Our inclusive language liturgies set the structure and theme of Sunday morning worship. All liturgies are written by the Celebration Circle Mission Group.
Feel free to use what is helpful from these liturgies. We only ask that when substantial portions are abstracted or used in a written work, please credit Seekers Church and cite the URL.
Green Season 2007 – Prophetic Hope
July 22 – September 2, 2007
REFLECTION
The hope-filled language of prophecy, in cutting through … despair and hopelessness, is the language of amazement. It is a language that engages the community in new discernments and celebrations just when it had nearly given up and had nothing to celebrate. The language of amazement is against the despair just as the language of grief is against the numbness.
Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination, pp 67-68
Trinity 2007 – The Faces of God
May 27 – July 15, 2007
REFLECTION
Because a trinitarian divinity unleashes much power in our imaginations, it can heal or redeem us in this critical time of the planet’s life…Classical Christian theology… is guided by three basic articles of faith: creation, redemption, and sanctification. In many respects these articles parallel the persons of the Trinity: the Creator, parent God; Jesus the Liberator; the Holy Spirit who sanctifies.
Creation Spirituality, Matthew Fox, p. 55
Easter 2007 – The Light of Christ
April 8 – May 20, 2007
REFLECTION
Now is the time when the blessed light of Christ sheds its rays; the pure rays of the pure Spirit rise and the heavenly treasures of divine are opened up. Night’s darkness and obscurity have been swallowed up, and the dense blackness dispersed in the light of day; crabbed death has been totally eclipsed. Life has been extended to every creature and all things are diffused in brightness. The dawn of dawn ascends over the earth, and he who was before the morning star and before the other stars, the mighty Christ, immortal and mighty, sheds light brighter than the sun on the universe.
– Psuedo-Hippolytus (ca 170 – 235 CE), quoted in "A Triduum Sourcebook,"
Liturgy Training Publications, pg 419
Lent 2007 – Darkness in an Age of Glare
February 21 – April 1, 2007
REFLECTION
"Not to flood darkness with light so that the darkness is destroyed, but to enter into darkness, mystery, so that it is experienced."
–Denise Levertov
Epiphany 2007 – A New Dawn
January 7 – February 18, 2007
REFLECTION
When the song of the angels is stilled When the star in the sky is gone When the kings and princes are home When the shepherds are back with their flocks The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost To heal the broken To feed the hungry To release the prisoner To rebuild the nations To bring peace among the people To make music in the heart.
— Howard Thurman