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.  You bid us beyond comfort and compliance.  

    You call us to the streets, 

        to meet you in each face and prepare the way.  

You are the passion that 

    urges us to roll out the red carpet to the marginalized 

        and join the parade, palms raised without malice or sword.  

You are the hosannas on our lips 

    and the energy lifting our heart to sing your life-giving verse.  

You are the feast for the famished and the hope for the hopeless.

Pastor:  For Jesus Christ we give You thanks. 

For his holy, unflinching march; 

    we are humbled with gratitude 

        and overwhelmed by our own fear of change.  

Grant us the courage set a feast for the famished 

    and turn the tables on the status quo.

Grant us the courage to keep pace and walk the lonesome road, resolute in each step towards your all-loving goal.

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 People 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 under heavy burdens.

             -Struggles named here-

This we pray

(Sung Response) Loving God, hear our prayers.

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

(Sung Response) 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 shaped in Christ’s love, members of one body. 

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

(Sung Response) Amen. Amen. Amen.