Worship Ecumenical Centre, Monday 15 September 2008
This week the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle invites us to pray for the countries of Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, and their churches
This order of worship was put together by the Rev. Rudolf Renfer who is director of human resources at the Lutheran World Federation
Welcome – Invocation
The world belongs to God,
The earth and all its people
How good and how lovely it is
To live together in unity.
Love an faith come together,
Justice and peace join hands.
If the Lord’s disciples keep silent
These stones would shout aloud.
Lord, open our lips
And our mouths shall proclaim your praise.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever.
Amen.
Hymn: Agape 3, A Palavra do Senhor (all the 5 languages)
Prayer
Oh Lord,
When you deliver us from our faults,
And when our heart continues to feel guilty,
Forgive us.
Agape 28 Gospodi Pomiliu - sung response
Oh Lord,
When you open the door of our prisons,
And we still continue to pull down the walls,
Forgive us
Gospodi Pomiliu
Oh Lord, when you call us to live from your grace,
And we keep turning over our forgiven faults,
Forgive us
Gospodi Pomiliu
Readings
Proverbs 3, 13 – 18 (in Romanian)
Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding, for the gain from it is better than gain from silver and its profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.
1 Cor 1, 20 – 25 (in French)
Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Mt 11, 16 – 19
“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates,
‘We piped to you, and you did not dance;
we wailed, and you did not mourn.’
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’; the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
Message
Hymn Paradiscomnak te szep élö fàja
Prayer of intercession
Because the world is beautiful,
And beauty is a tender thing,
And we want to enjoy life,
But also take up our responsibilities,
We need you, God.
sung response: Sfinte Dumne Zeule
Because human knowledge seems endless,
And we do not know what we do not know,
And what seems to be wisdom for us,
Is seen as folly by those who do not know us,
We need you, God.
Sfinte Dumne Zeule
Because in fact we can live without you,
And are free to go against you,
And are struggling with our convictions of justice,
Trying to stand on the side of the excluded ones,
We need you, God.
Sfinte Dumne Zeule
Because we want to be in solidarity with the countries
Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria and their churches
Witnessing your name and acting in your name,
Resisting to temptations and weaknesses,
We need you, God.
Sfinte Dumne Zeule
Because you came among us
In the man Jesus who was eating and drinking
With impure people and sinners,
And we want to know how to answer to his call,
We need you, God.
Sfinte Dumne Zeule
Blessing
Lord Jesus Christ,
Because you were eating and drinking with the tax collectors and sinners,
You were looked on as ungodly.
Because you broke bread with the joyful,
You were called a glutton and a drunkard.
Because you broke bread in the upstairs room,
You sealed your acceptance of the way of the cross.
Set our blessing on the bread we break and the company we share,
In the name of God the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
Let us go in peace.
Amen
I, the Lord of sea and sky,
I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin
My hand will save.
I who made the stars of night,
I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear my light to them?
Whom shall I send?
Refrain:
Here I am, Lord, is it I, Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night.
I will go, Lord, if you lead me,
I will hold your people in my heart.
Yo, Señor de lluvia y sol,
Las angustias y el dolor,
De mi pueblo he de sanar sin condición.
Ese duro corazón, con mi amor transformaré.
Quién mi nombre anunciará ?
Quién me seguirá ?
Refrán :
Aquí estoy, Señor, Heme aquí, Señor.
En la noche escuché tu voz.
Guíame, Señor. Yo te seguiré.
En mi corazón a tu pueblo guardaré.
I, the Lord of wind and flame,
I will tend the poor and lame.
I will set a feast for them.
My hand will save.
Finest bread I will provide,
Till their hearts be satisfied.
I will give my life to them,
Whom shall I send?
Refrain
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