Summer Chapel Order of Worship June 18th
Summer Chapel

Summer Chapel Order of Worship June 18th

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Summer Chapel

June 18th

Order of Worship

Welcome to Summer Chapel – a guided experience to help you practice the presence of God through silence, reflection, and prayer.

Please begin with the Personal Prayer experience described below. We will spend about 10 minutes in silence with this practice and then I will move us along to a scripture reading.

PERSONAL PRAYER – Adapted from The Daily Examen, a practice of St Ignatius

Intention – To pray through events of our daily life and notice God’s presence in them.

Rest

  • Make yourself comfortable. Invite God’s Spirit into your prayer time. Settle into your chair. Breathe. Perhaps say a simple prayer like, “I am here, God.”

Review

  • Review yesterday(or another day) in as much detail as you can. Start the minute you woke up. Go slow. Ask God to help you remember. Who did you see? Where did you go? How did you feel? What did you eat? Etc.
  • Do not filter the events. Just sit with your day with Jesus beside you.

Reflect and Respond

  • If you could relive one moment that brought you joy, what would it be? What made the moment so life-giving? Sit with the moment and experience the joy all over again. Offer gratitude to God for it.
  • If you could go back and redo a moment in your day, which would it be? Or perhaps what moment was difficult and/or disappointing? Sit with that moment in light of God’s love and care. Express whatever feelings you may have.
  • Ask God if there is anything he wants you to be aware of from these moments. Listen.
  • Close with a simple prayer of thanks that God noticed your day in detail and was present.

 

SCRIPTURE READING – PSALM 139:1-11 (from The Passion Translation)

WELCOME AND PRAYER – KNOWN and LOVED

A PRAYER OF ST. AUGUSTINE

Look upon us, O Lord,

ALL: And let all the darkness of our souls vanish before the beams of thy brightness.

Fill us with holy love, and open to us the treasures of thy wisdom.

All our desire is known unto thee,

ALL: Therefore, perfect what thou hast begun, and what thy Spirit has awakened us to ask in prayer.

We seek thy face, turn they face unto us and show us thy glory.

ALL: Then shall our longing be satisfied, and our peace be made perfect.

 

“TRUE OF YOU” PRAYER

A prayer experience to dwell on a truth statement about who you are in Christ.

Four Movements

  1. Position yourself to receive.
  2. Listen to the words/phrases read out loud and identify one that captures you this morning.
  3. Invite God’s Spirit to give you a picture or image to represent that word/phrase.
  4. Respond to God in prayer. What are you sensing? What feelings does this produce in you? What may Jesus want you to know more fully?

“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.” – Tim Keller

 

CLOSING PRAYER AND BLESSING (from a Book of a Thousand Prayers)

Blessing and laughter and loving be yours.

The love of a great Father – who names you and holds you

while the earth turns and the flowers grow.

This day, this night, this moment, and forever. AMEN

 

                        NOTE: NO CHAPEL ON JULY 2nd

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