Set a vining house plant or a tree branch in the center of your group. Recall with your group vines and plants you have struggled to prune and shape. Name and identify people on your family tree or your parish vine from whom you branch out and have received a sense of the life and love Christians share in Jesus Christ.
LEADER: Jesus, you are the vine that has branched out to the ends of the earth.
ALL: We live in your love.
LEADER: Jesus, you are the vine that has branched out through the centuries.
ALL: We live in your love.
LEADER: Creator God, you grow the vine; we are your branches in our world today.
ALL: We live in your love.