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.
2015 After Pentecost – Called through the Storm
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
from letter #228 from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo
written at The Hague on or about Tuesday, 16 May, 1882
2015 Pentecost
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
2015 Easter – Emerging Love
GATHERING
N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope:
Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, p 192
2015 Lent – With All Creation
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
If you would learn more, ask the cattle,
Seek information from the birds of the air.
The creeping things of earth will give you lessons,
And the fishes of the sea will tell you all.
There is not a single creature that does not know
That everything is of God’s making.
God holds in power the soul of every living thing,
And the breath of every human body.
Job 12:7-10. Cited in “Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation” (January 21, 2015)
Epiphany 2015 Filled with Light
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,
First Perennial Classics, HarperPerennial, 1998, page 33