Slideshow image

From “Common Prayer: A Liturgy For Ordinary Radicals” (April 12, p. 236-237)

O Lord, let my soul rise up to meet you
as the day rises to meet the sun.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Come let us bow down and bend the knee: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

I will trust in the Lord and shout with my life: that power belongs to God.

Psalm 62:1-3, 13-14
For God alone my soul in silence waits: from him comes my salvation.
He alone is my rock and my salvation: my stronghold, so that I shall not be greatly shaken.
How long will you assail me to crush me, all of you together: as if you were a leaning fence, a toppling wall?
God has spoken once, twice have I heard it: that power belongs to God.
Steadfast love is yours, O Lord: for you repay everyone according to his deeds.

I will trust in the Lord and shout with my life: that power belongs to God.

Exodus 20:1-21 3                   John 1 - 13

I will trust in the Lord and shout with my life: that power belongs to God.

Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, wrote, “What we do is very little. But it is like the little boy with a few loaves and fishes. Christ took that little and increased it. He will do the rest. What we do is so little that we may seem to be constantly failing. But so did he fail. He met with apparent failure on the Cross. But unless the seeds fall into the earth and die, there is no harvest.”

Prayers for Others

Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

Give us patience and humility with our feeble efforts at faithfulness. Bless the minute things we do in your name so that our small acts of faith may find witness among many and thereby glorify you.

May the peace of the Lord Christ go with you,
wherever he may send you.
May he guide you through the wilderness,
protect you through the storm.
May he bring you home rejoicing,
at the wonders he has shown you.
May he bring you home rejoicing,
once again into our doors. Amen

 

Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash