Resource type: Prayer and Liturgy
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Trans* Day of Remembrance Liturgy 2023
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This year we joined together with the Trans Theology Group to design a liturgy to be used on Trans* Day of Remembrance. Please use this liturgy in whatever way is helpful for you to mark the day. Please also find attached the powerpoint we used, which you are welcome to use too. TDOR- Liturgy 20th…
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Student Sunday 2024
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The Universal Day of Prayer for Students (UDPS) is coordinated by the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF), and has been celebrated since 1898, making it one of the oldest ecumenical days of prayer. It is marked on the third Sunday of February every year, serving as a tangible sign of our common life, connecting student movements…
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Trans Day of Remembrance Liturgy
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In November 2022, the SCM Trans Theology Group came together to create a liturgy to mark Trans Day of Remembrance. You are welcome to use this resource by yourself or with a group of people. This liturgy is merely a guide; if you feel inspired to create something different, we welcome you to create it. …
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Marking Milestones and Letting Go: A Liturgy For Grief
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This resource is something that you can use to work through independently or within your SCM group. Alternatively, you can join SCM SOC for a special service on Weds 10th June at 8pm. Details on how to join the zoom call will be on the SCM Facebook group. What you will need: pen, paper, bowl…
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A Liturgy for Exam Time
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This is a deliberately quiet and simple service designed with the exam time at universities and colleges in mind. You might want to use it as it is, or just use it as inspiration for writing your own worship – maybe for some entirely different occasion. If you choose to use it roughly as it is,…
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The Prayer of Oscar Romero
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It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying…
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Prayer from Prison
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O God, early in the morning I cry to you. Help me to pray and gather my thoughts to you, I cannot do it alone. In me it is dark, but with you there is light; I am lonely, but you do not desert me; My courage fails me, but with you there is help;…
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Ecology Confessions
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We confess that we are in danger of losing connection with the earth We have lost the art of walking bare foot on bare soil We forget that we do not own the ground we walk on We seldom tread gently enough Forgive us, loving God We confess that we are in danger of losing…
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A Prayer of Offering
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As people with a vision of a God of Love, we offer our prayers. As people with a vision of eternity, we offer our time. As people with a vision of an end to poverty, we offer our money. As people with a vision of community, we offer all we have shared together. As people…
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Intercessions and Prayers of Concern
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Where there are people and places waiting and praying for an end to conflict, bring peace. We pray for… Where there are people and places waiting and striving for an end to fear, bring comfort. We pray for… Where there are people and places waiting and struggling for an end to oppression, bring justice. We…