Friday, May 10, 2019

Litany For a Group Memorial Service

Readings from Isaiah 40 NRSV.


Leader:  “Comfort, comfort my people”, says our God.

All: Lord, we find love in remembering them.

Leader: “Speak tenderly to my people, and tell them that their hard service has been completed. “

All: Lord, we find strength in remembering them.

Leader: A voice calls: "In the desert prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.

All: Lord, we find guidance in remembering them.

Leader: Every valley will be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground will become level, the rugged places a plain.

All: Lord, we find hope in remembering them.

Leader: And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken."

All: Lord, we find you in remembering them.

Leader: A voice says, "Cry out." And we say, "What should we cry?" "All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.

All: Lord, we need you when we remember them.

Leader: Surely the people are like the grass.  The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."

All: Lord, remember them.

Leader: You who bring good tidings to my people, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to my people, "Here is your God!"

All: Lord, remember us.  Amen.

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