Fratrum again after three days. Take from us all fear, all coldness of heart and all ch unwillingness to suffer. Glorying in your Cross may we also rejoice that you have Mar 1457 called us to bear it with you. Save us from the sullen heart that will drag it and the cowardly spirit that will let it fall. In your strength, help us to support it Reflecting in Lent: cheerfully and resolutely. Setting our minds on the things of God may we never be ashamed of you or your words. Denying ourselves and taking up our cross Women's 6 daily grant that, losing our life for your sake, we might truly find it. Amen World Day of March Following a Prayer March 8 [Lent 3] - John 2:13-22 www.wwdp-natcomm.org Head of the Church, who in indignation cast out those who profaned the holy Passionart Trail Written by women of temple and made your Father's house a market place; purify your Church today the Bahamas During Lent 2014, Manchester hosted Library. This helped us to that it may truly be a house of prayer for all nations. Enter the living temple of an art trail. This was planned so that it ponder on the origins of the our hearts; cleanse us from all that is unholy and unworthy that, built together could introduce Easter to people who do scriptures; while the as living stones, we might worship you in spirit and in truth. Consecrate in each not know what it is about; and to expand manuscripts and printed heart a hidden sanctuary, where you alone enter and where secret sacrifices are the experience of practising Christians. books on display showed how religious texts were copied down the Day of Atonement, a goat would have offered up. Taking our part in prayer and praise to you here on earth, may we It may be something we might be able centuries. its horns wrapped with a red cloth - 8 one day join in the everlasting song of the redeemed, around your throne, to to do ourselves, by visiting alone or with 2 representing the sins of the community March friends some of the works of art in our On display here was also something quite Climate the glory of your Name. Amen - and be driven off. The full moon is March own neighbourhood, to reflect on how different, a moving temporary exhibition, found in this version of The Scapegoat, Week - John 3:14-21 they express (or fall short in expressing) an originally private meditation upon March 15 [Lent 4] where its reflection surrounds the skull .www.cllimateweek.com the journey towards God. Or, with others, grief embroidered on handkerchiefs by and horns of the previous year's goat we might be able to put on our own trail a fabric artist. It was intimate yet spoke Son of God, lifted up on the Cross so that believing in you we might not perish where it lies in the shallows of the Dead for people in our locality. beyond the personal. but have eternal life. You are the Light of the world; may your light may so shine Sea. The current scapegoat dominates that people everywhere believe in your name. Enlarge our faith in such a way As Bible Study increases our knowledge Then there was the series of modern the painting as it nears its own death, its tongue hanging out with thirst in this British that with all our strength we may love both you and all for whom you died; that of God's Word, similarly the works of Stations of the Cross in the medieval the whole earth may be filled with your glory. Amen creative people down the centuries can cathedral. This building also has glorious salty, lifeless waste. Behind, in this version 13 22 Science help to expand our responses to God. twentieth-century stained glass windows, but not in the other two Hunt made, the ch Week March 22 [Lent 5] - John 12:20-33 We might also be able to touch people which replaced those destroyed in moonlit rainbow of the Covenant hangs Mar March who are moved by art but have never wartime bombing. One side-chapel has in a perfect arc, joining the heavens and Son of Man, who was lifted up that you might draw all people to yourself; grant connected it to the Easter message of a flame-coloured window, and there are the earth. Round the scapegoat's neck the Gospels - or may not even know it trees planted behind it, which sway with is the tangled red yarn: this is also found that we might so lose our selves in love of you that we never prove a barrier in exists. the breeze, making the glass seem to in the corner of the carpenter's workshop the way of those who would see Jesus. May your name be so glorified through move, as if the Spirit approaches. in Hunt's large painting, The Shadow of us that we serve you in all things, prefer you to all things, and trust you with all Some of the art on the Manchester trail the Cross. Viewing the three paintings was on permanent display, and some In Manchester Art Gallery three paintings Mothering 15 things; that losing ourselves in love of you we bear fruit for life eternal. Amen together we learn how the artist has seen Sunday Mar works were presented in churches which by the nineteenth-century painter unity in the life of Jesus. ch March 29 [Palm Sunday] - Mark 11:1-11 are themselves architectural works of art. Holman Hunt are hung at a child's Other works were borrowed, or created viewing height. His Light of the World is The Gallery has a section devoted to specially. There was a free booklet, and well-known. The Manchester version is Dutch still-life, where few people usually Son of David, you knew as you entered Jerusalem that the welcome of the crowd I went round with a companion in a single small, as if intended for private viewing. linger. But among the flowers and fruit would turn to rejection, yet still you came. Like the people on that first Palm day. Christ knocks at an overgrown door with that took months if not years to compose Sunday, we do not always understand as we should and our praise is often short- no outer handle, illuminated by the lamp and paint, with intense attention to light Palm Sunday Everyone will have their preferences - the 29 lived and superficial. Thank you for coming again to us this day. Keep us faithful, in his hand, the light from within, a hint and shadow, growth and decay, was a important thing is to explore, and perhaps March of dawn, and the full moon which series of photographs of the last meals keep us loyal, and keep us true. Take the faith we have and deepen it, so that we to have a chance to speak about them. may truly welcome you and worship you with joyful praises, now and always. surrounds his head. ordered by men on Death Row in the On the Manchester trail we visited the United States. Some of these have Amen earliest-known fragment of Saint John's Hunt's painting The Scapegoat is based remained on exhibition since. Stark Gospel, which is in the city's John Rylands on the Leviticus stipulation that on the images of food appear before a black continued inside The Moravian Messenger Advertisements and all Editor Design & Artwork communications Rosemary Power David Bull The Restoration of Spotlight on Official Journal of the Moravian concerning distribution 19b Fairfield Square, Manchester M43 6AD [email protected] and supply should be sent [email protected] Gracehill Village Kingswood Church in the British Province. to the Moravian Book Room Contributions for the Messenger should Printed & Distribution Square Published monthly by the 5 Muswell Hill, London N10 reach the editor by the 3rd day of the G. R. Walkden authority of the Provincial Synod. 3TJ, and NOT to the Editor. preceeding month. Tel 01931 716703 (page 29) (page 33) Following a News from Tanzania Passionart Trail Are we continued Khalatse News background, just as in the easy in our skin? From Brother Andreas Tasche seventeenth-century paintings. It During the recent first State Visit of the takes a while to notice that these are A reflection for Lent by Judith Carpenter President of Germany to Tanzania, there photographs, deliberately linked to was a joyful event when his Partner, the past. The food includes chips and Are we at ease with ourselves and our The light of Lent is about knowledge, Daniela Schadt, officially opened a hamburgers. beliefs? Spiritually mature enough to enlightenment, especially about ourselves Moravian Primary School and One man awaiting execution fasted acknowledge others' lives and attitudes and particularly when we dare to pare Kindergarten at Mwera in Zanzibar without feeling that our own are down our lives for its duration. If we can and took as his final meal only bread Province. This school, part funded through threatened, or that our certainties risk introduce a different rhythm, create Herrnhut, was attended by public and and wine. For me, this was the dissolving in the light of someone else's alternative priorities, spend more time church representatives; and pupils 'Resurrection piece' for the whole trail.