Welcome to our extended SSU Community. As a new school year begins, join us in remembering this familiar prayer from the SSU Prayer Book – a prayer recited during our first worship evening on Wednesday.
Begin with Silence
Celebrant: Gathering here is an act of faith, a mysterious and joyful confession: Jesus is Lord
People: Jesus is Lord
Celebrant: We say with the saints, faithful men and woman of old
People: Intimacy with God is the source of our community’s health and well-being
Celebrant: We confess with the angels, some who rebelled and some who obeyed
People: Lack of intimacy with God is the way we measure our pain
Celebrant: We are no different from other Christian communities, some which have grown, some which have died in confusion and pain
People: Therefore Lord Jesus, make our community vigilant, skillful and sensitive in how we overcome evil. Prayer is life
Celebrant As we live life together, may we help each other on this journey
People: In freedom and vulnerability
In blessing and brokenness
Celebrant: We pray to you, Heart of our own heart, that you will make our life together a light on a hill and that you would help us on our journey
People: In freedom and vulnerability
In blessing and brokenness
Celebrant: We pray to you, Lord of life, that you would grow us into a faithful, powerful, and humble people, ready to influence the world with your ideas and our interpretation of them through informed reflection. Because of this hard task, we pray
People: Make us a witness to the Gospel-message,
a prophetic response to the social and cultural problems of our day.
If you can bring truth out of Balaam’s donkey,
surely you can work a miracle here as well:
Celebrant: We tell the story and we are the story
People: Of freedom and vulnerability,
of blessing and brokenness
Celebrant: We tell the story and we are the story
People: That Jesus is Lord, that prayer is life
I put this particular liturgy together using words and phrases from an article that Dr. Gregg Finley wrote. Well thought Gregg!