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Taiz Prayer

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Love
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You were called to be free.

Do not use your freedom
for self-indulgence
but to serve one another in love..

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Words and music taken from:

Songs and Prayers from Taize, publ. by Rainbow Book Agencies, Australia
Music from T aize, Volumes One and Two. Publ. by Harper Collins.

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Galatians 5: 13-14

6:30pm, 10 August 2014

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Berowra Uniting Church

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The Lords prayer is spoken together.
!Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,

PSALM 103: (Verses are sung by cantor, the Alleluias are sung together)
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me, bless his holy name!

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Bless the Lord, O my soul,

who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagles.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

your kingdom come,

your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours
now and forever. Amen.

The Lord is merciful and gracious,

slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

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!During the singing of the next song, you are invited to join in with the lighting
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of the candles at the front. This symbol is used by many to remind us that even
when we are shrouded with darkness, in our personal life or the life of
humanity, Christs love is a fire that never goes out.

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The following prayers are spoken by individuals with the Kyrie sung together
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Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison.
Lord our God, as evening falls and the light disappears: receive our prayer...
Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison.
God our Father, your love is all we need: help us to share that love with all
those you have entrusted to us
Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison.
God our Father, kindle anew your love in us, and in the world
Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison.

[feel free to add your own prayers here]

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BIBLE READING: Luke 10:25 - 37

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your strength and with all your mind, and love your neighbour
as yourself.

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BIBLE READING: Romans 12:3-13

For just as each of us has one body with many members, so in Christ
we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the
others.

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SILENCE

!The key to the passage is verse 5: In Christ we, though many, form one

body. The image of the human body to describe a group of people is not an
uncommon one in the literature of the time, but the New Testament takes it to
new depths. During his life on earth, the disciples of Jesus, although they were
a very diverse group, must already have felt an intense unity stemming from
their attachment to him. But after the Resurrection and the coming of the Holy
Spirit, this unity took on a whole new dimension: the believers found that they
were in Christ, and that together they somehow now constituted a single
organism.

!Believers in Christ are actually parts of each other. This reality is often largely
hidden from us. If we think of the Church as an institution with a list of
members, or else as a provider of some sort of service or product of which we
are consumers, we will be quite unable to see it. For it depends on the
presence of the Holy Spirit in us, deep within ourselves. It is a mysterious
communion that unites people by what is deepest in each one.

! a meditation on Romans 12:3-13 from the Community of Taize.

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