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 […]
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Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 09.23.12
Liturgy Long ago, at different times and in various ways, God spoke to our ancestors through the Hebrew prophets. But in these last days, we have heard God’s voice through His Son, Jesus Christ, who has been given dominion over all things and through whom all worlds were made. He is the One who sustains all that exists through the […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 09.16.12
Liturgy In you, oh God, we have life and community. In the city and in us, may your voice be heard. Unconditional, is the love that you place in our hearts. Everlasting, is the promise of hope you made. We gather as the city. We gather as the disconnected. We gather as the restless. We gather to offer an urban […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 09.09.12
Liturgy Listen! God, our beloved Creator, whispers to us: echoes of grace sound in our hearts, hope resonates in our souls. Listen! Christ, our Beloved friend, calls to us: faithfulness is the life he shares, generosity is the path we can follow. Listen, the Holy Spirit, our beloved Peace, transforms us: the voice of our Beloved sound through all creation, […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 09.02.12
Liturgy The Spirit of God calls us from many places; some of us come from busy homes with many people, some of us live alone. We are all part of the family. This week has been different for each of us; some of us have happy news we want to celebrate, some of us face grief and need comforting. We […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.26.12
Liturgy Our God is the God of all, The God of heaven and earth, Of the sea and of the rivers; The God of the sun and of the moon and of all the stars; The God of the lofty mountains and of the lowly valleys. He has his dwelling around heaven and earth, and sea, and all that in […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.19.12
Liturgy We are called by God to be the church of Jesus Christ, a sign in the world today of what God intends for all time. To bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and to comfort […]