Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing.
Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning rend your hearts and not your clothing. The instruments continue during the reading.īlow the trumpet in Zion sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near- a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness spread upon the mountains a great and powerful army comes their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them in ages to come. GIA Publications, Inc.ġ Come now, O Prince of peace, make us one body.Ĭome, O Lord Jesus, reconcile your people.Ī recording will work if you are unable to locate and play one live.Ī person stands in the midst of the congregation and reads.ĭo not project the words to the scripture as it is read. O-So-So (aka Come now, O Prince of Peace)Īuthor: Kōn-yong Yi Paraphraser: Marion PopeĬopyright: © 1991, WGRG the Iona Community (Scotland), admin. We are indebted to Taylor Burton-Edwards, compiler of an excellent Contemporary Service for Ash Wednesday, f or the idea of alternating the reading of scripture with the haunting song O-So-So from The Faith We Sing, #2232. 322.Īt the end of the invitation, an acoustic guitar and djembe begin to play the introduction to the first song. An excellent invitation to use or model your invitation after may be found online in the United Methodist Book of Worship, p. The Pastor reminds the congregation of the origins of Lent and Ash Wednesday, following it with an invitation to observe a holy Lent through various Lenten disciplines.
INVITATION TO THE OBSERVANCE OF LENTEN DISCIPLINE You can create your own presentation or find one for free online here.
Lights are dim.Īs people gather, words appropriate to the day appear and disappear on the screen.
People are encouraged to enter in silence.
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