Morning Worship Assignments
Plans are underway for the Season of Lent. Once again we will holding Wednesday night services in cooperation with other churches in the Mid Suffolk Presbyterian Parish. Those pastors will be meeting on January 21 to work out final details. Present schedule is as follows:
February 25 ASH WEDNESDAY
We will have our individual congregational observances. Ours will be designed and led by Alan Stevens. We are grateful that Alan has done this each year for us.
March 4 Old South Haven will play host
March 11 Center Moriches
March 18 East Moriches/ Remsenburg
March 25 Yapank
April 1 Middle Island
April 9 MAUNDY THURSDAY in our individual churches
April 10 GOOD FRIDAY with Bellport Methodist, there
April 12 EASTER SUNDAY
Early sunrise service at the Bellport dock
Morning Worship
(Note: The January issue of Sojourners Magazine contained reflections from several individuals from various walks of life upon the inauguration of a new president. What follows is a prayer offered by Shane Claiborne, a founding partner of The Simple Way, a radical faith community in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.)
God of love, grace and hope, thank you for creating a perfect world. Forgive us for the mess we have made of it. Forgive us for the groaning of creation, for the millions who die of hunger and curable diseases, for warehousing people in prisons and using them for labor, for the scandal of billions wasted in war, for an economy that mirrors the seven deadly sins, for the violence and greed in our own hearts. Save us from ourselves.
Give us imagination that we might not conform to the patterns of this world, that we might shatter indifference and interrupt injustice with grace, that we might choose the cross over the sword, that we might be shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves, that we might consider the lilies and the sparrows as they shame Wall Street's splendor, that we might choose the dream of God over the dream of nations, that we might cling to the God who so loved the world, not just America, that we might allow our Jesus to change America rather than America to change our Jesus. Amen.
A Prayer for a New President and a New America
Violence in Gaza
The Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church issued a statement calling for all violence to stop. The statement says (in part): “As followers of the Prince of Peace, who has shown us that true victory comes only through non-violent reconciliation, we yearn for an end to sixty years of conflict, violence, and oppression, all of which have left scars on all parties regardless of ethnic, religious, or political identification and have contributed to wider uncertainty about global peace. It will require not only our fervent prayers, but a renewed commitment to action so that when a cease-fire is achieved, it is followed by a new commitment by all parties to the rule of law as the only path to justice, security, and freedom for all.” The statement called upon the United States, together with international partners, to work to bring about an immediate cease fire and for lifting the blockade of Gaza's borders.
(A Report from the Washington Office of the PCUSA)
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