Wednesday Lenten Service (3.25.18)

Prayers for Alaska

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Litany for Alaska 

Adapted by Grace Matsutani

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Whittier, Homer      Peace be yours      

Seldovia, Old Harbor    Peace be yours.                               
King Salmon, Unalaska   Peace be yours.                               Clark's Point, Kodiak       Peace be yours.

Glenallen, Copper River Peace be yours.                          Cordova, Tatiluk             Peace be yours.                                  Yakutak, Gustavus           Peace be yours                             
Mt. Edgecombe, Angoon, Skagway    Peace be yours.

Eagle, Circle, Tanana        Peace be yours.                            Kotzebue, Bethel, Point Hope   Peace be yours.                    Prudhoe Bay, Kaktovik    Peace be yours.                          Utqiagvuk, Anaktuvuk                Peace be yours.

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For the healing of Alaska, we pray to you, O God.                 

For the healing of Alaska, we pray to you, O God.

The Lutheran Churches of Alaska   Peace be yours.              Soldotna, Kenia, Seward   Peace be yours.                              Anchorage, Wasilla, Eagle River      Peace be yours.                Palmer, Chugiak, Trapper Creek     Peace be yours.

Juneau, Petersburg            Peace be yours.                              Wrangell & Sitka                 Peace be yours.                               Ketchikan & Valdez            Peace be yours.                             Fairbanks, North Pole       Peace be yours.

Dillingham & Bethel          Peace be yours.                              Shishmaref & Nome         Peace be yours.                              Brevig Mission & Wales    Peace be yours.                               Teller, Delta Junction         Peace be yours.

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For the healing of Alaska, we pray to you, O God.           
For the healing of Alaska, we pray to you, O God.

Russian River, Anchor Point    Peace be yours.                        Ninilchick, Clam Gulch    Peace be yours.                                Cooper Landing, Skilak Lake   Peace be yours.                       Kenaii Fjords, Susitna River    Peace be yours.

Glacier Bay, Elfin Cove    Peace be yours.                                Tongass Forest, Wrangell-St. Elias   Peace be yours.            Portage Glacier, Prince Williams Sound  Peace be yours.     Yukon-Charley Rivers, Lake Louise  Peace be yours.

Denali, Talkeetna            Peace be yours.                                 Hatcher Pass, Matanuska Glacier    Peace be yours.              Kennicott Glacier, Noatak River       Peace be yours.              Bristol Bay, Chilkoot Pass     Peace be yours.

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For the healing of Alaska, we pray to you, O God.                  For the healing of Alaska, we pray to you, O God.

National Parks & Forests     Peace be yours.                           Ravens, Eagles, Fox, & Snowy Owls     Peace be yours.     Grizzly, Caribou, & Moose  Peace be yours.                        Wolverine, Ptarmigan & Ground Squirrels  Peace be yours.

Seas & tundra, Humpback Whales     Peace be yours.          Ugruk, Seals, & Musk Ox  Peace be yours.                              Polar Bear & Whitefish     Peace be yours.                               Canadian Geeze & Swans   Peace be yours.

Bays & Rivers, Sea Otters   Peace be yours.                            Stellar Seals & Sockeye    Peace be yours. 

Cormorants, Puffins, Orcas   Peace be yours. 

Blueberries, Nangoon Berries    Peace be yours. 

For the healing of Alaska, we pray to you, O God.                  For the healing of Alaska, we pray to you, O God.

Tonight's Readings

Psalm 46 - A Song of the Sons of Korah

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God is a safe place to hide,
    ready to help when we need him.
We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom,
    courageous in seastorm and earthquake,
Before the rush and roar of oceans,
    the tremors that shift mountains.

Jacob-wrestling God fights for us,
    God-of-Angel-Armies protects us.

River fountains splash joy, cooling God’s city,
    this sacred haunt of the Most High.
God lives here, the streets are safe,
    God at your service from crack of dawn.
Godless nations rant and rave, kings and kingdoms threaten,
    but Earth does anything he says.

Jacob-wrestling God fights for us,
    God-of-Angel-Armies protects us.

Attention, all! See the marvels of God!
    He plants flowers and trees all over the earth,
Bans war from pole to pole,
    breaks all the weapons across his knee.
“Step out of the traffic! Take a long,
    loving look at me, your High God,
    above politics, above everything.”

Jacob-wrestling God fights for us,
    God-of-Angel-Armies protects us.

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 - One Body, Many Members

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many members, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect; whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.