Stories tagged:
reflection

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 05.08.2016

Liturgy We believe in God, who speaks through prophets and angels 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 […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 05.01.2016

Liturgy Pour out your Spirit upon us as we gather, God of our salvation: so your grace might strengthen us for service; so your peace might calm our troubled souls; so your hope might mend our broken hearts. You poured out your life that we might be filled with the gift of salvation. You humbled yourself that we might be […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 04.24.2016

Liturgy Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world, who destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, who has forgiven our sins according to the riches of his grace, and has made known to us the mystery of his will. This is our […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 04.17.2016

Liturgy Lord, we who live in a world of cities, tall buildings, suburbs, and gated communities, don’t necessarily know what sheep are like or what shepherding entails. Sometimes we do feel like sheep in our world being herded by dos and don’ts, oughts and ought naughts, media, and voices we don’t even recognize. Sometimes the din of the voices gets […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 04.10.2016

Liturgy God, your mercy and love astounds us. We continually struggle to grasp the idea of unconditional love, all the while, asking to experience your love and grace more fully. Today, we offer our lives afresh. Enable us to see where you are active and to be used by you. When life is hard may we learn to praise you. […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 04.03.2016

Liturgy Life-giving God, we give you thanks for Jesus has risen. He comes to us with words of peace Come to us today. In government rooms where politicians meet, in city board rooms where executives plan, in court rooms where lawyers debate, come with words of peace. In hospital rooms where people are waiting, in prison cells where people are […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 03.27.2016

Liturgy In the nervous silence of our doubts, we are aware of nothing but your absence, Jesus, and we begin to wonder whether the rumors of your death are true; Then, suddenly, you are among us, your presence so real we can almost touch you…your life flowing out into the world unconstrained; And we realize that there is nothing to […]