A simple order for morning prayer in the workplace

These order of prayer was prepared by Hielke Wolters.

The joy of living and working in the space of God’s love
Morning prayers Ecumenical Centre, February 12, 2010

Assurance of God’s love
God’s love is costly, generous, and trustworthy,
Deeper than our expectations, higher than our hopes,
Accept in your heart the promise of new life,
And proclaim with your lips
the inexhaustible goodness of God.

Holy, Holy, Holy,
Love’s empowering might,
heaven and earth are full of your glory.
We give you glory, God most high!

Reflection: Love your enemies (Matthew 5: 43-48)

Closing prayer
Sending God,
You call each of us to share in your mission,
to proclaim,
to nurture,
to love,
to transform,
to renew.

Help us to be faithful to your calling.
Give us wisdom and insight to discern your voice.
Give us patience and humility to work with others.
Give us courage and strength when we feel overwhelmed
by the tasks before us.

Remind us of your presence with us.
Surround us with your all-embracing love.
Fill us with the joy and energy of your Spirit.
Prompt us to recall the example of Jesus.

And as you now send us out,
to our offices and our meetings,
to our duties and our responsibilities,
keep us close to you,
this day and for ever more.

From and inspired by Francis Brienen (ed.),
What does the Lord require?, CWM

A sermon by Jet den Hollander on Love

This sermon was preached at the chapel of the Ecumenical Centre on February 8 as we were praying for Belgium, the Netherland and Luxemburg


Next Sunday is Valentine’s day,
and even though in Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands this is not a big tradition, as the preparatory group for this morning’s worship we decided to take our theme from this: “All you need is love”
- Hence the Beatles
- the “sweet hearts” in the basket (please take some when you leave the chapel)
- the candles in the shape of a heart.

As we were brainstorming on love and Valentine’s Day, I remembered an evening years ago in Cuba. I was staying with Carlos Ham and the family and we were going out for the night. First to Che Guevara’s cabaña – in a fort on the harbour where he used to work when he was a government minister in Castro’s revolutionary government. Not a big place but full of Che’s stuff: his doctor’s kit, books, binoculars, diaries, cigars, photos of his wife and children.

Then it turned towards 9 pm and we had to rush outside for the - what Carlos called – “the cannonball ceremony”: an incredible spectacle because Cubans dressed up as the 18th century Spanish soldiers - complete with wigs and lances - marched up to the large cannon. And, as it has happened for three centuries, commands were shouted and the cannon was fired to tell the population that the harbour – and in the old days the city of Havana – was now closed.

Just then across the harbour a large tourist boat floated by, illuminated - here in revolutionary Cuba - by a huge red heart of lights.

Three worlds, three completely different realities in the space of an hour on that same square next to Che’s cabin –
- The Cuban Revolution – with its vision of justice and opportunity for all, though with its own inherent problems
- The colonial period - with all its pomp and privilege for a few, and exploitation and harshness for many - that in a real sense provoked that revolution
- And the Valentine’s Day cruise – that symbol of commercialism that has found its way into our many societies, and yet, for all its play on the market (I understand chocolate factories in Britain have their biggest turnover of the year between Valentine’s day and Easter) that inspires a lot of thoughts of love.

Which one is the real Cuba? Or are all of them together the real Cuba?

The same question can be asked of my own country, the Netherlands, or of Belgium or Luxemburg for which we pray today.

Three rather small countries, yet within each of them there is such a diversity,
- of landscapes and architectural traditions;
- of norms and values and ways of life: for instance certain ways of doing things may be rejected in the Randstad in the west of the Netherlands but still linger on in the rural parts in the East near Germany,
- a diversity of languages and dialects; even in the Netherlands there are two official languages (Dutch and Frisian) but then there is a great variety of dialects, not to mention the many languages spoken by the "allochtoon" part of the population.
- Even that word itself points to two different realities: “allochtoon” means those originated from a foreign land; "autochtoon" means “of the land itself”, so, the immigrants and the “indigenous Dutch”, each have an often quite different view of what is Dutch reality today.
- And then of course there are the many different ways of believing, speaking of God, experiencing God in our highly secularised societies

Last week Jane described the experience of even your own mother tongue becoming unfamiliar. I recognise that. Each year the Dutch identify a new word that has become accepted into our language. In 2009, the "Word of the Year" was "ontvrienden", a Facebook term that means "de-friend", when you no longer "want to be friends" with someone on Facebook. What kind of a society choses this cold concept as "Word of the Year"? Jane talked of the sense of alienation and confusion and conflicting realities in a world that you thought you knew but turns out to be Babel, the place where we do not understand each other anymore. I think it’s an experience that is very widespread today, and yet – an experience that is probably of all times.

