GATHERING SONG AND
GREETING
Come, Live in the light!
Shine with the joy and the love of
our God!
We are called to be light for the kin-dom,
to live in the freedom of the City
of God.
Refrain
We are called to act with justice,
We are called to love tenderly,
We are called to serve another;
To walk humbly with God!
Come, open your heart!
Show your mercy to all those in
fear.
We are called to be hope for the
hopeless,
So all hatred and blindness will be
no more!
(Refrain)
Sing! Sing a new song!
Sing of that great day when all
will be one!
God will reign, and we’ll walk
with each other
As sisters and brothers united in love!
(Refrain)
Presider:
In the name of God, Midwife of Grace, and of Jesus our brother, and of
the Holy Spirit, our Liberator. ALL:
Amen
Presider:
My sisters and brothers, God loves us infinitely and is with us
always. ALL: and also with you.
PENITENTIAL RITE
Presider:
Let us pause now for reflection.
Place your hand over your heart and breathe in God’s passionate love for
you…breathe out God’s, extravagant love for everyone….
Open
yourself to Spirit energy empowering you…
Now let us praise God by singing
Glory to God…
Song of Praise: Glory to God, glory. O praise Glory
alleluia.
Glory to God, glory. O praise the name of our God. (x2)
Glory to God, glory. O praise the name of our God. (x2)
OPENING PRAYER
Presider: God of Love, Midwife of grace,
we experience your grace drawing us to new life in the depths of our mystical souls
and in our prophetic call. We rejoice with atour brother Jesus, through the
power of your Spirit. ALL: Amen.
LITURGY OF THE WORD
First
Reading Isaiah : 56:1, 6.
Responsorial
“Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on me”
Responsorial
Psalm: Spirit of the Living God
Sung by
Michael Crawford
Spirit of the Living
God
Fall fresh on me
Spirit of the Living God
Fall fresh on me.
Melt me mold me
Fill me use me
Spirit of the Living God
Fall fresh on me.
Second
Reading Psalm 22:9-10
Gospel
Acclamation: Alleluia
Gospel:
Matthew 15:21-28
Reader:
The good news of Jesus, the Christ!
ALL: Glory and praise to you, Jesus the Christ!
HOMILY
Profession
of Faith: ALL:
We believe in God who is compassion in our world. We believe in Jesus,
whose death and resurrection reveals God’s infinite love. We believe in the
Holy Spirit, the breath of Wisdom Sophia, who energizes and guides us to live Christ’s
presence. We believe in the communion of saints, our heavenly friends, who
inspire us to live holy lives. We believe in the church as the people of God, living
in faith, hope and love.
GENERAL
INTERCESSIONS
Presider:
That we may bring new life into our world, we pray
Response: God of all, love through
us
Presider:
That we may foster healing of our Earth, we pray. R.
Presider:
That the sick may be healed, we pray.
R.
Presider:
That we may be forever one with our beloved dead in the communion of
saints we pray. R. (Other
Intentions)
PREPARATION OF THE
GIFTS
Presider:
Blessed are you, God of all life, through your goodness we have bread,
wine, all creation, and our own lives to offer.
Through this sacred meal may we become your new creation. (hold up bread and wine)
ALL: Blessed be God forever.
Presider:
God is with you, abounding in love
ALL: and also with you.
Presider:
Lift up your hearts in Christ who lives and loves, heals and empowers through you.
ALL: We lift them up to God.
Presider:
Let us give thanks to our God.
ALL: It is right to give God thanks and praise.
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER
Voice
One: Life-giving Love, You call all persons to be
friends of God. United with You, we are one with all beings in the community of
creation as we celebrate the new life occurring in our expanding cosmos. We join
the angels and saints as we sing:
ALL: Sung “We are holy, holy,
holy, you are holy, holy, holy, I am holy, holy, holy” chant by Karen Drucker
Voice Two: Gracious God, you set the banquet table and invite all to
the feast that celebrates your dazzling love in the universe. As midwives of grace we are Your hands,
lifting up those who suffer, the vulnerable and neglected in our world today
Voice Three: We especially thank you, Holy
One, for Jesus, the Compassion of God, who came to show us a new vision of
community where every person is loved and all relate with mutual respect.
Voice Four:
Jesus
threatened the religious and political leaders of his time and so they put him
to death. As God raised Jesus to new
life, we trust that your promise of faithful love will be with us in our suffering
and raise us up to fullness of life.
All: (please all extend hands as we recite the consecration together)
Let your Spirit come upon these
gifts as we pray:
On the night before he died, Jesus
took bread into his hands and said:
This is my body, he said. Take and
eat .
Do this in in memory of me.
