Saturday, November 22, 2025
Theme: Christ, The Universal Manifestation of God
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Presider: Karla
Responder: Rita
Today’s Celebration
R: Today, we celebrate the reality of Holy Mystery who loves us unconditionally from the original enfleshment of Christ in matter, since the Big Bang of 14 billion years ago, who loves us in the Creation of earth 4 billion years ago, and who loves us in the blessing of the rise of human consciousness about 200,000 years ago.
Gathering Song: Be Not Afraid
Karla: Let us begin our joy-filled celebration together in the name of the Holy One, Source of all Being, Jesus, Eternal Word, and Holy Spirit Sophia, our Wisdom within. Amen.
Opening Prayer: John
O Holy One, voice in the listening heart, your gifts to us are beyond measure, and your patience without limit. We gratefully acknowledge your presence among us and within us. As we gather to celebrate Eucharist, we offer you thanks and praise for the gift of our humanity, the consciousness and freedoms that allow us to know you and one another. Amen
Gratitude Rite:
Karla: Creator God, we ask for the grace to continually acknowledge our need to grow in goodness, peace, and caring for ourselves and others. R: Send peace and justice into our world.
Penny: God, you created us in your likeness, living among us, naming us as your own. R: Strengthen us to bring honor and glory to your name.
Juanita: God, you sustain us in our daily lives, offering your love and grace, guiding us as your children. R: Lead us to transformation and action.
Nick: God, you promise us eternal hope, raising us up, calling us to new life in you. Let there be peace on Earth. R: Lead us to acts of heartfelt compassion for others.
Margaret: May the scriptures we read today become living bread. May your spirit empower them to shape us in Jesus’ likeness.
First Reading: 2 Samuel 5:1-3
A reading from the second book of Samuel. Christine
All the tribes of Israel gathered at Hebron and said to David, “We are your own flesh and blood. In the days when Saul ruled, it was you who led Israel on our military campaigns. And YHWH said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel and be our commander of Israel.’”
All the elders of Israel came to David in Hebron, and David made a pact with them before YHWH. Then they anointed David ruler of Israel.
The Word of God. R. Thanks be to God!
Psalm 122 Gina verses
R: How I rejoiced when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of Our God."
How I rejoiced when they said to me, / "Let us go to the house of Our God." And now our feet are standing / in your gateway, Jerusalem.
R: I rejoiced when I heard them say, "Let us go to the house of Our God." Jerusalem restored! / The city, one united whole! Here the tribes come up, / the tribes of Our God.
R: I rejoiced when I heard them say, "Let us go to the house of Our God."
They come to praise Our God's Name, / as God ordered Israel, Here, where the tribunals of justice are, / the royal tribunals of David.
R: I rejoiced when I heard them say, "Let us go to the house of Our God."
Second Reading: Colossians 1:12-20 Galen
A reading from the letter of Paul to the Colossians.
Thanks be to God for having made you worthy to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in light!
God rescued us from the authority of darkness and brought us into the reign of Jesus, God’s Only Begotten. And it is through Jesus that we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.
Christ is the image of the unseen God and the firstborn of all creation, for in Christ were created all things in heaven and on earth: everything visible and invisible.
Before anything was created, Christ existed, and now all things hold together in Christ. The Church is the body; Christ is its head.
Christ is the Beginning, the firstborn from the dead, and so Christ is first in every way.
God wanted all perfection to be found in Christ, and all things to be reconciled to God through Christ — everything in heaven and everything on earth — when Christ made peace by dying on the cross.
The Word of God. R: Thanks be to God!
Alleluia
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Gospel Reading: Luke 23:35-43 Margaret
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
One of the criminals who hung there beside him insulted Jesus, too, saying, “Are you really the Messiah? Then save yourself — and us!” But the other one answered the first with a rebuke: “Do you not even fear God? We are only paying the price for what we have done, but this one has done nothing wrong.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your glory.” Jesus replied, “The truth is, today you will be with me in paradise.” The Good News of Salvation!
R: Glory and praise to our Savior Jesus Christ! A reading from the holy Gospel attributed to
Homily
The Sign of Peace JayCee
It is fitting that, having asked for Divine and mutual forgiveness, we now extend an expression of Peace to each other.
