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Epiphany Invocation

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:08-04:00Categories: Epiphany, Prayers|Tags: awe, Epiphany, light, prayer|

 O shimmering O dayspring O light on the snow […]

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Epiphany Invocation

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:58-04:00Categories: Prayers|Tags: Call to Worship, Epiphany, Invocation, light, prayer|

  Epiphany Invocation O shimmering O dayspring O light on the snow O sweep of stars O brightness of tears O  word of fire O shining [...]

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Prayer for the Road

Catherine Smith2020-02-27T13:31:58-04:00Categories: Lent, Prayers|Tags: authenticity, Confession, freedom, intention, Journey, Lent, prayer|

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 [...]

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A Lenten Prayer of Invitation

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:00:40-04:00Categories: Lent|Tags: Contemplative, Lent, prayer, Rilke|

Come Work your hands in the clay of your heart Shape of this moment a sheer cavern for Love resonant […]

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Newborn

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T11:59:16-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Immigration, neighbour, New decade, New Year, Newborn, prayer|

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 [...]

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Transfiguration

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T11:59:17-04:00Categories: Prayers|Tags: darkness, light, prayer, seeing, 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 [...]

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Autumn

Catherine Smith2020-10-01T16:16:35-03:00Categories: Prayers, Resources for Our Gathered Life, Uncategorized|Tags: Autumn, Contemplation, Creation, Fall, prayer, Worship|

Holy One, May we come to this momentAs though we were a gardenAnd You the softening rain […]

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Blessing the Backpacks: blessing with bubbles

Catherine Smith2020-10-01T16:17:38-03:00Categories: Prayers, Resources for Our Gathered Life, Uncategorized|Tags: Backpack Blessing, Bubbles, light, prayer, Prayer Cues|

(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 [...]

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The Heart in it

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:00:39-04:00Categories: Prayers, Uncategorized|Tags: community, Connection, Holy Week Tuesday, Hope, Notre Dame Cathedral Fire, prayer, Vigil|

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 [...]

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Holy Wednesday

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:32-04:00Categories: Prayers|Tags: healing, holy, Holy Wednesday, life, prayer|

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 [...]

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