Celebrating and demonstrating Pride, AllianceQ presents a month of liturgical resources that embody the all-inclusive, just love of Jesus with God’s power and peace. Scroll down for welcoming worship resources.
Whether you are an ally or part of the LGBTQIA+ community, or questioning in liminal sacred space, we walk beside you in your faith and life journeys.
WORSHIP RESOURCES
From Sunday, June 5, Pentecost lifts up the ways in which we might be filled with the sudden, fiery Spirit of God. Pride month arose with the bold resistance of trans women of color after a violent police raid on the Stonewall Inn in June 1969. The Spirit of God is pouring herself out, driving us to cry for wholeness, knowing that “no one is free until we are all free.” [1]
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A RESPONSIVE CALL TO WORSHIP
contributed by puck glass (it/its/they/them)
One: We gather as one across many lands, in many sacred spaces we set our own tables of welcome.
All: Thanks be to God for places of welcome.
One: We are united by the past struggles of our community and ones to come in the future.
All: Thanks be to God for places of struggle.
One: We look toward a future as bright as the many colors of the rainbow.
All: Thanks be to God for places of dreaming.
One: We imagine a world filled with the strange, the sacred, the queer, the peculiar, and the awe-filled – and everywhere we turn, from the spotless lady bug, to the four leaf clover, to our own hearts we find the wonder-ful.
All: Thanks be to God for places of wonder. Thanks be to God.
AN INVOCATION
contributed by puck glass (it/its/they/them)
God of love,
Sanctify this space today
Our own sacred and holy spaces – the tables where we find you, the closets where we find ourselves in you, the relationships where we come to know you more.
Make the spaces where each of us finds ourselves today a reflection of your love and grace.
God of rainbows,
Today we celebrate the many colors by which we all gather
The colors that shape our identities
The many colors that make up our flags
The many colors that make up our bodies
Let us find that each of these shades is a reflection of your love for us.
God of peace and justice,
As we remember the struggle that unites us in our heritage
Let us not forget that this fight is not over
While we celebrate today, remind us that tomorrow there is still work to be done
Not only in our community, but in too many marginalized communities
Let our love extend like your love, well beyond our own created borders.
God of grace,
May we find grace as abundant as yours in learning from each other
May we find the grace to make mistakes and to continue learning
May we find the grace to radically expand our welcomes
May we find grace to breathe in slowly… and know we are filled with enough.
[1] Martin Luther King, Jr., (1963), https://mlkglobal.org/