Hosted by the Faith To Go team in the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, David Tremaine and Charlette Preslar, and joined the each week by a special guest, the Faith To Go Podcast highlights themes from the Sunday Gospel reading for you to take into your faith discussions and reflections throughout the week.
from NPR
Questions:
1) What is "equity" based on the ideas in this article?
2) How does equity help not just those receiving resources, but those sharing resources?
3) Where else do you think this approach would work?
4) Why do you think there is resistance to this kind of equity? Where does this resistance come from?
5) Have you ever experienced a time when sharing your resources with someone helped you both?
Views and Qs: Access Ain't Inclusion
Watch this video together and then use the discussion questions below to reflect as a family.
Discussion Questions:
1) What work of equitable access to resources does the speaker highlight even after diversity is achieved? 2) What are the two categories of "poor" students the speaker highlights? What is the difference between them?
3) What resources, other than money, are not equitably distributed in universities? How does this lead to greater inequality? 4) What are some of the non-monetary resources you see being inequitably distributed in your community? 5) How could you work for greater access to these resources for all people in your community?
Feast and Faith: Giving and Receiving
For this week's dinner discussion we will focus on Jesus' parable of the talents.
Prayer -
Almighty God, whose loving hand hath given us all that we
possess: Grant us grace that we may honor thee with our
substance, and, remembering the account which we must one
day give, may be faithful stewards of thy bounty, through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Discussion -
This week we are reflecting on the Jesus' parable of the talents, where three servants are entrusted with various amounts of a rich man's estate while he goes on a long journey. The first two use the resources with which they have been entrusted and receive them back twofold. The third buries the resources and returns to the rich man exactly what had been given to him:
Questions -
1) Can you think of a time that you gave something away and in turn received it back two fold?
2) What are some of the resources with which you have been entrusted, either material or non-material?
3) Which of these do you find hardest to use, give freely of, or risk losing? Why?
4) Where do you see your decisions being influenced by fear and/or scarcity in your life?
5) Where do you see fear and scarcity playing out most clearly in the life of your community? The nation? The world?
Final Nugget -
This week we are asked to reflect on what resources we have been given, and how willing we are to use, risk, and give freely of those resources. How could you give more freely of your resources and live into a greater feeling of abundance in your life?
Stay and Pray: A Devotion for Families at the Close of the Day Each week we feature a way for your family to reflect and pray together. For families with older children this is an at home liturgy for your family to participate in together. It is a daily devotion for families adapted from The Book of Common Prayer.
Before you begin, take a few moments to decide who will read the scripture reading and who will read the collect and closing.
Read the Psalm and Lord's Prayer in unison.
After a moment of silence, begin with the Psalm.
Psalm 123
(read in unison)
1 To you I lift up my eyes, *
to you enthroned in the heavens.
2 As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, *
and the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
3 So our eyes look to the Lord our God, *
until he show us his mercy.
4 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy, *
for we have had more than enough of contempt,
5 Too much of the scorn of the indolent rich, *
and of the derision of the proud.
Reading
(read by assigned person)
Matthew 25:14-30
Jesus said, “It is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. The one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with them, and made five more talents. In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents. But the one who had received the one talent went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money. After a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. Then the one who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five more talents, saying, ‘Master, you handed over to me five talents; see, I have made five more talents.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’ And the one with the two talents also came forward, saying, ‘Master, you handed over to me two talents; see, I have made two more talents.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’ Then the one who had received the one talent also came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’ But his master replied, ‘You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to the one with the ten talents. For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. As for this worthless slave, throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’”
Prayers for Ourselves and For Others (take this time to each offer one person/event that you would like to hold in prayer as well as one thing you are thankful for)
Dear God, tonight I ask your prayers for ….
and I give you thanks for …
Amen
The Lord’s Prayer
(read in unison)
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy Name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those
who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen
The Collect
(read by assigned person)
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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