Prayers and Reflections in Season
Responsive prayers by Roberta Hiday, appropriate for use on Pentecost Sunday.
Our God—we, your people, stand ready and open to receive the flame of your Spirit. Give us the ability to speak your truth so that others may hear.
Continue reading “Prayers for God’s Spirit”Responsive prayers appropriate for use on Pentecost Sunday. The opening lines are taken from an invocation written for the Iona Community in Scotland. The main body of the prayers is by Margaret D. McGee.
Breath of God, Breath of Life, Breath of Deepest Yearning,
Come, Holy Spirit.
Responsive prayers by Christine Hemp, appropriate for use on Trinity Sunday.
We pray fervently this morning, Lord, for your Church—that it may delight in its mission and tip its ear to the needs inside and outside its doors. We ask that you guide all those who minister, who cultivate your garden.
Continue reading “Prayers to Creator, Child, and Spirit – Trinity Sunday”
Responsive prayers by Margaret D. McGee, appropriate for use any Sunday in the Green Season.
Let us join our voices together in prayer to the One God – Creator, Lover, and Friend:
Continue reading “Beloved, Embrace Us In Your Mercy”
Responsive prayers by Margaret D. McGee, appropriate for use at the start of a new season of programming, on All Saints or All Souls day, or any Sunday during the Green Season.
In this courtyard of all souls, let us stand together and pray to the One who brings us, every day, out of death and into life.
Continue reading “Prayers in the Courtyard of All Souls”Responsive prayers by Margaret D. McGee, appropriate for any Sunday in the Green Season.
O Holy One, source of mercy, might, and love,
Make us your people, so that in life and death we belong to you alone.
Continue reading “O Holy One, Source of Mercy, Might, and Love”
Written by Bill Dengler, these responsive prayers are appropriate for Thanksgiving Day, Stewardship in-gatherings, Creation Care Sunday, and Earth Day celebrations.
We offer thanks, O God, for all the wonders of your creation,
Homily for the Last Sunday before Advent
by
Margaret D. McGee
It was with no joy that I saw I had been assigned to preach on the last Sunday before Advent. I disliked the assigned gospel lesson, a depiction of the Day of Judgement in which the good sheep are separated from the bad goats.
Continue reading “Sharing God’s Soul: A Homily for the Day of Judgement”Responsive prayers by Thomas Robb, for use on the first Sunday of the New Year, or any Sunday in Epiphany or the Green Season.
Oh God, lover of peace and concord,
Continue reading “Prayers For The New Year”Responsive prayers by Thomas Robb, for use on Advent I, or during the Green Season at the start of a new year of programming.
I beg you pray with me this morning for all of the various spiritual leaders of the world, and particularly the clergy of our church whose tasks so often resemble herding cats.
Continue reading “Prayers for New Beginnings”
In the Courtyard 