Prayer of Confession
God, when you called each of us into being, you delighted in your works. You
gifted us with differences that illuminate the breadth of beauty, wisdom, and practices of love in your creation. In whatever ways we still struggle to accept and celebrate our own unique offerings, free us from narrow thinking that confines, constrains, or condemns your good work in us. Help us to desire you, Lord. Help
us to yearn for your presence. Pour your baptismal waters over us again. Nourish and heal us so that we may joyfully serve you.
The Rev. Chrissy Westbury The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Hakken Candido Christ the King Sunday
Anthem New Every Morning Is the Love Gary James
New every morning is the love our wakening and uprising prove;
Through sleep and darkness safely brought, restored to life and power and thought.
New mercies, each returning day, around us hover while we pray;
New perils past, new sins forgiven, new thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.
If on our daily course our mind be set to hallow all we find,
New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice.
Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, as more of heaven in each we see;
Some softening gleam of love and prayer shall dawn on every cross and care.
The trivial round, the common task, will furnish all we ought to ask:
Room to deny ourselves, a road to bring us daily nearer God.
Only, O Lord, in thy dear love, fit us for perfect rest above;
And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.
Sheep May Safely Graze J.S. Bach
Flocks in pastures green abiding, safely with their Shepherd rest.
Cooled by waters gently gliding, flocks in pastures green abiding…
With the food of life he feeds them, to the fold he gently leads them,
There to dwell forever blessed.
September 3, 2023 Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. Chrissy Westbury
“Know that I am with you and will keep you… I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you.”
Creative God, awaken your church in our city as we collaborate for the common good. Open our eyes and hands to people marginalized or voiceless. Help us live so that
our workplaces and neighborhoods know the beauty and power of your good news. Give us such passion for your love that we tell others and spread the glory of your peace. Amen.
Children’s Blessing
Children: You are loved!
Congregation: You are loved!
Children’s Blessing
Children: You are loved!
Congregation: You are loved!
You tilled the barrenness of chaos…
Therefore, with all those who have journeyed with you in every time and place,
we lift our glad cries of deliverance: Sanctus #569