Liturgy Lord, we who live in a world of cities, tall buildings, suburbs, and gated communities, don’t necessarily know what sheep are like or what shepherding entails. Sometimes we do feel like sheep in our world being herded by dos and don’ts, oughts and ought naughts, media, and voices we don’t even recognize. Sometimes the din of the voices gets […]

Liturgy God, your mercy and love astounds us. We continually struggle to grasp the idea of unconditional love, all the while, asking to experience your love and grace more fully. Today, we offer our lives afresh. Enable us to see where you are active and to be used by you. When life is hard may we learn to praise you. […]

Liturgy Life-giving God, we give you thanks for Jesus has risen. He comes to us with words of peace Come to us today. In government rooms where politicians meet, in city board rooms where executives plan, in court rooms where lawyers debate, come with words of peace. In hospital rooms where people are waiting, in prison cells where people are […]

Liturgy In the nervous silence of our doubts, we are aware of nothing but your absence, Jesus, and we begin to wonder whether the rumors of your death are true; Then, suddenly, you are among us, your presence so real we can almost touch you…your life flowing out into the world unconstrained; And we realize that there is nothing to […]

Liturgy It is relatively easy for us to roster someone to go and gather palm leaves to spread in the church today. And we can easily find music and a few good words to help us to remember and re-enact Palm Sunday. But what if Jesus arrived inviting us to really lay down something important to us to acknowledge his […]

Liturgy We gather today, O Lord of Life, seeking fullness. Not the fullness our world offers, but fullness that comes from you. We spend so much of our lives on things that do not count. Things that promise much and give little. Help us now…today, to find fulfillment in your love, may we discover all you have to give, and […]

Liturgy We believe in God whose essence is love: seeking, holding, challenging, creating in us. We see God in the gentle touch of a friend, in the hospitality of strangers, on streets and shopping centers, tenements and parks; We believe that God holds our world in love. We believe in Jesus whose essence is life: living, laughing, loving, winning our […]