Resources for Pastors, Leaders & Congregations
Bishop Bouman Provides A Litany
As we pray together as one Lutheran community across the nation, may these litanies help you to remember and to call on the name of the dying and rising Christ who loves us and walks with us in remembrance and renewal. Included with the litanies are suggestions for scripture reading, passages which have given us particular comfort in the past year. To download Bishop Bouman's litany, please click here.
The Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., faith community invites you to look at its interfaith service of remembrance and hope, "Surrounded by God's Light." Click here.
In addition, feel free to "borrow from" the National Council of Churches' "Litany of Remembrance, Penitance and Hope." To access it, click here.
Resources for 9/11 commemorations:
The Rev. David Randolph, former pastor of the United Methodist Church of Babylon, who now works at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, has provided several copies of his new collection of worship resources "On the Way after 9/11." They're available from the Long Island Council of Churches for $19.95.
Church World Service, the LICC's partners in disaster relief work, urges churches to welcome neighbors by designating a day in September as Open House for Muslim Neighbors. The National Council of Churches of Christ has a planning guide for this (click here).CWS also offers a new hymn for Sept. 11 worship service called "God We've KnownGrief and Anger" at their Web-site (click here).
Riverhead United Methodist Church suggests this prayer by Father Mychal Judge, the Franciscan priest and NYFD chaplain who died ministering to the dying. When his body was recovered at the World Trade Center, this prayer was found, one he prayed often:
"Lord, take me where You want me to go.
Let me meet who You want me to meet
Tell me what You want me to say,
And keep me out of Your way."
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