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Family Worship in Lent

Family Worship in Lent
March 15-April 4
Mondays at 10AM
Wednesdays at 5:30PM
Saturdays at 10AM

Location
Online at https://www.facebook.com/pg/StMarksEpiscopalChurchAbq/videos/

Order of Service


Set Up:
In preparation for celebrating this service at home you may wish to gather the following:


  • One or more rocks (a small or medium sized landscaping rock is perfect!)
  • A bowl of water
  • One or more candles to light during the prayers

GATHERING 
Gathering Song-Welcome Everyone to the Love of God
Come let us worship (come let us worship).  Come let us worship (come let us worship).
Welcome everyone (welcome everyone) to the love of God (to the love of God.)

Food for the hungry
Rest for the weary
Hope for the children
Light in our darkness 
​etc.

Welcome everyone, to the love of God, in the name of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. 
 
Penitential Rite (Rocks and Water)

As we come to worship, we carry with us  the weight of many things: the weight of worries and regrets, of things done, and  things undone. Take a stone in your hands, and kneel down as you’re able.  Get as still and quiet as you possible can.  Notice the heaviness of the stone in your hands.  Notice if there is heaviness in your soul.  

Short Silence

Now, as we sing this next song, set down your stone and ask God to lift any weight from your Spirit. Then gently touch the water, remember your baptism, and ask God to cleanse and refresh your soul.  
 
Song: Thuma Mina
Hear us Jesus, Help us Jesus, Wash us Jesus, Heal us Jesus, Thank you Jesus etc.

 STORYTELLING
God carries our burdens.  God refreshes our souls. And God opens our ears, and minds, and hearts, to hear the Good News in the Word of God. 

Listening Song- Listen to the Word that God has spoken
Listen to the word that God has spoken
Listen to the One who is close at hand
Listen to the Voice behind creation
​Listen even if you don't understand​
Gospel Story (Share a Story of God's Good News from the Bible, Godly Play, or a Story Book)
 
PRAYERS


Prayers of the people (with Candles)

God speaks to us, in stories from the bible and God listens to us.  God hears our prayers. Who and what do you want  us to pray for today?  As we pray, I invite you to light a candle, and hold all our prayers in the light of God's love.  As we pray, we’ll sing together: Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy) Christe Eleison (Christ have mercy.)  

Prayer Song: Kyrie Eleison
Kyrie Eleison (Kyrie Eleison)
Christe Eleison (Christe Eleison)
​Kyrie Eleison (Kyrie Eleison)
PEACE

 God fills us with peace so that we can share that peace with one another and with the whole world.  As we sing the next song, I invite you to open your hands in this ancient "orans" position and send God's blessing of peace to fill up the people around you, then to spread out and fill up the whole world.  The Peace of the Lord be with you always.   

Peace Song--Shalom My Friend
Shalom my friends, shalom my friends, shalom, shalom.
Now gather up the peace we shared  with each other, rub it between your hands until it grows warm.   Then bring those warm hands to your head...letting God's peace fill your thought and your mind; to your heart...letting God's peace fill your heart; to your legs...letting God's peace fill your whole body.  Breathe in peace.  Breathe out peace.  Rub your hands together one more time, then bring your hands to gently cover your eyes.  Behold the dark.  Now, on the count of three open your arms and eyes-1, 2, 3--and behold the light!

The Eucharist

 "Behold!"  means "Look! See! Notice!  Pay Attention!"

We usually celebrate the Eucharist by eating the bread and drinking the wine together at church.  But people haven't always been able to eat the bread and drink the wine at church.  In the olden days, sometimes people celebrated the Eucharist with their eyes instead of their mouths!  There's even a fancy word for when people celebrate the Eucharist with their eyes instead of their mouths...by watching rather than eating--it's called "ocular communion."  

Today we'll bless the bread and wine together with a song, then we'll share communion together--just with our eyes instead of our mouths!

As we sing and pray to bless the bread and wine,  we'll remind each other to "Behold!"  To look, pay attention, and notice the real presence of the living God right before our very eyes!.

I'll sing Behold!
Then you'll  sing Behold!
Then together we'll sing "We see, we remember, Holy, Holy, Holy Hosanna!"


You can help keep the rhythm with a heartbeat on your chest. ​
(Refrain)
Behold! Behold! We see!  We remember!
Holy! Holy! Holy!  Hosanna!
 
***
May God be with you-May God be with you 
May God open our hearts-May God open our hearts
May our offering of thanks to God be whole and true.-
May our offering of thanks to God be whole and true.
 
(Refrain)    Behold! Behold! We see!  We remember!
                   Holy! Holy! Holy!  Hosanna!
 
Beautiful mystery, we bow before you
Hearts and hands open we arise in awe.
 
You called forth Creation, earth, fire, wind, and water.
And all earth’s children to share in Her care.
 
And so we join in the Song of Creation 
Ringing above, and below, and within
 
(Refrain)    Behold! Behold! We see!  We remember!
                   Holy! Holy! Holy!  Hosanna!
 
You came to walk with us, a child of the earth
Holy Spirit, Human Flesh in Mother’s arms
 
You learned and you followed; you taught and you led
You healed, you became, living water, bread of life 
 
You called us to look;  But we would not see.
Holy Spirit, Human Flesh, on the cross, in the grave. 
 
(Refrain)    Behold! Behold! We see!  We remember!
                   Holy! Holy! Holy!  Hosanna!
 
The night before your death, you shared in a feast
Taking bread you gave thanks, and you broke it to share:
 
This is my body, take it and eat
Whenever you do this, remember me
 
 
(Refrain)    Behold! Behold! We see!  We remember!
                   Holy! Holy! Holy!  Hosanna!
 
After the feast, you raised up the cup
Giving thanks, you shared it with all and said:
 
This is my blood, the sign of the promise
Poured out for all; my lifeblood is yours
 
Drink of this cup, poured out for you,
Whenever you do this, remember me.
 
(Refrain)    Behold! Behold! We see!  We remember!
                   Holy! Holy! Holy!  Hosanna!
 
You descended to the dead.  God raised you to new Life.  
You are here and we look to see you come again. 
 
(Refrain)    Behold! Behold! We see!  We remember!
                   Holy! Holy! Holy!  Hosanna!
 
This Body is yours; This Blood is yours
Yours the Creation, and we are yours
 
May we know your Spirit in this Bread &  Cup
May we know your Spirit now alive in us 
 
(Refrain)    Behold! Behold! We see!  We remember!
                   Holy! Holy! Holy!  Hosanna!
 
We join together with all earth’s children
North, South, East, and West; Above and Below
 
We join with Creation: earth, fire, wind, and water
With all Saints and Angels as they sing your praise.
 
(Refrain)    Behold! Behold! We see!  We remember!
                   Holy! Holy! Holy!  Hosanna!
 
Amen. Amen.  Amen. Amen.


The Breaking of the Bread
Behold the Gifts of God, for the People of God. 
The Body of Christ, the Bread of Heaven.  The Blood of Christ, the Cup of Salvation.

Behold the Body of Christ, the life of the World.
Receive the Body of Christ, the life of the World.
Become the Body of Christ, the life of the world. Amen.
The Dismissal
God has filled our hearts with Good News, and Peace.  We have seen the Bread of Life with our own two eyes! Now it's time for us to say goodbye and continue with the work of our day.  But before we go, we'll sing one more song.

Sending Song: Go now in Peace
Go now in peace, go now in peace
may the love of God surround you
everywhere, everywhere, you may go.
Go in peace, to love and serve the Lord!

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