Sunday,  May 31, 2026
Trinity Sunday Year A
Genesis 1:1-2:4 | "Rest Made Holy"

Call to Worship (inspired by Psalm 8)
One: O Holy One, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Many: We admire the work of your hands in awe and thanksgiving!
One: O Holy One, our Redeemer, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Many: Who are we that you come to us, empower us, and give us rest?
One: O Holy One, our Companion, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Many: Let us worship the Triune God with honor and glory! How majestic are your many names in all the earth!

Invocation
Voice, Body, Spirit, we acknowledge your presence gathering us together as your church. Today, we join in worship. May we encounter you anew. We find a good place in you and with one another. You have made us in your image and enabled us to be in community with you, O God, as people called to service, justice, and caretaking. Let your name be praised. Let us receive your word. Let us embrace and live your truth. Amen.

Prayer for Transformation and New Life
Creator, we give thanks that creation does not end; it rests. In your created order, rest is often the time and space necessary for renewal. Transformation happens in rest. Too often, we adopt the pace of the world that adopts hurry as normative and beneficial. Yet, we know, Holy Love, that when you began the work of creation, it served to bring order out of chaos, and it was good. As we seek your goodness today, we confess that we live in chaotic times. We affirm that you have charged us to care for this creation and have made us like you. Use us then to bring order in a chaotic world and to use rest as a necessary step for transformation and renewal. Help us discern the balance of rest and work that will yield good fruit. Amen. 

Words of Grace
Beloved, the God of Many Names has declared you good. You need not seek perfection. Creator has called you as a co-worker in the continual progressive acts of shaping the beloved community envisioned. The Holy One is with us in our work and with us in our rest. 

Invitation to Generosity
Generous God, just as you provided for all our needs in your creative acts, you have made us caretakers of your good creation. Let us accept the call to faithful discipleship, the opportunity to trust in your provision, and the generous nature you have embedded in us. 

Prayer of Dedication and Thanksgiving
Generous God, Receive our gifts as acts of participation in your continuing creation. Amen.

Benediction 
Find rest in the love of God
Choose rest by the grace of God
Embrace rest by the power of God
Trust rest because of the provision of God
And know that the God of rest goes with you
To love and serve God's creation.

Rest Made Holy:  Service Prayers for Trinity Sunday Year A was written by the Rev. Dr. Cheryl A. Lindsay, Minister for Worship and Theology for the United Church of Christ.