All Hallows Evening Prayer for Sunday Evening (September 18, 2022)
PROCLAMATION OF THE LIGHT
One or more candles may be lit.
Light and peace in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
A light that no darkness can put out.
EVENING HYMN
Open this link in a new tab to hear William George Storey’s translation of the Phos hilaron, “O Radiant Light, O Sun Divine.”
1 O radiant light, O sun divine,
Of God the Father's deathless face,
O image of the light sublime
That fills the heav'nly dwelling place.
2 O Son of God, the source of life,
Praise is your due by night and day.
Our happy lips must raise the strain
of your esteem'd and splendid name.
3 Lord Jesus Christ, as daylight fades,
As shine the lights of eventide,
We praise the Father with the Son,
The Spirit blest and with them one.
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Blessed are you, O Lord our God, ruler of the universe!
Your word brings on the dusk of evening,
your wisdom creates both night and day.
You determine the cycles of time,
arrange the succession of seasons,
and establish the stars in their heavenly courses.
Lord of the starry hosts is your name.
Living and eternal God, rule over us always.
Blessed be the Lord, whose word makes evening fall. Amen.
HYMN OF THE DAY
Open this link in a new tab to hear Les petites soeurs de Jésus’ “Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song as I Journey.”
1 Lord Jesus, you shall be my song as I journey.
I'll tell everybody about you wherever I go.
You alone are our life and our peace and our love.
Lord Jesus, you shall be my song as I journey.
2 Lord Jesus, I'll praise you as long as I journey.
May all of my joy be a faithful reflection of you.
May the earth and the sea and the sky join my song.
Lord Jesus, I'll praise you as long as I journey.
3 As long as I live, Jesus, make me your servant.
To carry your cross and to share all your burdens and tears.
For you saved me by giving your body and blood.
As long as I live, Jesus, make me your servant.
4 I fear in the dark and the doubt of my journey;
but courage will come with the sound of your steps by my side.
And with all of the family you saved by your love,
we'll sing to your dawn at the end of your journey.
SCRIPTURE
Luke 16: 1-13 Parable of the Shrewd Manager
Jesus told this story to his disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a manager handling his affairs. One day a report came that the manager was wasting his employer’s money. So the employer called him in and said, ‘What’s this I hear about you? Get your report in order, because you are going to be fired.’
“The manager thought to himself, ‘Now what? My boss has fired me. I don’t have the strength to dig ditches, and I’m too proud to beg. Ah, I know how to ensure that I’ll have plenty of friends who will give me a home when I am fired.’
“So he invited each person who owed money to his employer to come and discuss the situation. He asked the first one, ‘How much do you owe him?’ The man replied, ‘I owe him 800 gallons of olive oil.’ So the manager told him, ‘Take the bill and quickly change it to 400 gallons.’
“‘And how much do you owe my employer?’ he asked the next man. ‘I owe him 1,000 bushels of wheat,’ was the reply. ‘Here,’ the manager said, ‘take the bill and change it to 800 bushels.’
“The rich man had to admire the dishonest rascal for being so shrewd. And it is true that the children of this world are more shrewd in dealing with the world around them than are the children of the light. Here’s the lesson: Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your possessions are gone, they will welcome you to an eternal home.
“If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities. And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven? And if you are not faithful with other people’s things, why should you be trusted with things of your own?
“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.”
Silence
May your word live in us
and bear much fruit to your glory
HOMILY
From the Gospels’ accounts of his life and ministry I believe that we can safely assume that Jesus was a master storyteller. He was not only able to draw people in with his stories but also he was able to hold their attention. He used stories to illustrate a truth or a principle or to make a point. He used them to start people thinking about what he was telling them.
In today’s Gospel reading, Luke 16: 1-13, Jesus uses the Parable of the Shrewd Manager, also known as the Parable of the Dishonest Steward, to a way of leading into talking about the use of world resources, faithfulness, honesty, and trust. He concludes by talking about the impossibility of serving two masters, in this particular case, God and money.
It is tempting to use what Jesus says in the closing verses of this passage as a springboard to talking about the Christian and money. But if we think about, money is not the only thing that competes with God for our devotion, for our loyalty and love, in this day and age.
Let us take a brief look at several of these competitors.
Politics competes with God on both the right side and the left side of the political spectrum. A political figure or a political ideology has taken the place of God in many Christians’ hearts.
