Queer-led Worship: Taize Around the Cross
Time: Fri 5:00PM
Venue: Front Porch
Style: Worship
Content Type: Queer Christian worship led by queer people
Description: Queer-led Worship at Trinity Lutheran Church began in November of 2021 upon a realizing that a truly inclusive church should be holding space for members of the LGBTIQIA+ community to create and lead worship. Patrick Preacher crafted the liturgy for the service with input from local LGBTQIA+ organizations. It was inspired by Holden Prayer Around the Cross liturgies and Taizé liturgies, but has taken its own shape as a time of song, prayer, and proclamation of God’s queer love in Christ for the queer community. All worship leaders (lectors, musicians, preachers, people praying aloud) are members of the queer community. Worship begins with a gathering in which worshippers are invited to light a candle and gather around a center cross to pray and place their candle. The service then moves on to bold and radically inclusive words of affirmation that are not often heard in Christian spaces. There are two readings (sometimes biblical, sometimes not) before a queer person preaches. This is followed by a sung prayers of the people. All of this includes Taizé style chants and song interspersed between these worship elements in an effort to make space for meditation and reflection.
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