One theologian who has done a lot to help people to grapple with that experience of multi-realities all criss-crossing in the same space was Edward Schillebeeckx, who died on 23 December after a long and – in his own words – happy and fulfilled life.

Schillebeeckx was born in Belgium in 1914 but lived for most of his life in the Netherlands and so as Dutch and Belgians we can both claim him as “ours”. He was a Dominican priest, a radical thinker, a prolific writer and a great interpreter of the theology underlying Vatican II. From the early 60s he was the moving force behind the renewal in the Dutch Catholic church province – liturgy, priests who married, rethinking the sacraments, etc.

His books are not easy, but he led Protestants and Catholics alike back to the sources, and made faith transparent again, often through pithy concepts like:

 God is new every day
 God is “ons rakelings nabij”, so close to us we almost touch
 Jesus, the story of one who lives

And then there was, already in the 1970s, his book: Justice and love, liberation and grace.

Schillebeeckx used the word “love” seldom “sec” but always in context and often in combination with that other concept that for us today is so important: justice. Which brings us back to 1 Corinthians 13: love.
"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude." 1 Cor 13.4

Love that comes from God, and shines through us, focussed on the other. That love for God, for others and for creation came through in what Schillebeeckx said and wrote. It’s good to know that he, in a unique combination of making things clear and yet keeping the mystery, now has the privilege of seeing God no longer as in a mirror, but face to face.

"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." 1 Cor 13: 7
But is that real? Do-able? Isn’t it sometimes unwise, unrealistic ....

(poem Erich Fried - read by different voices)

It is what it is: Love
Do-able because Jesus did it.

May that love be concrete today in what we say, how we speak to each other and deal with the issues on the table. May it be God’s love that shines through us today.

Amen.

Copyright (c) Jet den Hollander WARC

All you need is love - a service prior to valentine's day

This morning colleagues from the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg led our worship, giving it the theme "all you need is love".

Ecumenical Centre Morning Worship

Monday 8 February 2010
Praying with the peoples and churches of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

All you need is Love

(Red candles in shape of heart on the altar “Sweet-hearts” in basket next to the liturgies)

Musical prelude – Beatles, All you need is love, on piano, guitar, flute, drums


Words of welcome
- welcoming all and especially visitors
- the countries on the prayer cycle this week...
- Invitation to stand and begin this morning’s worship as is customary in Dutch churches, by expressing our trust in the One who called us here together ....

Votum and greeting Lucette
(all stand) Our help is in the name of the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.
Whose steadfast love endures for ever
Who does not forsake the work of his hands.

Grace to you and peace
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (1 Cor 1:3)

In response to God’s peace we sing to God:

The Gloria(sung in Dutch)
Ere zij de Vader en de Zoon en de Heilige Geest
Als in den beginne
Nu en immer
En van eeuwigheid tot eeuwigheid
Amen

(Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,
now and always, and for ever and ever. Amen)

Ps 100
Hymn Juicht Gode toe, bazuint en zingt – All people that on earth do dwell
(Psalm 100 in the language of your choice, attached)

Scripture reading 1 Cor 13:1-13 raed in Dutch

Reflection Jet den Hollander
Ending with a question that serves as invitation to begin the poem

Poem What it is (Erich Fried)

Lucette stays at the 2nd mike and invites to sing the song ( remain seated)

Hymn Lumière de Dieu (Thuma Mina 150, in French, German, English)

Prayers of thanksgiving and intercession (Lucette and Lut)

For Gods goodness ….
Nous chantons / we sing: Lumière de Dieu (French only)

For the peoples and churches of Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Nous chantons / we sing: Lumière de Dieu

For our world
Nous chantons / we sing: Lumière de Dieu

For ourselves and our colleagues in the Ecumenical Centre
Nous chantons / we sing: Lumière de Dieu

Closing song The Love of God (Thuma Mina 219, in the language of your choice)

Zegen / Benediction, in Dutch

Musical postlude as we leave the chapel - All you need is love.