Popularity, fame, and celebrity status, being liked and supported by many people or known and recognized by them, is the principal competitor with God in the lives of some folks.
Power and influence, the ability to control people or to have an effect on them, is the main competitor with God for other folks.
Prestige, the respect and admiration that is connected with being rich, powerful, or influential, or having celebrity status or professional or social standing is what matter most to a number of people.
Race can compete with God in some people’s lives.
Religion in the form of a particular religious tradition with its own particular set of beliefs and practices can compete with God in other people’s lives
Self may be the biggest competitor with God in the twenty-first century here in the West. Our culture places a high value on achieving all the possibilities of our character or abilities.
Sexual identity and the way that we express ourselves sexually are elevated on a pedestal alongside of self. While they may be viewed differently in conservative circles from how they are perceived in progressive ones, they have become something that demands we put them first before everything else.
In other parts of the world other things may compete with God for people’s devotion, for their loyalty and love—family, kinship group, clan, tribe, caste, ethnicity, nationality, and the like.
The competitor with God in our life may be more personal such as a friendship, a romantic relationship, school, or work.
As Jesus points to the disciples’ attention, we cannot serve two masters. We may think that we can but in reality one will take priority over the other.
In the sermon on the mountain Jesus taught his followers to make God their number one priority.
“Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.” (Matthew 6: 33 NLT)
The Kingdom of God is wherever God is the most important and has the strongest influence, wherever people love and obey God.
The Kingdom of God does not form a specific physical territory, but it can be found in the people of such a territory, in their hearts, in their deepest thoughts and feelings, and it will be manifest in their lives.
A kingdom has a king, and the king of the Kingdom of God is Jesus. To him has been given all authority in heaven and earth (Matthew 28: 18). Wherever Jesus is, there is his kingdom.
Jesus is in heaven, but he is also in the hearts of his people, in their innermost thoughts and feelings. He is united to them by the Holy Spirit, and it is the power of the Holy Spirit working in them, which is making them more and more like their Lord. While Jesus is the kingdom’s faithful sovereign, he is also its most exemplary citizen.
The oldest Christian affirmation of faith is simply three words, “Jesus is Lord.” We may have heard those three words many times, and we may give them no thought. Yet if we profess to be a Christian, a disciple of Jesus, they hold great significance for us.
Whatever other loyalties and loves that we may have, they are secondary to our loyalty and love for Jesus. He must be first and foremost in hearts.
While we may not call him master due to word’s association in our minds with the bad old days of slavery In the United States, Jesus is nonetheless our Master. Jesus has power and authority not just over one area of our life but all areas of our life. While he has the right to command our obedience as the One at whose name every knee must bow and every tongue declare that he is Lord (Philippians 2: 10-11), he prefers that we obey him out of love for him.
The early Christians suffered martyrdom rather than acknowledge any other lord. They refused to burn a pinch of incense before the statue of the Roman Emperor and suffered horrific deaths as a consequence for what the Romans viewed as an act of treason. Their refusal did not make any sense to the Romans since this public display of loyalty to Caesar would have spared them tremendous suffering. The Romans would come to regard Christianity as antisocial and harmful to society and its adherents as mentally defective and immoral.
Among the implications of Jesus’ lordship for Christians is that the truths and principles that Jesus taught and the example that he set should be considered in the opinions that we form and the decisions that we make. We cannot choose to give thought to them on some occasions and ignore them on others. We cannot say to ourselves, “I’m not going to pay attention to what Jesus said about making allowances for other people. This guy really pisses me off, and I’m going to stick it to him!” In deciding what we do, we must take into consideration what Jesus said about thinking about their characteristics and not judging them too severely.
While we may have come up with a seemingly plausible reason for acting this way toward someone else, if we are serious about being a faithful disciple of Jesus, we cannot disregard his teaching and example when we feel like it. If we are in the habit of doing that, we are not treating Jesus as our Lord but ourselves. It is ourselves, and not Jesus, who is enthroned in our heart.
As Jesus tells his disciples in today’s Gospel reading, we cannot serve two masters. We will hate one and love the other. We will be devoted to one and despise the other. This applies to Jesus as it does to God. If Jesus is one with God and is near to God’s heart as he claimed, then we cannot treat him any less than we would treat God.
Believing in Jesus goes beyond knowing, accepting, and trusting the promise of the gospel. We must also take Jesus at his word and willingly allow him have power and authority over us. Loving and obeying Jesus becomes our chief priority in life. Everything else we do is subordinate to that priority. We serve only one master and the master we serve is Jesus.
