1. Standing Together
Standing Together

2. Opening Prayer
We ask for the strength to be God’s challenging presence here and now.
We commit ourselves to actions that herald the love of our God – the God of Justice.
We acknowledge that we are our brother’s and sister’s keepers.
With Christ as our model, we go forward to change the world.

3. Scripture Isaiah 58:6-11
Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loosen the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and God will say: “Here I am.”

4. If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The Lord will guide you always;...will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
The word of the Lord
Thanks be to God.

5. Pink Floyd Album: Momentary Lapse of Reason
On the Turning Away
Pink Floyd
Album: Momentary Lapse of Reason

6. On the turning away from the pale and downtrodden
Scrutiny Avenue (1981)
Brian Burnett
On the turning away from the pale and downtrodden

7. And the words they say which we won't understand
Homeless, Port Authority New York
Dan Gheno
And the words they say which we won't understand

8. Don't accept that what's happening is just a case of others' suffering
Home Sweet Home
Joyce Ulrich,
Don't accept that what's happening is just a case of others' suffering

9. Or you'll find that you're joining in the turning away
Dream Turning Away
Phillip Buller

10. It's a sin that somehow light is changing to shadow
Jonathan Romain
Homeless
It's a sin that somehow light is changing to shadow

11. And casting it's shroud over all we have known
Vidho Lorville
The Beggar

12. Unaware how the ranks have grown driven on by a heart of stone
Judgment
Matt Sesow

13. We could find that we're all alone in the dream of the proud
David Kontra
Solo
We could find that we're all alone in the dream of the proud

14. On the wings of the night as the daytime is stirring
Dan Turner,
The Homeless

15. Where the speechless unite in a silent accord
Damian Michaels

16. Using words you will find are strange and mesmerized as they light the flame
Felicity Roma Bowers,
Flame

17. Feel the new wind of change on the wings of the night
World Turned Upside Down
Joyce Ulrich,
Feel the new wind of change on the wings of the night

18. Jesse Reno

19. Bienes Congelados
Diego Rivera

20. No Way Out
Matt Sesow

21. No more turning away from the weak and the weary
Greg Anka

22. No more turning away from the coldness inside
Jill Fressinier

23. Just a world that we all must share it's not enough just to stand and stare
Joe Day

24. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away?
Pietà or Revolution by Night,
Max Ernst

25. Joe Day

26. Standing Together as Teachers
Choral Reflection (from Isaiah 50:4-51:2)
Standing Together

27.  1. The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher...
All: That I may know how to sustain the weary with a word.
2. The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher...
All: Morning by morning God wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. .
3. The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher...
All: God has opened my ear, and I am not rebellious, I do not turn backward.

28. 4. The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher...
All: That I might challenge injustice. I do not hide from insult and spitting.
5. The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher...
All: That I might be hope for the hopeless, joy to the joyless, and comfort to the afflicted. The Lord GOD helps me; therefore I will not be disgraced.

29. 6. The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher...
All: That I might be a voice of reason in chaos, reconciliation in strife, and unity in the midst of fragmentation. I have set my face like flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
7. The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher...
All: That I might speak justice in the face of oppression, peace in times of war, and light in times of darkness. The God who vindicates me is near.

30. 8. The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher...
All: That love, peace, joy and challenge be part of all I do. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who are my adversaries? It is the Lord GOD who helps me; who will declare me guilty?

31. Christ Litany Christ... Christ... ....within me. ...in my speaking.
...above me.
...around me.
...under my feet.
...in my coming.
...in my going.
Christ...
...in my speaking.
...in my hearing.
Christ
... in my doing.
Because of Christ...
...we are not afraid.

32. Go Light Your World Kathy Trocolli

33. There is a candle in every soul

34. Some brightly burning, some dark and cold

35. There is a Spirit who brings a fire

36. Ignites a candle and makes its home

37. Carry your candle, run to the darkness

38. Seek out the hopeless, confused and torn

39. Hold out your candle, for all to see it

40. Take your candle and go light your world

41. Take your candle and go light your world

42. Frustrated brother, see how he’s tried to Light his own candle some other way

43. See now your sister,
she's been robbed and lied to

44. Still holds a candle without a flame

45. Carry your candle, run to the darkness

46. Seek out the lonely, the tired and worn

47. Hold out your candle, for all to see it

48. Take your candle and go light your world

49. Take your candle and go light your world

50. We are a family whose hearts are blazing So let's raise our candles and light up the sky

51. Praying to our Father, in the name of Jesus Make us a beacon in darkest times

52. Carry your candle,
run to the darkness

53. Seek out the helpless,
deceived and poor

54. Hold out your candle, for all to see it

55. Take your candle and go light your world

56. Carry your candle, run to the darkness

57. Seek out the hopeless,
confused, and torn

58. Hold out your candle for all to see it

59. Take your candle and go light your world

60. Take your candle and
go light your world

61. We Stand Together We stand together as a sign of hope for the hopeless
We stand together in solidarity with the dispossessed
We stand together in prayer
We stand together as a blessing for each other
We stand together as living candles of care
We stand together as witnesses to the Gospel of Love
Amen