Graduation Sunday Liturgy
This is my adaptation of the Book of Worship's "Prayer for Graduates" BOW #536 into a responsive liturgy, weaving in the first/last verses of "This is a Day of New Beginnings" UMH #383. Hope it is helpful.
All: We thank you for those
who taught and worked beside them,
and all who supported them along the way.
Leader: Walk with the graduates
as they leave and move forward in life.
Take away their anxiety and confusion of purpose.
All: Strengthen their many talents and skills,
instill in them a confidence in the future you plan,
where energies may be gathered up
and used for the good of all people.
Leader: For the graduates, this truly is a day of new beginnings,
a time to remember and move on,
and a time to believe what love is bringing.
All: May they always know that
Christ is alive and goes before us,
to show and share what love can do.
This is a day of new beginnings,
our God is making all things new.
Presentation of Senior Gift / Pastoral Prayer / Senior Speeches, etc
Liturgy of Celebration for our Graduates
Leader: God of truth and knowledge,
by your wisdom we are taught the way and the truth.
Bless our graduates as they now finish this course of study.
by your wisdom we are taught the way and the truth.
Bless our graduates as they now finish this course of study.
All: We thank you for those
who taught and worked beside them,
and all who supported them along the way.
Leader: Walk with the graduates
as they leave and move forward in life.
Take away their anxiety and confusion of purpose.
All: Strengthen their many talents and skills,
instill in them a confidence in the future you plan,
where energies may be gathered up
and used for the good of all people.
Leader: For the graduates, this truly is a day of new beginnings,
a time to remember and move on,
and a time to believe what love is bringing.
All: May they always know that
Christ is alive and goes before us,
to show and share what love can do.
This is a day of new beginnings,
our God is making all things new.
Presentation of Senior Gift / Pastoral Prayer / Senior Speeches, etc
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