REsources for May 17, 2020 -- Easter 6A during COVID-19

CALL TO WORSHIP

We. are not alone, we live in God’s world.

We meet God daily, we feel God’s peace around and within us.

We give thanks for God’s presence as we worship this morning.

Opening PRAYER

Peace-giving God, you promise that you will not leave us alone.

As we pause for worship this week, fill us, we pray, with your presence.

As we live through this time of turmoil and anxiety, remind us that we are not alone;

refresh our souls with the peace that passes understanding,

and help us love each other as we have been loved.

We pray in the name of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, as we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit. Amen.

PRAYER FOR AND ASSURANCE OF GRACE

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you

God we could use some peace these days.

Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.

But our hearts are troubled. We are anxious. We are afraid.

As we listen to the news around us we get worried. Sometimes it is hard to trust that we are not alone.

I will not leave you orphaned

We want to trust that you are there, that we can have peaceful hearts.

God move in our hearts, remind us that we are not alone, that you are with us.

When we think we have lost the way bring us back to the path.

When we feel forsaken wrap us in love.

When we feel guilt, offer us grace and mercy and forgiveness.

because I live, you also will live

In the Risen Christ God offers all of us New Life.

In and through Christ God offers the promise that we will never be left alone.

Through Christ God grants us peace that stills the storms of our hearts.

Thanks be to God. Amen.

COMMISSIONING:

From across the ages Jesus speaks to us saying:

If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.

And so we go out into the world knowing that we are not alone.

We go out to love the world that God loves.

While our hearts may sometimes be troubled and we may sometimes be afraid,

God is with us, we will not be forgotten.

May God’s peace be with us. Amen.