Here’s a call to worship and opening prayer for
Laughter Sunday (aka Holy Humor Sunday)—traditionally celebrated on the first
Sunday after Easter. It comes from the
United Church of Christ’s Worship Ways website.
Call to Worship
Sing a new song!
A joyful melody of springtime glory and rebirth
Sing praise to our Still-Laughing Easter God
Who has rolled away the bindings of yesterday
Immerse your anxiety and despair in the fountain of new birth.
We place our visions and hopes on the table of wine and wheat.
For God has taken ordinary things.
And made them extraordinary.
Sing a new song!
A joyful melody of springtime glory and rebirth
Sing praise to our Still-Laughing Easter God
Who has rolled away the bindings of yesterday
Immerse your anxiety and despair in the fountain of new birth.
We place our visions and hopes on the table of wine and wheat.
For God has taken ordinary things.
And made them extraordinary.
Sing a new song!
Opening Prayer
Holy God,
as you have taken what we call an absurdity
and turned it into possibility…..
as you have coaxed us to sing springtime alleluias
where once there was a gray dawn,
as you have called us out of the tombs we inhabit
into an undreamed of tomorrow,
we praise you for this day!
Come, Risen Christ,
in newness and hope on this Eastertide day. Amen.
as you have taken what we call an absurdity
and turned it into possibility…..
as you have coaxed us to sing springtime alleluias
where once there was a gray dawn,
as you have called us out of the tombs we inhabit
into an undreamed of tomorrow,
we praise you for this day!
Come, Risen Christ,
in newness and hope on this Eastertide day. Amen.
