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Carvalhaes Claudio. Liturgies from Below - UK Edition
LITURGIES from BELOW. 462 acts of worship
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
Why Empire?
Why This Initiative?
PRAYING WITH UNWANTED PEOPLE
Introduction
Challenges in Our World, Challenges for Our Praying
Learning New Grammar for Our Faith
Composing a New Tradition to Breathe God’s Breath in the World
Avoiding or Embracing the Poor
How Are We to Pray?
PRAYING AT THE ENDS OF THE WORLD
The Locations. Manila, Philippines
Johannesburg, South Africa
Kingston, Jamaica
Scicli, Italy
PRAYING IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Prayer as a Circular Movement
Doing This Work Where You Are
A WORD OF GRATITUDE
PARTICIPANTS LIST. Locations, Organizations, and People
Artwork
Participants
INVOCATIONS, CALLS TO WORSHIP, GATHERING PRAYERS. Come If You Are Willing
We Extend Our Arms to One Another
Come Unto Me
Call to Worship as Asylum-Seekers
Sacred Wind, Come Blow on Us
Out of the Depths We Cry
Calling Together
But We Are . . . Kyrie Eleison
Come All of You
Water and Light: Invitation to Adore
Jesus Calls Us from the Market Stalls
Proclaim the Dawn of God’s Reign
Call to Adoration
Bless Us
Advent God
God Is Here Too
Call to Worship for the Weary and Wary
So Come
All This Is You, God
Invocation from Everywhere
God You Are
Mother Africa
Come, All of You
People of Africa
The God That Provides
Africa Is Calling
Your God Is Present
Ubuntu
Come Let Us Worship
Invocation: God of Our Ancestors
BENEDICTIONS. May the One Who
A Celtic Blessing for People On the Move
May We Receive
Believe, Behave, and Belong
Benediction with Bells
A Benediction for Standing Firm
May God Bless You
Go Forth with Hearts That Move Us
Many Out of One
Rescue
Somewhere There Is a Home
Blessing from the Depth of Mary’s Eyes
Blessed Are the People
The Lord Bless You and Keep You
Bless Us in Your Divine Grace
May You Stand Firm
Go Out to the World #1
A Blessing for Those Who Mourn
Run Free
Give Us the Blessing
Solitary Embrace, Constant Presence
A Benediction for Boundary-Crossing
Blessing for My Sisters
Final Prayer for Crossing Boundaries
Go Forth!
I, the God of Life
Blessing for Building a Home
May God Keep You
It Is Me and God Too
Benediction for Stepping Out into the Empire
Go Out, Children
Keep Your Eyes Wide Open
God, Journey with Your People
The Revolution of Love and Justice
Go in Peace
Blessing of Children
Satan Prowls Like a Roaring Lion
May You Stand and Raise Your Head
Now unto Him
May God, the Source of Life, Bless You
The Gift from Africa
Liberator and Transformer
Be His Witness and Light
God of Africa, Bless Your Children
God Protect Africa
Promote, Preserve, and Defend Life
Go Out to the World #2
The Abundant and Unending Grace of God
Sons and Daughters of Africa
The Dynamism of Africa
Be Light-Bearers
Go with the Blessing of Your Fathers
The Living, Disturbing God
Be a Blessing to Africa
Go Home in Peace
The God of Our Ancestors
The Blessing of God
Continuous Blessing
May God Wipe Away Your Tears
You Who Hold Us Tenderly
Love Is God’s Name!
PRAYERS OF CONFESSION AND PETITION. I’m Trying, God
Reform Us
Confession of the Oppressed
Forgive Us #1
For Our Dumagat Brothers and Sisters
We Come Against It
Prayer for Mothers Who Lost Their Children
A Place for Everyone
God of Life
They Do Not See the Ways They Hurt Us
Living Water
For People in the Land of Philippines
On Behalf of Mothers
Have Mercy on Us All
I Pray
For Peasants: A Reverse Creation Story
Prayer for Peasants (Fisherman)
Prayer for Workers on Strike
Courage to Fight
Every Time
For the Dalits
We Take Refuge
We Pray for Justice
Dear Parent God
The “War on Drugs”
Ahhh!!! Not Alleluia
Send a Shepherd
For the Fishing Community
A Bully-Ridden Land
For Those Who Labor
A Serenity Prayer for the IP Dumagat Community
Confession of Faith for Homeless Africa
True Judge and Redeemer
PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING
For Water
For Children
For Gifts of Food and Those Who Provide It
For the Gifts
For Opened Eyes
Thanksgiving
For Farmers and Fisherfolk
For the Opportunity to Live with Poor People
For Sending the Soldiers
PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION
For All the Children
God of the Bodies
Father and Mother of the Dirt
For the Weak and Poor in the Philippines
God Who Hears the Prayers of the Oppressed
Kyrie
Dry Bones #1
Prayer for Haiti
Prayer for the Poor
Where Are You, Lord?
