Post by McTrustry on Oct 29, 2013 21:49:16 GMT -5
Rev. Teresa Stricklen, Director of Academies for Missional Preaching PC(USA)
Invitation to Communion
Friends, this is the joyful feast of the people of God! Folks will come from east and west, and from north and south. All the citizens of God’s Rule in Christ Will feast forever in glory. This is the Lord’s table, His dinner party spread across time. And all who are present are invited to this foretaste of the Age to come.
Great Prayer Of Thanksgiving
The Lord be with you
And also with you
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
It is indeed right to give our thanks and praise to you, the God of Abraham and Sarah, Miriam and Moses, Joshua, Deborah, Ruth, David, priests, and prophets, Mary, Joseph, Peter and Paul, apostles, and martyrs, and ordinary unknown saints .
You are the God of our mothers and fathers and our children to all generations.
You, Everlasting One, made us all. You fashion us into one people, and continue to love us even when we deny our godly heritage.
Still, you call us home to you through saints dedicated to your will.
Therefore we praise you joining our voices with all the people of faith of every time and place who forever sing to the glory of your name:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might. Heaven and earth are full of your glory! Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed are you, most gracious God, for the gift of your child, our brother, Jesus Christ, who lived in accord with your will to the point of laying down his life for the good news he preached and passed on to us. On the night of his arrest, he taught us how to serve one another in love with a ritual of table fellowship enjoyed by Christians of all times and places.
And so in remembrance of our Lord Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves with thanksgiving as a living sacrifice.
In union with Christ’s offering for us, we live out the mystery of the faith we proclaim:
Christ has died. Christ has risen. Christ will come again.
Let us Pray:
Spirit of the living God, make us one as we partake of these your gifts to us so we might be in communion with you and one another. As we break bread together, may our eyes be opened to see your glory. As we lift the cup of salvation, may we be strengthened to follow your Way. Until Christ comes in final victory and we feast together with all the saints at God’s great family reunion, keep your church one in service to the world here and now, even as we pray for the world you so love...
Speak your peace in the world where wars rage and violence triumphs...{Pause for particular prayers named aloud or in silence.}
We lift before you our prayer for the health of all nations, that all people may flourish, for the upcoming elections in our country, for all people in positions of power over others’ lives...{Pause for particular prayers named aloud or in silence.}
May your will be done. May your Kingdom come. We pray for those who grieve...{Pause}
for those who are sick...{Pause}
for those struggling to live the fullness of your resurrection...{Pause}
Send forth comfort as only you can give. Forgive our sin, O Lord, as we forgive others, and remember our making. Work with who we are, where we are, to form these clay pots into vessels of living praise, that our lives may participate in the same unending song of the universe raised by all the saints, Through Christ with Christ, in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor and praise are yours almighty God, now and forevermore. Amen.
Celebration of Holy Communion
Prayer After Communion
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, crying out with a loud voice:
“Salvation belongs to our “God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen!”
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Invitation to Communion
Friends, this is the joyful feast of the people of God! Folks will come from east and west, and from north and south. All the citizens of God’s Rule in Christ Will feast forever in glory. This is the Lord’s table, His dinner party spread across time. And all who are present are invited to this foretaste of the Age to come.
Great Prayer Of Thanksgiving
The Lord be with you
And also with you
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
It is indeed right to give our thanks and praise to you, the God of Abraham and Sarah, Miriam and Moses, Joshua, Deborah, Ruth, David, priests, and prophets, Mary, Joseph, Peter and Paul, apostles, and martyrs, and ordinary unknown saints .
You are the God of our mothers and fathers and our children to all generations.
You, Everlasting One, made us all. You fashion us into one people, and continue to love us even when we deny our godly heritage.
Still, you call us home to you through saints dedicated to your will.
Therefore we praise you joining our voices with all the people of faith of every time and place who forever sing to the glory of your name:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might. Heaven and earth are full of your glory! Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed are you, most gracious God, for the gift of your child, our brother, Jesus Christ, who lived in accord with your will to the point of laying down his life for the good news he preached and passed on to us. On the night of his arrest, he taught us how to serve one another in love with a ritual of table fellowship enjoyed by Christians of all times and places.
And so in remembrance of our Lord Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves with thanksgiving as a living sacrifice.
In union with Christ’s offering for us, we live out the mystery of the faith we proclaim:
Christ has died. Christ has risen. Christ will come again.
Let us Pray:
Spirit of the living God, make us one as we partake of these your gifts to us so we might be in communion with you and one another. As we break bread together, may our eyes be opened to see your glory. As we lift the cup of salvation, may we be strengthened to follow your Way. Until Christ comes in final victory and we feast together with all the saints at God’s great family reunion, keep your church one in service to the world here and now, even as we pray for the world you so love...
Speak your peace in the world where wars rage and violence triumphs...{Pause for particular prayers named aloud or in silence.}
We lift before you our prayer for the health of all nations, that all people may flourish, for the upcoming elections in our country, for all people in positions of power over others’ lives...{Pause for particular prayers named aloud or in silence.}
May your will be done. May your Kingdom come. We pray for those who grieve...{Pause}
for those who are sick...{Pause}
for those struggling to live the fullness of your resurrection...{Pause}
Send forth comfort as only you can give. Forgive our sin, O Lord, as we forgive others, and remember our making. Work with who we are, where we are, to form these clay pots into vessels of living praise, that our lives may participate in the same unending song of the universe raised by all the saints, Through Christ with Christ, in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor and praise are yours almighty God, now and forevermore. Amen.
Celebration of Holy Communion
Prayer After Communion
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, crying out with a loud voice:
“Salvation belongs to our “God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen!”
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