ENTER IN SILENCE
REFLECTION
Not to flood darkness with light so that the darkness is destroyed,
but to enter into darkness, mystery, so that it is experienced.
Denise Levertov
CHANT
Taize Songbook # 14
Our darkness is never darkness in your sight:
the deepest night is clear as the daylight.
Reading from Isaiah (52:13-53:12)
CHANT
Taize Songbook # 14
Our darkness is never darkness in your sight:
the deepest night is clear as the daylight.
SILENCE
Reading of Psalm 22
CHANT
Kyrie Eleison
SILENCE
Reading from Hebrews (10:16-25)
CHANT
Kyrie Eleison
SILENCE
PRAYERS
COMMUNITY PRAYERS
UNISON PRAYER
All: O Birther! Father – Mother of the Cosmos
focus your light within us – make it useful.
Create your reign of unity now –
through our fiery hearts and willing hands.
Help us love beyond our ideals
and sprout acts of compassion
for all creatures.
Animate the earth within us:
we then feel the Wisdom underneath supporting all.
Untangle the knots within
so that we can mend
our hearts’ simple ties to each other.
Don’t let surface things delude us,
but free us
from what holds us back
from our true purpose.
Out of you, the astonishing fire,
returning light and sound to the cosmos.
Amen.
Reading from the Gospel of St. John (18:1-19:42)
CHANT
Taize Songbook # 20
O Lord, hear my prayer
DEPART IN SILENCE
