Morning Prayer for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost B 2009
We need your wisdom. Help us to see the ways your Son Jesus Christ healed and fed the world of his day. Help us to affirm not only our own faith, but that of those we serve.
We need your wisdom. Help us to see the ways your Son Jesus Christ healed and fed the world of his day. Help us to affirm not only our own faith, but that of those we serve.
Lord Jesus, we need your help. There are the hungry of the world, and we do not know what to do for them. We are reminded of what you did for the five thousand on the shores of the Lake of Galilee. Help us help your people.
Lord, we remember when Jesus broke the loaves and fishes and blessed them. The result was the feeding of countless people. Then, weeks later, your body was broken on the cross. This time, instead of our destruction, we were saved.
His love has no limits and His grace reaches every corner of the globe.
Perhaps the question is, “How does a society reconcile the damage done to it by those who wrong others? Can a wrong be righted? Is there a way a perpetrator can “payback” a victim? These questions and struggles to answer them have been a part of human society since the beginning of written history, yet no one seems to have found a perfect answer.
We have received these gifts through our inheritance.
O Lord our God, we petition you to accept these gifts and commit them to you ministry of love. We gladly return to you that which you have shared with us. Amen
On this day, we recognize the inheritance we have received from God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross.
We confess that we have set our priorities on earthly things. We have committed to much of our lives to gaining worldly possessions. We feed ourselves with rich foods and fine clothes, yet we still hunger, and shiver in the cold of our spiritual nakedness.
We humbly recognize the inheritance we receive is not gained by our own striving to be good, but rather from your forgiveness.