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Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 03.23.14

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 Reflection & Benediction 03.16.14

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, […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 03.09.14

Liturgy Christ Jesus, may we follow you on the pilgrim way of Lent. May we journey with you into the wilderness, Willing to move beyond the ordinary, so that we can discover your unexpected sacred places in our world. Christ Jesus, may we wash our hands and purify our hearts, Learning to thirst after righteousness and hunger after justice. May […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 03.02.14

Liturgy O Holy One, on mountaintops and valley floors you reveal to us the light of your love. Our hearts desire to bask in the amazing glory of your divine presence. Encounter us that we may be changed and transformed. Draw us nearer that we might receive and keep your Holy Spirit. Help us, O Holy One, to live our […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 02.23.14

Liturgy Our heavenly Father, We dare to imagine a world where hunger has no chance to show its face. We dare to dream of a world where war and terror are afraid to leave their mark. We long to believe in a world of hope unchained and lives unfettered. We dare to share in the creation of a world where […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 02.16.14

Liturgy We believe in God the Father Who created all that is And gave our ancestors the dignity of freedom, Which we abused and are abusing still. God grieves over our evil And calls us to his better way. God loves the whole world, And sent His Son, Jesus, to save, not to condemn. We believe in Jesus Christ, Born […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 02.02.14

Liturgy O God, we trust in your power, even as it is often found in weakness; in your wisdom, even as it is expressed in seeming foolishness; in your wholeness, even as it comes to us amid brokenness. We do not ask this day for displays of strength, exercises of intellectual prowess, or manifestations of miracles. We come only to […]