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A Collect to Grow in Love

Great Trinity of persons, who created us out of an overflow of your joy in each other, show us where we have failed to love one another well, that we might grow more able to love as you love, letting go of our fears and grudges and seeking the good of one another as you […]

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A Collect to Care for One Another

Rabbi Jesus, who demonstrated life as the Father intended it to be, help us to take care of one another, that in so doing, the world would see your goodness in us and realize your character and nature as loving and good and true, through you who gave yourself for our sake and now lives […]

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A Collect to Love One Another

Jesus, our teacher and brother and lord, help us to love one another as you love us, that love would be the true foundation of the church community and indeed of all the world and that, in that love, your goodness would fill the earth as water fills the sea, through you who loved us […]

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A Collect for Hope in the Coming Redemption

Lamb of God, our shepherd and guide, set before our eyes and hearts the hope of the last days, that we might take comfort in your coming redemption of all things – the end of hunger, thirst, suffering, and pain – and in this be strengthened to walk with you on the journey, through you […]

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A Collect to Remember God’s Goodness to Us

Almighty God, who rests on the throne of highest heaven, let us not forget the good that you have done for us, that we would be ever grateful for your salvation and blessings and care and thus would worship you in great joy and gratitude all our days, through Christ, the Lamb, who lives before […]

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A Collect to Be Rid of Prejudice

Great God, who sits on the throne of heaven and earth, root out any prejudice in us, that we would stand with our sisters and brothers from all nations in unity before you, one people who are called by your name, through Christ our Lord, who died that all might live and now abides with […]

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A Collect to Follow Christ

Good shepherd, who bears both rod and staff for our good, help us to follow you wherever you lead, that in being close to you, we would receive the undying life that flows from your presence, through you who lives and reigns in unity with the Father and Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen. ‘My […]

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A Collect to Trust that God Knows our Needs

Lord Jesus, the good shepherd, we thank you for knowing us better than we know ourselves. Increase our trust in you – in your understanding of our needs and in your desire for our good, that we would look to you for safety and provision and guidance all the days of our lives, through you […]

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A Collect to Hear Jesus’s Voice

Good shepherd, who calls to your charges with love, help us to hear and recognize your voice, that we would attend to you and know what you wish of us and may thus follow where you lead, trusting that you lead us towards pleasant pastures, through you who lives and reigns with the Father and […]

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A Collect to Be Drawn Closer to Christ

Good shepherd, who tends to those in your care, take us into your fold and draw us ever closer to you, that we would trust in you ever more and follow you wherever you lead, through you who lives and reigns forever with the Father and Holy Spirit in green pastures above. Amen. ‘…but you […]

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