This is the beginning (and ending possibly) of Sunday's creative moment. It's not yet the finished article. The idea works for me. The words themselves don't yet and bneed lots more work. So please chip in. Seriously. It's vital someone edits this. It's a prayer of confession based on the idea nothing lasts for ever even as we thought it might except the Love that is God. So while the world collapses round about us, it's not the end. Ever.
Provide a large box on the communion table.
Inside should be bread and wine, a bowl of water and a Bible. Outside the box
are objects that symbolise the ideas we thought might last forever represented
by a brick, the Financial Times, and a set of chains. During the prayer of confession,
readers place the appropriate item in the box and wait behind the table and during
Reader 4’s words remove the appropriate items from the box that are symbols
that represent what will last forever.
Reader
1 |
Forgive
our hubris, Place
the bricks in the box |
Reader
2 |
Forgive
our vanity, Place the financial times in the
box |
Reader
3 |
Forgive
our nerve, Place
chains in the box |
Reader
4 |
Yet
after confession (remove
Bread and wine from the box) Beyond
economic growth and financial markets, (Remove
the bowl of water from the box) Beyond
the bondage of prejudice, (remove
bible from box) These
things alone will last, |
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