Collect
Collect
Holy God, promise of all Life,
We are called with a Holy calling into a Divine purpose and Grace.
In the power of Love your gift of life is rekindled in our hearts
and so we become icons of your abiding presence in the world.
In Christ we seek to make real our faith, and so reflect your loving faithfulness,
and we seek to serve so that we may make real your eternal giving and abundant generosity.
We trust in your Word of creation,
We trust in each other, and in Christ, your love revealed in all. Amen.
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Pray for our community and for the communities of which we are a part. For all who gather in Churches, temples, Mosques, Synagogues and places of Prayer, may we all find our faith rekindled. Give thanks for those who create in us a spirit of trust and may we honour opportunities to do the same.
Pray for all who are drawn to power, violence and greed and for the victims of the same. That we may become a bridge in the chasm of wealth and poverty, seeking wealth in Divine orientation, and our retirement in Christ’s ever living presence.
Pray for those who give of themselves in order to create community and for the gift of hospitality that can bring life to others. Give thanks for the healing power of God’s divine spirit in us – may we be healers to others. Pray we will attend to the Divine in all Life, seeking that which is good for benefit of all. Pray with thanks for the Divine Spirit – the gift of Christ that abides in us. Give thanks for each other, for all that we have to share and for opportunities to give and to receive. Give thanks for the Divine fullness that we glimpse as we share together in worship….
A Thanksgiving for Wilderness
Creator God, we thank you that you show your face to us in wilderness and desert places.
We praise you for the deep places of the sea, and for coastlines smashed by surf and caressed by gentle waves.
We praise you for the sun-baked, wind-swept lands, and for rocks and mountains older than human memory.
We praise you for the rivers that sculpt the plains, and for salt lakes that wait for the blessing of times of flooding.
We praise you for the fragile life that flourishes in places too hot, too cold, or too dry for human comfort, and for forests rising through tropical rain and cool southern mist.
We thank you for showing your glory in creation to the first people of Australia, and for their long and careful custody of the land.
We thank you for new ways of protecting the land so that future generations may also rejoice in your handiwork.
Give us grace to recognise your wonders in the dust at our feet and the haze on the horizon, and in all the creatures you have made, in their astonishing diversity.
And give us voices to praise you in awe and gratitude, both now and for evermore. Amen
[This prayer was drafted by the Anglican General Synod Liturgy Commission in 2006. It is freely available for anyone to use. Please note that it complements the prayer resources already available in A Prayer Book for Australia (1995).]
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A Sesquicentenary Prayer
Lord of all generations
Bless our celebration of 150 years of ministry with the Diocese of Perth.
We give thanks for those whose dedication and vision enabled the foundation and development of this diocese.
Guide those of us now entrusted with this responsibility.
Encourage us and give us the commitment, enthusiasm and inspiration we need.
May we have breadth of vision and generosity that will enable us to provide a solid foundation of faith for future generations.
We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Daily Prayer from Perth Anglican Diocese See left hand column
Prayer in the tradition of St Paul
Creator of Life, of light and all Love, we pray thee
to fill this house with thy Spirit.
Here may the strong renew their strength and seek
for their working lives a noble consecration.
Here may the poor find succour and the friendless
friendship.
Here may the tempted find power, the sorrowing
comfort and the bereaved find the truth that death
hath no dominion over their beloved.
Here let the fearing find a new courage and the
doubting have their faith and hope confirmed.
Here may the careless be awakened and all that are
oppressed be freed.
Hither may many be drawn by thy love and go
hence, their doubts resolved and faith renewed,
their sins forgiven and their hearts aflame with thy
love.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
From the Chapel porch, Pleshey Retreat House, with amended
divine address.
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