{"id":269,"date":"2007-05-27T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/269"},"modified":"2007-06-18T22:16:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T02:16:38","slug":"pentecost-prayer-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/269","title":{"rendered":"Pentecost prayer 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in parish ministry I enjoyed writing corporate prayers for worship. Many of those found their way in a collection in the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Let-Us-Pray-Contemporary-Prayers\/dp\/0817012966\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-6038179-5311857?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1180285569&#038;sr=1-1\">Let Us Pray.<\/a>  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a while since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve written a corporate prayer for worship, but recently my pastor asked me to lead \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the prayers of the people\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at our church\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pentecost Sunday service. Here it is below. Perhaps too late for this year, but maybe you can file it away for next year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pentecost Sunday. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/pentecost.jpg' alt='pentecost.jpg' \/><br \/>\n<h8>&#8220;Pentecost&#8221;<\/h8> by <a href=\"https:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~shortattn\/landscap.htm\">Linda Schmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Pentecost Prayer 2007<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our God,<br \/>\nGiver and sustainer of life;<\/p>\n<p>We thank you on this Pentecost Sunday<br \/>\nFor the gift of Church<br \/>\n   through your Spirit;<br \/>\nThis community of believers, saints, and seekers,<br \/>\nthe spiritual Bride of Christ, imperfect, triumphant,<br \/>\n   a city of light on a hill.<\/p>\n<p>For we, the naturally hopeful,<br \/>\nneed a simple haven<br \/>\nfor the myriad ways we&#8217;re capsized,<br \/>\ntaken adrift by storms in life.<\/p>\n<p>And we who love beauty<br \/>\nneed a finer way to convey faith and hope,<br \/>\nthe pure joy of living,<br \/>\ndisappointment and perplexity,<br \/>\nthan our daily mundane and profane manners allow.<\/p>\n<p>Here, in our grief-numbed speechlessness, in all its inflections,<br \/>\nwe find a voice for sorrow through word and ritual,<br \/>\nthrough fellow pilgrims who speak in our stead,<br \/>\nsing our dirges, utter the prayers that will not leave our lips,<br \/>\nand claim, for us, hope for healing<br \/>\nof mind and spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Here we lay down dreams deferred, unmet expectations,<br \/>\nthe hurt of every time we&#8217;re ambushed<br \/>\nby trivial or stupefying irony;<br \/>\nHere is our place, when in our times of pure incredulity,<br \/>\nwe find a place of refuge and hope<br \/>\nand can believe again.<\/p>\n<p>For all these reasons we thank you, our God, for the Church;<br \/>\nbut mainly bec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in parish ministry I enjoyed writing corporate prayers for worship. Many of those found their way in a collection in the book Let Us Pray. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a while since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve written a corporate prayer for worship, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/269\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}