Litany of Confession & Promise

Here’s a litany for Reformation Day (October 30, 2011) written by Katherine Hawker.


Litany of Confession and Promise

Our youth offer prophesy of challenge and judgement,

We nod politely with clenched teeth and closed eyes.

Invited to dream dreams,

We prefer the familiarity of the past.

Winds of vision swirl around us,

We close the windows and bolt the doors.

Even on us,

Even here,

The Spirit will pour forth.

Come, Holy Spirit, Come.

—Written for Evangelical United Church of Christ, 1998. Copyright Katherine Hawker. Posted on her Outside the Box website. 

For more resources for Reformation Sunday (October 30, 2011) , click on Reformation Day in the list of “Labels” at the lower right side of the page.