Creation liturgy #1: Earthing our bodies

 In September 2022 at Hodge Hill Church we crafted a new communion liturgy for Creation season, focusing on the traditional 'four elements': water, air, fire and earth. We took one element a week to explore further, but the liturgy worked across the season. I'll post here individual elements of the liturgy over the next few days...

Gathering

We are called to worship, as we join in singing together:

Come, all you creatures. Come, praise your Maker!     (x3)
Come now and worship the Lord!

EARTHING OUR BODIES

After a brief welcome, a minister begins with these words:

God said to Moses, “Take off your shoes,
for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”  (Ex. 3:5)

Those who feel able are invited take off their shoes.

We are all invited to reach down towards, or to touch, the ground, as we say:

We meet on holy ground:
we honour the earth from which we have been made;
we honour the creatures who share the earth with us;
we honour the presence of God in the earth beneath our feet,
in whom we are rooted and grounded and find fullness of life.

God is here:
God’s Spirit is with us!