It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.                                             -Rainer Maria Rilke

Lord, like the women at the tomb on the first Easter, we come out of our darkness and into your light.

Go forth into the world knowing that the God of love walks with you. May you go in the Peace of Christ…Amen.

In this season of Lent, we pray using an ancient form in the church. The Greek words, “Kyrie Eleison” mean “God, have mercy on us.”  God’s mercy is a gift of love, given freely to us.  

The Community Gathers:  Experience God’s presence in the assembly. Please greet one another with joy and welcome new friends into our community of love.

The Community Gathers:  Experience God’s presence in the assembly. Please greet one another with joy and welcome new friends into our community of love.

Link to Zoom Service                    “Look for the Resister” Order of Worship Let us be as open vessels that God’s spirit may enter. The Community

Winter is a lesson about the fine art of loss and growth. Its lesson is clear; There is only one way out of struggle and that is by going into its darkness, waiting for the light, and being open to new growth. -Sr. Joan Chittister

“I’m a man of contradictions, a man of many moods. I contain multitudes.”                                                                    Bob Dylan

Focus:  “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.”                  Buddha

Focus: “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” – Coretta Scott King

When the people lack a sense of awe, there will be trouble in the empire.                                                                                          ─ Lao Tzu

Focus:  Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. 
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
                                                            Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of Jesus. He never mentions the shepherds or the manger, but he didn’t want us to miss the star and the seekers. It’s easy to see why. Their story is our story. “

  Max Lucado

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.

                                                                                    Sarah Ban Breathnach

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

                                                                                      Ralph Waldo Emerson

Upon this moment, upon this people,
upon this place, the holy comes.
And sacred knowing brings sacred being for sacred doing of God’s plan.                -Michelle Currie

The Community Gathers:  Experience God’s presence in the assembly. Please greet one another with joy and welcome new friends into our community of love.

Doxology:  Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise God all creatures here below. Praise God above ye heavenly hosts, Cre-ator, Christ and Holy Ghost.  Amen.

The Community Gathers:  Experience God’s presence in the assembly. Please greet one another with joy and welcome new friends into our community of love.

Focus: I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G.K. Chesterton

Focus: “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our
exploring will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the
first time.”   
                                                           T. S. Elliot