Silence
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
Let us affirm our faith in the words of the Apostles’ Creed.
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
SONG OF PRAISE
Open this link in a new tab to hear Owen Alstott’s “Luke 1: My Soul Rejoices.”
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
1 My soul proclaims your mighty deeds.
My spirit sings the greatness of your name.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
2 Your mercy flows throughout the land
and ev’ry generation knows your love.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
3 You cast the mighty from their thrones
and raise the poor and lowly to new life.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
4 You fill the hungry with good things.
With empty hands you send the rich away.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
5 Just as you promised Abraham,
You come to free your people, Israel.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
(Let us offer our prayers to the source of all love and all life, saying, “Lord, hear our prayer.”)
Merciful Lord, we pray for all who call themselves Christians: that we may be faithful disciples of your Son Jesus Christ.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for N our pastor, for all pastors, and for all who serve Christ in his Church: that they may remain faithful to their calling and rightly proclaim the word of truth. Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for the leaders of the nations, and all in authority: that your people may lead quiet and peaceable lives.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for our community and those who live here, the poor and the rich, the elderly and the young, men and women: that you will show your favor and goodwill to all.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for those who are in any kind of trouble or need that you will deliver them from their distress.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for _______________________.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We give thanks for all the saints who have found favor in your sight from earliest times, prophets, apostles, martyrs, and those whose names are known to you alone: and we pray that we too may be counted among your faithful witnesses.
Lord, hear our prayer.
Free Prayer
In silent or spontaneous prayer all bring before God the concerns of the day.
The Collect
Almighty God, you have created the heavens and the earth, and ourselves in your image. Teach us to discern your hand in all your works and to serve you with reverence and thanksgiving; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
RESPONSE
Open this link in a new tab to hear Josh Blakesley’s Mass of Restoration setting of the Kyrie Eleison.
Kyrie eleison
Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
Christe eleison
Kyrie eleison
Kyrie eleison
THE LORD’S PRAYER
The Lord be with you.
The Lord bless you.
As our Savior taught his disciples,
we pray:
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
for ever and ever.
Amen.
BLESSING
The almighty and merciful God bless us
and keep us now and for ever. Amen.
Thanks be to God.
Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
A light that no darkness can put out.
EVENING HYMN
Open this link in a new tab to hear William George Storey’s translation of the Phos hilaron, “O Radiant Light, O Sun Divine.”
1 O radiant light, O sun divine,
Of God the Father's deathless face,
O image of the light sublime
That fills the heav'nly dwelling place.
2 O Son of God, the source of life,
Praise is your due by night and day.
Our happy lips must raise the strain
of your esteem'd and splendid name.
3 Lord Jesus Christ, as daylight fades,
As shine the lights of eventide,
We praise the Father with the Son,
The Spirit blest and with them one.
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Blessed are you, O Lord our God, ruler of the universe!
Your word brings on the dusk of evening,
your wisdom creates both night and day.
You determine the cycles of time,
arrange the succession of seasons,
and establish the stars in their heavenly courses.
Lord of the starry hosts is your name.
Living and eternal God, rule over us always.
Blessed be the Lord, whose word makes evening fall. Amen.
HYMN OF THE DAY
Open this link in a new tab to hear Les petites soeurs de Jésus’ “Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song as I Journey.”
1 Lord Jesus, you shall be my song as I journey.
I'll tell everybody about you wherever I go.
You alone are our life and our peace and our love.
Lord Jesus, you shall be my song as I journey.
2 Lord Jesus, I'll praise you as long as I journey.
May all of my joy be a faithful reflection of you.
May the earth and the sea and the sky join my song.
Lord Jesus, I'll praise you as long as I journey.
3 As long as I live, Jesus, make me your servant.
To carry your cross and to share all your burdens and tears.
For you saved me by giving your body and blood.
As long as I live, Jesus, make me your servant.
4 I fear in the dark and the doubt of my journey;
but courage will come with the sound of your steps by my side.
And with all of the family you saved by your love,
we'll sing to your dawn at the end of your journey.
SCRIPTURE
Luke 16: 1-13 Parable of the Shrewd Manager
Jesus told this story to his disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a manager handling his affairs. One day a report came that the manager was wasting his employer’s money. So the employer called him in and said, ‘What’s this I hear about you? Get your report in order, because you are going to be fired.’
