Liturgies and Faith Resources
These liturgies and resources were born in the life of my local church context—a small, neighborhood-rooted intentional faith community that prays, gathers, and grows in ways that reflect the soil we’re planted in.
If you’re looking for resources that speak to the real, lived experience of faith—honest, embodied, and shaped by place—you’ll find some here. My resources also stem from my intersectional feminist point of view and focus on using inclusive language for humans and God.
A Note on Free vs Paid:
I offer many of these freely, because liturgy is meant to be shared. But creating and sustaining this work takes time, energy, and care. If something here supports your ministry or helps you pray, I’d be honored if you chose to join my paid newsletter community.
Featured Free Resources:
A Celtic Lorica for the Neighborhood
In the Irish tradition, a lorica is a prayer recited for protection, invoking the power of God as a safeguard. The most well-known prayer in this tradition is the prayer of St. Patrick’s Breastplate. I love how embodied the prayer is, envisioning God surrounding us on all sides. Celtic spirituality
Chelsea Long
Year-end Neighborhood Examen
The Daily Examen, from the Ignatian stream of Catholicism tradition, is a contemplative prayer to detect the Divine and discern a new direction.
Chelsea Long
Welcoming Prayer
The Welcoming Prayer is a contemplative practice rooted in the wisdom of Christian spirituality and pioneered by the late spiritual teacher Mary Mrozowski. It was designed as a tandem practice with Centering Prayer to be a moment-to-moment practice that helps us to embody surrender and acceptance, to let go of
Chelsea Long
Circling Prayer
Drawing inspiration from early Celtic Christians, we can embrace the practice of “circling prayers” or caim, symbolizing a sacred space and the encompassing love of God. By physically drawing a metaphorical circle around ourselves as we pray, we invite our entire being—body, mind, soul, and spirit—into communion with
Chelsea Long
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