An order of worship praying for Kenya and Tanzia

Worship in the Ecumenical Centre Monday 11 May 2009
Praying for Kenya and Tanzania in the ecumenical prayer cycle

Musical preparation
We listen to a recording of Baba Yetu
Words of Welcome

Celebrant : Christos anesti!
All: Alithos anesti! (Greek)

Celebrant: Christ is risen!
All: Christ is risen indeed! (English)

Celebrant: Christ est ressuscité!
All : Christ est vraiment ressuscité! (French)

Celebrant: Christus ist auferstanden!
All: Christus ist wahrhaftig auferstanden! (German)

Celebrant : Cristo ha resucitado!
All: En verdad ha resucitado! (Spanish)

Celebrant :Yesu Amefufuka !
All: Amefufuka hakika! (Swahili)

Celebrant: Al-Masih qam!
All: Haqqan qam! (Arabic)

Song ~ Agape 98 ~ Utukufu in kiSwahili, English and then again in kiSwahili

Psalm 98
O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvellous things.
His right hand and his holy arm have gained him victory.
The Lord has made known his victory;
he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations.
He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth;
break forth into joyous song and sing praises.
Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre,
with the lyre and the sound of melody.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord.
Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who live in it.
Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills sing together for joy
at the presence of the Lord, for he is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

Song ~ Agape 10 ~ Bwana awabariki in Swahili, English, German

Prayer
God of Love, God of compassion, in the midst of death and evil you mercifully look after us: protecting, providing and smiling, constantly reassuring us of your care. Grant that we may know that your love is life. Teach us to number our days aright that we may acquire a heart of wisdom, through Jesus Christ whose life has become our light.
Amen

Please stand for the gospel reading and to sing:
Hale, Hale Hale lu-ja Hale, Hale Hale lu-ja Hale, Hale Hale lu-ja, Haleluja Haleluja!

John 15.9-17
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

Sing Hale, Hale Hale lu-ja Hale, Hale Hale lu-ja Hale, Hale Hale lu-ja, Haleluja Haleluja!

Meditation by Rogate Mshana

Prayers - our prayers of intercession today are based on the Lord's prayer.
We remember especially the people and churches in Kenya and Tanzania this week, praying for all who work for the good of civil society and peace with justice in these countries.

Our Father who art in heaven,
Beloved God, Creator of heaven and earth, and of all the peoples of the earth,
bring peace and righteousness to all the peoples. In your grace, may equity grow. Turn our hearts to you in healing and transformation.

hallowed be thy name.
Be present to all peoples,
that we may open our eyes and recognize you
in our history, in our cultures, in our struggles.
Deliver us from enchantment by the false goods of money, markets and status. Help us to praise you in our faith and actions,
that, seeing our loving service in your name,
others, too, may bless that name

Thy kingdom come;
Where people resist injustice,
live in solidarity,
and seek a more human social order,
help us to recognize the ferment of your kingdom already at work. Bless those who are poor, those who suffer for the sake of justice,
Those who promote and defend human rights.
Bless the children of our countries,
and protect them from terror and oppression.

Thy will be done,
Yes! That your wisdom would be our wisdom!
Deliver us from adjusting to unjust systems,
Move our hearts, and the hearts of women and men everywhere to act in love,
that we may resist the seductions of power and greed and may live in right relationship with all.

on earth as it is in heaven.
God, present in every movement of creation,
let us be responsible stewards of your garden of life.
striving for sustainability.
And as the firmament in all its mystery and glory
displays your cosmic will,
so may our lives display the mystery and glory of love,
your will for life on earth.

Give us this day our daily bread,
That no one may be threatened by hunger, malnutrition, scarcity, give bread to those who have none,
and hunger for justice to those who have bread.
Teach us what is enough for today,
and to share with those who have less than enough, for in this, it is Jesus whom we serve.

and forgive us our debts
Don't let us lose our lives,
as persons and as peoples,
because of our debts.
Let not the poorest pay for the benefit of the richest,
in unfair demands, punitive interest rates and excessive charges. But forgive us, and let justice prevail.

as we forgive our debtors.
As we live by your grace and sharing of your very self,
deliver us from systems of aggressive and divisive individualism.
Break our chains of selfishness, open our hearts to those who need our solidarity,
and deliver us from illusion,
that we might practise what we preach.