Grant us Your peace, O Loving God, that by following the example of Jesus and with the strength of the Spirit, we may be eager to spread that peace to everyone, everywhere, with no exceptions. Amen
Janet: May the peace of our gracious and loving God be always with us.
Let us turn to one another and, with our hands raised in prayer, offer each other a sign of peace.
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Statement of Faith Gina
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 God's Word, bringer of God's healing, heart of God's compassion, bright star in the firmament of God's prophets, mystics, and saints.
We believe that we are called to follow Jesus as a vehicle of God's love, a source of God's wisdom and truth, and an instrument of God's peace in the world.
We believe that God's 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.
Prayers for all the people of God
Preparation of the Gifts
Offertory Song: Yahweh, I know you are near.
Kathy N Blessed are you, God of all Creation, Earth, and the Universe. This bread is your Magdala community, offering ourselves up to continue our spiritual evolution into the heart of Christ. May this bread become spiritual nourishment for our journey.
R: Praise and glory to our Creator and Jesus the Christ forever.
Cathy P Blessed are you, God of all Creation, Earth, and the Universe. This wine is our desire to make co-creator choices in our own lives and for humanity. May we grow in faith, hope, and love by following the way of Jesus Christ, our wise elder brother.
R: Praise and glory to our Creator.
Eucharistic Prayer
Juanita: Holy Mystery, you stirred the waters of creation, and you dwell in us and in every living being and earth itself. We lift our hearts to our Creator in whom past, present, future, and all that exists are One.
(Extend hands in blessing over bread and wine for Invocation of the Holy Spirit.)
Karla: Come, Sophia, and settle on this bread and wine. Fill them with the holiness and wholeness of our brother Jesus + our Universal Christ who is calling us to justice, peace, equality, and dignity for all. We give thanks and praise this day. Amen.
On the night before he died, he spoke the blessing, broke the bread, and shared it with them, saying, “Take and eat of the bread of life.
All: Whenever you remember me like this, I am among you.”
Jesus then raised the cup of blessing, spoke the grace saying, “Take a drink of the covenant made new again through my life in each of you and in your community.
All: Whenever you remember me like this, I am among you.”
Jesus, who was with God in the beginning of the creation of the heavens and earth, is with us now in this bread. The Spirit of whom the prophets spoke in history is with us now in this cup.
All: Let us proclaim the mystery of faith - Christ dies, Christ rises, Christ comes again and again and again.
The Abba Prayer Linda
Eternal Spirit, Earth maker, Pain bearer, Life giver, source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all. Loving God, in whom is heaven, the hallowing of your name echoes through the universe.
The people of the world follow the way of your justice. All created beings will do your will. Your commonwealth of peace and freedom, sustain our hope and come to earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us. In times of temptation and test, strengthen us. From a trial too great to endure, spare us. From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever. Amen
Penny: This is the bread of life and the cup of blessing. Through it, we are nourished, and we nourish each other. All are welcome to the Feast. 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 to grow in consciousness and evolution in Jesus the Christ.
Nick: Take and share communion with the words “I am love for the world.” Take and share the cup with the words “I am hope for the world.”
Communion Song: Stranger No More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgX_BqFaGbY
Prayer After Communion Patti:
Loving God, may this Eucharist in which we share Christ’s healing love deepen our oneness with you and with one another. May wonder and thanksgiving fill us with the knowledge, understanding, and experience of your love and compassion, your sacred people. We ask this in the name of Jesus the Christ.
Closing Community Blessing Karla
(Everyone, please extend your hands in mutual blessing.)
May our hearts be glad on our journeys as we dream new dreams and see new visions.
May we live and work for mercy, peace, and justice, in our hearts for ourselves and our sisters and brothers, whoever they are and wherever they are.
May we learn to bless, honor, and hold in reverence one another and thus grow in gratitude and humility.
May we continually strive to be the faith of a mustard seed, so we can move mountains that are barriers to justice and equality.
And may we be the face of God to the world, reflecting a compassionate and caring presence in us to everyone we meet.
And finally, as we depart from this sacred space, let us look with new eyes and hearts to recognize our call to Spiritual growth and evolving consciousness. Thanks be to God. Let it be so!
Dismissal Margaret
Full of Christ’s peace, let us go out in haste to share the Good News of the Divine Presence dwelling within. Let our service continue with grateful and humble hearts.
All: Amen and Alleluia!!!
Closing Song: Dance then Wherever You may Be
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