Category: Opening Prayer
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A prayer for World Communion Sunday focused on Christian unity, adapted from Psalm 67, John 17, and Ephesians 2, with an optional transition into Prayers of the People or a familiar prayer or creed.
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Growing up in Eastern Pennsylvania and surrounded by a lot of my family’s Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, I nonetheless was only vaguely aware of the Luterhan, Mennonite, and German Reformed tradition of Harvest Home until I joined the United Church of Christ as an adult. Cultures have celebrated harvest liturgically for thousands of years. Pentecost itself…
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A Centering Prayer or Prayer for Medidation for World Communion Sunday, the first Sunday in October. Centering Prayer Gracious God, as we join with the global family of faith at this morning’s table, bind us together in love. Remind us that we are all made in your image, are united through the indwelling of the…