2008 Pentecost bulletin

After Pentecost 2008 – You Mean Us?

GATHERING            

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion is to look out to the world.  Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good.  Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.

                                                                                                   – Teresa of Avila

 

Pentecost altar

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader:  Gentle One, Holy Three,
              we come to bear witness to our faith.

People:  We listen for you
              and hear your melodies in the air.
              
Leader:  Holy Spirit,
              hear our heartfelt expressions of love.

All:        Praise and worship fall from our lips to join your melody and rise in song to you, Divine Composer.

INVOCATION

HYMN

 

WORD FOR THE CHILDREN

 

SILENCE

 

RESPONSIVE READING

Leader:  O Holy One, our God,
              how majestic is your name in all the earth!
              You have set your glory above the heavens.
 
People:  From the lips of children come words of praise.
              Many speak against you,
              but you overcome their scorn with love.
 
Leader:  When we think about your heavens,
              the work of your fingers,
              the moon and the stars which you have set in place,
 
People:  What are we that you are mindful of us,
              human beings that you care for us?

Leader:  You made us stewards over the works of your hands;
              you laid the whole world out before us.
 
All:        O Holy One, our God,
             how majestic is your name in all the earth!

SILENCE

PRAYERS

COMMON CONFESSION

Leader:  I do not understand my own actions.

People:  I do not do what I want; I do the very thing I hate.

Leader:  I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.

People:  I do not do the good I want;
              the evil I do not want is what I do.

Leader:  How can I be saved from the dilemma of being human?

All:         How can I escape from this trap of my own making?

INDIVIDUAL PRAYERS OF CONFESSION

 

ASSURANCE

Leader:   The Holy One stands with us in our humanity;
               aids our escape from our traps;
               gives us the power to live the lives
               to which we have been called.

PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION

 

UNISON PRAYER 

All:       Holy One, we come today
            to claim our relationship with you.
            We pray for the commitment to grow together,
            sharing the gifts you give us with others
            here and in the wider world. 

            Give us strength and discipline
            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.

            We open our hearts to you and your Creation
            in the name of Jesus, who is the Christ. 
            Amen.

HYMN

THE WORD

SCRIPTURE

SERMON

SILENT REFLECTION

OFFERING

SHARED REFLECTIONS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

HYMN

BENEDICTION

Leader: The world is waiting for us
             to take all the gifts God gives us,
             and bring in the good news of God’s Shalom.

             God can do it.  We can help.

All:        Amen!

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