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November 30, 2011
posted on November 29, 2011 by Musings
First Wednesday in Advent – Common Prayer
On the Wednesday’s in Advent we are participating in a joint worship service with Noel United Methodist Church and the Church for the Highlands using Shane Claiborne’s book of Common Prayer. We hope you are able to join us for these services. For those that can’t join us, we are posting a portion of the Daily Prayer below.
Please note that Advent begins the liturgical year and does not start on the same date each year. We are starting with the liturgy for December 1, the first day in the book of Common Prayer.
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O Lord, let my soul rise up to meet youas the day rises to meet the sun.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Come, let us bow down and bend the knee : let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
Song: Servant Song
May we cry the gospel from the rooftops : both with our words and with our lives.
Psalm 8:4 – 7
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers : the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,
what is man that you should be mindful of him? : the son of man that you should seek him out?
You have made him but little lower than the angels : you adorn him with glory and honor;
you give him mastery over the works of your hands : you put all things under his feet.
May we cry the gospel from the rooftops : both with our words and with our lives.
Scriptures: Isaiah 1: 1-9 and Luke 20: 1-8
May we cry the gospel from the rooftops : both with our words and with our lives.
Charles de Foucauld prayed, “Father, I abandon myself into your hands, do with me what you will. For whatever you may do, I thank you. I am ready for all, I accept all, let only your will be done in me, as in all your creatures.”
Prayers for Others
Our Father
Sometimes, Lord, it takes witnessing another person’s commitment for us to realize our own lack of faith. Open our eyes to learn, even from strangers who inhabit other faith traditions, what it means to be committed to you. Amen.
May the peace of the Lord Christ go with you : wherever he may send you;may he guide you through the wilderness : protect you through the storm;
may he bring you home rejoicing : at the wonders he has shown you;
may he bring you home rejoicing : once again into our doors.
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Each day Common Prayer remembers a saint who labored on behalf of the church. Today we remember Charles de Foucauld.
While working in the North African desert after a dishonorable discharge from military service, Charles de Foucauld was impressed by the piety of Muslims and experienced a dramatic recovery of his Christian faith. He spent a number of years in a Trappist monastery before hearing the call to a new monasticism among the working poor. “I no longer want a monastery which is too secure,” he wrote. “I want a small monastery, like the house of a poor workman who is not sure if tomorrow he will find work and bread, who with all his being shares the suffering of the world.” Though Foucauld died in solitude, the Little Brothers and Sisters of Jesus, inspired by his life and witness, have started communities of service among the poor and outcast around the world.
To learn more about him, click Charles de Foucauld.
