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Grace

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.

Psalm 24

  1. The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it:
    the world and its inhabitants.
  2. For the Lord has founded it upon the seas:
    and planted it firm upon the waters beneath.
  3. Who may ascend the hill of the Lord:
    or who may stand in God's holy place?
  4. Those who have clean hands and a pure heart:
    who have not set their minds on falsehood,
    or sworn a deceitful oath.
  5. They shall receive blessing from the Lord:
    and recompense from God their saviour.
  6. So it is with those who seek the Lord:
    with those who seek the face of the God of Jacob.
  7. Lift up your heads you gates,
    lift yourselves up, you everlasting doors:
    that the king of glory may come in.
  8. 'Who is the king of glory?'
    It is the Lord strong and mighty,
    the Lord who is mighty in battle.
  9. Lift up your heads you gates
    lift yourselves up, you everlasting doors:
    that the king of glory may come in.
  10. 'Who is the king of glory?'
    'It is the Lord, the Lord of hosts who is the king of glory.'

Collect

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.

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