Worship Booklet
Communion Prayer
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“A sower went out to sow,” Jesus tells a vast crowd in our reading from Matthew’s Gospel, and the seeds he flung all over the place in joyful abandon “brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Let anyone with ears listen!”
If you’re like me, anxious about the surging pandemic, isolated from loved ones, weary of the ugliness infecting global politics, and either heartbroken or furious (or both) in the face of systemic injustice, inequality, violence, and death in your own community or country, then you need some gladness right now. In the midst of scarcity, we could use some abundance. In the face of sadness and sorrow we could use some joy. When faced with shortages of necessary supplies at unreasonable costs, we could use some indiscriminate generosity.