Here’s a responsive
prayer/call to worship inspired by Psalm 113.
It comes from the Oratio
Contemplativa website.
Opening
Prayer/Call to Worship
(based
on Psalm 113)
King of all the
earth,
Creator of the
universe,
Holy Triune God,
From everlasting to everlasting,
you are Lord.
We will give thanks
to you, O Lord, with our whole hearts,
for your glory is
above the heavens;
From the rising of the sun to it
setting,
we will praise the name of the Lord!
You raise the poor
from the dust and lift the needy from the ash heap,
transforming them
with glory and honor;
From the rising of the sun to it
setting,
we will praise the name of the Lord!
You bring
fruitfulness from barrenness
and give homes to the
solitary;
From the rising of the sun to it
setting,
we will praise the name of the Lord!
Who is like our God,
the One
who looks down from
the heights on the heavens on the earth?
From the rising of the sun to it
setting,
we will praise the name of the Lord!
This is our God, the
Holy One.
Come before him with
thanksgiving
and offer him the
sacrifice of praise.
~
excerpted from a longer prayer posted on Oratio
Contemplativa. http://oratiocontemplativa.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/prayers-for-proper-20-year-c-rcl-closest-to-september-21/
