Liturgy Advent nears its end.The promise of Your blessings to come are around the cornerBut they have yet to arrive.The expectation for things not yet realized still rumbles within usIt makes us lose sleep.We toss and turn waiting for what we are promised.The world we wish to have that is not yet ours.We need Your peace.Remind us to be still.Ground […]
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Being a Blessing
How can we create a shared world where God’s love is experienced? On the fourth week of Advent, Vanessa Beltran highlights how moments of shared vulnerability–like Mary’s journey to Elizabeth–are essential to becoming who God created us to be, so we can truly understand God’s blessings. [Luke 1:39-45] Reflection How can you open your heart and life to others in […]
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.12.15
Liturgy We are grateful for the awareness of suffering forIt saves us from complacency.So whether it is the illness of a family member,The eviction of a neighbor,Or the sadness of a friend,We know that all is not as it should be.So we are here to be shaken up.Break us loose, God, from the obvious.The ways that seem true because they […]
Joyfully Undone
Is there a part of your life that feels exiled or stuck in a rut? On this third week of Advent, Christopher Mack hears in the message of John the Baptizer, an invitation for our lives to be joyfully undone in the wilderness of waiting. [Luke 3:7-17] Reflection When have you experienced a disruption that led to transformation? How can […]
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.12.08
Liturgy Let us begin our liturgy in prayer as a community.Our response will be highlighted in yellow.Today,let us add our voices to the chorusof voices in the wilderness –Mary, Simeon, Elizabeth, John the Baptist –who called before themto prepare us for the Lord.“Every valley shall be filled,and every mountain and hill shall be made low,and the crooked shall be made […]
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.11.10
Liturgy Standing together at the precipice of Advent,we ready ourselves to step out intoa season of waitingfor the world’s salvation to arrive. Lord, quiet our mindsin these next forty days.In a world of notifications, blue light,never-ending feeds of breaking news, we need the darkness and the silenceof your coming mystery. You are always wilder than we understand.You will not be hemmed […]
Friday Before Christmas Liturgy [Dec 22]
Please join us as we celebrate Christmas as a community on Friday, December 22nd for an evening liturgy beginning at 6:30 pm. Because Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday this year, we will be gathering for liturgy on Friday evening to allow us to be with family and friends for the remainder of the Christmas weekend. There will be no […]