Prayer of Sacred Reading, Listening and Seeing, Monday, July 21, 2025, 9:00am

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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 "The Road To Emmaus" 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 The Light of the World, William Holman Hunt, Worcester, England, 1853 Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19).        Buried with Christ in baptism 6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 8 Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler and authority. 11 In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by the removal of the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ; 12 when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, 14 erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it. 16 Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food or drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or Sabbaths. 17 These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the body belongs to Christ. 18 Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, initiatory visions, puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking, 19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with a growth that is from God. The Lord’s Prayer in Three Voices Voice 1 Our Father who art in Heaven Voice 2 Holy One beyond all names,  Eternal Wellspring,  Voice 3 O Great Spirit, our Father from above, Voice 1 Hallowed be thy name Thy kingdom come Voice 2 May love rise again in us today  Voice 3 we honor your name as sacred and holy. Voice 1 thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven Voice 2 with food for every table, shelter for every person, Voice 3 Bring your good road to us, where the beauty of your ways in the spirit-world above is reflected in the earth below. Voice 1 Give us this day our daily bread Voice 2 and reverence for every living being. Voice 3 Provide for us day by day--the elk, the buffalo, and the                  salmon.  The corn, the squash, and the wild rice.              All the things we need for each day. Voice 1 Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us Voice 2 Forgive us our failings in love,  and free us from all                      falseness,  Voice 3 Release us from the things we have done wrong, in the same             way we release others for the things done wrong to us. Voice 1 and Lead us not into temptation, Voice 2 that the light of our souls may shine  Voice 3    Guide us away from the things that tempt us to stray from your good road Voice 1     but deliver us from evil Voice 2     and the strength of our spirits endure for earth and all its                 people Voice 3 and set us free from the evil one and his worthless ways. Voice 1 For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours forever Voice 2 this day, tonight,  and forever.   Voice 1         Amen! Voice 2 Yes, I commit!  Voice 3 Aho,! May it be so! Martin Luther This is most certainly true! Voice 1   Matthew 6: 9-13 Voice 2 (from "Celtic Benediction," by John Phillip Newell)  Voice 3  First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament. Closing Prayer    Living God, you raise us to fullness of being in sharing the Christ-life together. Teach us to pray and grant us hopeful persistence in seeking your will and your way, that by the power of the Spirit, love and faithfulness may meet to disarm the powers of the world. Amen.

Prayer of Sacred Reading, Listening and Seeing, Monday, July 14, 2025, 9:00am

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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 "The Road To Emmaus" 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 The prophet Amos grieving the cities of Israel Amos 8:1-12        A famine of hearing God's words 1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: a basket of summer fruit. 2 He said, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come upon my people Israel; I will spare them no longer. 3 The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day," says the Lord GOD; "the dead bodies shall be many, cast out in every place. Be silent!" 4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land, 5 saying, "When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier and practice deceit with false balances, 6 buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and selling the sweepings of the wheat." 7 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. 8 Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who lives in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt? 9 On that day, says the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight. 10 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day. 11 The time is surely coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. 12 They shall wander from sea to sea and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it. The Lord’s Prayer in Three Voices Voice 1 Our Father who art in Heaven Voice 2 Holy One beyond all names,  Eternal Wellspring,  Voice 3 O Great Spirit, our Father from above, Voice 1 Hallowed be thy name Thy kingdom come Voice 2 May love rise again in us today  Voice 3 we honor your name as sacred and holy. Voice 1 thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven Voice 2 with food for every table, shelter for every person, Voice 3 Bring your good road to us, where the beauty of your ways in the spirit-world above is reflected in the earth below. Voice 1 Give us this day our daily bread Voice 2 and reverence for every living being. Voice 3 Provide for us day by day--the elk, the buffalo, and the                  salmon.  The corn, the squash, and the wild rice.              All the things we need for each day. Voice 1 Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us Voice 2 Forgive us our failings in love,  and free us from all                      falseness,  Voice 3 Release us from the things we have done wrong, in the same             way we release others for the things done wrong to us. Voice 1 and Lead us not into temptation, Voice 2 that the light of our souls may shine  Voice 3    Guide us away from the things that tempt us to stray from your good road Voice 1     but deliver us from evil Voice 2     and the strength of our spirits endure for earth and all its                 people Voice 3 and set us free from the evil one and his worthless ways. Voice 1 For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours forever Voice 2 this day, tonight,  and forever.   Voice 1         Amen! Voice 2 Yes, I commit!  Voice 3 Aho,! May it be so! Martin Luther This is most certainly true! Voice 1   Matthew 6: 9-13 Voice 2 (from "Celtic Benediction," by John Phillip Newell)  Voice 3  First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament. Closing Prayer    God of justice, your word is light and truth. Let your face shine on us to restore us, that we may walk in your way, seeking justice and doing good.  God of liberation, free us from the grip of the tomb, that we may desire you as the fullness of life and proclaim your saving deeds to all the world. Amen.