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SEEKERS CHURCH

A Christian Community

In the Tradition of the Church of the Saviour

Epiphany 2004

 Splinter the Darkness

 

 

REFLECTION

      We are created to communicate and share

      all the gifts we have received from God.

 

      We are created to share ourselves …

      to pour forth everything we possess,

      whether in our bodies or our souls.

 

                                                                                                        After Meister Eckhart

 

 

 The liturgy cover consists of silver paint spattered on black construction paper.

PRELUDE

 

SILENCE

 

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader:      Light the darkness!

 

All:             Join the Magi!

                  Bring yourself as gift to Christ.

 

INVOCATION

 

HYMN

 

SILENCE

 

LITANY

Leader:      Let us celebrate God’s glory around us,

                  and the light of Christ within us!

 

Voice 1:     Arise, shine, for your light has come,

                  and the glory of God has dawned upon us.

 

Voice 2:     For shadows cover the earth,

                  and deep gloom enshrouds the peoples.

 

Voice 1:     But over you, God will rise,

                  and God’s glory will appear upon you.

 

Voice 2:     You are the light of the world.

 

Leader:      Then you shall be radiant,

                  your hearts shall thrill and rejoice!

 

All:             Christ will be our everlasting light;

                  and God will be our glory!

                 

SILENCE

 

PRAYERS

CONFESSION

Leader:      We crouch and hide, afraid to lift up our eyes

                  and see the radiance around us.

 

People:      We stumble in the shadows of fears;

                  we hold tight to the curtains blocking our vision.

 

Leader:      We refuse to discern the light within ourselves,

                  within each other.

 

All:             We are dull and tarnished,

                  our small flames sputtering and untended.

 

ASSURANCE  

Leader:      The people who walked in darkness

                  have seen a great light.

                  We are the light of the world.

 

All:             Amen.

 

PRAYERS OF THE COMMUNITY

 

JESUS PRAYER

All:             Eternal Spirit: Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,

Source of all that is and all that shall be,

Father and Mother of us all, creation resonates

with celebration of your nameless name.

                 

Let justice and mercy flood the earth;

let all creation harmonize in your imagination;

and let us recognize

that every thought and thing belongs to you.

 

With the bread we need for today, feed us;

in the hurts we absorb from each other

and those we inflict on others, forgive us;

in times of test and temptation, stand with us;

from the grip of all that is evil, free us.

 

For you alone are creating our universe,

now and forever. 

 

Amen.

 

HYMN

 The alter has a black shroud torn open to reval the cross with a silver foil background.

THE WORD

  Scripture

  Sermon

  Silent Reflection

 

OFFERING

 

SHARED REFLECTIONS

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

HYMN

 

BENEDICTION     

Leader:      The light has splintered our darkness.

                  Let it shine through us as God’s gift to the world.

 

All:             Amen.

 

 

 

Worship Resources:

Call to Worship: First used in Epiphany 1987

Litany: From the First Canticle of Isaiah (Isaiah 60) First used in Epiphany 1993

Confession and Assurance:  Based on Seekers worship, Epiphany 1987

 

  

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