Litany for Third Sunday in Lent, Year A

Call to Worship:

One: Come! Let us make a joyful noise to God!

All: Let us come into God’s presence with thanksgiving!

One: For God reaches across oceans, across cultures, across all barriers,

All: To bring us into closer relationships.

One: When Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well,

All: He saw a woman needing acceptance and forgiveness.

One: Like the woman at the well, we too yearn for a connection to God.

All: Let us join our hearts to worship the God of Compassion.

           from John 4:1-15, 19-30 and Psalm 95

Community Prayer:

God of the Living Water,

You who know our very being, you see beyond our nationality and our culture. Like Jesus did with the woman at the well, you look through our mistakes and see us at the center of who we are. You push us to let go of cultural norms and biases that keep us from freely sharing your radical love. We pray for your continued presence in our lives as we struggle with our own prejudices and blind spots. We pray that we may be receptive of your nudging toward openness and inclusion. This we pray, O God of Spirit and Truth. Amen.

              Prayer and Call to Worship by K. K. Hudson-Bates

Litany for Third Sunday in Lent, Year C

Call to Worship for 2016-02-28

One: Come to God’s waters, everyone who thirsts,

All: Even if you have no money, come and eat!

One: Why do we spend money on that which is not bread?

All: God invites us instead to eat what is good. 

One: God makes with us an everlasting covenant of love.

All: Guide us, God, toward food that satisfies.

      Teach us, God, of your love. Amen.

                From Isaiah 55:1-9

Litany for Third Sunday in Lent, Year B

Call to Worship for Third Sunday in Lent, 2015

One: The heavens are telling the glory of God!

All: The firmament proclaims God’s handiwork!

One: God’s voice goes out through all the earth,

All. God’s words to the end of the world.

One: Yet too often we do not listen, God’s voice is not heard.

All: Too often we defile God's temple, we worship other idols.

One: God, open our ears that we might know your Glory,

All: and our eyes that we might receive your word! 

All: Let us worship God!             

          Exodus 20:1-17, Psalm 19

                  Call to Celebration by K. K. Hudson- Bates

Litany for 3rd Sunday in Lent, Year A

Call to Worship 2014-03-23

One: Just as the Israelites journeyed through wilderness and deserts,

All: So, too, do we go through our own wildernesses.

One: As the Israelites thirsted for water,

All: So, too, do we go through times of great need.

One: And, as the Samaritan woman thirsted for living water,

All: So, too, do we yearn for a connection to the God of Compassion.

  from Exodus 17:1-7 and John 4:5-42

Call to Worship by K. K. Hudson-Bates

Litany for 3 March 2013

Third Sunday in Lent 

Call to Worship - 3rd of March 2013

One: O God, you are our God, we seek you, our souls thirst for you.

All:    And yet, we do not always wait with patience.

One: Sometimes we cannot wait to hear your answer.

All:    As we come into your presence, let our souls be satisfied as with a rich feast. Let our mouths praise you with joyful lips. Amen.

from Psalm 63:1-6 

                                Call to Celebration by K.K. Hudson-Bates

Litany for 11 March 2012

Occasionally, I can just pull out a Call I've written in the past and use it just as it is. This is one of those Sundays. This one I wrote back in 2009, but I don't think I need to change anything in it.


Third Sunday in Lent        11 March 2012:

Call to Worship

L: The heavens are telling the glory of God!

P: The firmament proclaims God’s handiwork!

L: God’s voice goes out through all the earth,

P. God’s words to the end of the world.

L: Yet too often we do not listen, God’s voice is not heard.

P: Too often we defile your temple, we pollute your earth.

All: Open our ears that we might know your Glory,

       and our eyes that we might receive your word!  

                                    drawn from Psalm 19

                                             Call to Celebration by K.K. Hudson-Bates

Litany for 27 March 2011

3rd Sunday in Lent    
Call to Celebration
L: Come! Let us raise a joyful song to the Lord!
P: Let us come into God's presence with thanksgiving and sing Psalms of triumph.
L: For the Lord is a great God!
P: God cradles the depth of the earth and holds fast the mountain peaks.
L: We are God's people, God's flock.
All: Let us kneel before the Lord our Shepherd.
                            from Psalm 95:1-7

                                          Call to Celebration by K.K. Hudson-Bates