THE HOLY COMMUNION AT THE LABYRINTH
Start
our walking prayer by addressing and acknowledging God, stating our intention
to experience God’s presence through this meditative walk. And as we walk
through the labyrinth, focus our attention towards God considering the
following guide questions:
1.
What are the things that
I need to let go?
2.
What obstacles prevent
me to have a closer relationship with God?
As
we go along with our journey, allow ourselves in the moment of silence to
experience God’s healing presence, voice, and liberating challenge. Then on the
way out from the center of the labyrinth, ask God to continually guide us by
God’s wisdom and love.
Our
meditative walk with the labyrinth allows us to experience the triple kinesis
of God. (1) The searching God descending
into our human experiences through the Creations and of Jesus Christ. (2) God’s
presence in our human experiences ascending
us to the state of being redeemed, enlightened, and empowered. And (3) God
through us and with us re-descending
to the poor, oppressed, marginalized, exploited, deprived but struggling people
thus they may affirm that God our Parent is not just loving and caring, but God
is Love (1 John 4:8, 16). The God who called and sends us to live out the
spirituality that touches
the wholeness of life; creating hopes, opportunities, communities where
everybody can express freely and share their own humanity and sexuality; and to
launch the new story of life and hope which is a life giving and other
affirming.
Place
the candles around outside of the labyrinth and along some of its paths. A
small table is set at the center of the labyrinth. On it are placed a candle,
flowers, and a cups of wine. Participants gather near the entrance of the
labyrinth. The pastor will preside using the traditional readings and prayers.
ENTRANCE
GATHERING
“COME
LET US GATHER”
COME LET US GATHER NOW TO SING
PRAISES AND THANKS TO GOD WE BRING
GOD’S LOVE IS GREATER THAN ANYTHING
SILENCE A
silent meditation on sounds and music offered by the birds, rivers, and
environment.
CALL
TO PRAISE AND PRAYER
Leader:
Jesus said, “Listen, I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice
and open the door; I will come in to you and eat with you, and you with me.”
(Revelation 3:20)
People:
Jesus said, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of
this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of
the world is my flesh.” (John 6:51)
HYMN
“BLESS THE LORD”
BLESS
THE LORD, MY SOUL, AND BLESS GOD'S HOLY NAME. BLESS THE LORD, MY SOUL, WHO
LEADS ME INTO LIFE. (3X)
“DAYGON
TA ANG DIOS, UG DAYGON ’YANG NGALAN,
DAYGON TA ANG DIOS, NAG- GIYA KANATO” (3X)
DAYGON TA ANG DIOS, NAG- GIYA KANATO” (3X)
+OPENING
PRAYER
Leader:
The
Lord be with you.
People:
And
with thy spirit.
Leader:
Let us pray.
All:
Almighty God, cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your
Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and that we may worthily magnify
your holy name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
+GLORIA
PATRI
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
OLD
TESTAMENT LESSON
Reader:
A
Reading from _______________ (chapter and verse be added). This is the Word of
the Lord.
People:
Thanks
be to God.
EPISTLE
LESSON
+GOSPEL
ACCLAMATION
ALLELUIA,
ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA
+GOSPEL
LESSON
Reader:
The
Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to _____________ (chapter and
verse be added).
People:
Glory
to you, Lord Christ.
Reader:
(after
the Gospel) The Gospel of the Lord.
People:
Praise
to you. Lord Christ.
ANTHEM
SERMON
At
this moment, the pastor gives his/her BTR in relation to Meditative Prayer in
the Labyrinth.
OFFERTORY
INVITATION
Leader:
Our stewardship of God’s gifts to us can provide a place at the table for some
who are hungry, and shelter for some who have no place to lay their heads. But
most of all, our offerings express thanks to God for the bounty we enjoy and
the loving acceptance we have known through Christ.
+OFFERING
OF GIFTS
+DOXOLOGY
+OFFERTORY
PRAYER, In Unison
For all your
saints, O God, who have guided our lives, for all the ways you have saved us
from ourselves, for all the times your love has been poured out on us, we give
thanks. You have taught us to offer hospitality and to share what you have
given. This we do, with joy and gratitude. Receive these tokens of our renewed
dedication. Amen.
THANKSGIVING AND COMMUNION
COMMUNION
HYMN “ONE BREAD, ONE BODY”
UMH# 620
Refrain:
One bread, one body, one Lord of all,
one cup of blessing which we bless, and we, though many throughout the earth,
we are one body in this one Lord.
Gentile or Jew, servant or free, woman
or man, no more. R
Many the gifts, many the works. One in
the Lord of all. R
Grain for the fields, scattered and
grown, gathered to one, for all. R
TAKING
THE BREAD AND CUP
The
pastor, standing behind the Lord’s table facing the people from this time,
through Breaking the Bread, takes the bread and cup; and the bread and wine are
prepared for the meal.
