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There are also #LectionaryPrayers for #Pentecost on my website now
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"Come, Holy Spirit, come again, and, like a cleansing fire, refresh us and renew us".
#LectionaryPrayers for #Pentecost Sunday Year A, May 24 2026http://peterwnimmo.co.uk/2026/05/11/opening-prayers-for-the-day-of-pentecost-year-a-may-24-2026/
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"Awesome and powerful God, your glory is beyond our imaging and your power is greater than anything on earth"
#LectionaryPrayers for #Ascension Sunday (Easter 7), 17 May 2026
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#LectionaryPrayers for for the FirstSunday of #Lent, 22 February. There are also prayers for this coming Sunday, #Transfiguration, on my website now
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Opening Prayers for the Sixth Sunday of Easter Year C (May 25 2025)
These opening prayers for Sunday worship take their inspiration from the Scripture readings of the Revised Common Lectionary. Worship leaders are welcome to use them for worship, but if you print or display any part of them, please credit the author. Comments welcome. The following prayers are for based on the readings for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C. The Gospel use reading is John 14.23-29.
Call to Worship
Optional: the congregation may say together the words in bold.
Let the peoples praise you, O God;
let all the peoples praise you.Let us worship God.
Prayer of Approach and Confession
Let us pray.
Almighty God,
you deserve the praise of all people and all nations.
For you created the earth and all its people
and work inscrutably in the history of all nations.Above all, you have sent your Son, Jesus Christ
your Word made flesh
for us to learn of your love.
He calls those who love him
to keep his commands
for what he taught has come from you.
And he promises us the help of the Spirit
sent by you to teach us the fullness of faith
and to remind us of Christ’s love.And so we praise you today,
and sing for joy
for all your blessings to us!We confess that we need reminding of your love
for we find it easy to forget Christ
and to follow our own path
instead of the ways Jesus calls us.
Forgive us our forgetfulness and our lack of faith
for the sake of Christ, our saviour.silence
May God be gracious to us and bless us
and make his face to shine upon us.
The peace of God be with us all.Supplication
God of grace,
your Spirit call us ever onward on our journeys of faith.
Open our hearts to hear your Word
and give us courage to go where Christ calls us.
We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.Featured image: Trey Everett, Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled (2018). Trey Everett is a graphic artist who has created images for some of the Lectionary readings. His work is available at www.treyeverettcreates.com. From Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57820 [retrieved May 16, 2025].
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Opening Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C (May 11 2025)
These opening prayers for Sunday worship take their inspiration from the Scripture readings of the Revised Common Lectionary. Worship leaders are welcome to use them for worship, but if you print or display any part of them, please credit the author. Comments welcome. The following prayers are for based on the readings for the Fourth Sunday of Easter.
Call to Worship
“Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne
and to the Lamb!”
Revelation 7.9
Let us worship God.
Prayer of Approach and Confession
Let us pray.
God our good shepherd,
as we come to worship you
we acknowledge your presence with us.
Yet you, creator God,
have been with us all the days of our lives.
You are the source of all our blessings.
You give us all that we need
for your power, and love, and care
always surround us.
Even if we have walked
through death’s dark vale,
you have been with us,
your rod and staff
have guided and comforted us.
And now we to come to your house;
you welcome and bless us
and your love for us overflows
and you invite us to dwell with you forever.
God our good shepherd,
you alone are worthy of our praise and worship.
21 April 2013 alt
Restore our souls
God of grace;
for we have failed too often
to be true disciples of Jesus.
We have followed the voice of others
in our journey through life
and failed to find the green pastures you promise your people.
Forgive us our sins
and for the sake of Christ,
the Lamb who died for our sins.
silence
Christ the Good Shepherd
will lead us to the springs of the water of life
where God will wipe the tears from our eyes.
Know that in Christ you are forgiven.
Collect
Lord Jesus Christ
like a caring shepherd you call us
to follow your voice.
Grant that we would truly know you and follow you
by obeying your command of love in all things.
And so may we be counted among your people
so that we may know eternal life in you.
Doxology
Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving
and honour and power and might
be to our God forever and ever! Amen.
Revelation 7.12
Featured image: Shepherd in Făgăraș Mountains, Romania. Wikipedia commons
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Opening Prayers for Palm/Passion Sunday Year C (April 13 2025)
These opening prayers for Sunday worship take their inspiration from the Scripture readings of the Revised Common Lectionary. Worship leaders are welcome to use them for worship, but if you print or display any part of them, please credit the author. Comments welcome.
