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Welcome: Whose child are you anyway? David, who is said to have written the Psalms, reminds us that we are the child of the Holy One.
Opening Prayer:
Let us pray: Holy One, we are a needy people. We are constantly looking to others, our work, or things, to help us feel valued and loved. And yet, we know by experience that You have always loved us and are always present to us. Thank you, thank you. Amen.
Opening Song: Endless is Your Love by Tom Kendzia
LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading: A Reading from Psalm 139
You created my inmost being and stitched me together in my mother’s womb. For all these mysteries I thank you—for the wonder of myself, for the wonder of your works—my soul knows it well. My frame was not hidden from you while I was being made in the secret place, knitted together in the depths of the earth; your eye saw my body even there.
All of my days were written in your book, all of them planned before even the first of them came to be. How precious your thoughts are to me, O God! How impossible to number them! I could no more count them that I could count the grains of sand. But suppose I could? You would still be with me!
This is a song of David, a son of man and servant of the Holy One. The community affirms them. AMEN
Celtic Alleluia
https://youtu.be/o1rc7ojQtJU
Gospel: A Reading from the gospel of Luke
While they were all amazed at his every deed,
Jesus said to his disciples,
“Pay attention to what I am telling you.
The Son of Man is to be handed over to men.”
But they did not understand this saying;
its meaning was hidden from them
so that they should not understand it,
and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
Our community affirms these words by saying AMEN!
Shared Homily: The disciples heard Jesus say the “son of man” was to be handed over. What does Jesus mean? After all this time, after all they witnessed, the disciples were afraid to ask. Who is the son of man? Perhaps they were afraid or confused because in Hebrew and Aramaic, the expression son of man means “someone” or “a human being”. So is Jesus saying someone or a human being will be handed over. Maybe they were afraid of losing Jesus, or maybe they were also afraid for themselves.
In the past most of us believed or were taught the son of man was Jesus and he was talking about his pending suffering and death. We could focus on what it means for Jesus to be handed over but focusing on Jesus being handed over leaves you and me out of the gospel. We most likely will never experience Jesus’ suffering and manner of death. If you and I are going to live this gospel what does that mean for us today? Are we not also the sons and daughters of man? As we follow Jesus are we supposed to be handed over too? For me today being handed over means letting go of my ego, my personal wants, my first attitudes. That means doing things for others when I am really not in the mood or making time when I would prefer to sit and read a book or go golfing! Jesus never demanded or asked that we suffer what he suffered, but he did ask us to live and love like he did. Handing over myself for the sake of someone else, especially if I do not particularly care for that person is difficult. When we do these types of things…we are living the gospel. Jesus was able to hand himself over because he knew that he was unconditionally loved. The only way we can continue to live the gospel, to live as Jesus asked us to, is to be sure within ourselves that we know we are also unconditionally loved, and always have been.
Statement of Faith
All: We believe in the Holy One, a divine mystery
beyond all definition and rational understanding,
the heart of all that has ever existed,
that exists now, or that ever will exist.
We believe in Jesus, messenger of the Divine Word,
bringer of healing, heart of Divine compassion,
bright star in the firmament of the Holy One's
prophets, mystics, and saints.
We believe that We are called to follow Jesus
as a vehicle of divine love,
a source of wisdom and truth,
and an instrument of peace in the world.
We believe in the Spirit of the Holy One,
the life that is our innermost life,
the breath moving in our being,
the depth living in each of us.
We believe that the Divine kin-dom is here and now,
stretched out all around us for those
with eyes to see it, hearts to receive it,
and hands to make it happen.
Eucharistic Prayer of Belonging
As we prepare for the sacred meal we bring to this table our blessings, cares and concerns. Please feel free to voice your concerns beginning with the words “I bring to the table….”
We pray for these and all unspoken prayers and blessings. Amen.
We are a priestly people. We are anointed. With open hands let us pray our Eucharistic prayer as one voice:
All: O Nurturing, Mothering One, You are always with us. We are grateful for Your constant loving and unconditional presence. At times we forget that You are holding us, attending to us. We fall and You pick us up. You send strangers, friends and family to our aid. We are never without Your Light and Spirit.
We experience great joy and we experience great pain and suffering. You are with us in the joy and the pain and suffering. When we experience Your presence we long to sing our hymn of praise:
Holy, Holy, Holy: Here in this Place –by Christopher Grundy
All: Creator and Lover of all beings, we cannot grow in the darkness of this world without Your Light. Our desire to be in Your light is a gift from You. Help us keep our hearts and minds open to You through our love and care for each other and all creation
Please extend your hands in blessing
All: This bread and wine is a sign of Your nourishment and a sign of Your great love. Your Spirit is upon usand we belong to You and one another.
We thank you for Jesus, simple servant, lifting up the lowly, revealing you as God-With-Us, revealing us as one with you, and all creation.
On the night before he died, Jesus gathered for the supper with the people closest to him. Like the least of household servants, he washed their feet. Once again he showed us how to love one another.
(All lift the bread)
All: Back at the table, he took the bread, spoke the grace, broke the bread and offered it to them saying, Take and eat, this is my very self.
(All lift the cup)
ALL: Then he took the cup of blessing, spoke the grace, and offered it to them saying:
Take and drink of the covenant
Made new again through my life in you.
Whenever you remember me like this,
I am among you.
Bread and wine are transformed by Your Spirit, and we are transformed when we open ourselves to Your Spirit. Every time we share this bread and wine we choose to be transformed. We choose to love as You love us.
What we have heard with our ears, we will live with our lives: as we share communion, we will become communion, both Love’s nourishment and Love’s challenge.
Please receive the bread and cup with the words: I ama child of the Holy One.
Communion Song: How Could Anyone Ever Tell You by Shaina Knoll
video by Denise Hackert-Stoner
Communion prayer:
Loving Source of our being, You call us to live the Gospel of peace and justice. We live justly, we love tenderly, we walk with integrity in Your Presence Amen.
Let us pray together the prayer of Jesus:
O Holy One, who is within, around, and among us, we celebrate your many names. Your wisdom come. Your will be done, unfolding from the depths within us. Each day you give us all that we need. You remind us of our limits, and we let go. You support us in our power, and we act with courage. For you are the dwelling place within us, the empowerment around us, and the celebration among us, now and forever. Amen.
The Prayer of Jesus as interpreted by Miriam Therese Winter
BLESSING
Please extend your hands and pray our blessing together
May we continue to be the Face of God to each other. May the certainty of our connectedness to one another and all creation ignite us to love more fully.May we know like Jesus did that we are loved. Andlike Jesus be a shining light and a blessing for all.
All: Amen.
Closing Song The Summons: Will You Come and Follow Me
Bryan Field McFarland with Jacob's Join
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu7ihXeTsMQ
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