Welcome to Memorial Liturgy for Bob Murray: Bridget Mary
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| Bob and Mary Murray |
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| Imogene and Michael Rigdon, married priest couple, preside at Memorial Liturgy for Bob Murray |
Gathering
Song: #437 On Eagle’s Wings, 1-4
All: In the name
of God our creator, Jesus our brother, and the Holy Spirit our wisdom. Amen.
Presider: God is with
you. All: And also with you.
Opening Prayer. Presider: Loving God, we gather to remember
Bob who recently died. We give thanks for his life and the many blessings he
brought to us and to the world. We ask you to comfort Mary and his family &
friends in our grief. We ask this in the name of the risen Christ. All:
Amen
All sing: Glory to God, glory. O praise God, alleluia.
Glory to God, glory. O praise the name of our God. (x3)
1st reading from the book of Wisdom (3:1-6, 9)
All: Thanks be to God.
Psalm 23. All sing: My God is my Shepherd, there
is nothing I shall want, #834. Verses recited.
2nd reading from Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy (4:6-8)
All: Thanks be to God.
All Sing: Alle, Alle, Alleluia.
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| Priest Michael Rigdon |
A reading from the gospel of John (14:1-6)
All: Thanks be to God. All sing: Alle, Alle,
Alleluia.
A
Time of Memory and Hope
Bob’s Family and Friends
Presider Reflections
Profession
of Faith. All: We believe in one God, a divine mystery beyond all
definition & understanding. God the Creator is the heart of all that has
ever existed, that exists now, or that will ever exist. God’s divinity infuses
the entire cosmos, making everything in it sacred. We believe in Jesus, the
messenger of God’s Word, bringer of healing & the center of God’s
compassion. Through his incarnation, we have become a new people, called beyond
the consequences of our brokenness. We believe in the Spirit, the Wisdom that
strengthens our call to follow Jesus, who is the vehicle of God’s love, a
source of God’s compassion & truth, & instrument of God’s peace in the
world. And we believe that God’s kin-do is here now & will be forever. It
is stretched out all around us for those with eyes to recognize it, & hands
to share it with everyone—no exceptions.
Community
Petitions. Presider: Mindful of God’s love and care for us, we bring the
needs of all people to our loving God. Response: Loving God, hear us.
Presider: Healing God,
you faithfully listen to our prayers. Strengthen us as we strive to
respond to the needs of your people. We pray in the name of Jesus the Christ. All:
Amen
Collection
and Procession of Gifts to the Table.
All
Sing:
#361 Seed Scattered and Sown, 1&;3
Please
gather around the table for our community meal.
All
sing: We
are holy... You are holy... I am holy... We are holy...
All:
As
we do in this place what you did in an upstairs room, send down your Spirit
Sophia on us and on these gifts of bread and wine that they may become for us
your body, healing, forgiving, and making us whole. And that we may become for
you, your body, loving and caring in the world until your kindom comes. Amen.
We remember Jesus.
Presider: On the night before he died, Jesus sat at the Seder meal with his
companions. Reminding them of what he taught, he bent down to wash their feet.
All, with hand extended in blessing: Jesus
returned to his place at table, lifted the Passover bread and spoke the
blessing, then broke the bread saying: “Take and eat, this is my very self.” (Pause)
Jesus then raised the
cup of blessing, spoke the grace, and offered them the wine saying: “Take and
drink of the covenant made new again through my life for you and for everyone.
Whenever you do this, you remember me.”
All: Remember, gracious God, your Church throughout
the world. Make us open to receive everyone. In union with all people, may we
strive to create a world where suffering is diminished, and where all people
can live in health and wholeness.
Thru Christ, with Christ, in Christ, in union with the Holy Spirit,
all glory is yours, gracious God. Amen (sing)
Prayer
of Jesus (Sing “Our Father and Mother”)
Group
Sign of Peace. Presider: Let us share with each other a sign of the
peace.
All: This is
Jesus who liberates, heals and transforms us and our world. All are invited to
partake of this banquet of love. We are the Body of Christ.
ALL
(sing):
Holy gifts for holy people, come you hungry and believe. Come and receive
Christ’s body offered, come and be what you receive. (x2)
After
Communion: #376 The Servant Song 1-5
Prayer
of Thanksgiving (Didache, Instruction, 100CE)
Men: For the
thanksgiving, give thanks this way: First, for the cup: We thank you, Abba God,
for the sacred vine of David your son, whose meaning you made clear to us
through our brother Jesus, yours ever be the splendor.
Women: And for the
bread fragment: We thank you, Abba God, for the life and wisdom whose meaning
you made clear to us through Jesus, yours ever be the splendor.
All: As this
fragment was scattered high on hills, but by gathering was united into one, so
let your people from earth’s ends be united into your single reign, for yours
are splendor and might through Jesus Christ down the ages.
Prayers
of Thanksgiving.
All
sing, hand
extended in blessing: You are the face of God, I hold you in my heart, You are a
part of me, You are the face of God. You are the face of God, I hold you in my
heart, You are my family, You are the face of God.
Presider: Go in the
peace of Christ, may our loving service to all continue! All: Thanks be
to God. Alleluia!
Closing
song: #688 Song of Farewell (refrain x2)
Reception and Pot Luck Supper
Celebration of Life of Bob Murray and Sally Brochu's and Russ Banner's Birthdays.
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