Our inclusive language liturgies set the structure and theme of Sunday morning worship. All liturgies are written by the Celebration Circle Mission Group.
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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.
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.
The Season after Epiphany 2009 – Straining Toward Salvation
REFLECTION
To love the world as God loves the world is to embrace it as it is and run with it, straining toward salvation.
from Rachel Reeder, "Art of Our Own Making"
in The Landscape of Praise: Readings in Liturgical Renewal,
Blair Gilmer Meeks, ed., p. 13.
Advent 2008 – Promises, Promises
REFLECTION
[We] must be men and women of ceaseless hope, because only tomorrow can today’s human and Christian promise be realized; and every tomorrow will have its own tomorrow, world without end. Every human act, every Christian act, is an act of hope. But that means [we] must be men and women of the present, [we] must live this moment – really live it, not just endure it – because this very moment, for all its imperfection and frustration, because of its imperfection and frustration, is pregnant with all sorts of possibilities, is pregnant with the future, is pregnant with love, is pregnant with Christ.
Walter J. Burghardt, quoted in An Advent Sourcebook, Liturgy Training Publications: Chicago, 1988, pg 81.