Ruah Bull - Spiritual Director

 It is said that the brightness of a star and the singing of angels announced the birth of the god made man, the child born among domestic animals. Whatever is the story of the tragic and glorious trajectory of his life, it all comes to this: he taught love.

 They tell that a man so loving & just that many take him  for benevolent god was killed because his teaching so loving & just threatened the very foundations of empire & that against all law of life three days later resurrected, not unheard of in myth but wondrous still. His teaching still threatens empires & many who dare follow it are persecuted & killed, & his resurrection is nothing less than revolution.

 Thanks and blessing be to the Sun & the Earth for this bread & this wine,          this fruit, this meat, this salt, this food; thanks be and blessing to them who prepare it, who serve it; thanks and blessing to them who share it (& also the absent & the dead). Thanks and blessing be to them who bring it (may they not want), to them who plant and tend it, harvest and gather it (may they not want), thanks and blessing to them who work & blessing to them who cannot; may they not want - for their hunger sours the wine & robs the salt of its taste. Thanks be for the sustenance & strength for our dance & the work of justice, of peace.