Jan10: New Year's Resolutions, "Carnal Lusts," and Christian Disciplines: An introduction

Join us Jan 10 at 9:15 am as we explore the above provocative topic, focusing on the prayer from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer:

Grant us the true circumcision of the spirit; that our hearts and all our members, being mortified from all worldly and carnal lusts, we may in all things obey thy blessed will (105).

I will begin that session with a general discussion about the nature of resolutions, posing the question that M. Mary Kate asked:  how do these resolutions speak to our "carnal lusts"?  I would like to spend some time hearing reactions to that phrase--rather shocking for us latter day Episcopalians, I think.  And I would also like to pose the question: what accounts for the change in our 1979 Prayer Book for Jan 1 to: " Plant in every heart, we pray, the love of him who is the savior of the world, our Lord Jesus Christ" (213)
Jan 17 and 24. 
We will continue the series by looking at our culture of over-consumption, or, calling a spade a spade, as M. Mary Kate suggested, "gluttony" ; both terms, of course, really do encompass all that we stand for when our focus is inward rather than outward, material rather than spiritual, self rather than community.
A summary of our discussion will appear after shortly after our Sunday meeting.