Sunday, June 7, 2020
Opening Words
As you light a candle:
Why do we light this candle?
To remember that Jesus is with us.
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In light of this week’s events, we pray this prayer of confession:
O Lord, our hearts are heavy with the sufferings of the ages, with the crusades and the holocausts of a thousand years. The blood of the victims is still warm, the cries of anguish still fill the night.
To you we lift our outspread hands.
Lord, have mercy.
O Lord, who loves us as a father, who cares for us as a mother, who came to share our life as a brother, we confess before you our failure to live as your children, brothers and sisters bound together in love.
To you we lift our outspread hands.
Lord, have mercy.
We have squandered the gift of life. The good life of some is built on the pain of many; the pleasure of a few on the agony of millions.
To you we lift our outspread hands.
Lord, have mercy.
We worship death in our quest to possess ever more things; we worship death in our hankering after our own security, our own survival, our own peace, as if life were divisible, as if love were divisible, as if Christ had not died for all of us.
To you we lift our outspread hands.
Lord, have mercy.
O Lord, forgive our life-denying pursuit of life, and teach us anew what it means to be your children.
To you we lift our outspread hands.
Lord, have mercy through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
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We Hear God’s Word
Parting
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Parting Prayer: God go before you to lead you, God go behind you to protect you, God go beneath you to support you, God go beside you to befriend you. Do not be afraid. May the blessing of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit be upon you. Do not be afraid. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. Amen.
