Just thought you needed a reminder.
Not sure if they planned it this way but the birthday of the Blessed Mother yesterday also kicked off the Rosh Hashana celebrations this year (whoever 'they' are)- but it looks like divine planning.
So yesterday you could go to a special Mass on the Birthday (I hit the suburbs) and then go to a
Presbyterian church in Washington (not kidding) to celebrate Rosh Hashana with a Jewish congregation called Fabrangen which offers free holiday services (donation envelope at your seat in the pew.)
From the prayer book, which is basically right out of scripture, I found this which I want to share:
We are loved by an unending love.
We are embraced by a love that finds us
even when we are hidden from ourselves.
We are touched by fingers that soothe us
even when we are too proud for soothing.
We are consoled by voices that guide us
even when we are too embittered to hear.
We are loved by an unending love.
We are supported by hands that uplift us
even in the midst of a fall.
We are urged on by eyes that meet us
even when we are too weak for meeting.
We are loved by an unending love.
Embraced, touched, soothed, and counselled, ours are the arms, the fingers, the voices,
ours are the hands, the eyes, the smiles.
We are loved by an unending love.
Rami Shapiro. (from the Fabrangen High Holy Days prayerbook, www.Fabrangen.org)
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