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Church at Home – March 29: Show Us Life Over Death
Lent Week 5
Order of Worship
Before you begin, prepare a candle to light for your own peace lamp.
Welcome
You are all well-come to this time of worship. Peace be to each of us in
this time and to all who enter here.
Lighting of the Peace Lamp
We light the Peace Lamp in each heart as a reminder to pray for all the
sufferers of the virus and for all who have lost family and friends.
Call to Worship
Let us pray together:
Almighty God, who created us in your image: Grant us
grace fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace
with oppression; and, that we may reverently use our freedom,
help us to employ it in the maintenance of justice in our
communities and among the nations, to the glory of your holy
Name; as with and through Jesus, our Savior, we pray. Amen
Prayer of Confession
God, we confess that our vision
is rarely big enough to include
the kind of hope you offer.
When we are faced with
what seems hopeless and dead,
expand our sense of the possible.
As we watch virus numbers rise,
give us a hope that is deeper than
the fear.
Give us courage, rooted in hope,
to care for each other
and for those in need.
Gathering Songs
When from our exile,
God leads us home again
we’ll think we’re dreaming
Scripture Reading
Scripture Reading
Stories – The Joy of Abundance, A Moment of Scarcity
Song of Response
STS (Purple) 16 Peace Before Us
1 Peace before us, peace behind us, peace under our feet.
Peace within us, peace over us, let all around us be peace.
2. Love before us …
3. Light before us,
4. Christ before us, …
5. Alleluia, alleluia, alle, alleluia.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleu, alleluia.
Benediction
As we worship from our homes, may we receive this traditional Irish blessing:
God bless the corners of this house,
And be the lintel blest,
And bless the hearth and bless the board,
And bless each place of rest,
And bless each door that opens wide
To stranger as to kin,
And bless each crystal window pane
That lets the starlight in,
And bless the rooftree overhead
And every sturdy wall.
The peace of humankind, the peace of God,
The peace of love on all.
Bonus Children’s Worship Story!
Church at Home – March 22, 2020: Show Us How to See!
Lent Week 4
Order of Worship
Before you begin, prepare a candle to light for your own peace lamp and have a Bible ready and open to John 9.
Welcome
Welcome and Lighting of the Peace Lamp
Call to Worship
Blessing in the Chaos by Jan Richardson
Audio
Prayer of Confession
Jesus, you walked a lonely road.
Your community around you,
you never-the-less made your choices
yourself, sometimes pleasing them,
sometimes confusing or angering your people.
We confess we are afraid of that loneliness –
afraid that we are not enough,
afraid that when it comes down to it,
we do not have it in us to live the vibrant life
to which you have called us.
We confess that we have
filled our lives with noise,
that we point our faces toward our screens,
our worries, our jobs, our kids,
toward this virus,
afraid of what would happen
if we were left to our own devices.
Use the social distance to refine us.
Teach us to listen to ourselves,
Show us who we are-
bound for glory, and built for joy.
Establish us in the truth of what we are:
your beautiful children.
Gathering Song
Scripture Reading and Children’s Time
From 1 Samuel 16:1, 4a, 6-13
Scripture Reading
John 9:1-11
Stories – Blindness, Clarity
Song of Response
Benediction
May God,
who comes to us
in the things of this world,
bless your eyes
and be in your seeing.
May Christ,
who looks upon you
with deepest love,
bless your eyes
and widen your gaze.
May the Spirit,
who perceives what is
and what may yet be,
bless your eyes
and sharpen your vision.
May the Sacred Three
bless your eyes
and cause you to see.
~ from In the Sanctuary of Women, copyright © Jan L. Richardson. Posted on the painted prayerbook. http://paintedprayerbook.com/
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