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.
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2023 Advent Liturgy: Meeting Righteousness and Peace
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
Mary said, I’m bursting with God-news; I’m dancing the song of my Savior. The Holy One took one good look at me, and look what happened—I am the most fortunate woman on earth! What the Holy One has done for me will never be forgotten, the One whose very name is holy, set apart from all others. Divine mercy flows in wave after wave on those who are in awe before the Divine Mystery. Baring a holy arm, the Holy One showed strength and scattered the bluffing braggarts. The Holy One knocked tyrants off their high horses, and pulled victims out of the mud. The starving poor sat down to a banquet; the callous rich were left out in the cold. The Holy One fulfills the promise made to our ancestors when blessing Sarah and Hagar and all their descendants to the utmost generations. Luke 1:46b-55, as adapted from The Message
2023 Jubilee Liturgy: The Unsettling Realm of God
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
Jesus takes the Resistance beyond prophecy, beyond songs of hope and lamentation, beyond satire and mockery, and beyond apocalyptic visions to declare the inauguration of a new kingdom. With his birth, teachings, death, and resurrection, Jesus has started a revolution. It just doesn’t look the way anyone expects.
Rachel Held Evans, Inspired, p. 140
2023 Recommitment Liturgy: Seeing God in All This
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
Our starting point is that we’re already there. We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness. Little do we realize that God is maintaining us in existence with every breath we take. As we take another it means that God is choosing us now and now and now. We have nothing to attain or even learn. We do, however, need to unlearn some things.”
Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer, p 27-28
2023 Summer Liturgy: Wrestling with Faith
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” Jesus responded, “If you have the faith of a mustard seed (and you do) – implying … that what they need isn’t more faith. What they need to realize is that the thing they ALREADY have IS faith. It’s like Jesus is saying how much faith do you have? and I’m like I don’t know Jesus, it’s not very much it’s like barely any and Jesus is saying “perfect!”
Nadia Bolz-Weber, “A sermon on faith and doubt,” Oct. 2, 2022
LIGHTING THE ALTAR CANDLE
2023 Trinity Liturgy: Live in Peace
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
Attributed to Henry Nouwen
LIGHTING THE ALTAR CANDLE