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Come Holy
Spirit,
cover us with you mantle of love.
We are a scattered people:
Come, gather us together.
We are a divided people:
Come to reconcile and renew.
We are an anxious people:
Come, soothe our fears.
We are a wealthy people:
Come, show us the joy of
sharing.
We are a forgetful people:
Come, make us the very
embodiment of Christ's love,
his message of peace and hope for all the world.
Come Holy Spirit, cover us with your mantle of love.
Come, O
Cosmic Christ:
as
we gather
to worship this morning,
make
us alive
with your living presence.
Come, Alpha
and Omega,
As
we sing
psalms and spiritual songs together,
remind
us
that you are our beginning and our end.
Come, O
Root and Offspring of David:
as
we read of
you in the holy Scriptures,
make
us
seekers after truth, justice and peace.
Come,
Bright morning star:
as
we eat the
bread and share the wine,
renew
our
hunger for the new creation.
Glory to
God: Wisdom, Word and Spirit:
as
in the
beginning, so now, and forever more.
Come,
O
fertile Spirit of God,
cover
your
people with a mantle of love.
In
your
passion, overpower us;
in
your
longing, ravish us.
Waken
our
sleeping bodies;
make
them
alive with a hunger for justice.
Rekindle
the
fires of our deepest spiritual longing;
make
them
roar with a yearning for peace.
Bring
to
birth in us a Word, a Song,
in
whose
sound the whole cosmos will find its rejoicing.
Creator God
Bring
to
birth in us a new awareness of your presence
in
the
deep-down spaces of our world.
Between
atoms
and neutrons, quarks and neuons,
you
are the
energy for cohesion and newness.
In
the
kaleidescope of plants and animals
you
are the
impetus for life, death and rebirth.
In
the images
and textures of writers and artists
you
are the
muse for beauty and truth.
In
the hearts
and spirits of human beings
you
are the
yearning for integrity, justice and love.
In
the faces
of the dispossessed,
you
are the
bearer of humanity and dignity.
In
the face
of Jesus, that carpenter of
you
are
revealed as Wisdom, Passion and Resurrection.
God of
deep-down spaces,
open
our eyes
to see you
open
our ears
to hear you
open
our
hearts to love you deeply.
Amen.
O
God of
beginnings and endings,
God
who walks
beside us:
In
your
grace, visit us now.
O
Christ,
friend of the weary,
Christ
of the
broken heart:
In
your
grace visit us now.
O
Spirit
who touches and heals,
Spirit
of
holiness and prayer:
In
your
grace visit us now.
God of
Jesus Christ,
at
the
dawning of the day we waken to hear your voice.
As
we gather
for worship this morning
grant
us the
Holy Spirit in abundance,
that
we may
recall the love of Jesus shown on the cross,
and
sing our
thanks to you
with
genuine
and faithful hearts. Amen.
Hail,
God of life, Maker of the universe!
Today
we join
with birds and trees and animals,
with
rocks
and rivers and mountains,
to
worship
and adore you as the One
who
brings
all beings to their birth!
Hail,
Christ of the spheres, child of God's wisdom!
In
your womb
the universe was made;
but
in your
love you emptied yourself of all divinity
and
took the
way of ultimate suffering.
We
have
gathered this day to sing our thanks!
Hail,
Spirit Holy, breath of God's life and primal fire!
You
dwell in
our souls as the instinct for love and justice;
you
clear our
eyes to appreciate beauty and celebrate life;
you
are the
voice of calm and the fire of passion.
Ignite
our
worship, make us lovers of God!
Hail to the
Maker, the
Ancient One,
Mother
and
Father of all that was, and is, and will be!
Today
we join
with birds and trees and animals,
with
rocks
and rivers and mountains and the whole creation
to
offer you
our worship and honour.
Come
to us,
God of Life! We invoke you!
Come
to fill
us with your creative power,
with
the
pulsing lifeblood of ages.
Make
us alive
with celebration and with rejoicing!
(the first candle lit)
Hail to the
Christ, the Compassionate One,
who
was alive
and was dead and lives in the heart of all things!
In
the
midnight of sin, you heard the cries of your people.
For
us and
for our healing,
you
embraced
that darkness with its loneliness and despair;
you
surrendered to the crack which rends the cosmos.
Come
to us,
Suffering One! We invoke you!
Renew
our
yearning for emptiness and for silence.
(the second candle is lit)
Hail to the
Spirit Holy, messenger of God's
Wisdom,
primal
fire
of creation and breath of life!
From
the time
of dreaming you made your home with holy souls,
making
them
friends of God and prophets.
You
invite us
to join with you in the circle dance of trinity,
to
die and be
reborn in the whirling wheel of God.
Come
to us,
Spirit of Life! We invoke you!
Renew
your
people in the passion of the ancients:
make
of us
mystics and poets and prophets,
that
the
earth may be rekindled in love.
Blessed be
God: Maker, Christ, and Spirit.
As
in the
beginning, so now, and for ever. Amen.
Holy
Joy,
come falling down.
Soothe
our
burning affections
Slow
the
frantic images
Tenderly
touch our aloneness.
Holy
Joy,
come falling down.
Intimating
eternity
Transfiguring
trauma
Animating
mechanism
Ensouling
body.
Holy
Joy,
come falling down
Whispering
your affection
Lilting
lovingness
Dispersing
melancholy
Renewing
imagination.
Holy
Joy,
come falling down.
Baptise
us in
streams of lovingkindness;
Bring
new
life to us in each new moment.
There is a
spirit in
the world called love.
It
is not a
spirit which can be grasped by thinking
not
can it be
conjured up through the ebb and flow
of
religious
passions.
No, it is a
spirit which comes upon us
suddenly
when
we
remember the smile of a parent
or
are shaken
by the poet's rage
or
experience
the hospitality of poor folk
or
smell
wildflowers after morning dew.
These prayers are
©
Garry
Deverell,