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.
Pentecost 2010
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
Easter 2010 – The Light of the World
REFLECTION
And then the sun rose and Jesus was alive and terror fled and the Resurrection was an inner brightness as glorious as the outer brightness of the Transfiguration.
Madeline l’Engle, Bright Evening Star, pg. 190
Advent 2009 – Where is the Promise?
REFLECTION
She was five,
sure of the facts,
and recited them with slow solemnity
convinced every word
was revelation.
She said
they were so poor
they had only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to eat
and they went a long way from home
without getting lost. The lady rode
a donkey, the man walked and the baby
was inside the lady….
— fromJohn Shea, "The Hour of the Unexpected," quoted in Ronald Rolheiser,This Holy Longing
Jubilee 2009 – Breaking the Bonds
Maundy Thursday
Welcome to this service of remembrance. Tonight we will be together as Jesus was with the disciples on his last night. We will begin with the servant ritual of foot washing that Jesus offered the disciples, and continue with a simple meal.