Liturgy Christ Jesus, we come into your presence from many different places. We come with songs of joy and shouts of gratitude. We come carrying heavy burdens and sighs of suffering. As you welcome us into your house, lift our burdens and receive our praise. Bind us together, that we may be at peace with one another and be strengthened […]

Liturgy Morn’s glitt’ring ray adorns the sky, heaven thunders forth its victory cry, the glad earth shouts its triumph high, and groaning hell makes wild reply: While Christ, the king of glorious might, treads down death’s strength in death’s despite, and, trampling hell by victor’s right, brings forth Christ’s sleeping saints to light. Entombed behind the stone of late, securely […]

Liturgy In the sun which banishes the shadows, in the birds who chorale us awake: it was you, Creation’s Joy, leading us into this new day. In the touch, healing long-grasped grudges, in the laughter of children which nudges us into hope: it is you, Emmanuel, God with us, who walks each step of the way with us. In the […]

Liturgy God of the lost, the least, and all who long for home, when we wander from your ways and waste the gifts you have given us, welcome us back, we pray, so that we may celebrate and rejoice in your presence forever. We give thanks and worship, praising the name of you, the Father, you, the Son, and you, […]

Liturgy We believe we need a shepherd. Because we are sometimes timid and other times overconfident, because we often don’t know the best path yet pretend we do, because we rush into dead ends or lead others into hazardous places, because our brightest ideas are seamed with darkness, because the things we crave may not be what is good for […]

Liturgy In our season of Lent, when the world is no longer a paradise, and creation shows its full power over us still, and we are brought down to size on this small planet of ours… let us worship our Lord. When memories linger of the past, and pain shapes us beyond our knowing, and conflict becomes a story of […]

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, […]