The Prayers of the People follows the Creed and is a time where the congregation prays together for the Church, the World, and those in need. The congregation then confesses their sins before God and one another. This is a corporate confession of sins of “what we have done and… what we have left undone,”8 which is followed by a pronouncement of absolution. The absolution reminds the congregation that God is a God of grace, always ready to forgive us of our many sins. Having been forgiven, the congregation then greets one another with a sign of peace in a time that is called the passing of the
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