March 19
The Bridesmaids
Year 1 ( 2022 – 2023 )
Text:
Matthew 25:1-13
Summary:
The parable of the bridesmaids and their lamps.
Prayer of Confession
Loving God,
Your people long for you.
We watch and wait for the coming of your Kingdom.
You have filled us with good things –
you give us hope for a more gracious world,
you give us your passion for justice,
you give us your promise of peace –
a promise that is never empty.
And yet, Holy One,
we exhaust ourselves in the stuff of this world,
and we let our hope run dry.
Our passion grows weary.
We let ourselves run on empty,
and we forget how to be refilled.
Replenish us. Restore us. Refresh us.
Let your never-failing light shine through us and within us.
Congregational Song Suggestions
“Give Me Oil in My Lamp”
various
“Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning”
GTG 350, OLOFOB 607
“Let Your Little Light Shine, Shine, Shine”
Georgia Sea Island spiritual, arr. Pamela Warrick-Smith
Available from Unbound at giamusic.com
“Light is Kindled in the Darkness”
Text: David Bjorlin
Tune: Benjamin Brody
(SOREN ATLAS)
Available from Unbound at giamusic.com
“Light is Kindled in the Darkness”
Text: David Bjorlin
Tune: Kate Williams
(MACKILLOP)
Available from Unbound at giamusic.com
“Longing for Light, We Wait in Darkness (Christ, Be Our Light)”
GTG 314, VT 715
“O Come, Great God of Darkness and of Light”
by Chris Shelton
Available from Unbound at giamusic.com
“Rejoice! Rejoice, Believers”
ELW 244, GTG 362
“This Little Light of Mine”
various
“Wait for the Lord”
“What is the World Like When God’s Will is Done?”
GTG 771, VT 298
Beyond the Hymnal
“There Won’t Be Trumpets”
from Anyone Can Whistle
by Stephen Sondheim