Join Us TODAY the 26th of October for our Emmaus Celebration when we celebrate All Souls Day or Dia de los Muertos
We begin with a welcoming at 3:45pm
Location: Christ Church United Methodist Church:
Classroom 8
1717 Yulupa Drive, Santa Rosa California 95405
or By Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting using this link:
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Passcode: 1234
Meeting ID: 519 315 8573
Passcode: 1234
We celebrate our Community and welcome new people to our meal followed by a potluck. Everyone Welcome!
Opening: Ring the Singing Bowl three times followed by a moment of silence:
Welcome to all new people
Opening Song: Adoramus Te Christe (Taize)
All: Adoramus Te Christe
Adoramus te Christe, adoramus te Christe,
adoramus te Christe, adoramus Christe.
Adoramus te Christe, adoramus te Christe,
adoramus te Christe, adoramus Christe.
1 Adoramus te Christe, et benedicimus tibi, [Refrain]
2 Quia per sanctam Crucem tuam redemisti mundum. [Refrain]
English Translation: We adore you, Christ, we adore you, Christ, we adore you, Christ, we adore you.
We adore you, Christ, we adore you, Christ, we adore you, Christ, we adore you.
1 We adore you, Christ, and we bless you, [Refrain]
2 Because through your holy Cross, you have redeemed the world. [Refrain]
A Call for being together in the Spirit
Leader: This is our sacred time to connect with each other in the presence of the Divine.
All: We come together in unity, trusting that we are truly one in the Spirit.
Reader: Let us open our hearts to receive grace anew as we share in these holy moments.
All: With open hearts we sense a deeper connection with God and each other.
Leader: May the Spirit of God be vitally present in our midst.
All: Even as we bring forth the best that is within us.
Leader: We are blessed to be together for this meal. All: Let the blessing flow.
Opening Prayer
Leader: Divine Spirit: you have been with us throughout the ages.
Side 1- In remembrance and gratitude, we name the saints who hungered for righteousness and whose sacrifices contributed to a more just society.
Side 2- In remembrance and gratitude, we name the saints who loved us, nurtured us, embraced us, celebrated us or supported us. We are because they were.
Side 1-We also hold in remembrance, the ones whose lives were taken by injustice, the ones who were severed from their own sense of belovedness, those who passed on our faith, who gave us art, song and poetry. We are because they were.
Side 2- Like us, we know they were imperfect, too. Life is messy and contradictory, often betraying the very justice and love we seek to embody. And yet, you, O God, promise that our loving labors are never in vain.
Side 1- Help us to lean on the witness of those who have gone before us, drawing on the love, justice, community and faith that weave us together, generation after generation-past-present and future.
All: With gratitude and in remembrance we pray. Amen.
LITURGY OF THE WORD: 1st Reading: Sirach 44
Now we will praise our great heroes, the ancestors of our peoples from times long past.
Yhwh gave them greatness and honor and they too reflected the greatness of God in ancient times. Some of them had power over great domains and gained their fame through their strength. Others were advisors who possessed great foresight and spoke with the righteousness of prophets.
Some led the people through their wisdom, and by their knowledge of the Law of Israel, teaching the people from their wealth of understanding. Some composed great music, and others wrote great poetry.
Still others possessed great wealth and power, living the life of ease in their estates. All these were glorious in their time, illustrious in their day. Some of them left behind a name so that people recount their praises. Of others no memory remains, for when they perished, they perished, As if they had never lived, they and their children after them.
Yet these also were godly; their virtues have not been forgotten. Their wealth remains in their families, their heritage with their descendants. Through God’s covenant their family endures, and their offspring for their sake. And for all time their progeny will endure, their glory will never be blotted out; Their bodies are buried in peace, but their name lives on and on. At gatherings their wisdom is retold, and the assembly proclaims their praises.
2nd Reading: Ephesians 3:16-19
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being. May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all God’s holy people, to experience how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Dialogue Homily- JoAnn (You are welcome to bring pictures of people in your life who are dear ones – family or non-family - who have died, if you choose) Some questions and/or thoughts for reflection:
1-We’d like you to think of how your thoughts of death have changed over the years or have stayed the same. Do you hold grief differently as you have grown older or when certain ones in your life have died?
