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Welcome to November 29th Sunday Celebration
Season of Light (AHSCKNYE): Festival of Light
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Please join us this week as we enter that special time of year that falls between Via Negativa and Via Creativa. Dubbed AHSCKNYE (Advent. Hanukkah, Solstice. Christmas. Kwanza. New Year. Epiphany) by our founder, Howard Hanger, our 2020-21 holiday theme is SEASON OF LIGHT.
And it all begins this Sunday with a FESTIVAL OF LIGHT, a special celebration led by many inspiring speakers, uplifting music and joyous festivity. Leading this week's celebration are: Laura Collins, Aditi & Jay, Jay Joslin, Jackie Dobrinska, Laura Billings, Paula Sims, Yonah FrenchHawk, Tebbe Davis, The Jubilee Singers, Ron & Sharon Katz, Michelle Smith, Meta Commerse, Lauren Fortuna and Frank Marshall.
We invite you to have a candle to light in your own home during the ceremony.
Your friends and family are also welcome to join our lively, inspiring...and sometimes quirky...online celebration. So spread the word, invite anyone you know from here in the mountains or anywhere in the world to share the love and light this Sunday. Inviting folks is easy...just click the link below:
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How to Join Sunday's Celebration
Ways to Connect
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Join us this Sunday, November 29th at 9:45 am:
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Sunday's Bulletin
At Jubilee! Always Just a Suggestion
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CELEBRATION
Season of Light ~ Festival of Light
November 29, 2020
9:45 am
(pre-celebration music & visuals start about 9:40 or so)
Celebration leaders: Laura Collins, Aditi & Jay, Jay Joslin, Jackie Dobrinska, Laura Billings, Paula Sims, Yonah FrenchHawk, Tebbe Davis, The Jubilee Singers, Ron & Sharon Katz, Meta Commerse, Lauren Fortuna and Frank Marshall
GATHERING
You are encouraged to chat with people in the chat room privately or publicly, and know you are welcome here!
Welcome to Celebrating the Path of Light
Laura Collins
Opening Music
Aditi & Jay
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
O come, Thou Dayspring, come and cheer
Our spirits by thine Advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel!
Opening Reading
Laura Collins & Jay Joslin
INVOLVING
Diwali
The light of Diwali is the light of self
Laura Billings and Paula Sims
Bear Ceremony
The light of the Bear Ceremony is the light of readiness
Yona FrenchHawk
Bhodi Day
The light of Bhodi Day is the light of knowing
Tebbe Davis
Hanukkah
The light of Hanukkah is the light of freedom
Ron and Sharon Katz
Light One Candle
Aditi & Jay
Light one candle for the Maccabee children with thanks that their light didn’t die
Light one candle for the pain they endured when their right to exist was denied
Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice justice and freedom demand
But light one candle for the wisdom to know when the peacemakers’ time is at hand
Don’t let the light go out! It’s lasted for so many years!
Don’t let the light go out! Let it shine through our love and our tears!
Yule/Solstice
The light of Yule is the light of growth
Michelle Smith
Kwanzaa
The light of Kwanzaa is the light of community
Meta Commerse
Advent
The light of Advent is the light of hope
Lauren Fortuna and Frank Marshall
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Aditi & Jay
O come, Desire of nations, bind
All peoples in one heart and mind;
Bid envy, strife, and discord cease,
Fill the whole world with heaven’s peace.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel!
Singing the Buddhist Bowl
During this time you are invited to pray with a Jubilee! prayer partner in the private chat.
SHARING
Jubilee! in Action
Ways you can get involved with Jubilee! to make this world a better place
Jackie Dobrinska
Offering Our Money
Donate to Jubilee! and/or the hunger basket
1) Donate online
or
2) Download the Giveplus app, enter zip code 28801, click on Jubilee!
or
3) Use your smart phone to send text to 844-962-2639
or
4) Snail mail to Jubilee Community, 46 Wall St., Asheville, NC 28801
Dedicating Our Gifts to God
Aditi & Jay
Here Comes The Sun
Here comes the sun, do, dun, do, do
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right
Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
(chorus)
Little darling, the smile's returning to their faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
(chorus)
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes (x5)
Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
(chorus x2)
Benediction
Benediction for the Path of Mystery Ahead...
Laura Collins & Jay Joslin
CONNECTION
(Breakout rooms so you can connect to others in this community)
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This Week's Quotes
The reflection of light is what moves us.
~ Pierre Soulages
Maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us.
~ Mary Oliver, "Owls and Other Fantasies," House of Light
Seeing into darkness is clarity.
Knowing how to yield is strength.
Use your own light and return to the source of light.
This is called practicing eternity.
~ Lao-tzu
Some nights, stay up till dawn.
As the moon sometimes does for the sun.
Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well,
then lifted out into light.
~ Rumi
The sunrise can be a reminder of the day's gift because it comes unbidden. We don't produce it. The light is given. The world is reborn each morning, and we are given a whole new time of opportunity.
~ Brother David Steindl-Rast, The Music of Silence
Submitted by Anne Wray
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Please donate to the hunger baskets or Jubilee!'s operating costs or both. Jubilee! continues to have expenses to keep running. And know all hunger basket donations are going to Bounty & Soul and other organizations providing COVID relief.
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