Worship

It is through worship that we are all reminded of God’s love. And that love can be extended to others through prayer. The Calendar of Prayer is a way to intentionally remember an individual or group.

Diocesan Cycle of Prayer

January 2022

Jan. 02 EPIPHANY MISSION CHURCH, SHERWOOD

Jan. 09 CHRIST CHURCH, TRACY CITY

Jan. 16 CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, NASHVILLE AND THE 190TH CONVENTION OF THE DIOCESE OF TENNESSEE

Jan. 23 CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY, LEBANON

Jan. 30 GRACE CHURCH, SPRING HILL

February 2022

Feb. 06 CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, NASHVILLE

Feb. 13 ST. MATTHEW’S CHURCH, MCMINNVILLE

Feb. 20 ST. AUGUSTINE’S CHAPEL, NASHVILLE

Feb. 27 ST. LUKE’S CHURCH, SPRINGFIELD

March 2022

Mar. 02 ASH WEDNESDAY

Mar. 06 ST. MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, FAYETTEVILLE AND ST. ANDREW’S-SEWANEE SCHOOL, SEWANEE

Mar. 13 ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH, NEW JOHNSONVILLE

Mar. 20 DIOCESE OF TENNESSEE YOUTH

Mar. 27 ST. PHILLIP’S CHURCH, NASHVILLE

April 2022

Apr. 03 ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH, NASHVILLE

Apr. 10 ST. BEDE’S CHURCH, MANCHESTER

Apr. 17 THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM

Apr. 24 ST. LUKE’S COMMUNITY HOUSE, NASHVILLE, AND THISTLE FARMS, NASHVILLE

May 2022

May. 01 ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, FRANKLIN

May. 08 CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, BRENTWOOD

May. 15 ST. GEORGE’S CHURCH, NASHVILLE

May. 22 CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION, FRANKLIN

May. 29 THE PARISH OF ST. MARK AND ST. PAUL, SEWANEE

June 2022

Jun. 05 ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, ASHWOOD, AND ST. PETER’S CHURCH, COLUMBIA

Jun. 12 TRINITY CHURCH, CLARKSVILLE

Jun. 19 ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, MURFREESBORO

Jun. 26 CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER, SHELBYVILLE

July 2022

Jul. 03 Grace Chapel-Rossview, Clarksville

Jul. 10 St. Mary’s Center, Sewanee

Jul. 17 CLERGY AND STAFF OF THE DIOCESE OF TENNESSEE

Jul. 24 DUBOSE CONFERENCE CENTER, MONTEAGLE

Jul. 31 ALL COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS OF THE DIOCESE OF TENNESSEE

August 2022

Aug. 07 Episcopal School of Nashville

Aug. 14 St. James’ Church-Midway, Sewanee

Aug. 21 EPISCOPAL CHURCHMEN OF TENNESSEE

Aug. 28 St. James Church, Dickson and Calvary Church, Cumberland Furnace

September 2022

Sep. 04 Church of St. James the Less, Madison

Sep. 11 St. Joseph of Arimathea Church, Hendersonville

Sep. 18 Church of the Holy Cross, Murfreesboro

Sep. 25 St. Ann’s Church, Nashville

October 2022

Oct. 02 St. Michael’s Church, Cookeville

Oct. 09 Church of Our Saviour, Gallatin

Oct. 16 St. Anselm’s Church, Nashville

Oct. 23 Church of the Messiah, Pulaski

Oct. 30 St. Agnes’ Mission, Cowan

November 2022

Nov. 06 All Saints’ Church, Smyrna

Nov. 13 Trinity Church, Winchester

Nov. 20 St. Barnabas’ Church, Tullahoma

Nov. 27 Church of the Advent, Nashville

December 2022

Dec. 04 Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville

Dec. 11 St. David’s Church, Nashville

Dec. 18 St. Mark’s Church, Antioch

Dec. 25 All Saints’ Chapel, Sewanee, and Chapel of the Apostles, Sewanee

Resources & Recommended Reading

Children’s Charter for the Church

The Episcopal Church

Publishers

General

Books for General Christian Education

Books Related to Disability in the Church

Annotated Bibliography of works on “experience from the underside of history,” by Wayne F. Farrell (April 19, 2010)

Bredin, Mark. True beauty: finding grace in disabilities. Cambridge, Eng.: Grove Books, 2007.

Summary: God in salvation has shown that all of humanity is sinful and broken. It is a mistake to link grace with all the trappings of worldly beauty and economic success. Grace then invites us to see our weakness and created nature. However, we reject God’s grace and refuse to see ourselves as God sees us. We refuse to see the needs of others and we have become autonomous individuals. Yet it is in others, especially the faces of the sick, disfigured, and disabled, that we see reflected divine grace. The able- bodied are seduced by their independence and fail to see their need for God. The weak reveal those lies, and point to the need to see ourselves as created, rather than creator.

Creamer, Deborah Beth. Disability and Christian theology: embodied limits and constructive possibilities. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary: Reflection on the lived experiences of disabled people is more complex and fluid than the category suggests. The author states that one cannot define what is meant by “body” by studying only the healthy experience, just as one cannot study gender or race by looking only at the black, female perspective. As insights have come by engagement with the particularities of other marginal perspectives, reflection on disabilities also offer new theological contributions.

Downey, Michael. A Blessed Weakness: The Spirit of Jean Vanier and l’Arche. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1986.

Summary: L’Arche has grown to include over seventy communities world-wide, representing over two hundred family-like homes. Loose in structure (yet high on organization), the communities of l’Arche are founded upon the belief in the uniqueness and sacredness of each person, whether handicapped or not. Motivated by the beatitudes in Christian living, the gifts of each person are to be nurtured and called forth with predilection for the poorest, weakest, and most wounded in community and society. This way of life is in itself a spirituality of the heart. Vanier and l’Arche have learned about the truth of God and humanity, based upon their experience of love with the wounded and the vulnerable, motivated by the conviction that each human being is unique and indeed sacred.

Eiesland, Nancy. The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994.

Liturgical Resources