Call to Prayer
Leader Let Us gather in the welcome of our Triune God, Creator, Christ, and Holy Spirit.
 Gathered: Lord, it is good for us to be here.
Lighting the Christ candle
Leader Jesus Christ is the Light of the world. Gathered: The Light no darkness can overcome
Invitation Song to Lectio Divina, written and gifted by music minister John Penoyar of Hinesburg, Vermont
Were not our hearts burning as He spoke Were not His words words we longed to hear Were not our eyes opened in the breaking of the bread Were not our hearts burn -ing as He spoke
Our God is here He walks among us When two or three of us are gathered in his name Our God is here and he surrounds us And all creation sings the glory of his name
And we shall rise, as he is risen And though he promised us we did not understand Yes we shall rise as he is risen And we will know him when he calls to us by name.
Lectio Divina Guidelines
Leader: - During the first reading, listen for the overall sense of the passage. Select a word or phrase that captures your attention, as though the Holy Spirit were flashing a light from the text to your heart, asking you to notice it. Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, allow your eyes to be opened and your heart to be warmed as God speaks to you.
Leader: During the second reading let us listen for the feelings, sensations and connections that God's Word stirs in us. What message might God be speaking into your life now?. Leader: - During the final reading let us attend to our own hearts for a response to God’s love. What response will you carry forth from this encounter with the Living Word into the world? Leader: Let us now rest in the silence and attend once more to the presence of Christ among us. We hold a quiet space to hear God speaking in our hearts
Revelation 7:9-179 After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. 10 They cried out in a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!"11 And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 singing, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen." 13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?" 14 I said to him, "Sir, you are the one who knows." Then he said to me, "These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 For this reason they are before the throne of God and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them. 16 They will hunger no more and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat, 17 for the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
Lord’s Prayer (from "Celtic Benediction," by John Phillip Newell)
Holy One beyond all names, Eternal Wellspring, May love rise again in us today with food for every table, shelter for ever person, and reverence for every living being. Forgive us our failings in love, and free us from all falseness, that the light of our souls may shine and the strength of our spirits endure for earth and all its people this day, tonight, and forever. Amen.
Closing Prayer
Mighty God, in whom we know the power of redemption,
you stand among us in the shadows of our time.
As we move through every sorrow and trial of this life,
uphold us with knowledge of the final morning
when, in the glorious presence of your risen Son,
we will share in his resurrection,
redeemed and restored to the fullness of life
and forever freed to be your people. Amen. |
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