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.
Jubilee 2008 – Beyond Now
REFLECTION
It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.
—Oscar Romero, from It Helps Now and Then
Recommitment 2008 – Loving Forgiveness
REFLECTION
O Lord, remember not only the men and the women of goodwill, but also those of ill will. But do not remember only the suffering they have inflicted upon us. Remember the fruits we bought, thanks to this suffering: our comradeship; our loyalty; our humility; the courage; the generosity; the greatness of heart which has grown out of all this. And when they come to judgment, let all the fruits that we have borne be their forgiveness. Amen.
—Written on a piece of wrapping paper and found near the body of a dead child in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, where 92,000 women and children died.
Green Season 2008 – Chosen to Live: Choosing to Serve
REFLECTION
Our ordinary lives are given an extraordinary significance when we accept that our lives are about something larger…. I do not need to be the whole play or even understand the full script. It is enough to know that I have been chosen to be one actor on the stage. I need only play my part as well as I can.
Richard Rohr, Jesus’ Plan for a New World
After Pentecost 2008 – You Mean Us?
REFLECTION
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion is to look out to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.
Teresa of Avila
Pentecost 2008 – Burn in Me Your Love
REFLECTION
I, the highest and fiery power
have kindled every living spark
and I have breathed out nothing that can die…
I am the fiery life of the divine essence…
I flame above the beauty of the fields:
I shine in the waters;
in the sun, the moon and the stars.
I burn. And by the means of the airy wind,
I stir everything into quickness
with certain invisible life which sustains all…
Hildegard of Bingen