Pentecost: June 7, 2024
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Responder:Gina
R: Greeting:
Today we celebrate the culmination of the Life of Jesus and the very beginning of the Community of Followers of Jesus and The Way. We are here together as an outcome of this event. The Spirit was speaking to each one present in the upper room, and continues to speak to each of us today. I have asked everyone to wear red today as a sign of your call from the Holy Spirit. This will be a sign of our commitment to follow the Spirit as Jesus did, to serve and to love others. As we come together this afternoon, let’s take a moment to breathe deeply and to smile into each other’s radiant and expectant faces. We are gathering today as a group of believers in one place, via zoom. As we celebrate Pentecost, may we open our hearts and minds to the breath of the Holy One – receiving its encompassing embrace and flame of wisdom.
Spirit of God dwell within our hearts, renewing, healing and transforming us and the entire cosmos. Each of us has been given spiritual gifts to serve others in diverse and wonderful ways. Each of us has the spiritual power to do more than we have ever imagined. Let us reflect on the outpouring of the Holy Spirit calling us to celebrate the wonders of Pentecost in our lives and in our world.
Send Us Your Spirit Dan Schutte
https://youtu.be/QUL-ey9gQZQ?si=_DKYGyt16c4PuGYq
We begin in the name of our Creative God, our brother Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. The God of new life is with each of you. R] And also with you
Presider: We ask for the grace to continually acknowledge our need to grow in goodness, peace, and caring for ourselves and others.
Responder: We accept God’s love and forgiveness for the fragility of our human nature.
Penny: We confess to Almighty God and to each other that we love God. Mixed into every thought and word, in every action and inaction is a belief that God is there, loving us through my faults, through my successes, and through my stillness. Therefore, I ask blessed Mary, all the Angels and Saints, and each other to pray that none of us ever forgets the love of our gracious God. (adapted by Therese Fisher)
Nick: As we prepare to celebrate this glorious Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, we open our minds and hearts to hear the Word of God.
LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading, from the Acts of the Apostles. Acts 2: 1-11 Barbara
When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were.
Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues,
as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem.
At this sound, they gathered in a large crowd, but they were confused
because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
They were astounded, and in amazement they asked, "Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans?
Then how does each of us hear them in his native language?
We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites,
inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene, as well as travelers from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God."
The Word of God R. Thanks be to God
Psalm 104 Linda: Send out your Spirit God and renew the face of the earth.
Bless my soul! Adonai, my God, how great You are! Clothed in majesty and glory, wrapped in a robe of light.
Glory forever to the Most High! May Our God find joy in all creation. May these reflections of mine give God pleasure as much as the Most High gives me.
Second Reading: Janet /A Reading from Bread for the Journey. Henri Nouwen
The Breath of God is Within us:
When we speak about the Holy Spirit, we speak about the breath of God breathing in us. We are seldom aware of our breathing. It is so essential for life that we only think about it when something is wrong with it.
The Spirit of God is like our breath. God’s spirit is more intimate to us than we are to ourselves. We might not often be aware of it. It is the Spirit of God who prays in us, who offers us the gifts of love, forgiveness, kindness, goodness, gentleness, peace, and joy. It is the Holy Spirit who offers us the life that death cannot destroy.
These are the inspired words of our brother and disciple of Jesus, Henri Nouwen.
R: Our community affirms these words with AMEN
Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia by
Christopher Walker
https://youtu.be/o1rc7ojQtJU?si=rg3fsOqyRXGx7qhe
Gospel Reading: John 20: 19-23
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so I send you." And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
The Good News of Salvation
R: Glory and Praise to Our Savior Jesus Christ
Statement of Faith: alternate Janet and Galen
We believe in the Holy One, a divine mystery beyond all definition and rational understanding, the heart of all that has ever existed, that exists now, or that ever will exist.
We believe in Jesus, messenger of the Divine Word, bringer of healing, heart of Divine compassion, bright star in the firmament of the Holy One's prophets, mystics, and saints.
We believe that We are called to follow Jesus as a vehicle of divine love,
a source of wisdom and truth,
and an instrument of peace in the world.
We believe in the Spirit of the Holy One,
the life that is our innermost life,
the breath moving in our being,
the depth living in each of us.
We believe that the Divine kin-dom is here and now, stretched out all around us for those with eyes to see it, hearts to receive it, and hands to make it happen.
Intentions
Linda. As we prepare for our sacred meal, we are all called to serve one another. We bring to this table our blessings, cares, and concerns. Please feel free to voice your prayers beginning with the words, “I bring to the table…
(At the end of each short intention say," Gracious God hear our prayer.)"
We pray for these and all unspoken intentions. Amen.
SIGN OF PEACE: Judy
Christ Jesus, you said to your friends: I leave you peace, my peace I give you. Look not on our failings, but on the faith of your Church, and grant us the peace and unity of your kin-dom where you live for ever and ever.
Amen.
