Our inclusive language liturgies generally set the structure and theme of Sunday morning worship. Since announcements are an integral part of our life together, we offer some guidelines for those who make announcements towards the end of worship.
2019 Summer liturgy: “Faith is Hard”
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.
Terry Tempest Williams, Leap, 2001
2019 Season After Pentecost liturgy: “Let Us Not Grow Weary in Doing What is Right”
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, p xiii
2019 Pentecost Liturgy
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
We are the vessels of God’s voice, her words blowing through us, bidding us to tell the tales that only we can speak.
Jan L. Richardson, In Wisdom’s Path
2019 Easter Liturgy: The Marks of God
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
Being in the world and loving one another…exposes us to wounding, to the giving and receiving of pain. Christ’s wounds … underscore the depth of his willingness to enter into our loving in all its hurt and hope and capacity for going horribly wrong. In wearing his wounds—even in his resurrection—he confronts us with our own and calls us to move through them into new life.
Jan Richardson, “Easter 2: The Illuminated Wound” at http://paintedprayerbook.com/2011/04/24/easter-2-the-illuminated-wound/
2019 Lent Liturgy: Citizens of the Empire of God
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
In the Empire of God, the means to life are offered to all freely, as a gift, regardless of what has been earned.
The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the Search for Meaning
Stephen J. Patterson, p. 145