2016 Lent – We Become Re-Formed

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

There is a hard truth to be told: before spring becomes beautiful, it is plug ugly, nothing but mud and muck. I have walked in the early spring through fields that will suck your boots off, a world so wet and woeful it makes you yearn for the return of ice. But in that muddy mess, the conditions for rebirth are being created.

Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak, p 103

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CANDLE LIGHTING

CALL TO WORSHIP

OPENING PRAYER

HYMN

WORD FOR THE CHILDREN

SILENCE

 PRAYERS

CONFESSION

INDIVIDUAL PRAYERS OF CONFESSION

ASSURANCE

THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE

INTERCESSION AND PETITION

COMMITMENT

                                    sharing the gifts you give us with others
                                    here and in the wider world. 

                                    to nurture our relationship with you;
                                    to care for every part of your creation;
                                    to foster justice and be in solidarity with those in need;
                                    to work to end all war, and violence, and discord;
                                    and to respond joyfully when you call,
                                    freely giving our selves as you have shown the way.

n the name of Jesus, who is the Chris.       Amen.

YMN

THE WORD

SCRIPTURE

SERMON

SILENT REFLECTION

OFFERING

COMMUNION

PREPARATION

Leader 1: This is the table of the Heavenly Feast,
the joyful celebration of the people of God.

 

GREAT THANKSGIVING

Leader 1: Holy shaper of this rich reality,

Leader 2: Holy comforter of those in pain,

BLESSING THE ELEMENTS

Leader 1: Christ invites everyone to eat the bread of life,
to drink the cup of the new covenant.

Leader 2: Jesus said, I am the bread of life.
You who come to me shall never hunger,
You who believe in me shall never thirst.

Leader 1: On the night of his arrest, Jesus took bread, 

Leader 2: After supper, Jesus took the cup and said, 

SHARE THE ELEMENTS

If you do not wish to receive the elements today you are welcome to join the circle and allow them to pass, or remain in your seat. We serve grape juice in our cups.

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND DEDICATION

SHARED REFLECTIONS

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

 HYMN

BENEDICTION