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 […]

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 […]

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 […]