Prayer for the People of Zimbabwe
Awaken Us to Ubuntu
For Their Heartfelt Needs
God of Mary and Joseph
A Child’s Prayer
Prayers of Intercession That Were Answered
God of Freedom
May We Encounter You Today
With All Our Being, Our Voice Implores Today
I Ask These Things
Guide and Empower Us
We Seek Your Face
Raise Them Up
O God of Transformation
Fall Over Me
Until Justice and Peace Kiss
Heal Our World
For Your Latin People
Tivoli Mourns the Death of Their Children
LITURGIES OF BAPTISM. Baptism Prayer—Reclaiming the Water
Final Prayer
The Waters of Our Rivers
Baptism: God of the Poor. Presentation
Decision
The Profession of the Community (song)
Baptism
Prayer
Baptismal Prayer #1
Baptismal Prayer #2
You Are, We Are
Words
Charge
Profession of Faith
Take off Your Sandals, We Are Standing in Holy Water
Experience and Reflection
Spoken Narrative
Unison Response after Each Reflection
Moment of Baptism
Baptism (ordained minister or priest)
Intercessions
Songs
Benediction
An Idea for Baptism in the Context of Oppression. Setting
Baptism for and of the Oppressed. Invitation and Promise
Submersion
Resurrection
An Idea for Baptism Incorporating Promises, Renunciations, and Affirmations
Invitation
Promises
Renunciations
Affirmations
Prayer over the Waters
An Idea for Baptism and the Four Elements
Act of Recommitment to Our Baptismal Faith
Three Affirmations in Baptism
God Takes You by the Hand: A Prayer after Baptism
Prayer Professing Faith
Profession of Faith after Baptism
LITURGIES OF EUCHARIST
Our Bread
Words of Institution
Bread and Coconut Water
Offering Prayer
Mary Remembers Her Son. A Communion Prayer
Fish and Buko Juice. The “Table” of Christ with the Peasants and Fisherfolks. The Invitation
Confession, Pardon, Peace
The Great Thanksgiving
Prayer after Receiving the Food
Eucharist of an Inclusive Table
Great Thanksgiving
Consecration of Elements
Final Blessing and Sharing of Peace
Eucharist: An Unconditional Invitation
Thanksgiving Eucharistic Prayer
Eucharist Prayer
Ideas for Eucharist as an Act of Defiance
Ideas for the Order of Service
A Eucharistic Prayer Remembering the Earth
Eucharist
Sanctus and Benedictus (traditional text)
Song: Commitment of the Church
Blessing
Eucharistic Prayer Part 1
Prayer at the Preparation of the Table or Offertory Prayer
Body and Blood, Solidarity and Self-Giving. Words of Reflection and Invitation before Receiving the Eucharist
Holy in the Wine and in the Bread
Eucharistic Prayer: Preface
Bread of Love: An Invitation to the Table
Calling People to the Eucharist
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Eucharist
NEW AND ADAPTED PSALMS. A Psalm of Praise
Psalm 64
Dear Lord, Shepherd
I Cry to You
Lord, Have Mercy. Psalm 23
Psalm 10
Lament of the Sea. Psalm 98:7
Anti-Psalm 137
Psalm 72:1-4
Psalm 150 in Jamaica
Mountains of Justice
From Our Days in Sicili. Psalm 103:1-4
God of the Earth
Psalm 23 #1
A Psalm of Lament
Bryce Farmers Psalm 121—A Song of Ascents
Be Still
Psalm 37
Trenchtown Psalm
An Interpretation of Psalm 26
Psalm 27:1-4
Give All of Yourself
You Are My Shepherd
Salmos 64
Psalm 46:1-7. For the Mariachis of the Sons of Latin America
Psalm 23 #2
Do Not Turn Away
Psalm 4
Psalm 23 #3
Prayer for the Sacred
Psalm 63
A Migrant Psalm of Lament
A Psalm for the Silenced People
In the Presence of Our Enemies
Psalm 27:1-14
Psalm for the Undocumented
Psalm 91
Señor Ten Piedad #1. Salmo 23
The Lord Is My Shepherd
Querido Señor
Psalm 119:49-55
Psalm 40:11
Psalm 42:1-5
Psalm 46
Deep Calls to Deep. Psalm 42
Psalm 13
Psalm 23 #4
ANGER. Anger and Mourning and Confronting Power, Waiting for Too Long. A Prayer of Confrontation
God of the Sea?
