Liturgy Lord, as we enter into Adventand near the end of the year.Remind us of your Providence.Remind us of your goodness and love.Remind us of hope.As we near this time of winter,Show us where to find warmth.Reveal to us where to stoke the fires within ourselvesAnd...
Liturgy Standing together at the precipice of Advent,we ready ourselves to step out intoa season of waitingfor the world’s salvation to arrive. Lord, quiet our mindsin these next forty days.In a world of notifications, blue light,never-ending feeds of breaking...
Liturgy How long must we wait for answers, Creator?How long will you hide your face from us?What is our purpose?Why are we here?How long must we live so divided?Can you not end all suffering?Can you not liberate us from our oppressors?Can you not provide for us in...
Liturgy Here’s to the God of the wild and untamedHere’s to the animals that bat their wingsAnd test their speed in freedomHere’s to nature as our parish,The beauty of the morning lightThe breeze moving through the treesMay all beings know freedomMay we be stewards of...
Liturgy God of spiritual orphans and seekers, comfort our hearts.Like the disciples before us, we often wrestlewith the confusing ache of your absence.After 2000 years of ascension, we yearn for a voicethat reaches through clouds to speak again.Once a man from...
Liturgy Lord, you are your wordYou are memory when ours failsA deep breath when ours grows shallowAn anchor when we’re unmooredWe lose confidence in you and in ourselvesThat our projects will never completeOur relationships never mendedBut Lord you are sage, mentor,...
Liturgy Wherever you have come from to be here today,dearly beloved,no matter how frayed or ragged you feel,you are held together by a divineand reconciling love.Along with Saint Patrick, Lord, we remind ourselves of your presence:“Christ with me,Christ before...
Liturgy Heavenly Parent, Lord Above,Where do we go to belong to you?Our identities sit like a stone in the sand,Ever shifting, always tumbling,Sinking amidst a world caught in conceit.We want our hearts to belong to you,We want our souls to sing your name.Jesus...
Liturgy The harvest moon welcomes us into a new season.Summer seeds grow to maturityand slow but steady change unfolds,with a new world dawning before our eyes.Divine Sower, you remind us that the best workcomes not through careless and urgent hands,but slow labor...
Liturgy We come in need of silence.For we are filled with a plethora of words.They are bandied about in effortsTo bully us and seduce us and silence us.We have been reminded this weekOf how words both build and burn.We come in need of silence,For in it we pause and...