Peace, all.
I made this little Call to Worship that I'll be using tomorrow for All Saints Sunday, 2022.
If you need one, please feel free to use it. And let folks know where it's from. Copy-Left, etc.
This is appropriate to use for funerals and memorials, as well :)
Peace!
~Tom
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[ photo by me - somewhere in Ireland ] |
A Call to Worship For All Saints Day
Longing remembrance.
This is one name for what we feel.
We celebrate the lives of those we’ve lost.
And yet, there is the presence of an absence.
“A piece of us wrenched out of us, ” as it has been said.
A someone for whom we long.
“Blessed are you who weep and wale,”
“For, one day, you shall laugh.”
Jesus said so long ago.
God will wipe the tears from every eye.
Death will be no more.
Mourning and pain will pass away.
And the fountain of grief will cease to flow.
These are the words of the Revelation of St. John.
“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
From the beginning, this is what Christians would sing.
They knew the answer. They were just taunting.
For they clung to the promise,
hoping against hope
that neither life, nor death, nor anything in all of creation,
can ever separate us from the love of God.
Longing expectation.
This is another name for what we feel.
When we dream of that Day when we all will meet again.
Amen.
*The language here about "the presence of an absence," and "a piece of us wrenched out of us" is commonly used and cited by Rubem Alves. See especially Rubem Alves, Transparencies of Eternity, trans. Jovelino Ramos and Joan Ramos, Series, Sapientia (Miami: Convivium Press, 2010), 15.
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