Memory and Hope Workers Memorial Day is celebrated each year on April 28, the anniversaryof passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970. It is an opportunity to remember and honor the people who are killed or injured in workplaces, as well as a chance for people to recommit to making workplaces safer…
Category Archives: Worship Resources
A Holy Week Litany – Take Up the Cross and Follow the Path to Peace
(L) Let Us Pray: Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your beloved Jesus Christ to this earth to take on our nature and to show us a still better way: Grant that we may discover within us the faith and courage to walk the path of peace…
HOW TO ORGANIZE PEACE VIGILS
Why Christians choose to witness publicly for peace We at Christian Peace Witness for Iraq believe that public prayer and witness change us and change the world. Research shows that people who take action for peace have more hope during bleak times. Amid all our activities, can we find time to speak out, to give…
Liturgical Resources: Lent
by Rev. Gary Commins O God, the Origin of love and Giver of new life, have mercy on us and on our world, that we, consumed by hypocrisy, prejudice, and greed, may be transformed by your Word, and the world, thrashing blindly in despair, may be restored by your Spirit; all this we ask in…
Liturgical Resources: Epiphany
by Rev. Gary Commins Gracious God, you revealed the light to the nations in the star over Bethlehem and in Jesus at his transfiguration; give us grace to perceive your glory in his words and deeds that we may reflect your radiance in all that we say and do. Amen.Blessed are those who are not…
Liturgical Resources: Christmas
by Rev. Gary Commins O God, whose angels sang not to kings but to Mary and the shepherds, give us grace to hear the good news of the Savior’s birth and the great joy of a dawning age. Preserve all children in peace this night, keep them safe from harm, blunt the swords of tyrants,…
Peace Prayers
Please include Peace Prayers in Prayers of the People every Sunday and especially the Sunday closest to Armistice Day, November 11th. Armistice is a cessation or suspension of hostilities by mutual consent. On this day in 1939, the Rev. John Nevin Sayre and others founded the Episcopal Peace Fellowship to pray, study and work for…
Advent Worship Resources
Litany by Rev. Gary Commins O God, you inspired your servants the prophets with visions of a new earth, where wolf and lamb dwell together, where cries and weeping are uttered no more, and where elders are healthy and infants live in safety; inscribe your hopes in our hearts that casting away the works of…
EPF Worship Resources
Liturgical Calendar: Advent Christmas Epiphany Lent Easter Pentecost Prayers for Peace: General Prayers for Peace
