Enter the Mystery

Taking our title of ‘Enter the Mystery’ Fr Colin Sutton crafts a litany for the Christian Life. It’s a litany which invites and calls, affirms and comforts, challenges and changes us, as we enter the Mystery of God in Christ. It can be used for personal use or corporate worship, as a litany of gathering or a response to the gospel or even at the end of a time of worship as we prepare to ‘go in peace to love and serve the Lord.‘

Enter the Mystery,                                                                                                              the eternal mystery
of faith in Christ Jesus

Enter the Mystery                                                                                                                              of Christ’s presence in his holy Word                                                                                      speaking words of life for all who would listen and respond.

Enter the Mystery                                                                                                                       of Christ’s sacred presence
as the host is lifted up for your adoration,
and as the Bread of Life enters your body. 

Enter the Mystery                                                                                                                and know that your Baptism into Christ and his Church
can be daily confirmed as a living experience
of taking up the cross you have been signed with.

Enter the Mystery                                                                                                    and discover afresh your calling from God
and know the work he has prepared for you.

Enter the Mystery                                                                                                                                    and rejoice in your calling to pray and know
that all life can be lifted up for his blessing.
                                                                                                                          Enter the Mystery                                                                                                                      and celebrate the forgiveness that brings wholeness and healing
where life is fraught and reconciliation seems impossible.

Enter the Mystery
of recognising Christ in both friend and stranger,                                                          in familiar and unexpected people and places.                                                                                         

Enter the Mystery
and give thanks that God looks to you
to nurture and care for his creation.                                                                                                                                     

Enter the Mystery                                                                                                                                    and be transformed through embracing the love that flows
from the death and resurrection of the Lord.                                                                                               

Enter the Mystery                                                                                                                                                 allow the depth of God’s love
to penetrate your times of joy and sorrow.                                                                                                                                    

Enter the Mystery                                                                                                                                  and give thanks to God in the great company of all the saints
who forever surround you with their prayers
and inspire you with their actions.                                                                                                                                             

Enter the Mystery                                                                                                                   that never ends, for Christ is the same yesterday today and forever
and will bring you to the one God and Father of us all
through the saving grace of the Holy Spirit. 

Copyright Fr Colin Sutton 2022
Photograph by Bruno van der Kraan, Unsplash.com