DINNER (Vespers)

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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 119(l):89-96

  1. Your word O Lord is everlasting:
    it is firmly fixed in the heavens.
  2. Your faithfulness endures throughout all generations:
    stable as the earth you created and made to stand firm.
  3. Your ordinances stand fast to this day:
    for all things are your servants.
  4. If my delight had not been in your law:
    I should have perished in my affliction.
  5. I will never forget your precepts:
    for by them you have given me life.
  6. I am yours O save me:
    for I have studied your precepts.
  7. Though the wicked lie in wait to destroy me:
    I will apply my mind to your instruction.
  8. I see that all things reach a limit:
    but your commandment has no bounds.

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.