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Concluding Prayer
Almighty God, accept our adoration and our praise.
See and love in us what you see and love in your Son, who is true man and true God.
By your goodness, lead us to a share in his divinity, who humbled himself to share in our humanity.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. |
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Reading
Heb 4: 12-16
The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts more incisively than any two-edged sword: it can seek out the place where soul is divided from spirit, or joints from marrow; it can pass judgement on secret emotions and thoughts.
No created thing is hidden from him;
everything is uncovered and stretched fully open to the eyes of the one to whom we must give account of ourselves.
Since in Jesus, the Son of God, we have the supreme high priest
who has gone through to the highest heaven, we must hold firm to our profession of faith.
For the high priest we have
is not incapable of feeling our weaknesses with us, but has been put to the test in exactly the same way as ourselves, apart from sin.
Let us, then, have no fear in approaching the throne of grace. |
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Father, we offer to you this day all our thoughts, words and actions, all our sufferings and disappointments, and all our joys.
And we unite our lives
with that of your beloved Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Psalm 138 (Part 1)
O Lord, you search me and you know me, you know my resting and my rising, you discern my purpose from afar.
You mark when I walk or lie down, all my ways lie open to you.
Before ever a word is on my tongue you know it, O Lord, through and through.
Behind and before you besiege me, your hand ever laid upon me.
Too wonderful for me, this knowledge, too high, beyond my reach.
O where can I go from your spirit, or where can I flee from your face?
If I climb the heavens, you are there.
If I lie in the grave, you are there. |
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Lord God of power and might,
nothing is good which is against your will, and all is of value which comes from your hand.
Place in our hearts a desire to please you and fill our minds with insight into love, so that every thought may grow in wisdom and all our efforts may be filled with your peace.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen. |
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| Why are you cast down, my soul, why groan within me?
Hope in God; I will praise him still, my saviour and my God.
Reading
1 Cor 12: 4-6,12-13,27
There are many different gifts, but it is always the same Spirit; there are many different ways of serving, but it is always the same Lord.
There are many different forms of activity, but in everybody it is the same God who is at work in them all.
The particular manifestation of the Spirit
granted to each one
is to be used for the general good.
For as with the human body
which is a unity although it has many parts - all the parts of the body, though many, still making up one body - so it is with Christ.
We were baptised into one body in a single Spirit, and we were all given the same Spirit to drink.
Now Christ's body is yourselves,
each of you with a part to play in the whole.
Our Father... Hail Mary... |
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Morning Offering
Father,
you have brought us to the beginning of a new day.
Your hand is upon us to care for and protect us.
We offer you our lives and hearts.
May we always do your will and love our neighbour as ourselves. Amen.
Psalm 42
Defend me, O God, and plead my cause against a godless nation.
From deceitful and cunning men rescue me, O God.
O send forth your light and your truth; let these be my guide.
Let them bring me to your holy mountain to the place where you dwell.
And I will come to the altar of God, the God of my joy.
My redeemer, I will thank you on the harp, O God, my God. |
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| Concluding Prayer Father in heaven,
the hand of your loving kindness powerfully yet gently guides all the moments of our day.
Go before us in our pilgrimage of life, anticipate our needs and prevent our failing.
Send your Spirit to unite us in faith, that sharing in your service we may rejoice in your presence.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen. |
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Col 3: 1-4,12-14
Since you have been raised up to be with Christ, you must look for the things that are above, where Christ is, sitting at God's right hand.
Let your thought be on things above, not on the things that are on the earth,
because you have died, and now the life you have is hidden with Christ in God.
But when Christ is revealed - and he is your life -
you, too, will be revealed with him in glory.
As the chosen of God, then, the holy people whom he loves,
you are to be clothed in heartfelt compassion, in generosity and humility, gentleness and patience.
Bear with one another; forgive each other
if one of you has a complaint against another.
The Lord has forgiven you; now you must do the same.
Over all these clothes, put on love, the perfect bond.
Our Father... Hail Mary... |
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