Liturgies
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.
.wp-show-posts-columns#wpsp-4872 {margin-left: -2em; }.wp-show-posts-columns#wpsp-4872 .wp-show-posts-inner {margin: 0 0 2em 2em; } GATHERING ENTRANCE REFLECTION Tradition, which is always old, is at the same time ever new because it is always reviving—born again in each new generation, to be lived and applied in a new and particular way. Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island, p 151 GATHERING ENTRANCE REFLECTION Worship we our Jesus, but wherewith for sacred sign? Love to God and neighbor, love for plea and gift and sign. GATHERING ENTRANCE CANDLE LIGHTING REFLECTION on-going process of salvation, while the nativity is the once-for-all-historical event of Bethlehem. We do not really celebrate Christ’s ‘birthday,’ remembering something that happened long ago. We celebrate the stupendous fact of the incarnation, God entering our world so thoroughly that nothing has been the same since. Sourcebook, 1996, Liturgy Training Publication GATHERING ENTRANCE REFLECTION Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Let Your Soul Light Shine Bright, http://www.wanttoknow.info/070825soullightshinebright GATHERING
REFLECTION in The Mood of Christmas and Other Celebrations, pg 712016 Epiphany – Transforming Tradition
2015 Christmastide
2015 Advent – Getting Ready
2015 Jubilee – Shining Through Us
2015 Recommitment – Taking It Seriously
