Liturgies
Our inclusive language liturgies set the structure and theme of Sunday morning worship. All liturgies are written by the Celebration Circle Mission Group.
Click here for an archive of our liturgies.
Feel free to use what is helpful from these liturgies. We only ask that when substantial portions are abstracted or used in a written work, please credit Seekers Church and cite the URL.
.wp-show-posts-columns#wpsp-4872 {margin-left: -2em; }.wp-show-posts-columns#wpsp-4872 .wp-show-posts-inner {margin: 0 0 2em 2em; } ENTRANCE REFLECTION The mystics consistently use words like mercy, forgiveness, faithfulness, and healing to describe what they experience as God. These all imply a God who does not just impose rules, but in fact changes them for us! … And every time God forgives, God is saying that relationship is more important than God’s own rules! Richard Rohr, “All Things Change and Grow,” Feb 26, 2018. ENTRANCE REFLECTION Today’s Gospel challenges us to decide if we will judge Jesus as outrageously impossible to follow or if we will ask him to take us with him out onto the unruly sea of gospel living. Are we willing to take on the crazy mind of Christ? Sr. Mary McGlone, CSJ, Give Us This Day, January 2018, p. 211 ENTRANCE REFLECTION God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings. God chooses people as instruments to perform wonders where one would least expect them. God is near to lowliness. God loves the lost, the neglected, the weak and the broken. Adapted from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas, p 22 GATHERING ENTRANCE REFLECTION Advent is a season for our imaginations to run wild as we contemplate a God who becomes human. We are given a wider glimpse of God when we allow Advent to be an invitation to dream beyond our comfort zones of what we think can happen in our lives or what God can do. Enuma Okoro, Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent, p. 9 ENTRANCE REFLECTION Sally Breedlove, Choosing Rest: Cultivating a Sunday Heart in a Monday World, p. 1332018 Easter: For the Love of God
GATHERING2018 Lent: The Foolishness of Faith
GATHERING2018 Epiphany: Here I Am
GATHERING2017 Advent: Comfort, O Comfort My People
2017 Jubilee: Treasures of Darkness
GATHERING
Spring bulbs and summer seeds come to life in the unlit places underground. Costly jewel stones lie embedded in the dark interiors of ordinary rocks. … The dark depths of the ocean teem with life.