Liturgies
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.
.wp-show-posts-columns#wpsp-4872 {margin-left: -2em; }.wp-show-posts-columns#wpsp-4872 .wp-show-posts-inner {margin: 0 0 2em 2em; } 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 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
ENTRANCE 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
ENTRANCE 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,
ENTRANCE REFLECTION Maybe you will not be called – Laura Martin2023 Summer Liturgy: Wrestling with Faith
2023 Trinity Liturgy: Live in Peace
2023 Easter Liturgy: So That We May Be One
2023 Lent: It Depends on Faith
God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism, p. 3
2023 Epiphany: Showing the Way
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