And lead us not into temptation,
Deliver us from being bewitched by power,
and keep us faithful to you;
for you are our help, where else can we appeal.
Money will not save us, nor the market, nor our powerful friends. Strengthen us to resist the false attraction of easy answers, magic fixes,
abuses of power,
and the delusion that there is any way apart from justice in which God's justice can be done.

but deliver us from evil.
From every evil that objectifies the earth, all living beings, and our neighbours; from every evil that degrades creation and destroys societies
from every evil that encourages us to think that we are God.
So may we learn from you to refrain from judgment,
to accord respect to all God's creation, and so be privileged to hear the witness of those the world treats with indignity.

Because yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen.

The Lord's Prayer sung in French

Blessing

500 word sermon for a wedding - As God turns water into wine, we learn to walk on water

The following sermon was preached in English and in French at the wonderful wedding in Dardagny of Nicolas and Susan - avec mes excuses aux lecteurs/lectrices francophones - la version française n'existe pas par écrit.

As God turns water into wine, we learn to walk on water

There’s an expression in French which I like: “la vie quotidienne” – somehow when you translate it into English it doesn’t have quite the same ring – “everyday life”

- in our everyday life we don’t expect miracles
- in our everyday life people don’t walk on water
- in everyday life water isn’t turned in to wine.

(Though I have to say that when people learn that I’m a pastor I often get remarks like “Oh good does that mean you can turn water into wine for us?”)

The water Jesus turns into wine was water for the everyday purpose of ritual purification. It is ordinary water – in those days it was ordinary to be religious not extraordinary – and it became miraculous, wonderful delicious wine.

Water is essential for life
Jesus takes this everyday essential element
And makes it more essential
As wine it speaks not only of thirst that is quenched
But of joy, of the deeper more profound things in life,
it speaks of covenant, of time, of maturity, of work and pain
and of love overcoming travail.

Nicolas and Susi
Perhaps you too do not expect miracles, even if this is not an everyday kind of day but an extraordinary one.
Yet in many ways a marriage is a miracle
- a miracle of love
- an everyday miracle.
Sometimes marriage really is like walking on water
At other times it may be like wading through muddy, turbulent stormy waters

But you have invited us to a miraculous place for your wedding
The vines in the vineyards all around us are not flowering like in the reading from the Song of Solomon but are already fruiting
All around us God’s good creation, tended by human hand, is turning water into wine.

As you make your covenant today
So God continues in covenant with you and with all of us
Turning the water of our everyday lives
Into the wine of deep commitment

This special, extraordinary day
which celebrates the everyday covenant of your marriage
speaks to us of eternity, of miracles
it helps us to commit ourselves once more to our everyday lives
helping us to walk on water
to swim against the tide
and to reconnect with the wondrous covenant of love and life.

There is a Jewish saying that a happy marriage is an even greater miracle than the parting of the red sea – not exactly walking on water but walking on liberating dry land between water.

Nicolas and Susan we wish you an extraordinary, ordinary life together,
We pray that it may be filled with the love, promise and support of God’s covenant.
All around us in our everyday lives God in Christ is turning water into wine
Encouraging you and all of us to
walk on water
dare to love
and drink that joyous wine which can speak to us of depth and eternity everyday of our lives.
We wish you an extraordinary, everyday life together.

Amen




copyright (c) Jane Stranz

Elements of a liturgy for a wedding - French and English

Marriage of Susan Lee and Nicolas Servas ~ Mariage de Susan Lee et Nicolas Servas
August 30th 2008

Processional ~ Entrée Bible verses ~ versets bibliques Welcome ~ Bienvenue Prayer ~ Prière
Seigneur,
dans l'agitation de la fête, aide nous à faire silence en nous même et dirige nos pensées vers toi.
Nous te cherchons:
tu es notre force et notre espérance.
C'est toi le Seigneur de notre passé, de notre présent et de notre avenir. c'est de toi qui vient toute bénédiction
Par ton Esprit, dispose nos cœurs à vivre ce temps avec toi

Song ~ Chant
Allelu, allelu, allelu alleluia! Praise ye the Lord!
Praise ye the Lord Alleluia! Praise ye the Lord Alleluia! Praise ye the Lord Alleluia!
Praise ye the Lord!

