Twelve Disciples of Christ-the Women!

Twelve Disciples of Christ

A reading for Mother’s Day 2018 adapted from Wild Goose Worship Group from Iona.

Monica: Let us remember and celebrate twelve disciples of Jesus, people who were touched by and tended him.

Pam: Remember Mary, the girl from the country town, the poet and the singer, who became pregnant with God, by God, for God’s sake.

Anne: Remember Elizabeth, Mary’s older cousin, who shared Mary’s excitement who herself bore John, the friend of the and baptizer of Jesus.

Joan: Remember Anna, the old widow and faithful believer, who saw an eight day old baby and recognized that the Messiah had come.

Carol: Remember Martha, the cook and housekeeper, the plain speaker, who gave Jesus her anger, so he could give her his love.

Pam: Remember Joanna, who with Susanna, and many other women provided the hospitality which Jesus saw as crucial to the gospel.

Anne: Remember Peter’s mother-in-law, who was so grateful to be healed, that her first act after recovery was to make a meal for Jesus.

Joan: Remember the Samaritan woman, whose conversation with Jesus was full of double entendres, but whose life was so changed by him, that she became the first real evangelist.

Carol: Remember the Canaanite woman, who gave Jesus a hard time, taking his exclusive language to task, until he saw and admired her toughness, and devotion.

Pam: Remember the hemorrhagic woman, who contaminated countless men, or so they thought, in order to touch Jesus, who named her faith as the root of her cure.  

Anne: Remember the poor widowed woman, who, in giving the smallest coins to God, gave Jesus his model for generosity.

Joan: Remember the woman caught in adultery, who let Jesus show how the grace of God is greater then the moralizing of men.

Carol: Remember her, whose perfume filled a room with fragrance, yet, who let her costliest gift be offered, in love, to God.

Pam: Remember the woman, who mothered many children not her own, the woman who taught in schools and watched a generation graduate to new life.

Anne: Remember the woman, who sacrificed her dreams, so her daughter could realize hers.

Joan: Remember the woman, who was known as the church lady, who taught Sunday school, watched babies, baked cookies, pies, and casseroles, who was an elder, acted as clerk, treasurer, communion server, usher, choir member, preacher, pastor, teacher, bell ringer, and was a pillar of the church.

Carol: Remember the women, who touched our lives because of their bravery, their courage, their intelligence, their joy, who helped us see Jesus in the face of others.

Monica: Remember the women who we have loved and who loved us, our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, daughters, and cousins. Remember the women who are no longer here, who have gone before us, whose energy, imagination, tenacity, witness, and joy provide us with warmed hearts and renewed hope. Amen.