For Easter
How Long, Great God?
Praying with the Cry of the Earth
When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead
Prayer of Rage from Tivoli Gardens
Prayer of Anger and Confrontation
Cleanse Me from My Anger
Love?
Cursed Be the One
Where Are You, God?
Anger and Lament
God, I Am Angry
Angry and Exasperated
To You, El Shaddai, the Many-Breasted One
So-Called Shepherds
Lord, I Am Angry
Damn Unfair
A Litany of Plastic
A Widow’s Prayer
Why Not Be Angry?
My Shoulders and My Head Are Bowed
A Prayer of Anger after Killing
We Are Ashamed
A Psalm of Lament for Those in Need of Love and Care
O God, Look at Us
Mother Forgive Them
FORGIVENESS AND REPENTANCE
God of Unity and Courage
I Believe in a Soft God
River of Justice
RESISTANCE. Women Resisting Exploitation
We Stand Up to Resist
Creed Confronting Power
We Resist and Proclaim
Resisting Powers of Destruction
Resistance to Exploitation
The Promised Land and the Angel
God of Life and the Oppressed
How Do You Confront Power?
Covenant Prayer
Collect for Contamination
Resist the Destruction of Eden
Landlessness and Exclusion
Confronting Power
HUNGER. Lord, Look to Those
Our Mother and Father
Make Us to Be Your Bread
For Workers on Strike
Mercy for the Hungry People
Deep Down Hunger
We Are the Table on Earth
Multitudes: Perhaps a Parable
Hungry to Feed
To Survive and Live Again
MOURNING. Daylight Shines
The Graveyard of Boats
Let Our Mourning Be
My God, My God
Mourning Prayer
I Fear Nothing
Absence
The Mourning
A Prayer for Those Mourning
Song for the Departed
On Mourning
Mourning
How Do You Help People to Mourn?
HEALING. Pollination
The Power of God
Jesus at the Seashore
Lord, Help Me to Pray
Wanderers of God
What Really Matters
You, God
Wedding of Cana
Worldly Affirmation of Faith
POWER/OPPRESSION. Did You Imagine?
I Am Overwhelmed
How Dare You?
Muslim Migrant Christ
Evil One
Jesus Came to the Seashore
Our Lack of Power
Migrants
A Mediterranean Magnificat
We Are Suffering
Confrontation. Pentecost
Hear My Cry
Slapping the Faces of Your People
Under Your Wings
Your People’s Knees Are Down
Lord of Justice and Peace
God of Africa
God of Abraham, Moses, and of the Oppressed
Prayer for Resistance
God of Mercy and Love
God of Our World
GENERAL PRAYERS. For the Environment
Prayer for Those Suffering Because of Addiction
The Lens of Love
We Need Your Help
Forgive Us #2
We Pray for It All
Señor Jesús
Querido Dios
Prayer for the End of Gang Violence
Bathsheba’s Prayer
Healing—Anointing with Oil
A Girl’s Prayer
The Joy of the Children
A Lost Voice
A Secret Whispered
Dear Trinity
God the Father-Mother
Our Life into Dust
For the Mothers of Tivoli Whose Sons Were Murdered
Cassidy-JLU Spelling:
Popular (Non-Standard) Spelling:
English Translation:
You Are Emmanuel
Prayer against Despair
Is Everything All Right?
