Claremont Presbyterian Church

Family Camp — Claremont Presbyterian Church

Join us for Family Camp this year! We're heading up to Big Bear over Memorial Day weekend. Click the link to learn more and to register.

Family Camp — Claremont Presbyterian Church This year Family Camp will return to the Big Bear Lake Conference Center on May 27-29. Imagine it… hot showers, wi-fi, electricity, all your food is paid for and meals prepared.

Tell Me A Story, Really! — Claremont Presbyterian Church

Charles Kerchner's blog, Meditations on Meditation, resumes this week with a story about finding God in a brown pelican. Click below to read it and help him find more stories to tell.

Tell Me A Story, Really! — Claremont Presbyterian Church Meditations resumes with a story about Sunday School kids finding and taking pictures of God with their disposable cameras. God-is-everywhere is the theological point. Storytelling is the powerful message delivery system.

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Sigfrid Karg-Elert, “Clair de Lune”, and “Praise, I Will Praise You Lord”

Midweek Mini Concert, May 3, 2023: Sigfrid Karg-Elert, “Clair de Lune”; and “Praise, I Will Praise You, Lord”

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Sigfrid Karg-Elert, “Clair de Lune”, and “Praise, I Will Praise You Lord” CPC Midweek Mini Concert, May 3, 2023

Tuesday Evening Prayer

Take 2 deep breaths
Rest more deeply into your seated position
Take on your posture of prayer

Be still and aware of God's presence within and all around.

Read Hebrews 13:20-21

Pray together
It is in sleeping that our body is refreshed. It is in letting go that our soul is revived. It is in dying that we are born anew. Bless to us our sleeping, O God, bless to us our letting go, bless to us our dying that tonight we may enter your stillness, that tomorrow we may awake renewed, that in the end we may be fully alive to you. Tonight, tomorrow and always, O God, may we be truly alive to you.
Amen.

Evening Prayer - Self Lead

Take 2 deep breaths
Rest more deeply into your seated position
Take on your posture of prayer
Be still and aware of God's presence within and all around.

Read Luke 5:1-11

Pray together
In the coming hours of darkness may there be light in our dreams. In the stillness of sleep may there be strength for our souls. In the wakeful watches of night may there be peace in our minds. Light for new vision, strength to make sacrifice, peace for our world. On the pathways of earth's journey this night let there by peace.
Amen.

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“Canon in B Major”, Robert Schumann; and “O God, Show Mercy to Us”

Midweek Mini Concert, April 26, 2023: “Canon in B Major”, Robert Schumann; and “O God, Show Mercy to Us”

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“Canon in B Major”, Robert Schumann; and “O God, Show Mercy to Us” CPC Midweek Mini Concert, April 26, 2023

Evening Prayer - Self Lead

Take 2 deep breaths
Rest more deeply into your seated position
Take on your posture of prayer

Be still and aware of God's presence within and all around.

Read 1 Peter 1:23-25

Pray together
In the silence of our hearts or in spoken words let us give thanks for the gift of this day and pray for the life of the world. (Offer prayers)
You have shown us, O Christ, that grace changes life, that grace can turn the ordinary into the festive and emptiness into fullness. When we find ourselves in you, O Christ, we find that we too are bearers of grace and that we too can be part of changing the world. Amen.

Morning Prayer 4-24

This week marks the Feast Day of St George. George was from a prominent Roman family and destined for a career in the Roman army. However when the Emperor demanded that Christians in the army renounce their faith and sacrifice to the Roman gods, he refused and was executed.

A legend concerning St George tells of a village beset by a dragon who lived in the towns lake and would only let the townspeople draw water if they brought him a sheep to devour each day. When the town ran out of sheep, they decided to bring the dragon a young maiden instead. But as the girl approached the lake, St George appeared, drew his sword, and slayed the dragon, saving the girl and the town.

A traditional prayer for St George’s Day;

O GOD, who didst grant to Saint George strength and constancy in the various torments which he sustained for our holy faith; we beseech Thee to preserve our faith from wavering and doubt, so that we may serve Thee with a sincere heart faithfully unto death. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Morning Prayer for 4-22

You raised Lazarus from dead, saying
“Unbind him, let him go free.”
You too were bound and laid to rest
in a cold tomb, freshened by myrrh and aloes.
Unbind us so that we may also go free.

In sorrow we left you as the dead Jesus
and in wonder you returned to us as the Risen Christ.
Untied from the strips of linen,
you offered us a new-found freedom.
Raise us from the coldness of the tomb in which we are trapped.

With this freedom we are empowered to make choices
about our lifestyle and attitudes,
But our human frailty prevents us from being courageous
by taking those first vital steps.
Release us from the self-imposed exile of our prejudices.

Amen.

Tony Singleton

Charles Gounod, “Marche Solonnelle”; and “Crown Him With Many Crowns”

Midweek Mini Concert, April 19, 2023: “Marche Solonnelle”, Charles Gounod; and “Crown Him With Many Crowns”

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Charles Gounod, “Marche Solonnelle”; and “Crown Him With Many Crowns” CPC Midweek Mini Concert, April 19, 2023

As an Evening Prayer:

Take a couple deep breathes, sit more deeply into your chair or seated position...

As we are closing out this first week of Easter, we remember our baptism....

O Lord our God, we give you thanks
for the new life you raise up in us
through the mystery of our baptism -
the sorrow of the heavy cross,
the surprise of the empty tomb,
the love that death could not destroy.

By the power of your Holy Spirit,
poured out upon us in baptism,
fill us with the joy of the resurrection,
so that we may be a living sign
of your new heaven and new earth;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

You are invited to share your prayer requests and hold each other in prayer in the comments section below.

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Cyril Jenkins, “Dawn”, and “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today”

Midweek Mini Concert, April 12, 2023: “Dawn”, Cyril Jenkins, and “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today”

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Cyril Jenkins, “Dawn”, and “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today” CPC Midweek Mini Concert, April 12, 2023