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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.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 We are the vessels of God’s voice, her words blowing through us, bidding us to tell the tales that only we can speak. Jan L. Richardson, In Wisdom’s Path Click here for a printable copy of the 2021 Easter Liturgy ENTRANCE REFLECTION What the world needs now are signposts of what’s ahead, markers for the new world just around the corner. The world does not need heroes; the world does not need more messiah complexes. The world does not need Christians who want to ride in on a white horse to save the day. What the world needs are witnesses. Nothing more and nothing less. The earth needs people who can bear witness to the ways in which the world has already changed through the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Click here for a printable copy of the 2021 Lent Liturgy ENTRANCE REFLECTION Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There’s no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth. A good sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace. Loving somebody is grace. Have you ever tried to love somebody? … There’s only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you’ll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too. Click here for a printable copy of the 2021 Epiphany Liturgy REFLECTION So may we know Jan Richardson, The Cure for Sorrow. P 163 Click here for a printable copy of the 2020 Advent Liturgy REFLECTION The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before. … What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s hindquarters fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon. Jan Richardson, Night Visions: Searching the Shadows of Advent and Christmas, p. xiii 2021 Pentecost Liturgy
2021 Easter: We Are Witnesses
–Jonathan Martin, Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You’re More Like Jesus Than You Think? p.1972021 Lent: Signs of Grace
― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC, p. 33-342021 Epiphany: Radiant Hope
ENTRANCE
the hope
that is not just
for someday
but for this day—
here, now,
in this moment
that opens to us:
hope not made
of wishes
but of substance,
hope made of sinew
and muscle
and bone,
hope that has breath
and a beating heart,
hope that will not
keep quiet
and be polite,
hope that knows
how to holler
when it is called for,
hope that knows
how to sing
when there seems
little cause,
hope that raises us
from the dead—
not someday
but this day,
every day,
again and
again and
again.
Find other resources by Jan Richardson at https://www.janrichardson.com,
Used by permission2020 Advent: Waiting for Revelation
ENTRANCE