What are the glimpses of hope, peace, joy, and love that we are invited to notice and hold with us? On the Friday before Christmas, Weylin Lee looks back on our year through both a global and local lens, before inviting us to practice sacred reading or lectio divina to glimpse grace in our own lives. [Luke 2:13-20] Resource Practice: […]
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Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2023.12.22
Liturgy On this Holiest of nights, Your stars are shining brightlyProclaiming the coming of Your SonChrist, the Savior, is born in a mangerHope has sprung for a weary worldand the brightness of morning is just around the cornerLet us join with the Angels and proclaim:O night divine, night when Christ was born.O Holy night.Send forth the good newsSpread the word […]
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 […]
Liturgy, Reflection, Benediction 2022.12.23
Liturgy Glory to God in the highest,and on earth peace, good willtoward humankind. In the angel’s gentle greeting,teach us to hear your love. In Mary’s glad obedience,teach us to follow your light. In your lowly birth and lodging,teach us to embrace your humility. In the worship of poor shepherds,teach us to give our attention. We light the Advent candlesthat all […]
Unexpected Joy and Peace
What are we invited to do or change as we consider the unexpected disruption that the first Christmas brought with the birth of a baby? On the eve of Christmas Eve, Weylin Lee leads us in the practice of lectio divina through a reflection over the past year and through the Christmas story [Luke 2:8-15] Resources Book: Wholehearted Faith by […]
Hope of Restoration
Weylin Lee reflects on the hope of restoration as we come to the end of this heavy year through the contemplative practice of Lectio Divina [Isaiah 61:10-62:3]. Reflection In light of this past year, what are the things we hope for in this coming year? How might we be open to a new way of being? Resources Year in Photos […]
Generous Language
As we begin a new year, Jason Minnix reflects on how God’s language is generous enough to hold all of us and our experiences [John 1:1-9]. Reflection Have I found the language big enough to hold my journey now? Where is your darkness and light living now? (offer compassion to your darkness) What questions will shape your beauty in the […]