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Dear God,
thank you for all that is good,
for our creation and for our humanity,
for the gifts of life and of one another,
for your love which is unbounded and eternal.
for the food before us,
the family and friends beside us
and the love between us.
Amen.
New Testament Reading - Called to be an apostle
1 Dear friends in Rome: This letter is from Paul, Jesus Christ’s slave, chosen to be a missionary, and sent out to preach God’s Good News. 2This Good News was promised long ago by God’s prophets in the Old Testament. 3It is the Good News about his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who came as a human baby, born into King David’s royal family line; 4and by being raised from the dead he was proved to be the mighty Son of God, with the holy nature of God himself.
5And now, through Christ, all the kindness of God has been poured out upon us undeserving sinners; and now he is sending us out around the world to tell all people everywhere the great things God has done for them, so that they, too, will believe and obey him.
6-7And you, dear friends in Rome, are among those he dearly loves; you, too, are invited by Jesus Christ to be God’s very own — yes, his holy people. May all God’s mercies and peace be yours from God our Father and from Jesus Christ our Lord.
. . . . . Romans 1:1-6Collect
Eternal Spirit, living God,
in whom we live and move and have our being,
all that we are, have been, and shall be is known to you,
to the very secret of our hearts
and all that rises to trouble us.
Living flame burn into us,
cleansing wind, blow through us,
fountain of water, well up within us,
that we may love and praise in deed and in truth.
Amen.