The peace of Christ be always with you.
R: And also, with you.
Let us offer each other a sign of Christ’s peace.
Offering of the Gifts:
Judy: Blessed are you, God of all creation, for through your goodness
We have received the bread we offer you: fruit of the earth and work of human hands, It will become for us the bread of life.
R: Blessed be God forever.
Presider: By the mystery of this water and wine may we come to share in the divinity of Christ, who shared himself in our humanity.
Barbara: Blessed are you God of all creation, through your goodness
We have received this wine we offer you: fruit of the vine and work of human hands, it will become our spiritual drink.
All: Blessed be God forever.
Penny: With humble spirit and loving hearts may you, O God, accept us and may the offering that we bring to this table be pleasing to you.
Liturgy of the Eucharist
Eucharistic Prayer of the Spirit (Joyce Rupp)
Presider: With open hands and hearts, we pray our Eucharistic prayer:
Nick: Spirit! Power and Passion of our being,
press upon our hearts your profound love.
Move through the fragments of our days;
enable us to sense your fiery Presence
consecrating our most insignificant moments.
Judy: Spirit! Source of Vision, Perceptive Guide, permeate the moments of our choices when falsehood and truth both call to us.
Turn us toward the way of goodness,
so that we will always lean toward your love.
Linda: Spirit! Blessing for the heart grown weary,
encircle us with your loving energy,
empower us with your active gentleness.
Deepen within us a faith in your dynamism which strengthens the weak and the tired.
We are filled with gratitude and thank you as we sing:
Here in this Place – Holy Holy Holy by Christopher Grundy
https://youtu.be/sgkWXOSGmOQ
Barbara: Spirit! Breath of Life, Touch of Mystery,
you are the ribbon of inner connection,
uniting us with the groaning of all creation.
Because of you, our lives gathers into a oneness.
Keep us attentive to this interdependence.
Fill our being with constant compassion
and a deep hope that knows no bounds.
Gina: Spirit! Dwelling Place, Sanctuary of Silence, you are the home for which we deeply yearn.
You are the resting place for which we long.
We find both comfort and challenge in you.
Grant that we may keep our whole selves open to the transforming power of your indwelling, that we may ever know the blessings of your tremendous companionship.
Please extend Your hands over your bread and wine.
Your Spirit is within this + bread and wine and with us as we become more deeply the Christ Presence in our world.
Presider: On the night before he faced betrayal and death, Jesus shared supper with his friends. He reminded them of all that he taught them, and to fix that memory clearly with them, he bent down and washed their feet.
Lift up your bread as the community prays the following:
Presider: When he returned to his place at the table, he lifted the bread, spoke the blessing, broke the bread and offered it to them saying:
ALL: Take and eat, go and share my love with one another.
Lift the your cup as community prays the following:
Presider: Then Jesus took the cup of the covenant, spoke the grace, and offered it to them saying:
ALL: Take and drink. This is the covenant of my love.
Whenever you remember me like this,
I am among you.
Karla: Bread and wine are transformed by Your Spirit and we are transformed when we open ourselves to Your Spirit. Every time we share this bread and wine we choose to be transformed. We choose to love as You love us.
Presider: What we have heard with our ears, we will live with our lives: as we share communion, we will become communion, both Love’s nourishment and Love’s challenge.
Let us share this bread and cup to proclaim and live the gospel of justice and peace.
Please receive Communion with the words: The Spirit is within us.
Communion song: Spirit and Grace
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Let us pray as Jesus taught us: Cathy W.
Holy One, you are within, around and among us.
We celebrate your many names.
Your wisdom come; your will be done,
unfolding from the depths within us.
Each day you give us all that we need.
You remind us of our limits and we let go.
You support us in our power, and we act with courage.
For you are the dwelling place within us,
the empowerment around us,
and the celebration among us,
now and forever, Amen. Adapted by Miriam Therese Winter
Presiders: Let us raise our hands and bless each other.
Nick: Come, Holy Spirit, breathe down upon our troubled world.
Shake the tired foundations of our rumbling institutions…and from the dust and rubble gather up the seedlings of a new creation.
Penny: Come, Holy Spirit enflame once more the dying embers of our weariness. Shake up our complacency. Whisper our names once more, and scatter your gifts of grace with wild abandon.
Break open the prisons of our inner being, and let your raging justice be our liberty.
Karla: Come, Holy Spirit, and lead us to places we would rather not go; expand the horizons of our limited imagination.
Awaken in our souls dangerous dreams for a new tomorrow, and rekindle in our hearts the fire of prophetic enthusiasm.
Written by Diarmuid O’Murchu
Final Blessing: Juanita:
Please extend your hands in blessing and pray together:
May Sophia-Spirit rise within us like a rushing wind. May Sophia-Spirit spark the churches like a revolutionary fire. May Sophia-Spirit flow through the world like a life-giving breath.
Amen.
Closing Song: Send Down the Fire Marty Haugen
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