Sunday, February 27, 2005

D.I.Y church

I tried this at home yesterday and loved it (taize music in the background)

1) light candle and read the psalm for the week (the candle is my God candle that I light whenever I want to remind myself that God is in the room with me)
2) Reflect for a while (occasionally writing thoughts down in my journal)

3) Read the Old Testament reading for the week
4) Reflect for a while (occasionally writing thoughts down in my journal)
5) Read the New Testament reading for the week
6) Reflect for a while (occasionally writing thoughts down in my journal)
7) Read the Gospel reading for the week
8) Reflect for a while (occasionally writing thoughts down in my journal)

9) Confess my sins to God
10) Read Luke 22:14,17-20 and have communion

11) Pray for myself
12) Pray for friends and family
13) Pray for the world

14) Wash the feet of another (think of how I can serve God / others this week)
15) Have my feet washed by another (think of how I have been blessed be God / others this week)

16) Finish by saying the prayer of St Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy; Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand, to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

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