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! !!!!!!!!!!!!Words and music taken from: Songs and Prayers from Taize, publ. by Rainbow Book Agencies, Australia Music from T aize, Volumes One and Two. Publ. by Harper Collins. !
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Taizé Prayer !!
Love !!
You were called to be free. Do not use your freedom
for self-indulgence but to serve one another in love..
Galatians 5: 13-14 !!!
6:30pm, 10 August 2014
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Berowra Uniting Church !
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! !!PSALM 103: (Verses are sung by cantor, the Alleluias are sung together) Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Bless the Lord, O my soul, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! !!
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! !!The Lord’s prayer is spoken together. !Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.
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! !!The following prayers are spoken by individuals with the Kyrie sung together !
Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. Lord our God, as evening falls and the light disappears: receive our prayer... Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. God our Father, your love is all we need: help us to share that love with all those you have entrusted to us… Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. God our Father, kindle anew your love in us, and in the world… Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. !
[feel free to add your own prayers here] !
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!During the singing of the next song, you are invited to join in with the lighting of the candles at the front. This symbol is used by many to remind us that even when we are shrouded with darkness, in our personal life or the life of humanity, Christ’s love is a fire that never goes out. !
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BIBLE READING: Luke 10:25 - 37 !Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and love your neighbour as yourself. !
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! BIBLE READING: Romans 12:3-13 !For just as each of us has one body with many members, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. !
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! !SILENCE !The key to the passage is verse 5: “In Christ we, though many, form one body.” The image of the human body to describe a group of people is not an uncommon one in the literature of the time, but the New Testament takes it to new depths. During his life on earth, the disciples of Jesus, although they were a very diverse group, must already have felt an intense unity stemming from their attachment to him. But after the Resurrection and the coming of the Holy Spirit, this unity took on a whole new dimension: the believers found that they were “in” Christ, and that together they somehow now constituted a single organism. !Believers in Christ are actually parts of each other. This reality is often largely hidden from us. If we think of the Church as an institution with a list of members, or else as a provider of some sort of service or product of which we are consumers, we will be quite unable to see it. For it depends on the presence of the Holy Spirit in us, deep within ourselves. It is a mysterious communion that unites people by what is deepest in each one. !… a meditation on Romans 12:3-13 from the Community of Taize.
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