Allélu, allélu, allélu alléluia! Gloire au Seigneur!
Gloire au Seigneur alléluia! Gloire au Seigneur alléluia! Gloire au Seigneur alléluia!
Gloire au Seigneur!

Biblical reading on love ~ Lecture biblique sur l’amour

P: Let love be genuine and live in harmony;
hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good.
Outdo one another in showing honor;
be humble and never conceited.

L’amour doit être sincère.
Détestez le mal, attachez-vous au bien.
Ayez de l’affection les uns pour les autres;
mettez du zèle à vous respecter les uns les autres. (Rom. 12. 9 et 10)

C: Love is stronger than death and jealousy is cruel as the grave. Floods cannot drown love and wealth cannot buy it. C’est que l’amour est aussi fort que la mort L’amour est une flamme ardente; Toute l’eau des océans ne suffirait pas à le noyer Ni la richesse à l’acheter. (Cantique 8.6-7 alt.)

P: Put love above all else;
let Christ's peace rule your hearts.
Always be forgiving,
as Christ has forgiven you.

Par-dessus tout, ayez de l’amour
Que la paix du Christ dirige vos coeurs.
Pardonnez-vous réciproquement,
comme le Seigneur vous a pardonné.(Col. 3.14, 15, 13)

C: Love is not jealous or boastful, arrogant, rude or stubborn, irritable, resentful or possessive. Love is patient and kind.

P: Do not love in word or speech only; love also in deed and truth.
Receive each other in sincerity,
find mercy and grow old together.
Il ne faut pas que notre amour consiste uniquement en discours et belles paroles;
Ce doit être un véritable amour qui se manifeste par des actes. (1 Jean.3.18)
Chercher la miséricorde pour vieillir ensembler. (Tobit 8.6)

C: Love rejoices in the right; it bears, believes, hopes and endures all things, for love is faithful and endless. L’amour se réjouit de la vérité L’amour permet de tout supporter, il nous fait garder en toute circonstance la foi, l’espérance et la patience. L’amour est fidèle et éternel. (1 Cor 13)

P: When the lord builds the house,
the labor is never in vain.
Si le Seigneur bâtit la maison,
Le maçons ne se donnent pas du mal en vain. (Ps. 127.1)

C: Happy are those who take refuge in God; those who serve the Lord are redeemed. Heureux ceux qui trouvent leur refuge dans l’Eternel; Ceux qui servent le Seigneur trouveront le salut.

P: This is my commandment,that you love one another as I have loved you.

Voici mon commandement: aimez vous les uns les autres comme je vous aime. (Jean 15.12)

C: And two shall become one in love, for we are members of Christ's body. Les deux deviendront un seul être dans l’amour, car nous sommes membres dans le corps du Christ.

Song ~ Chant
Allelu, allelu, allelu alleluia! Praise ye the Lord!
Praise ye the Lord Alleluia! Praise ye the Lord Alleluia! Praise ye the Lord Alleluia!
Praise ye the Lord!

Allélu, allélu, allélu alléluia! Gloire au Seigneur!
Gloire au Seigneur alléluia! Gloire au Seigneur alléluia! Gloire au Seigneur alléluia!
Gloire au Seigneur!

Gospel reading ~ Lecture de l’évangile John 2. 1-11 ~ Jean 2. 1-11
On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ Now standing there were six stone water-jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, ‘Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.’ So they took it. When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom and said to him, ‘Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.’ Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Trois jours après, il y eut des noces à Cana en Galilée. La mère de Jésus était là, et Jésus fut aussi invité aux noces avec ses disciples.
Le vin ayant manqué, la mère de Jésus lui dit: Ils n'ont plus de vin.
Jésus lui répondit: Femme, qu'y a-t-il entre moi et toi? Mon heure n'est pas encore venue.
Sa mère dit aux serviteurs: Faites ce qu'il vous dira.
Or, il y avait là six vases de pierre, destinés aux purifications des Juifs, et contenant chacun deux ou trois mesures.
Jésus leur dit: Remplissez d'eau ces vases. Et ils les remplirent jusqu'au bord.
Puisez maintenant, leur dit-il, et portez-en à l'ordonnateur du repas. Et ils en portèrent. Quand l'ordonnateur du repas eut goûté l'eau changée en vin, -ne sachant d'où venait ce vin, tandis que les serviteurs, qui avaient puisé l'eau, le savaient bien, -il appela l'époux, et lui dit: Tout homme sert d'abord le bon vin, puis le moins bon après qu'on s'est enivré; toi, tu as gardé le bon vin jusqu'à présent. Tel fut, à Cana en Galilée, le premier des miracles que fit Jésus. Il manifesta sa gloire, et ses disciples crurent en lui. Après cela, il descendit à Capernaüm, avec sa mère, ses frères et ses disciples, et ils n'y demeurèrent que peu de jours.

