Liturgies

GATHERING.                 

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

The most amazing fact about Jesus . . . is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

Richard Rohr,
The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, pg 1.

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GATHERING.                 

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

Wage peace with your breath.

Breathe in firemen and rubble,

breathe out whole buildings

and flocks of redwing blackbirds.

Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children

and freshly mown fields.

Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.

from the poem, “Wage Peace,” by Judyth Hill

http://www.judythhill.com/home.html

GATHERING

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

Where refugees seek deliverance that never comes,

And the heart consumes itself, as if it would live,

Where little children age before their time,

And life wears down the edges of the mind,

Where the old man sits with mind grown cold,

While bones and sinew, blood and cell, go slowly down to death,

And Perfect Love seems long delayed,

CHRISTMAS IS WAITING TO BE BORN:

In you, in me, in all mankind.

GATHERING

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

John Eldredge, The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God 

CANDLE LIGHTING

GATHERING

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

We are experiencing all kinds of trouble, but we aren’t crushed. We are confused, but we aren’t depressed. We are harassed, but we aren’t abandoned. We are knocked down, but we aren’t knocked out.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9

Common English Bible (CEB)