Communion with Mr. Rogers

Lay Leader: The Lord be with you /And also with you

Lay Leader: 

It is right and a good and joyful thing always and everywhere to praise you 

Loving God, Creator of neighbor and neighborhood, weaver of life and light, 

     Loving us just the way we are, you spark courage and inspire growth.

You set the Divine Spark alight,       

        loving us into loving, 

        forgiving us into forgiving, 

        nurturing us into neighbors.

Pastor: We thank you for Jesus Christ,

Who walked within our reality, marveled at the wonder of creation, wept at our brokenness; called us to love God with every pulse of our heart and our neighbor as our self. 

God of Compassion, we praise you and with the faithful of every time and place, join creation’s eternal hymn:

    Holy, holy, holy Love, God of presence and grace, Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of God. Hosanna in the highest.

 Lay Leader: (invite to be seated):

With Christ, love embodied, You delivered us from brokenness and destruction

And made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit

On the night in which Jesus gathered his beloved family and friends to the table

He took bread, gave thanks, broke the bread,

gave the grain of hope to the people he loved and said

“Take, eat.”“Do this in remembrance of me”

Pastor: When the supper was over, and the crumbs lay round about the table, he took the cup,

Gave thanks to you, invited his loved ones to taste the fruit of paradise and said

Drink from this all of you, this is a symbol of the new covenant.  Poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins that in overcoming brokenness you might embrace hope.  Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

And so in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ.  We lift our voices in praise and thanksgiving as we proclaim the mystery of our faith

Christ has died, Christ has risen, and Christ will come again.

Lay Leader: Pour out your spirit of hope in the midst of our struggles, brokenness, conflict and strife as we remember people who journey with us straining with difficult burdens.

                             -Struggles named here-

This we pray

Loving God Hear our Prayer

Lay Leader: Pour out your Spirit of joy as we give thanks in taking the bread and cup and remember all who bring laughter to our days and warm our hearts in this season of grace.

                             -Joys named here-

This we pray

Loving God we give you thanks

Pastor: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us and on these gifts of grape and grain

Make them be for us the body of Christ,

That we might be for the world God’s people of compassion nurtured in Christ’s love.

By your Spirit make us one with Christ

One with each other

And one in ministry to all the world

Until Christ comes in the full glory of compassion

And we feast at the table of paradise.

Through your child Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit in your holy church, all honor and glory is yours, loving God now and forever.   Amen

Amen.