This vigil is designed to be used within the aftermath of an abduction or homicide by immigration enforcement. Our hope was to make this vigil easy and accessible, providing phrases to a group that could be too surprised to talk or act.
Recommended management:
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A tune chief with instrument (piano, guitar, or different instrument helpful for main congregational tune)
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A liturgy chief, both ordained or lay
Recommended provides:
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Desk, sandbox, or different receptacle to carry unlit and lit candles
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Candles for lighting and setting on a desk, in a sandbox, or different flat house
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Dimmed lights
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Printed order of service
Prelude
We enter in silence.
Welcome
The chief affords a greeting and introduction to the house and liturgy.
Opening Music: I Need Jesus to Stroll With Me
I need Jesus to stroll with me.
I need Jesus to stroll with me.
All alongside my pilgrim journey,
I need Jesus to stroll with me.
In my trials, stroll with me.
In my trials, stroll with me.
When the shades of life are falling,
I need Jesus to stroll with me.
In my sorrows, stroll with me.
In my sorrows, stroll with me.
When my coronary heart inside is aching.
I need Jesus to stroll with me.
Opening Prayer
Chief: God of steadfast love, be with us in our gathering, our grief, and our concern. Soften our hearts to obtain your love, and strengthen our our bodies to behave with justice. Out of the depths we cry to you; fill us with the peace that passes all human understanding.
All: Amen.
Psalm
Sing (with a tune applicable to your context and permissions) or converse responsively.
A bell chime or silence could happen between the psalm and psalm prayer.
Psalm 10
Chief: Why, O Lord, do you stand far off?
Why do you disguise your self in occasions of hassle?
All: In vanity the depraved persecute the poor—
allow them to be caught within the schemes they’ve devised.
Chief: For the depraved boast of the needs of their coronary heart;
these grasping for acquire curse and resign the Lord.
All: Within the satisfaction of their countenance the depraved say, “God is not going to search it out”;
all their ideas are, “There isn’t any God.”
Chief: Their methods prosper always;
your judgments are on excessive, out of their sight;
as for his or her foes, they scoff at them.
All: They suppose of their coronary heart, “We will not be moved;
all through all generations we will not meet adversity.”
Chief: Their mouths are stuffed with cursing and deceit and oppression;
beneath their tongues are mischief and iniquity.
All: They sit in ambush within the villages;
in hiding locations they homicide the harmless.
Chief: Their eyes stealthily look ahead to the helpless;
they lurk in secret like a lion in its den;
All: they lurk that they might seize the poor;
they seize the poor and drag them off of their internet.
Chief: They stoop, they crouch,
and the helpless fall by their would possibly.
All: They suppose of their coronary heart, “God has forgotten;
he has hidden his face; he won’t ever see it.”
Chief: Stand up, O Lord; O God, carry up your hand;
don’t forget the oppressed.
All: Why do the depraved resign God
and say of their hearts, “You’ll not name us to account”?
Chief: However you do see! Certainly, you observe hassle and grief,
that you could be take it into your palms;
All: the helpless commit themselves to you;
you’ve got been the helper of the orphan.
Chief: Break the arm of the depraved and evildoers;
search out their wickedness till you discover none.
All: The Lord is king ceaselessly and ever;
the nations shall perish from his land.
Chief: O Lord, you’ll hear the will of the meek;
you’ll strengthen their coronary heart; you’ll incline your ear
All: to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed,
in order that these from earth could strike terror no extra.
Psalm Prayer
Chief: O God, let your face shine upon us, even in our deepest grief. Don’t let our hearts be anxious and don’t allow them to be afraid. Defend the susceptible and weave collectively the material of human group. Out of cruelty and violence, could your light, life-giving, self-giving love come up. Give us confidence in your hope, that we could stroll in the best way of your justice and peace; via Jesus Christ, our consolation and our life.
All: Amen.
Music: Abide With Me
Abide with me: quick falls the eventide;
the darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.
When different helpers fail and comforts flee,
Assist of the helpless, O abide with me.
Swift to its shut ebbs out life’s little day;
earth’s joys develop dim, its glories move away.
Change and decay in throughout I see.
O thou who changest not, abide with me.
Maintain thou thy cross earlier than my closing eyes.
Shine via the gloom and level me to the skies.
Heaven’s morning breaks and earth’s useless shadows flee;
in life, in dying, O Lord, abide with me.
Intercessory Prayer
Chief: As we carry our grief, concern, and worries to God, allow us to pray for all of God’s creation, and all these in want.
Chief: God of affection, we grieve the methods we’ve torn asunder the bonds of human connection that you’ve given us. The place there’s violence, allow us to sow peace. The place there’s dehumanization, allow us to see the holy in each other. The place programs of energy are abused, allow us to identify violations of energy and human dignity. We cry to you for compassion, justice, and peace.
Lord, in your mercy,
All: Hear our prayer.
Chief: God of readability, assist us to name a factor what it’s, talking with life and reality. Give us clear minds to acknowledge and resign all of the evil forces that draw us out of your grace. Assist us to stay a life stuffed with the vulnerability, care, and compassion that you simply first confirmed us.
Lord, in your mercy,
All: Hear our prayer.
Chief: God of resurrection, once we are surrounded by the death-dealing forces of energy hoarding, power, and abuse, allow us to proclaim as an alternative your imaginative and prescient of considerable life for all. Plant in us a want for all residing issues to flourish, and reassure us that in your abundance, there’s sufficient for all to thrive.
Lord, in your mercy,
All: Hear our prayer.
Chief: God of reconciliation, remodel those that are enthralled by the evil of energy and violence. Heal their ache in order that they could repent and proclaim your peace. The place hearts are closed, open and soften them. The place minds are clouded by concern, carry readability and peace. Allow us to all flip towards your method of compassion and take care of each other, and will we be certain collectively in your truth-telling, life-giving love.
Lord, in our mercy,
All: Hear our prayer.
Different petitions could also be supplied, together with the remembering of those that have died within the midst of energy abuse.
Chief: God of consolation, be with all who want your presence. Encompass the susceptible together with your safety, encompass the fearful together with your hope. We place our belief in your gentleness, peace, and radical welcome. We commend our prayers to you, within the identify of Jesus Christ, our savior.
All: Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer
Chief: Gathered into one by the Holy Spirit, allow us to pray as Jesus taught us:
All:
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your identify, your kingdom come,
your shall be finished, on earth as in heaven.
Give us right this moment our every day bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those that sin in opposition to us.
Save us from the time of trial
and ship us from evil.
For the dominion, the facility,
and the glory are yours, now and ceaselessly.
Amen.
Sung Prayer and Candle Lighting
Throughout this time, the lights will dim and songs shall be launched and led with out music. As you be taught them, be a part of within the singing. At any time, come ahead to gentle a candle as an indication of your prayer.
Music: Jesus, Keep in mind Me
Jesus, keep in mind me
once you come into your kingdom.
Jesus, keep in mind me
once you are available to your kingdom.
Prayer
Chief: We elevate our prayers to you, O God, trusting that you simply hear our cries and weep alongside us. As these candles shine, strengthen us to enter the world to carry heat and care to your complete creation. In Jesus’ identify we pray.
All: Amen.
Benediction
Chief:
Go forth into the world to serve God with gladness;
be of fine braveness;
maintain quick to that which is sweet;
render to nobody evil for evil;
strengthen the fainthearted;
help the weak;
assist the ;
honor all individuals;
love and serve God,
rejoicing within the energy of the Holy Spirit.
All:
Thanks be to God.
The Blessing of Grace
