for Sunday, 17 May 2009

Liturgical Elements

Call to Worship
Here today there is love, freely available to all.
Not our human loving, fragile and intermittent,
but God’s supreme love.
May a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth,
break forth into joyous songs of praise.
Here today is love, higher than our loftiest hopes,
deeper than the immensities of time and space,
God’s inclusive love.
Let the seas roar their praise,
and everything in them.
Let the rivers clap their hands
and the hills sing together their happiness. (Bruce Prewer)


*Prayer of Approach (prayed in unison)
Great and mysterious lover of the world, let this day be a worthy celebration of our Lord’s resurrection love.
By the Easter good news, encourage us to put away our worries, and to discard our fears, that with minds open to your Spirit we may better love you and more adequately worship your holy name.
Through Christ Jesus, our living brother and Lord.
Amen! (Bruce Prewer)

I am assuming that Karen will read the Acts passage. I shall include that passage in the liturgist's notebook.

These liturgical elements are from the website of Bruce Prewer.