Morning Worship
Welcome
*Call to Worship
The Holy Triune God welcomes everyone to this feast, everyone on the earth. God welcomes you to come and sit.
God welcomes us.
God welcomes the poor, the sick, the unclean, the distraught, the untouchables, and the outcasts. God welcomes everyone.
God welcomes us.
God welcomes the pessimists, the rebels, the outsiders, the cynics, and the believers. God welcomes everyone.
God welcomes us.
God welcomes us all to this holy table. Let us worship God.
*Hymn
Prayer of Confession
Heavenly creator, we confess that we have not always noticed the less fortunate in our society. We confess to not seeing the poor and hungry in our world. We confess to not seeing those who are troubled and hurt by the world and by the things we do. And we admit to having accumulated material things that we do not need, and that we do not share with others. We admit to having eaten too much on many occasions, without thinking about those who have no food. And we admit to having shown amusement at the pain of others. Holy Christ, please help us to see these errors. Help us to avoid the path of unrighteousness and to come to your holy path of mercy and compassion. Help us to enact your justice in the world among the poor, the helpless, and the abandoned. God, you call us, help us to hear your call and to respond to it. Amen.
Assurance of Pardon
To all who turn from sin in sorrow, to all who turn to God in hope, this is God’s Word of grace; we are accepted, we are forgiven, we are loved. This gift we have from God.
Thanks be to God.
*Passing of the Peace
Since Christ has forgiven us, let us forgive one another.
The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
And also with you.
Prayer of Illumination
Scripture Reading Luke 6:12-26
Communion Meditation “What Am I Getting Myself Into?” Rev. Joelle Davis-Moriarty
Sacrament of Holy Communion
The Great Prayer of Thanksgiving
The Spirit of God be with you.
And also with you.
Lift your hearts to heaven
Where Christ in glory reigns.
Let us give thanks to God.
It is right to offer thanks and praise.
It is right indeed to give you thanks most loving God, through Jesus Christ, Our Redeemer, the first born from the dead, the pioneer of our salvation, who is with us always, one of us, yet from the heart of God. For with your whole created universe we praise you for your unfailing gift of life. We thank you that you make us human and stay with us even when we turn from you to sin.
God’s love was shown to us:
While we were yet sinners,
God died for us.
In that, dear God, righteous and strong to save, you came among us in Jesus Christ, our crucified and living Lord. You make all things new. In Christ’s suffering and cross you reveal your glory and reconcile all peoples to yourself, their true and living God.
In your mercy you are now our God. Through Christ you gather us, new-born in your spirit, a people after your our heart. We entrust ourselves to you, for you alone do justice to all people, the living and the departed.
Now is the acceptable time,
Now is the day of salvation.
Therefore with saints and martyrs, apostles and prophets, with all the redeemed, joyfully we praise you and say:
All glory to you, giver of life sufficient and full for all creation. Accept our praises, living God, for Jesus Christ, the one perfect offering for the world, who in the night that he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, broke it, gave it to his disciples, and said: Take, eat, this is my body which is given for you, do this to remember me.
After supper he took the cup; and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them and said: Drink this, all of you. This is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for you, and for many, to forgive sin. Do this as often as you drink it to remember me.
Therefore, God of all creation, in the suffering and death of Jesus our redeemer, we meet you in your glory. We lift up the cup of salvation and call upon your name. Here and now, with this bread and wine, we celebrate your great acts of liberation, ever present and living in Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, who was and is and is to come.
Amen! Come Lord Jesus.
May Christ ascended in majesty be our new and living way, our access to you, Father, and source of all new life. In Christ we offer ourselves to do your will.
Empower our celebration with your Holy Spirit, feed us with your life, fire us with your love, confront us with your justice, and make us one in the body of Christ with all who share your gifts of love.
Through Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit,
with all who stand before you in heaven and on earth,
we worship you, Creator God. Amen.
Now let us pray the prayer that Jesus taught us, in the language in which you are most comfortable.
*Communion of the People
*Prayer after Communion
*Charge and Benediction
Participants in Worship:
Rev. Joelle Davis-Moriarty, Preacher
Ms. Lisa Wraith, Liturgist
Mr. Joseph Nguyen , Musician
Rev. Dr. Charles Marks, Chaplain
Communion Servers:
Ms. Shelley Calkins , Coordinator for Faculty Services
Ms. Cynthia Harris, Junior
Ms. Erin Musolf, Junior
Mr. Scott Clark , Chaplain’s Assistant
Ms. Kitty Lum, Chaplain’s Assistant
Mr. Joshua Dunham, Chaplain’s Assistant
Rev. Scott Schaefer, Vice President of Finance
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