Liturgy
Service of Dedication
Quite universally, when churches install new Christian flags, they hold a special ceremony for this purpose during the Mass or Service of Worship. This brief but comprehensive liturgy may be enlarged and revised as the need may require.
The priest or minister presiding will have the congregation rise.
Together they will then proceed with the dedication celebration. A separate copy of the ritual should be in the hands of the worshippers or incorporated in the bulletin.
Presider: Let us now dedicate this Christian Flag. Truly this is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad it.
People: The heavens declare your glory, O Lord. We bless your holy name. Your name is above every name.
Presider: The supreme symbol of Christian faith is the Cross. Serenely it stands above the centuries bearing testimony to the love of God for His children.
People: God so loved people that He gave His Son in sacrifice upon the Cross to bring true life to all.
Presider: The Christian Flag bears His sacred symbol of God's love. Its folds of white are clean and pure. Its fields of blue are truth universal and eternal. Its Cross of red tells of the shed blood of Christ and of the martyrs, then and now.
People: Truly this is a holy flag. We will honor and cherish it in our personal hearts and in the public worship of this congregation.
Presider: I now solemnize the dedication of this Christian Flag in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Here shall the presence of the Christian Flag and its Cross remind us that we stand on holy ground. Let us ever be worthy, faithful, and thankful. Amen.
At the point, the congregation can sing the hymn, "The Christian Flag", or another appropriate hymn. Alternatively, it can recite one of the Ecumenical Creeds: the Nicene Creed, the Apostles Creed, or the Athanasian Creed.
Quite universally, when churches install new Christian flags, they hold a special ceremony for this purpose during the Mass or Service of Worship. This brief but comprehensive liturgy may be enlarged and revised as the need may require.
The priest or minister presiding will have the congregation rise.
Together they will then proceed with the dedication celebration. A separate copy of the ritual should be in the hands of the worshippers or incorporated in the bulletin.
Presider: Let us now dedicate this Christian Flag. Truly this is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad it.
People: The heavens declare your glory, O Lord. We bless your holy name. Your name is above every name.
Presider: The supreme symbol of Christian faith is the Cross. Serenely it stands above the centuries bearing testimony to the love of God for His children.
People: God so loved people that He gave His Son in sacrifice upon the Cross to bring true life to all.
Presider: The Christian Flag bears His sacred symbol of God's love. Its folds of white are clean and pure. Its fields of blue are truth universal and eternal. Its Cross of red tells of the shed blood of Christ and of the martyrs, then and now.
People: Truly this is a holy flag. We will honor and cherish it in our personal hearts and in the public worship of this congregation.
Presider: I now solemnize the dedication of this Christian Flag in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Here shall the presence of the Christian Flag and its Cross remind us that we stand on holy ground. Let us ever be worthy, faithful, and thankful. Amen.
At the point, the congregation can sing the hymn, "The Christian Flag", or another appropriate hymn. Alternatively, it can recite one of the Ecumenical Creeds: the Nicene Creed, the Apostles Creed, or the Athanasian Creed.