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.
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2022 Recommitment: Becoming Faithful
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REFLECTION
In the struggle to become Christ’s Body, we have only one weapon and one alone: Love…. Love is what first softened your heart and mine. Love brought us into the struggle. Love alone has the power to break hearts open so that we will all lay down our defenses and join in the cosmic movement toward a new heaven, a new earth, in a Holy City whose foundation is Love.
Gordon Cosby,
Seized by the Power of a Great Affection: Meditations on the Divine Encounter, p. 41
2022 Summer: Faith in Hard Times
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REFLECTION
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the Alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
Joan Chittister, Uncommon Gratitude
2022 Trinity: Wisdom is Calling
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REFLECTION
I have come to understand that the voice of God is all around me. God is not a silent God. God is speaking to me all the time. In everything. Through everyone. I am only now beginning to listen, let alone to hear.
Joan Chittister,
Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir, p.18
2022 Easter: Good News on the Other Side
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We have heard so much tragic news that when the news is good we cannot hear it. But the proclamation of Easter Day is that all is well. … I say this not with the easy optimism of one who has never known a time when all was not well but as one who has faced the cross in all its obscenity as well as in all its glory, who has known one way or another what it is like to live separated from God. In the end, God’s will, not ours, is done. Love is the victor. Death is not the end. The end is life.
― Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat, p. 81
Detail from photograph of paper doves hanging from the ceiling of the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine thanks to SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
2022 Lent: Trusting God
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REFLECTION
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p. 206