Prayer for the Road
God of setting out and arrival and the road between, we lay down, with reverent attention those things that we have taken up to protect us [...]
A Lenten Prayer of Invitation
Come Work your hands in the clay of your heart Shape of this moment a sheer cavern for Love resonant […]
Newborn
Image by Jamie Coupaud on Unsplash In the newborn year, in the newborn decade, what is closest to me calls me to attend to what is [...]
Transfiguration
Holy One, We have come carrying our days, like torches or tea lights, touching darkness. Who knows by the thing that is lifted, the question the [...]
Autumn
Holy One, May we come to this momentAs though we were a gardenAnd You the softening rain […]
Blessing the Backpacks: blessing with bubbles
(The worship leader could say the words of the following prayer alone or it could become an echo prayer with the children and any who bring [...]
The Heart in it
Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. (Photo: Thibault Camus/AP) No shape of wood or even [...]
Holy Wednesday
Wednesday of Holy Week seems one of the days orphaned from its ritual parents. Swung soundlessly between the arms of Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday it [...]
Epiphany Invocation
O shimmering O dayspring O light on the snow […]
Praying with Bowls
On Sunday we’ll be coming to the Trinity with cadences of Celtic Liturgy and with imaginings of colour and movement and relationship. Circles seem to rise [...]