2-- Who might have been the people that helped to form you and that you hold near and dear in death?
3--Who are those who have passed from this life and are the people who were your teachers of justice?
May choirs of angels lead you into paradise, and may the martyrs come to welcome you to bring you home into the holy city, so you may dwell in new Jerusalem. May holy angels be there at your welcoming, with all the saints who go before you there, that you may know the peace and joy of paradise that you may enter into everlasting rest.
Prayer of the Faithful- Spoken with usual hand gestures
We remember John as we pass the basket: Please be as generous as you can be.
Liturgy of the Eucharist (Thanksgiving)
All: On the night before he died, Jesus was at table with his friends. He took bread, gave thanks to you, broke it, and gave it to his friends saying, This is my body, broken for you.
As supper was ending, Jesus took the cup of wine. Again, he gave thanks to you, gave it to his friends and said, this cup is the new covenant of my life’s blood shed for you; and as often as you do this, you do this in memory of me.
Acclamation:
We remember how you loved us all your life.
And still we celebrate for you are with us here. And we believe that we will see you when you come, when you come again.
We remember! We celebrate! We believe!
Leader: Now, gathered at your table, we offer to you our gifts of bread and wine, and ourselves, a living sacrifice. Pour out your Spirit upon all these gifts that they, and we, may be the Body and Blood of Christ. Breathe your Spirit over the whole earth and make us your new creation.
Leader: In the fullness of time, bring us with all your saints from every tribe and language, from every people and nation, to feast at the banquet prepared from the foundation of the world.
Leaders: (Holding up the bread and wine)
Song
Amen Siakadumisa 2x
Amen, Bawo 2x
Amen Siakadumisa
Amen Siakadumisa 3X
Amen, Bawo 2x
Amen Siakadumisa
ALL: Through him, with him, in him in union with the Holy Spirit all glory is yours maker of all
Leader: Now together, as one community, we offer to you O God, our prayer, in the name of your beloved son and our brother, Jesus:
All: Creator, holy and blessed is your true name. We pray for your reign of peace to come.
We pray that your good will be done.
Let heaven and earth become one.
Give us this day the bread we need.
Give it to those who have none.
Let forgiveness flow like a river between us, from each one to each one. Lead us to holy innocence beyond the evil of our days.
Come swiftly God, come.
For yours is the power and the glory and the mercy: Forever your name is All in One.
Offering our Gift of Peace:
Leader: Let us offer one another a sign of our peace and love.
Invitation to Communion: Leader: Everyone is welcome at this table.
The Divine Spirit, whom the universe cannot contain, is present to us in this bread. The Divine Spirit, who redeems us and calls us by name, now meets us in this cup. So come, Beloved Friends, and take this bread, drink this wine. In them, God comes to us, so that we may come to God and love one another.
Leader: We invite everyone now to partake of this communion we share. (As the cup is passed, if you choose, please only dip the bread into the cup)
Communion Song: Bread For The World
Bread for the world: a world of hunger.
Wine for all peoples people who thirst.
May we who eat be bread for others.
May we who drink pour out our love.
Lord Jesus Christ you are the bread of life,
Broken to reach and heal the wounds of human pain.
Where we divide your people, you are waiting there
on bended knee to wash our feet with endless care.
Lord Jesus Christ, you are the wine of peace,
Poured into hearts once broken and where dryness sleeps.
Where we are tired and weary you are waiting there
to be the way which beckons us beyond despair.
Lord Jesus Christ, you call us to your feast,
at which the rich and pow’rful have become the least.
Where we survive on others in our human greed,
You walk among us begging for your ev’ry need.
Closing Blessing sung while the community lights a candle for all those who have died and who live within us still.
Now in Peace O Lord (Taize )
Let your servant now go in peace Oh lord
Now go in peace according to your word, to your word
Let your servant now go in peace Oh lord
Now go in peace according to your word, to your word
And the people of this beloved Emmaus Community proclaim:
Amen!
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