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.
2023 Easter Liturgy: So That We May Be One
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REFLECTION
If one goes into one’s own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else, and everyone else, as well as oneself, in the heart of Ultimate Mystery..
— From The Contemplative Outreach Newsletter, vol 25–June 2010 in The Thomas Keating Reader
2023 Lent: It Depends on Faith
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REFLECTION
Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion – its message becomes meaningless.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel,
God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism, p. 3
2023 Epiphany: Showing the Way
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REFLECTION
Maybe you will not be called
– Laura Martin
With the coal held to your lips,
The rush of wings of
Ambitious angels
Covering you. …
But maybe you will be called by
Fallen mustard seeds and
Open-eyed dreams.
Maybe you will be called by
The ordinary and the striking,
The places where your heart catches
More than once. …
Maybe you will know that
Your call is no less real
Because it comes with
Seeds in your hand
And the taste of fruit in your mouth,
With a sound so soft
It could have just been the breeze,
But wasn’t.
Associate Pastor
Rock Spring Congregational UCC, Arlington, VA
2022 Advent: Sleepers Wake
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REFLECTION
Christ climbed down
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from A Coney Island of the Mind
from His bare Tree
this year
and softly stole away into
some anonymous Mary’s womb again
where in the darkest night
of everybody’s anonymous soul
He awaits again
an unimaginable
and impossibly
Immaculate Reconception
the very craziest
of Second Comings
2022 Jubilee: Deep Hope
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REFLECTION
Hope is an orientation of the heart… The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is… [Without hope] it is impossible to live in dignity and meaning much less find the will for the ‘hopeless enterprise’ which stands at the beginning of most good things.
Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, pp. 181-182