3rd SUNDAY OF EASTER

       CONTEMPORARY READING

 “Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has    gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love.”– Sitting Bull

  2nd SUNDAY OF EASTER

Easter Sunday

Palm Sunday

5th Sunday of Lent

                             CONTEMPORARY READING

Sabbath honors the necessary wisdom of dormancy. If certain plant species, for example, do not lie dormant for winter, they will not bear fruit in the spring. If this continues for more than a season, the plant begins to die. If dormancy continues to be prevented, the entire species will die. A period of rest – in which nutrition and fertility most readily coalesce – is not simply a human psychological convenience; it is a spiritual and biological necessity.  A lack of dormancy produces confusion and erosion in the life force.

We, too must have a period in which we lie fallow, and restore our souls. In Sabbath time we remember to celebrate what is beautiful and sacred; we light candles, sing songs, tell stories, eat, nap, and make love. It is a time to let our work, our lands, our animals lie fallow, to be nourished and refreshed. Eithin sanctuary, we become available to insights and blessings of deep mindfulness that arise only in stillness and time. When we act from a place of deep rest, we are more capable of cultivating what the Buddhists would call right understanding, right action, and right effort. In a complex and unstable world, if we do npt rest, if we do not surrender into some kind of Sabbath, how can we find our way, how can we hear the voices that tell us the right ting to do?

 Wayne Muller

Sababbath, 1999

4th Sunday of Lent

                                                                 CONTEMPORARY READING

Who is She, neither male nor female, maker of all things, only glimpsed or hinted, source of life an gender?

She is God, Mother, sister, lover: in her love we make, move, grow are daunted, triumph and surrender:

Who is She, mothering her people, teaching them to walk, lifted weary toddlers, bending down to feed them? 

She is Love, Crying in a stable, teaching from a boat,

Friendly with the lepers, bound for crucifixion.

Who is she, sparkle in the rapids, coolness of the well,

Living power of Jesus flowing from the Scriptures?

She is life, Water, wind, and laughter, calm, yet never still,

Swiftly moving Spirit, singing in the changes. 

 n Brian Wren, Author, Theologian

Pastor Annie Allen gives a visual sermon entitled  Prayer Sunday on

2-21-2021.

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2nd Sunday of Lent

Contemporary Reading

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

1st Sunday of Lent

                                                           James Weldon Johnson

                                                                    “Listen Lord – A Prayer”

                                                                     God’s Trombones, 1927

Sixth Sunday After Epiphany

Fifth Sunday After Epiphany

Fourth Sunday After Epiphany

Third Sunday After Epiphany

The Rutherford Congregational Church hosted a Candlelight Vigil on 9-20-2020 at 7:00 pm sponsored by Councilwoman Maria Begg-Roberson of the Rutherford Borough Council. The Vigil was held in memory of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Reverends Ronald E. Verblaauw and Peter Wilkinson officiated.

BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTEST 6-7-2020

RUTHERFORD, NJ 

Pastor Ron &

Emanuel Meli

at BLM Protest 

Rutherford Congregational Church

Council President Carol Marshall

Black Lives Matter Protest 

Black Lives Matter Protestors