Birthday Blessing
Spirit of the Living God
Live and Die for Each Other
Choking
Gracias por U Misericordia
Padre y Madre Celestial
Señor Ten Piedad #2
Healing in the Midst of Militarization
We’re Living under the Empire
Let the Oppressed Be Set Free
The Oppressor
We Bring Our Petitions before You
Prayer against Empire
Prayer for the Oppressed Woman
Prayer from Experience
God of the Poor, Deprived, and Oppressed
Lord, Drive Out All Evil
God Our Love
The Cliff
God of Life, Friend of Women and Children
Liturgy of Wailing and Sorrow
For Mothers and Wives
Money and Power Are Everywhere
They Choose Not to See
Hear Our Cry
Open
Neoliberalism—Imprecatory Psalms
On Behalf of the Corporation, the Rich
Lord of Mercy and Grace
Prayer for Indigenous People
God of History
O God, Be with Us
The Prayer for Peasant Community
Prayer of Confession
Prayer of Confession (in the Context of Factory Workers)
Exploitation
Domine
We Are Sojourners
Cover Me with the Night. A Traditional Prayer from Ghana
Loving God Let Your Spirit Ignite Us
Ignition, Idling, Movement, and Transport
Dry Bones #2
Blessed Are They
Luke 1:26-38
GRRR
PRAYERS BASED ON THE LITURGICAL CALENDAR. Advent
Reimagining Worship. An Advent Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession
The Flight to Egypt
Transfiguration #1
Transfiguration #2
Easter #1
Easter #2
Easter #3
Pentecost #1
Pentecost #2
Pentecost #3
Parousia #1
Parousia #2
Parousia #3
Maundy Thursday Liturgy
Maundy Thursday Foot-Washing Liturgy
Opening Prayer
Washing of the Feet
Blessing of the Podiatrists
Prayers of the People
Communion
Prayer after Communion
Blessing and Dismissal
PRAYING THROUGH POETRY. Worship Spaces in the Philippines
Reclaiming Hope
Sea Breeze
Reclaiming Africa’s Possessions
Reclaiming Identity as African Women
Crossroads and Constant Spring
Our Mother (The Lord’s Prayer)
No, Children, Nuh Cry!
Dark-Skinned God-Boy
Prayer
Together
The Color of Hope
Standing in the Trash Heap
Reclaiming Land
Reclaiming African Heritage
Reclaiming Image
Reclaiming Reality
PRAYING THROUGH SCRIPTURE. Romans 12:13
Message
Prayer
Psalm 103:1
Message
Prayer
Thought of the Day
John 11:35
Message
Prayer
Thought of the Day
Luke 2:30
Message
Prayer
Thought of the Day
Matthew 25:36
Message
Prayer
Thought of the Day
Psalm 130:1-2
Message
Prayer
Thought of the Day
Ezekiel 9:4
Message
Prayer
Thought of the Day
Exodus 1:15-21
Message
Prayer
Thought of the Day
Luke 19:40
Message
Prayer
Thought of the Day
Luke 8:44
Message
Prayer
Thought of the Day
Matthew 5:38-48
Call to Worship
Confession and Absolution
Prayer
COMPLETE LITURGICAL SEQUENCES. Worship Litany in the Context of the Indigenous Groups of Northeast India. Call to Worship
Intercessory Prayer
Prayer of Confession
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Affirmation of Faith (Creed)
Benediction
Liturgy—Um Carinho (A Caress) For the Earth. Gathering
Call to Prayer: Wrap the Yam Vine
Scripture Lesson
Homily
Prayers of the People: Lowe River United, Trelawny, Jamaica
Blessing and Going Forth: Heat of the Earth
Eucharist for Women
Hymn: “Song of Walking”
Confession of Faith
Greeting of Peace
Thanksgiving
Saudade
From Our Bleeding Body
Prayer of Humble Accession
Sharing the Elements
Final Prayer: The Kiss Prayer
Liturgy Honoring Indigenous People and Communities
ACT ONE: The Call
ACT TWO: The Planting of the Podong* Sticks
ACT THREE: The Offertory
ACT FOUR: Acknowledgment and Celebration of the Gathered Community
ACT FIVE: The Word Proclaimed
ACT SIX: Statement of Faith
ACT SEVEN: The Cup of Covenant
ACT EIGHT: The Blessing
Glossary of Terms for This Service
Rite for Sending Leaders
A Liturgy of Joyous Rebellion: A Rite for Rededication to the Cause
A Liturgical Observance of Indigenous People’s Month. From the Philippines. We Prepare Our Liturgical Space
We Gather the People
We Listen to the Word
The Blessing
Stations of the Cross: Good Friday. Suburban Station Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Brief History and Introduction to the Stations
The First Station: Jesus Is Condemned to Die
The Second Station: Jesus Carries His Cross
The Third Station: Jesus Falls the First Time
The Fourth Station: Jesus Meets His Mother
The Fifth Station: Simon Helps Jesus Carry His Cross
The Sixth Station: Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus
The Seventh Station: Jesus Falls the Second Time
The Eighth Station: Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
The Ninth Station: Jesus Falls the Third Time
The Tenth Station: Jesus Is Stripped
The Eleventh Station: Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross
The Twelfth Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross
The Thirteenth Station: Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
The Fourteenth Station: Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb
The Fifteenth Station: Jesus Gives Us Glimmers of Hope
