From all that calls for our attention, help us God, to be attentive to you.
Let us be still, or at least still enough to feel the breath that goes in and out of our bodies,
to sense the rhythm of our pulse and our heartbeat …
Watch this week’s Worship here: This fourth week of advent we light the candle of Love. The ways in which we’ve been expressing our love – for family, for neighbours, for friends, for the environment, maybe even for God – have undergone some creative transformations over the past months, and I’m sure we will continue …
We hope during Advent, each of us / all of us will spend some time preparing our hearts, our homes and our lives to welcome once again the Christ child.
Click here to watch this week’s worship. “We belong to each other”. [Romans 12: 5 Common English Bible] A couple of thousand years ago, Paul wrote these words to a community in Rome – a community he hoped to meet in person one day. In an interesting echo, I heard similar words this …
May this be our prayer:
Give to us laughter, O Source of our life.
We are weary; refresh us with your gift of laughter.
Disturb us, we pray, startle us, awaken us,
and grant to us new purpose and fresh hope.
We pray in the name of the one who brought your hope and your love into being,
in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen
The theme for this week’s worship is All Saints. The link is: Happy Hallowe’en and Blessings on this All Saints weekend. “In a little while, the world will no longer see me … but you will see me …” According to the Gospel of John, these are among the words of Jesus to his friends …
Lead us from death to life,
from falsehood to truth,
Lead us from despair to hope,
from fear to trust.
Lead us from hate to love,
from war to peace,
Let peace fill our hearts, our lives, our universe.