“The manager thought to himself, ‘Now what? My boss has fired me. I don’t have the strength to dig ditches, and I’m too proud to beg. Ah, I know how to ensure that I’ll have plenty of friends who will give me a home when I am fired.’
“So he invited each person who owed money to his employer to come and discuss the situation. He asked the first one, ‘How much do you owe him?’ The man replied, ‘I owe him 800 gallons of olive oil.’ So the manager told him, ‘Take the bill and quickly change it to 400 gallons.’
“‘And how much do you owe my employer?’ he asked the next man. ‘I owe him 1,000 bushels of wheat,’ was the reply. ‘Here,’ the manager said, ‘take the bill and change it to 800 bushels.’
“The rich man had to admire the dishonest rascal for being so shrewd. And it is true that the children of this world are more shrewd in dealing with the world around them than are the children of the light. Here’s the lesson: Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your possessions are gone, they will welcome you to an eternal home.
“If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities. And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven? And if you are not faithful with other people’s things, why should you be trusted with things of your own?
“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.”
Silence
May your word live in us
and bear much fruit to your glory
HOMILY
What or Who Do you Serve?
From the Gospels’ accounts of his life and ministry I believe that we can safely assume that Jesus was a master storyteller. He was not only able to draw people in with his stories but also he was able to hold their attention. He used stories to illustrate a truth or a principle or to make a point. He used them to start people thinking about what he was telling them.
In today’s Gospel reading, Luke 16: 1-13, Jesus uses the Parable of the Shrewd Manager, also known as the Parable of the Dishonest Steward, to a way of leading into talking about the use of world resources, faithfulness, honesty, and trust. He concludes by talking about the impossibility of serving two masters, in this particular case, God and money.
It is tempting to use what Jesus says in the closing verses of this passage as a springboard to talking about the Christian and money. But if we think about, money is not the only thing that competes with God for our devotion, for our loyalty and love, in this day and age.
Let us take a brief look at several of these competitors.
Politics competes with God on both the right side and the left side of the political spectrum. A political figure or a political ideology has taken the place of God in many Christians’ hearts.
Popularity, fame, and celebrity status, being liked and supported by many people or known and recognized by them, is the principal competitor with God in the lives of some folks.
Power and influence, the ability to control people or to have an effect on them, is the main competitor with God for other folks.
Prestige, the respect and admiration that is connected with being rich, powerful, or influential, or having celebrity status or professional or social standing is what matter most to a number of people.
Race can compete with God in some people’s lives.
Religion in the form of a particular religious tradition with its own particular set of beliefs and practices can compete with God in other people’s lives
Self may be the biggest competitor with God in the twenty-first century here in the West. Our culture places a high value on achieving all the possibilities of our character or abilities.
Sexual identity and the way that we express ourselves sexually are elevated on a pedestal alongside of self. While they may be viewed differently in conservative circles from how they are perceived in progressive ones, they have become something that demands we put them first before everything else.
In other parts of the world other things may compete with God for people’s devotion, for their loyalty and love—family, kinship group, clan, tribe, caste, ethnicity, nationality, and the like.
The competitor with God in our life may be more personal such as a friendship, a romantic relationship, school, or work.
As Jesus points to the disciples’ attention, we cannot serve two masters. We may think that we can but in reality one will take priority over the other.
In the sermon on the mountain Jesus taught his followers to make God their number one priority.
“Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.” (Matthew 6: 33 NLT)
The Kingdom of God is wherever God is the most important and has the strongest influence, wherever people love and obey God.
The Kingdom of God does not form a specific physical territory, but it can be found in the people of such a territory, in their hearts, in their deepest thoughts and feelings, and it will be manifest in their lives.
A kingdom has a king, and the king of the Kingdom of God is Jesus. To him has been given all authority in heaven and earth (Matthew 28: 18). Wherever Jesus is, there is his kingdom.
Jesus is in heaven, but he is also in the hearts of his people, in their innermost thoughts and feelings. He is united to them by the Holy Spirit, and it is the power of the Holy Spirit working in them, which is making them more and more like their Lord. While Jesus is the kingdom’s faithful sovereign, he is also its most exemplary citizen.
The oldest Christian affirmation of faith is simply three words, “Jesus is Lord.” We may have heard those three words many times, and we may give them no thought. Yet if we profess to be a Christian, a disciple of Jesus, they hold great significance for us.