THE
GREAT THANKSGIVING
Presider:
The
Lord be with you.
People:
And with thy spirit.
Pastor: Lift
up your hearts. The pastor may lift up hands and
keep them raised.
People: We
lift them up unto the Lord.
Pastor:
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It
is right to give our thanks and praise.
Pastor: It
is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to
you, Holy Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. From the rising of the sun
to its setting your name is praised among all peoples. Therefore, we praise
you, joining our voices with your people on earth and all the company of heaven
who forever sing this hymn to the glory of your name:
The
pastor may lower hands. The people sing:
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY LORD, GOD OF POWER
AND MIGHT, HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE FULL OF YOUR GLORY. HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
The
pastor may raise hands.
Pastor:
Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ. Your Spirit anointed him to
preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
and to announce that the time had come when you would save your people. He
healed the sick, fed the hungry, and ate with sinners. By the baptism of his
suffering, death, and resurrection you gave birth to your church, delivered us
from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by water and the
Spirit. When the Lord Jesus ascended, he promised to be with us always, in the
power of your Word and Holy Spirit.
The
pastor may hold hands, palms down, over the bread of teach the bread, or lift
the bread.
On the night
in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke
the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said: “Take, eat; this is my body
which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
The
pastor may lift or touch the chalice.
When the
supper was over, he took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples,
and said: “Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant,
poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often
as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
The
pastor may raise hands.
And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts
in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and
living sacrifice, in union with Christ’s offering for us, as we proclaim the
mystery of faith.
All: CHRIST HAS DIED; CHRIST IS RISEN; CHRIST
WILL COME AGAIN.
The
pastor may hold hands, palms down, over the bread and cup.
Pour our you Holy Spirit on us gathered here, and
on these gifts of bread and wine. Make them be for us the body and the blood of
Christ, that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.
By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in
ministry to all the world, until Christ comes in final victory and we feast at
his heavenly banquet. Through you Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in
your holy Church, and all honor and glory is yours, almighty Father, now and
for ever.
All:
Amen.
+THE LORD’S
PRAYER
DIOS NA MAGULANG, BANAL ANG NGALAN.
PAMAMAYANI AY SUMAAMIN. GAWIN NAWA ANG ‘YONG KALOOBAN. SA LUPA GAYA NG LANGIT.
IPAGKALOOB NGAYON SA AMIN,
PANG-ARAW-ARAW NAMING KAKANIN. KAMI SA SALA AY PATAWARIN, NAGPAPATAWAD SA KAPWA
RIN.
H’WAG MONG SA TUKSO’Y KAMI’Y TULUTAN.
KUNDI ILIGTAS SA KASAMAAN. PAMAMAYANI, KAPANGYARIHAN, KALUWALHATIAN, SA ‘YONG
TANAN. AMEN.
BREAKING
THE BREAD
PRAYER
OF HUMBLE ACCESS
The
Pastor may kneel in front of the Lord’s Table.
We do not presume
to come to this thy table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness,
but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather
up the crumbs under thy table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is
always to have mercy. Grant us, therefore, gracious Lord, so to partake of this
Sacrament of thy Son Jesus Christ, that we may walk in newness of life, may
grow into his likeness, and may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.
The
people may be sung.
KORDERO NG DIOS, NA NAG-AALIS NG MGA
KASALANAN SA SANLIBUTAN
MAAWA KA, MAAWA KA SA AMIN.
KORDERO NG DIOS NA NAG-AALIS NG MGA
KASALANAN SA SANLIBUTAN
IPAGKALOOB MO ANG IYONG KAPAYAPAAN.
GIVING
THE BREAD AND CUP
Standing
at the entrance, the presiding pastor gives each person the bread with a
traditional statement such as, “The body of Christ is given for you and for
many for the forgiveness of sin.” Once receiving the host, the participant must
journey towards the center to the wine, the Blood of Christ, to complete the
sacrament. At the center the participants partake of the sacrament, and on the
way out have time for more reflection, celebration, or thanksgiving.
PRAYER
OF THANKSGIVING
SENDING FORTH
HYMN
After
the prayer of thanksgiving, all may respond in singing:
KUNG MAY PAGHIGUGMA, UG KALUOY, KUNG
MAY PAGHIGUGMA, NAA GYUD ANG DIOS.
DISMISSAL
WITH BLESSING
Pastor:
The
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the
Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
THREE
FOLD AMEN
GOING
FORTH
References:
1.
Morrill, Bruce T. s.j. (1999) Bodies
of Worship: Explorations in Theory and Practice. USA: The Liturgical Press.
2.
Wolpert, Daniel. (2003) Creating Life
with God: The Call to Ancient Prayer Practices. Philippines: Discipleship
Resources-Philippines.
4.
Dapit Alim Brochure
5.
UMC Book of Worship
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