Pause
At the end of the meal Jesus took
a cup of wine, raised it in thanksgiving to you, and said:
”Take and drink of the covenant made new again through my life in
you. Do this in memory of me.
Presider:
Now then, let us proclaim the mystery of the Christ Presence made new
again through you:
ALL:
In every creature that has ever
breathed, Christ has lived; in every living being that has passed on before us,
Christ has died; in everything yet to
be, Christ will come again!
Voice Five: . We thank you for
ordinary people in our lives who show us how to love tenderly and have revealed
the heart of our God, especially (pause to remember and name some of these
holy women and men).
Voice Six: And so, liberating God, Midwife
of Grace, we hold our religious ministers and political leaders in the light of
Christ Sophia, Holy Wisdom. We pray for
our pope and bishops, the young and the elders, and all God’s holy people.
Voice Seven: We remember those who are sick and suffering. May they be healed and comforted. We remember Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary
Magdala, Peter, Paul, Junia, our patron
saints. We remember our loved ones and
all those who have died, that they may experience the fullness of life in the
embrace of our gracious God.
ALL: Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ, all
praise and glory are yours, Holy God, through the power of the Holy
Spirit. Amen.
THE PRAYER OF JESUS
ALL:
Our Father and Mother . . .
and forever. Amen.
THE SIGN OF PEACE
Presider:
Let us pray for the peace of Christ in our world as we sing and hold
hands in a community prayer for peace (Peace is flowing or other appropriate
hymn)
Sign of Peace: Peace Prayer
David Haas
Peace before us.
Peace behind us.
Peace under our feet.
Peace within us.
Peace over us.
Let all around us be peace.
Love before us…
Light before us…
Christ before us…
LITANY FOR THE BREAKING OF BREAD
ALL: Loving God, You call us to
speak truth to power, we will do so. Loving God, You call us to live the Gospel
of peace and justice, we will do so. Loving God, You call us to live as Your
presence in the world. We will do so.
Presider:
Behold the Body of Christ. All
are invited to partake of this sacred banquet of love.
ALL: Jesus we are worthy to receive you and become
you for others. We are the Body of
Christ.
Presider:
Let us share the Body of Christ with the Body of Christ! ALL: Amen.
Communion Song: The Summons
John L. Bell
Will you come and follow me
if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don’t
know and never be the same?
Will you let my love be
shown?
Will you let my name be
known?
Will you let my life be grown
in you and you in me?
Will you leave yourself
behind if I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and
kind and never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile
stare should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer prayer
in you and me?
Will you let the blinded see
if I but call your name?
Will you set the prisoners
free and never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean
and do such as this unseen,
And admit to what I mean in
you and you in me?
Would your summons echo true
when you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you
and never be the same.
In your company I’ll go where
your love and footsteps show.
Thus I’ll move and live and
grow in you and you in me.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Presider:
Life-giving God, You come to birth each day in our universe through
suffering death and new life. Your Spirit is moving in us as we love
passionately, and extravagantly to bring your shalom to everyone equally especially the
marginalized.
ALL: Amen
CONCLUDING RITE
Presider:
Our God is with you.
ALL: and also with you.
BLESSING
(everyone please
extend your hands in mutual blessing)
ALL: Holy One, Midwife of Grace, we bless one
another as we serve others with loving kindness .
DISMISSAL
Presider:
Go, bring forth life as midwives of grace in our world. Let the service begin! ALL: Thanks be to God.
CONCLUDING HYMN
Closing Song: Sing a New Church
by Michelle Sherliza and Delores Dufner
by Michelle Sherliza and Delores Dufner
Summoned by the God who made us,
Rich in our diversity,
Gathered in the name of Jesus,
Richer still in unity.
Refrain:
Rich in our diversity,
Gathered in the name of Jesus,
Richer still in unity.
Refrain:
Let us bring the gifts that differ,
And in splendid varied ways.
Sing a new church into being,
One of faith and love and praise.
And in splendid varied ways.
Sing a new church into being,
One of faith and love and praise.
Radiant risen from the water,
Robed in holiness and light,
Male and female in God’s image,
Male and female, God’s delight.
Refrain
Trust the goodness of creation;
Trust the Spirit strong within.
Dare to dream the vision promised,
Sprung from seed of what has been.
Refrain
Draw together at one table,
All the human family;
Shape a circle ever wider
And a people ever free.
Refrain
God, A Midwife:
Psalm 22:9-10 “Yet You drew me out of the womb, you nestled me to my mother’s
bosom; you cradled me in your lap from my birth; from my mother’s womb, you
have been my God.”
Bridget Mary
Meehan
Association of Roman Catholic
Woman Priests
http://bridgetmarys.blogspot.com/
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