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Lord Jesus,
as Mary Magdalene
met you on Easter morn,
so we encounter
your risen life day by day
by the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Open our hearts to meet you
in the circumstances of this day
and the people we meet;
help us recognise
and celebrate
your life among us.
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Lord, fill our hearts
with eagerness, readiness
and openness
to seek and to see the signs
of your living and loving presence
around us and among us this day.
Keep us attuned
to the promises and priorities
of your kingdom
that we too may be signs
of your risen life.
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Stir our hearts, Lord,
that we may be ready
to take the opportunities
with which you present us,
to do what is right and good,
what is loving and caring,
what makes manifest
the peace and justice
of your kingdom.
Guide us and inspire us
to show and share
your love.
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Give us courage, Lord,
to proclaim who you are,
to proclaim your
love, mercy and peace
through all that we are,
all that we say
and all that we do.
May our faith
hold us close to you,
and keep us from
using what is yours
to further our own ends.
Make us one in you.
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Give us, Lord,
the gift of discernment;
help us to seek not simply
what seems best for us
and for our selfish ends,
but what is in accordance
with your will,
with your kingdom,
with your love.
Take from us
our preoccupation
with peer pressure;
lead us in your hope.
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Teach our hearts, Lord,
to give worth
to that which is worthy,
rather than to value that
which is ultimately vain,
that which feeds the ego
yet starves the soul.
Help us prioritise your love,
and invest in each other,
in mutuality, in community,
in building peace.
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Lord, when our propensity
is to build a world and a culture
which idolises strength and greed,
image and power,
and when our priorities rely
on overvaluing possessions
and undervaluing persons,
call us back to the truth
of your kingdom,
the priorities
of your love.
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Instil in us, Lord,
the courage and faith
to follow you into the places,
situations, and contexts
where you lead us,
to live out our discipleship
hopefully and joyfully,
that your passion for justice,
your abundant grace,
your life-giving love,
may be seen in us.
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You call us, Lord,
to be your disciples,
to follow your way,
to be guided by your will,
the will of love;
keep from us the temptation
to think we know better,
to follow our own ego,
our own greed,
to betray our living of your love
for one another
and for the world.
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Lord, you call us
and you welcome us,
not merely as individuals,
but to be part of your family,
the community of your kingdom,
as members together
in the company of your love.
Give us your passion
for unity in our diversity;
help us embody your love,
for the world.
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Refresh in us today, Lord,
our identity as your people,
called to bear your image
and share your love
in and for the world.
Inspire us in the unity
to which you call us;
help us inhabit and incarnate
our relationship with you,
in our relationships
with one another.
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You rejoiced, Lord,
in revealing your glory among us
by a life of love, overcoming all
that stands in love’s way,
even death itself.
Inspire us to live your love
for one another
and for the world,
and so enable each other
to share in the fullness of life
you offer.
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Inspire us Lord,
as your people,
to devote our energies
to both the mission
of your message,
and the mission
of social action
to benefit all.
May your love soar
on these two
wings of mission,
that all may be nourished
in heart and soul,
knowing the peace
you bring.
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You show us, Lord,
what it is to live out
in a human life,
the love that defines you.
Inspire and enable us,
enthuse and empower us,
to live this love for one another
today and every day;
to work together
for the common good,
to work for justice,
to work for peace.
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We rejoice today, Lord,
in the relationships we have,
in the love we share together
with those closest to us;
inspire us also to love as you love,
to make our love reach widely,
to mind the gap
between the world as it is
and as it should be,
and work for its peace.
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Lord, you love us
despite our
weaknesses
and failings;
help us in turn
to love one another.
Turn the hearts
of all who value
riches and wealth,
ideas and causes,
greed and gain,
more than they value
your image in others.
Guide us by your Spirit
to love as you love.
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Rouse us, Lord,
that we may reveal
your love to the world
not merely in the words we speak,
but also in the choices we make
and the decisions we take,
in the care we offer
to friend and stranger,
in the passion we show for justice
for those the world often forgets.
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You call us, Lord,
to love as you love us.
Inspire and strengthen
our resolve, our desire,
to live out
the love you show us,
in our love for one another
day by day;
in acts of kindness,
in work for justice,
in building peace,
in work of welcome,
in doing your will.
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Keep us ever-conscious, Lord,
of our identity as your people,
as we find our life in you,
as we draw upon your
grace and guidance
to keep us true to your path,
as we receive and live out your love.
Let no other trump your call
to love your world and all its people.
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As we respond
to your love, Lord,
make us generous,
but not merely with
material things;
make us generous also
in the time and attention
we give one another,
in the relationships
we seek to build,
that all people
may share together
in the community
of your kingdom.
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Inspire us, Lord,
to open our hearts,
our minds, our lives
to you today,
that your Spirit
may find and make
a home with us.
May we be so filled
with the peace you promise,
that we cannot fail
to make and share peace
with all around us,
that the world
may know hope.
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Though we are
inclined to wander
in our journey through life, Lord,
whether physically or emotionally,
and can so easily be
distracted and deflected
from the path you call us to walk,
we thank you
that you do not stray from us,
that our home is secure in your love.
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Your command, Lord,
is simple yet profound;
to love one another as you love us.
Like Peter, we find this easy to say
yet so often harder to do.
Like Judas, our own ends
can so easily obscure yours.
Refresh your love in us today;
inspire us to show that love to all.
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Keep from us, Lord,
the temptation
to judge each other,
to focus on how
others betray you;
help us see
our own complicity,
for we all fall short
of Christlikeness
in our different ways.
Dispel the darkness
that clouds our vision,
guide us by the light
of your love.
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You call us, Lord,
to be like you
in your loving
and generous
service to others,
in your care, concern
and compassion
for all people.
Let this calling be for us
not just a duty but a joy,
as we rejoice
in the share you offer us
in the life and work
of your kingdom.
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Lord,
to reveal your love to us,
you stood not on your
majesty, glory, or divinity,
but stooped down
to share our humanity,
and knelt to serve others,
even to wash the dirt of life
from tired feet.
Give us hearts
to serve you
in one another,
to love as you love us.
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Keep us watching
and waiting, Lord,
for signs of your kingdom,
for opportunities
to reveal your love
manifest in our world.
Keep us faithful
to our calling
to show and share
your love with others,
recalling that all
are our neighbours,
bound together
by your grace.
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You create each of us, Lord,
in your image and in your love,
every one with our own blend
of abilities and talents.
Help us to see your gifts
in one another and in ourselves,
and to value and support one another
in developing and deploying them
for the good of all.