Sunday Morning Worship
Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost
September 24, 2023
11:00 am ET
Preacher: Rev. Adriene Thorne
Sunday Morning Worship
Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost
September 24, 2023
11:00 am ET
Preacher: Rev. Adriene Thorne
A free Christian, womanist worship service centered on love, justice, peace, and disruption of the status quo that is open to all.
On Friday, September 29th The Riverside Church will welcome the Beyoncé Mass back to New York City. The worship service uses the music and life of Beyoncé as a tool to cultivate an empowering conversation about Black women—their lives, bodies, and voices—and create an experience of story, scripture, and song that calls for the liberation of all people. Beyoncé Mass will begin at 7:00pm.
The womanist ethic that undergirds the mass will explore the ways that communities find strength, joy, and ingenuity in spite of the obstacles in society. The mass focuses on how marginalized communities, especially Black women, are a manifestation of God’s love in the world.
Created and curated by Yolanda Norton, Visiting Professor at Wesley Theological Seminary and founder of the Global Arts and Theology Experience (GATE), the inaugural Beyoncé Mass drew roughly 1,000 people at its inaugural event at San Francisco’s historic Grace Cathedral in April 2018. Since then, the worship service has traveled to Los Angeles, Calif, Lisbon, Portugal, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., etc.