Sermon ~ Prédication

Hymn ~ Cantique Now thank we all our God with hearts and hands and voices ~ Béni soit le Seigneur, le Créateur le Père;
Marriage ~ Mariage
Introduction ~ Préparation
Le mariage est un don et un appel de Dieu
Dieu nous a donné le mariage
pour que l'homme et la femme puisse s'aimer et se respecter
s'encourager et s'enrichir
et se connaître dans la passion et le bonheur

Dieu nous a donné le mariage
pour que l'homme et la femme puisse être
signe de l'unité et de l'engagment dans la société
pour la naissance des enfants, qu'ils puissent grandir dans une ambiance d'amour
Nicolas et Susan ont choisi de vivre ensemble dans le mariage
ils demandent aujourd'hui la bénédiciton de Dieu

Vows ~ Engagements
Nicolas and Susan will exchange their vows in English and in French, afterwards the congregation will be invited to stand and commit to support and pray for Nicolas and Susan in their marriage.
Nicolas et Susan échangeront leurs engagements en anglais et français, ensuite l’assemblée est invitée à se lever et à s’engager à soutenir et à prier pour Nicolas et Susan.

Marriage Blessing ~ Bénédiciton nuptiale
Que le Seigneur
Plein d'amour comme une mère et bon comme un père
vous bénisse
qu'il fasse prospérer votre vie
qu'il fasse fleurir votre espérance
qu'il fasse mûrir vos fruits
que le Seigneur vous garde
qu'il vous embrasse dans votre peur
qu'il se tienne devant vous dans votre besoin
Qu'il vous accorde sa grâce
qu'il souffle sur vous
comme un regard tendre réchauffe ce qui est raide
Qu'il tourne sa face vers vous
Qu'il vous libère et vous laisse respirer
Quand la culpabilité vous accable
Qu'il regarde votre souffrance
qu'il vous offre le réconfort et la guérison
Qu'il vous donne la paix
le bien-être du corps,
le salut de votre âme,
l'avenir de vos enfants

(You may kiss !)

Signing of the register ~ Signature des registres Lighting of the unity candle

Song ~ Chant
Sing Alleluia to the Lord
Sing Alleluia to the Lord
Sing alleluia, sing alleluia
Sing Alleluia to the Lord

Chante alléluia au Seigneur
Chante alléluia au Seigneur
Chante alléluia, chante alléluia
Chante alléluia au Seigneur

Prayers of intercession ~ Prières d’intercession Prayer ~ Prière des mariés
Nous te disons Merci, Père
Pour notre rencontre
Pour l’amour qui nous unit
Merci de nous avoir donnés des parents formidables
qui par leur amour nous ont accompagnés jusqu’à ce jour
Et Merci pour le soutien de nos amis, et l’affection dont ils ont fait preuve
Nous te remercions encore
Pour la joie d’être tous réunis aujourd’hui.
Accompagne-nous Seigneur
Dans tout ce qui fera nos joies et nos peines
Nos réussites et nos échecs
Accompagne-nous Seigneur jusqu’au bout du chemin

Father, we give you thanks
For our meeting
For the love which unites us
Thank you for giving us wonderful parents
Who to this day have accompanied us with their love
And thank you for the support of friends and the affection which they have shown us
We give you thanks again
For the joy of being gathered together today
Be with us Lord
In all that will make for our joys and our sorrows
Our successes and our failures
Be with us Lord right until the end of the road.

Lord’s Prayer – said by each in their own language
Notre Père – chacun(e) le dira dans sa propre langue

Announcements ~ Annonces

Blessing ~ Bénédiction


Un mariage heureux est un plus grand miracle de Dieu que le partage de la mer rouge
Jüdisches Sprcichwort
Phrase de la Sagesse Juive

Aimer quelqu'un s'appel porter sur lui le même regard de Dieu quand il l'a créé
Dostoïevski