Worship Leader: Barb DeJeet, LLWL Music Director: Tim Hallman, B.Mus., B.Ed.
Lent 2
Sunday, March 01, 2026
“God has chosen us as his beloved – this is good news!”
Welcome / Announcements / Celebrations
Land Acknowledgement:
We worship Creator on this land and acknowledge with respect the thousands of years of ceremony and relationship that are etched in footprint, fire and faithfulness on the soil and rock that surround us.
Peter Chynoweth, Cocharhane, Alta,
Lighting Of Candle
Lenten Meditation:
On Sunday morning, for a brief space of time, we leave behind the world of home and work and school – the world where we have our lists of things to do, activities to participate in, tasks to complete. We come here this morning seeking something else. We come here seeking a shift – from the ordinary to the sacred, from doing to being.
I invite you to close your eyes. Let go of your list. Recall that it is the season of Lent. Remember the parable of the sewer. The sewer throws the seed … and where it lands determines if it will grow or not grow. Think of it this way: think of the season of Lent as the sewer, the time when seeds of faith are thrown with special intensity; as a time when God calls to us in a low, urgent voice. Listen. Jesus is being drawn to Jerusalem. Where is God is calling you too? What is God calling you to do?
(silent time)
As we extinguish this light, we acknowledge the darkness and pain of injury to the Earth and its ecosystems.
Let Us Pray Together:
Loving God, as we journey through this holy season of Lent, may we be open to your presence. Give us the strength to make the changes that are needed in our lives and the courage to take on the work of transforming the world. AMEN
Opening Hymn: VU 296 “This Is God’s Wondrous World”
Passing of The Peace:
Let us share God’s love to one another with the sign of PEACE.
Opening Prayer:
One and Eternal God of time and space, we are filled with awe. We experience the glory of the hillsides and mountaintops, the beauty of the lakes and valleys, and we are enthralled. Blessed are you. Help us not to take for granted the wonder of your creation as we walk through it and on it each day. AMEN
Anthem: “Send the Light!”
Invitation To Scripture:
Let us listen to what God has given to us out of His wonderful word.
Scripture: Variety of verses – Marilyn Powers
Presentation: Katherine Macklem - FAB
Responsive Hymn: VU 226 “For the Beauty of the Earth”
Invitation Of Offering:
We so often take for granted the breaths we take, the sips of water we drink, and the solid ground beneath our bodies holding us up, yet we are deeply grateful for each breath, each sip, each patch of earth we share. In gratitude, we give our offerings.
David Lander, while at Castleton-Grafton P.C., Grafton, Ontario.
Offering Hymn: VU 544 “In Gratitude and Humble Trust” (VU # 530 Music )
Offering Prayer:
O Lord, you are our God: by your grace we reap an abundant harvest. As you have fed us by your mercy, may it be our daily bread to do your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN
Prepare Hearts For Prayer: VU 400 “Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying”
Prayers of the People/Lord’s Prayer: (sung VU # 960)
Many of us were taught to pray by bowing our heads and folding our hands. In some traditions, people pray with eyes open. Orthodox Jews pray in a rocking motion. Islamic prayer involves bowing, with head to the ground and other sacred gestures. In all these movements, we recognize that our bodies are also part of our prayers.
If you are comfortable, I invite you to close your eyes and place your hands on your face, very gently. Imagine God’s hands cupping your face and holding it with great love. Let this very gentle touch tell you, YOU ARE BELOVED. YOU ARE HELD IN LOVE BY GOD. YOUR LIFE IS SACRED. A GIFT OF GOD.
ow imagine the hands of God holding the great round earth, with the same love. The love that lives and moves in all life. Earth is sacred. A gift of God. The earth is God’s body, our body, the body of Christ, the church of all creation.
May we live as beloved. Honoring this trust, this call, this relationship. We join in this ongoing prayer together sharing the power of love.
Holy One, Tender Life of all Life, Spirit of Gentleness, receive the prayers of our hearts. We pray as a community, join our prayers to the prayers of forests, who pray in leaf and flower; joining our prayers to the prayers of rivers, flowing from the source; joining our prayers to the prayers of the planets and stars, in the amazing languages of light and dark.
We pray as members of one human family, longing for healing. We pray as followers of Jesus, who travelled on dusty roads, teaching and sharing the good news of your life in us and with us.
We pray together, not because we are somehow special but because you love us, and our earth needs us.
We pray all this in the name of your Son, who taught us to say and sing, “Our Father.”
Quilt Prayers
Closing Hymn: VU 242 “Let All Things Now Living”
Commissioning:
Rain comes after drought. Spring manifests rebirth. The cycle of the season is unending.
Energy never dies. It transforms. Time is infinite. The universe is infinite. God’s love abounds. Hallelujah!
Hymn: VU 958 “Halle, Halle, Halle” (x2)
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