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Opening Worship
School for Ecumenical Leadership Formation 2001
1. Prelude:
Silent prayer (Thai traditional melody)
by A. Solot, A.
Wasan Chai and Students from
2. Solidarity:
Symbolic actions (Music: Melody of Thai tradition name "Pajera" use in the teacher's worship ceremony newly arranged by A. Solot of PYU)
3. Call to Worship:
Leader: The world belongs to God, the earth and all the people.
People: How good and how lovely it is to live together in unity,
Leader: Love and faith come together, justice and peace join hands.
People: Rejoice, people of God! Celebrate the life within you, and Christ presence in our midst!
Leader: Our eyes shall be opened! The present will have new meaning, and the future will be bright with hope.
ALL: Sisters and brothers we have come together to worship God who offers us freedom through our Lord Jesus Christ, For the spirit of life in God has set us free from the law and the sin of death. For we did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear but we have received the spirit of the children of God. Let us praise God!
4. Song:
"Day of Joy, Let Us be Glad" (Sound the Bamboo # 11, traditional Thai melody)
5. Prayers of Confession
In faith
Let us come before the Holy God
And know who we are: (silent prayer)
We are the people of the New Heaven
And the New Earth,
But we fall for short of that hope.
We are the peoples, who receive the grace of God,
But we fail to offer it to others.
Seek and you shall find,
Knock and life will be opened before you,
Rise up and live,
In freedom and faith, Amen
Response: Sing Ha -Le -Lu- Yah to the Lord (3 times)
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6. Scripture reading:
Isaiah 40: 3-5; Luke 4:18 (will read in Bengali, Korean, Khmer and English)
7. Sharing of Reflection
8. Song:
"Here, O Lord, Your Servants Gather" (from Sound of Bamboo, # 242 Japanese melody)
9. Prayers of Intercession (All together)
Lord,
Make us realise that our Christian's life is like a rice field:
When it is newly planted the paddies is high-flying,
But as the plants take root and grow taller
These divided paddies gradually vanish
And soon there appears only one vast continuous field.
So give us roots that loves
And help us grow in Christian fellowship and service,
That thy will be done in our lives
Through our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
(From the
10. Give sign of peace to one another
11. Common Prayer: (read together)
Lord, make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is hatred let us show love,
Where there is injury, let us show pardon;
Where there is discord, let us unite;
Where there is sadness, let us give joy;
O Divine master, grant that we may not seek so much
To be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love with all our soul;
For in giving we receive, in pardoning we are pardoned,
And dying we are born into eternal life. Amen
(St. Francis of
12. Benediction:
May the Love, Grace and Peace of God
Shown to us through Jesus. Amen
(Liturgy written
by
*Rev. Dr. Boonrat Bua Yen, the CCT Moderator will give greetings to the participants on behalf of CCT.