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The Journey For Shelter
Welcome to our Moment of Oneness. Tonight, we will imagine a journey. What was it like? We don't know what really took place in this story.
Pause and take a deep breath...
An exhausted couple on the way to Bethlehem looking for shelter. All they heard... “There is no room in the inn.”
Reader One: Words according to Luke Ch 2 “In those days ...1 to 7.
In those days, Caesar Augustus published a decree ordering a census of the whole Roman world. This first census took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All the people were instructed to go back to the towns of their birth to register. And so Joseph went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to “the city of David”—Bethlehem, in Judea, because Joseph was of the house and lineage of David; he went to register with Mary, his espoused wife, who was pregnant. While they were there, the time came for her delivery. She gave birth to her firstborn, a son; she put him in a simple cloth wrapped like a receiving blanket, and laid him in a feeding trough for cattle, because there was no room for them at the inn.
Pause
Reader two: Prayers for those on a journey...
For all those in worn torn countries may they find safety and a place to shelter.
Response: We pray for you.
For all the homeless who's journey seems endless.
Response: We pray for you.
For the people at our southern and northen borders that there will be room in an Inn for them.
Response: We pray for you.
That our country will still be a place that welcomes all who need shelter.
Response: We pray for you.
Special intentions...
Reader three:
Prayer: What we ask is simple,
but it will take many lifetimes:
Let us make borders serve us,
not us them.
And- again- let us
be people who make justice
stretch across borders.
Amen. Padraig O Tuama
Song: Light your Candle by Chris Rice (performed by Fountainview Academy)
https://youtu.be/FcD9uhRC3Ew?si=llDe0qYreofzxHlQ
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