Litany for 6 February 2011

Call to Celebration:

L: Shout out! Lift up your voice like a trumpet!

P: You are the light of the world!

L: Loosen the bonds of injustice and undo the thongs of the yoke,

P: Let the oppressed go free, breaking every yoke.

L: Share your bread with the hungry,

P: And bring the homeless poor into your house.

L: Then your light shall break forth like the dawn!

ALL: Praise be to God!

                                   from Isaiah 58:1-8 and Matthew 5:14
                                             Call to Celebration by K.K. Hudson-Bates

Litany for 30 January 2011

Fourth Sunday after Epiphany 

Call to Celebration

L: With what gift do we come into Yahweh's presence and bow down before God on high?

P: What sacrifice is sufficient to atone for our wrongdoing?

L: Only this does Yahweh ask of us:

ALL: To act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with our God.

                       from Micah 6:6-8

                                             Call to Celebration by K.K. Hudson-Bates

Litany for 23 January 2011

And for the following week:

Third Sunday after Epiphany         23 January 2011

Call to Worship:

L: The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light!

P: Those who lived in a land of deep darkness, on them light has shined!

L: Jesus said, “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people”

P: And immediately they left their nets and followed him.

All: Behold the beauty of the Lord. Let us sing and make melody to the Lord. 
                             from Isaiah 9:2, Psalm 27:4-6, Matthew 4:19-20
                                                    Call to Celebration by K.K. Hudson-Bates

Litany for 16 January 2011

This begins my first posting.  Below is the litany written for tomorrow:

Second Sunday after Epiphany         16 January 2011

Call to Worship:

L: Listen to me, O coastlands; Pay attention, people from far away!

P: God called us before we were born,

L: While we were in our mothers' wombs God named us.

P: Yahweh put a new song in our mouths, a song of praise to God.

L: God tells us: "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified."

P: We are chosen by the Holy One of Israel. 

L: “I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

All: Praise be to God!!

                          from Isaiah 49:1-6
                                             Call to Celebration by K.K. Hudson-Bates