“English” language resources
Our Chalice of Communion
This is a service of communion and
this is our chalice of communion
at which all are welcome who come
in goodwill.
All are equal here as they are equal
in the presence of the great mystery
we know as God. May no false divisions
of race or nation, class or sect, caste
or gender, or
Impatient to be away
A prayer to close a meeting
Impatient to be away now,
to move from the focussed space of this meeting
to the liminal spaces of transition and journey –
we have our minds on the business of leaving;
locating devices and gathering up notes
instead of dwelling in the moment
as we are reluctantly
reminded to pay lip