Liturgy Ministries Prayer

LITURGY PLANNERS

God our creator, we praise you for the gifts of word and speech. Bless with Your Spirit those who help Your people shape our common prayer and worship.

ART and ENVIRONMENT

God of loveliness, we praise you for the beauty that surrounds and delights us. Bless with Your Spirit those who prepare a space of reverence and serene beauty for our Assembly's prayer.

GREETERS

God who makes of all earth's people one family, we praise you. Bless with Your Spirit those who greet Your people and make strangers welcome in Your house.

USHERS

Gracious and provident God, we praise You. Bless with Your Spirit those who serve Your assembled people as Ushers and Stewards of the Lord's house.

ALTAR SERVERS

God of joy and gladness, we praise You. Bless with Your Spirit our young men and women who serve at Your altar--those in whom we see our hope ever renewed.

LITURGICAL DANCERS

God who moves our hearts and lifts them to You, we praise You. Bless with Your Spirit our young Dancers, whose graceful movements give outward sign to our prayer.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY PRESIDERS

God who gives wisdom to the childlike, we praise You. Bless with Your Spirit those who open our children's minds and hearts to the good news of Jesus.

BAPTISMAL GREETERS
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GARMENT MAKERS

God of life, we praise you for giving us new birth in the waters of baptism. Bless with Your Spirit those who welcome new parents and their infants to this Sacrament, and those who make the baptismal garments that mark these children as Your own.

SENIOR SERVERS

God who comforts us in our sorrow, we praise You. Bless with Your Spirit those who minister to the bereaved through their service at the liturgy that commends our beloved dead into Your care.

CHOIRS, CANTORS, ACCOMPANISTS

God who calls forth the harmony of the universe and the music of the spheres, we praise You. Bless with Your Spirit those who blend our many voices into one; who with strings and pipe help us praise You with a joyful noise.

LECTORS

God who makes Your voice heard in the depths of our hearts, we praise You. Bless with Your Spirit those, who in human voice, proclaim Your mighty works to Your assembled Church.

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

God who satisfies the hunger of our bodies and our souls, we praise You. Bless with Your Spirit those who serve at the table of the Eucharist, a foretaste of the heavenly banquet that is to come.

DEVOTIONAL PRAYER

God who speaks and listens to us in our inmost hearts, we praise You. Bless with Your Spirit those who keep vigil with You, who honor Your Mother and Your Saints, who pray for all Your people.

Angie Fagarason
June, 2000

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