Whatever other loyalties and loves that we may have, they are secondary to our loyalty and love for Jesus. He must be first and foremost in hearts.
While we may not call him master due to word’s association in our minds with the bad old days of slavery In the United States, Jesus is nonetheless our Master. Jesus has power and authority not just over one area of our life but all areas of our life. While he has the right to command our obedience as the One at whose name every knee must bow and every tongue declare that he is Lord (Philippians 2: 10-11), he prefers that we obey him out of love for him.
The early Christians suffered martyrdom rather than acknowledge any other lord. They refused to burn a pinch of incense before the statue of the Roman Emperor and suffered horrific deaths as a consequence for what the Romans viewed as an act of treason. Their refusal did not make any sense to the Romans since this public display of loyalty to Caesar would have spared them tremendous suffering. The Romans would come to regard Christianity as antisocial and harmful to society and its adherents as mentally defective and immoral.
Among the implications of Jesus’ lordship for Christians is that the truths and principles that Jesus taught and the example that he set should be considered in the opinions that we form and the decisions that we make. We cannot choose to give thought to them on some occasions and ignore them on others. We cannot say to ourselves, “I’m not going to pay attention to what Jesus said about making allowances for other people. This guy really pisses me off, and I’m going to stick it to him!” In deciding what we do, we must take into consideration what Jesus said about thinking about their characteristics and not judging them too severely.
While we may have come up with a seemingly plausible reason for acting this way toward someone else, if we are serious about being a faithful disciple of Jesus, we cannot disregard his teaching and example when we feel like it. If we are in the habit of doing that, we are not treating Jesus as our Lord but ourselves. It is ourselves, and not Jesus, who is enthroned in our heart.
As Jesus tells his disciples in today’s Gospel reading, we cannot serve two masters. We will hate one and love the other. We will be devoted to one and despise the other. This applies to Jesus as it does to God. If Jesus is one with God and is near to God’s heart as he claimed, then we cannot treat him any less than we would treat God.
Believing in Jesus goes beyond knowing, accepting, and trusting the promise of the gospel. We must also take Jesus at his word and willingly allow him have power and authority over us. Loving and obeying Jesus becomes our chief priority in life. Everything else we do is subordinate to that priority. We serve only one master and the master we serve is Jesus.
Silence
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
Let us affirm our faith in the words of the Apostles’ Creed.
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
SONG OF PRAISE
Open this link in a new tab to hear Owen Alstott’s “Luke 1: My Soul Rejoices.”
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
1 My soul proclaims your mighty deeds.
My spirit sings the greatness of your name.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
2 Your mercy flows throughout the land
and ev’ry generation knows your love.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
3 You cast the mighty from their thrones
and raise the poor and lowly to new life.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
4 You fill the hungry with good things.
With empty hands you send the rich away.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
5 Just as you promised Abraham,
You come to free your people, Israel.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
(Let us offer our prayers to the source of all love and all life, saying, “Lord, hear our prayer.”)
Merciful Lord, we pray for all who call themselves Christians: that we may be faithful disciples of your Son Jesus Christ.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for N our pastor, for all pastors, and for all who serve Christ in his Church: that they may remain faithful to their calling and rightly proclaim the word of truth. Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for the leaders of the nations, and all in authority: that your people may lead quiet and peaceable lives.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for our community and those who live here, the poor and the rich, the elderly and the young, men and women: that you will show your favor and goodwill to all.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for those who are in any kind of trouble or need that you will deliver them from their distress.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for _______________________.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We give thanks for all the saints who have found favor in your sight from earliest times, prophets, apostles, martyrs, and those whose names are known to you alone: and we pray that we too may be counted among your faithful witnesses.
Lord, hear our prayer.
Free Prayer
In silent or spontaneous prayer all bring before God the concerns of the day.
The Collect
Almighty God, you have created the heavens and the earth, and ourselves in your image. Teach us to discern your hand in all your works and to serve you with reverence and thanksgiving; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
RESPONSE
Open this link in a new tab to hear Josh Blakesley’s Mass of Restoration setting of the Kyrie Eleison.
Kyrie eleison
Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
Christe eleison
Kyrie eleison
Kyrie eleison
THE LORD’S PRAYER
The Lord be with you.
The Lord bless you.
As our Savior taught his disciples,
we pray:
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
for ever and ever.
Amen.
BLESSING
The almighty and merciful God bless us
and keep us now and for ever. Amen.
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