Prayers and Reflections in Season
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.
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In this season of Advent, dear God, for the sake of new life, let me look ahead with courage and love.
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“Blessed are those … who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.” — Psalm 84:5
On December 6, 2008, I joined with women of St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church in Allyn, Washington for an Advent Quiet Day. Using themes of journeys and waiting, we shared stories and prayers, walked a spiral labyrinth, and shared a meal of soup and bread.
The prayers posted here were written at the Quiet Day and prayed aloud during our closing worship.
Continue reading “Prayers of a Quiet Day”Gather a bunch of women to think and talk about community for a day, and ka-boom, you get a community.
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“Do not let your hearts be troubled… In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way to the place where I am going.”
— John 14:1-4
Responsive prayers by Thomas Robb, for use any Sunday in the Green Season.
Out of the depths of our brokenness we lift our needs and concerns to you, Lord.
God-With-Us, pour out your Holy Wisdom upon us.
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In the online nature journal class Looking for New Life, Joan was the first to post a spider web entry. She had encountered the huge web on a hiking trip, and mused in her entry about her own spinning thoughts and plans for the future.
Then Chris, from her summer-long boat trip, posted a painting of ripening grapes, with a white spider web attached to the vine.
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We pray for the Universal Church, that it may thrive and grow in your world, creating a safe and open place for all your holy people.
May we faithfully serve you as we strive for unity.
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Bless the tangle
Whether it unravels or not—
It has brought me here
— Diane, from the spiral labyrinth retreat at Shalom Prayer Center
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May flowers spring up where your feet
touch the earth.
May the feet that walked before you
bless your every step.
Those are the first two lines of the blessing that Macrina Wiederkehr sent her friend Joyce Rupp before Rupp set out to walk the ancient pilgrimage route, the Camino de Santiago.
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In the Courtyard 