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.

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.

Trinity 2007 – The Faces of God

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May 27 – July 15, 2007

REFLECTION

Because a trinitarian divinity unleashes much power in our imaginations, it can heal or redeem us in this critical time of the planet’s life…Classical Christian theology… is guided by three basic articles of faith: creation, redemption, and sanctification.  In many respects these articles parallel the persons of the Trinity: the Creator, parent God; Jesus the Liberator; the Holy Spirit who sanctifies.

Creation Spirituality,  Matthew Fox, p. 55

Easter 2007 – The Light of Christ

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April 8 – May 20, 2007

REFLECTION

Now is the time when the blessed light of Christ sheds its rays; the pure rays of the pure Spirit rise and the heavenly treasures of divine are opened up. Night’s darkness and obscurity have been swallowed up, and the dense blackness dispersed in the light of day; crabbed death has been totally eclipsed.  Life has been extended to every creature and all things are diffused in brightness. The dawn of dawn ascends over the earth, and he who was before the morning star and before the other stars, the mighty Christ, immortal and mighty, sheds light brighter than the sun on the universe.

 

– Psuedo-Hippolytus (ca 170 – 235 CE), quoted in "A Triduum Sourcebook,"

Liturgy Training Publications, pg 419

Epiphany 2007 – A New Dawn

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January 7 – February 18, 2007

REFLECTION

When the song of the angels is stilled When the star in the sky is gone When the kings and princes are home When the shepherds are back with their flocks The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost To heal the broken To feed the hungry To release the prisoner To rebuild the nations To bring peace among the people To make music in the heart.

— Howard Thurman

Communion Liturgy

God of abundance and mercy,

We give joyful thanks

for your eternal love and healing presence

in our celebration of bread and wine.

Bless this body of Christ

that we may attend faithfully

to our call to be your servants,

with each other and throughout the world.