The following prayers are for based on the readings for the Sixth Sunday in Lent, April 13, 2025: The Liturgy of the Palms and The Liturgy of the Passion. These prayers reflect my practice when in parish ministry in the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian). At the start of the service we concentrated on the Palm Sunday themes, reading an account of the entry into Jerusalem at the start of the service, followed by selected verses of Psalm 118 as a responsive Call to Worship. We would hear some or all of the Gospel account of the Passion just before the sermon.
Call to Worship
Open to me the gates of righteousness,
that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.
This is the gate of the LORD;
the righteous shall enter through it.
The stone that the builders rejected
has become the chief cornerstone.
This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
This is the day that the LORD has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the LORD.
O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever.Psalm 118.19-20, 22-24, 26, 29 (NRSV)
Let us worship God.
Prayer of Approach and Confession
Let us pray.
Blessed are you, Jesus of Nazareth.
You are the king who comes in peace,
riding on a donkey.
You have done deeds of power
and brought the message of God’s love
into the world.
Who can stop us from praising you?Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest!Blessed are you, God the Father of all creation.
You have sent Jesus into our world
to share our joys and sorrows,
bringing healing and forgiveness.
Who can stop us from praising you?Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest!Blessed are you, Holy Spirit of God.
You are the wisdom which lets us see in Jesus
a new kind of King-
a king who brings peace, joy, love, forgiveness and hope.
And so, we sing songs of praise to him-
for if we did not, the stones of the earth would shout out:Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna in the highest!Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord.
You bring peace on earth
from the glory of heaven.
Father, Son and Spirit,
we praise you today!Yet we confess that our praise on Sunday
can turn to cynicism during the week,
and that our faith is often challenged
by the sort of darkness we see in the Cross-
the darkness of inhumanity and injustice
the darkness of death and despair.Do not count our sins against us,
but for the sake of the Carpenter who won our salvation
through the wood and nails of the cross
forgive us our personal failings,
and strengthen us for the fight against evil.silence
It is the Lord GOD who helps us; who will declare us guilty?
Isaiah 50:9a (alt)
Give us, O God, the mind that was in Jesus Christ-
help us to be humble servants of one another,
and obedient in all things to his law of love;
for now we confess
that the carpenter’s son who rode a donkey
is exalted above all kings and powers of this world
and we confess that Jesus is Christ is Lord
to the glory of God. Amen.NOTE ‘Hosanna’ does not appear in Luke’s Gospel account of Palm Sunday, but tradition especially associates the word with this day (see Matthew 21.9, Mark 11.9f, John 12.13). Nor do palms feature in Luke!
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Featured image: Peter Koenig, Palm Sunday (20th century (United Kingdom).
from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=58531 [retrieved April 1, 2025]. Original source: Peter Winfried (Canisius) Koenig, https://www.pwkoenig.co.uk/ -
Opening Prayers for the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (February 9 2025)
Part of a series of opening prayers for Sundays in the Revised Common Lectionary. They take their inspiration from the Scripture readings in the Lectionary. Worship leaders are welcome to use them for worship, but if you print or display any part of them, please credit the author. Comments welcome.
The following prayers are for based on the readings for the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, February 9, 2025.
Call to Prayer
The Psalmist says:
On the day I called, you answered me;
you increased my strength of soul.
Psalm 138.3
Let us pray.
Prayer of Approach and Confession
Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God of hosts-
you are the only holy God.
Source of life,
ground of our being,
creator of all:
you alone are worthy of our worship
in this holy place on this Sabbath day
and in loving service to our neighbours
wherever we are, every day of the week.
Above all lesser gods
we sing your praise
exalt your name
and give thanks
for your steadfast love and faithfulness.
We acknowledge that,
in the face of your holiness and power
we feel lost and unclean,
sinful people who feel unfit to be your people.
For we are too often blind and deaf to your call.
In silence, we remember our failings.
silence
Hear the message which has been proclaimed to us:
by the grace of God,
we are what we are-
people set free by God from sin
for the sake of Christ
who died, was buried, and raised to life for us.
Thanks be to God!
Holy God, by your Spirit
your grace is within us.
You will not forsake the work of your hands:
for you promise to preserve and deliver us.
You have brought us through
the waters of baptism
to land us safe with Christ
and now you call us to proclaim his love.
Help us to fish for men and women
who will join us in his boat.
Enable us to fulfil your purpose for us
and deliver us from your troubles.
We pray in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
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Featured image: Albrecht Bouts, Miraculous Draught of Fish, 16th Century. Museum Leuven, Belgium. from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library
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