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Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 05.11.14

Liturgy Sisters and brothers,
this is the joyful gathering of the people of God,
a table prepared for us in the presence of enemies and hardships,
a banquet of love in the face of hatred. Here God’s love for us overflows,
and here we find the depth of his kindness and mercy
as we share this strange and wonderful feast in God’s house. Let us […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 05.04.14

Liturgy We believe in God, who speaks through the prophets and lifts our gaze up to high and beautiful paths and peaks. We believe in Christ Jesus, free of corruption yet willingly numbered among the sinners, baptized in the waters of the Jordan. We believe in the Spirit, who rested on Jesus like a dove, and inspired him with such […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 04.27.14

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 Reflection & Benediction 04.20.14

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 Reflection & Benediction 04.13.14

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 Reflection & Benediction 04.06.14

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 Reflection & Benediction 03.30.14

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 […]