Closing (5 minutes)
Materials for Activity
- Altar or centering table
- Cloth for covering altar or centering table
- Chalice and candle
- Chalice extinguisher
- Copies of Taking It Home handout for all participants
Preparation for Activity
- Review the Taking It Home section for this workshop and decide which extension activities you will encourage participants to do on their own.
- Download the Taking It Home section to your computer, customize it for your group, and print out and photocopy it.
- Review and print out the blessing provided as closing words for this workshop.
Description of Activity
Gather the group around the altar or centering table. Affirm the good work that participants have done in this workshop.Hand out the Taking It Home handout you have prepared. Explain the activities, as needed.
Invite everyone to rise in body or spirit. Ask participants to hold hands as they are willing and able as you offer these closing words:
We give thanks for the Spirit of Life moving
through our day to day lives
and through this time of creating and sharing.
May we bring our beliefs and values into our routine tasks.
May we respond to the gift of life by living with worth and dignity
and by loving our neighbors as ourselves.
Extinguish the chalice. Thank and dismiss participants
Last updated on Saturday, April 19, 2008.
