Blessings and Benedictions
Each Sunday, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) pastor offers a blessing and benediction for the week ahead. We hope that these will inspire you and nurture your faith.
4/21/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Elizabeth Kanerva
The whispered sounds of Spring have grown into the full-throated chorus of birds, blooms, and budding trees.
4/8/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Larissa Kwong Abazia
Easter brings the epic love story of God and Creation to the forefront. We know the dark ending of the tomb which becomes a beginning of life and possibility. Yet we cannot settle for what is familiar and comfortable.
4/7/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Jeniffer Rodríguez
Waving palms from right to left
Waving palms from left to right
Let’s go out in peace shouting Hosanna
Not forgetting who is the king of kings
Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
3/30/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Jeff Sockwell
Hold the wonder of this season near to your heart – in the freshness of a spring breeze, in the cascade of brilliant bloom, in the miracle of new life leaping forth from the fertile earth.
3/24/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Ivan Herman
Smiles are contagious.
They spread from ear to ear, eye to eye, face to face.
God’s joy is contagious, too.
It spreads from God’s heart through your heart.
Every time you
feed the hungry,
welcome the stranger,
visit the sick and imprisoned
God’s joy becomes your joy.
3/17/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Dr. Kevin Park
Christ gathers us together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings. God is our shield, our protector. So wait for the Lord and be strong, and let your heart take courage; stand firm in the Lord. And the grace of Jesus the Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you now and forever. Amen.
3/10/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Adriene Thorne
It was Lent 2020 when our worlds shifted. Someone quipped that it was “the lentiest Lent I ever lented.” Two years later and our lives can still feel lenty, like an extended trip to the wilderness… Except the enslaved woman, Hagar, found and named God in the wilderness.
3/3/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Rebecca Mallozzi
My grandmother passed away in January. The last few months have been full of going through the things she left behind. We are discovering Grandmom was quite a collector.
2/24/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Dr. Andy Kort
As we remember the Transfiguration of the Lord, let us ascend the holy mountain with Jesus so that we too may be dazzled, amazed, and astounded as we receive a glimpse of his glory.
2/17/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Greg Allen-Pickett
God who meets us where we are:
Sometimes we are people who are afflicted in need of comforting.
Sometimes we are people who are comfortable in need of afflicting.
2/11/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Jeniffer Rodríguez
Remembering when we were children
Counting numbers from one through five
We used to sing it, say it backwards, in silence and aloud
It is important to rescue what we used to know from our hearts:
2/3/2022
Blessing and Benediction from Rev. Jeff Sockwell
Creator God, you walk with us in all seasons, nurturing us to brace for the storms that threaten to wash over us.
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