call and response

a while back ago, i wrote a liturgy... please feel free to share it. use it. critique it.

it's a prayer of repentance, reconciliation, and resolve. i didn't mean to make it happen in 3's but to me that reflects the trinity, who i addressed in the first line... the way it builds is reflective of a crescendo in musical terms, also not on purpose, and the ending is reflective of a fermata, again, just happened. but i like it that way, and you have to hear or see the whole thing to get that effect.


First line is the call. In parentheses is the response...



Father, Son, and Spirit

(We repent for our silence)

Concerning injustices in our own nation and abroad

(We repent for our silence)

Concerning injustices that happen outside and inside Your Body, the Church

(We repent for our silence)


In turning away from our sins of omission

(We will be aware and act)

In turning away from our sins of commission

(We will work for restoration)

In turning away from our sins of rejection

(We will welcome)


To the homeless, the immigrant, and the refugee

(Welcome home)

To the prostitute, the battered, and the emotionally broken

(You are loved )

To those who are gay or lesbian and to those who have had abortions

(You are our brothers and our sisters)


For all who are oppressed

(We will pray without ceasing)

For those who are oppressors

(We will pray without ceasing)

For oppression to end

(We will pray and we will act)


Let grace and mercy abound

(We throw away our stones)

We throw away our stones

(Let grace and mercy abound)


All:
Let justice flow

Let it start with us

Let justice flow

Let it start with us