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"Personification of Gentleness" Christ holding a shield on which is a lamb;Cathédrale d'Amiens, 1220-1240 | |
John 14:15-21 |
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides with you, and he will be in you.18 "I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. 19 In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them."
The Lord’s Prayer in Three Voices
Voice 1 Our Father who art in Heaven
Voice 2 Holy One beyond all names, Eternal Wellspring,
Voice 3 O Great Spirit, our Father from above,
Voice 1 Hallowed be thy name Thy kingdom come
Voice 2 May love rise again in us todayVoice 3 we honor your name as sacred and holy.
Voice 1 thy will be done on earth as it is in heavenVoice 2 with food for every table, shelter for every person,
Voice 3 Bring your good road to us, where the beauty of your ways in the spirit-world above is reflected in the earth below.
Voice 1 Give us this day our daily bread
Voice 2 and reverence for every living being.
Voice 3 Provide for us day by day--the elk, the buffalo, and the salmon. The corn, the squash, and the wild rice. All the things we need for each day.
Voice 1 Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us
Voice 2 Forgive us our failings in love, and free us from all falseness,
Voice 3 Release us from the things we have done wrong,in the same way we release others for the things done wrong to us.
Voice 1 and Lead us not into temptation,
Voice 2 that the light of our souls may shine
Voice 3 Guide us away from the things that tempt us to stray from your good road
Voice 1 but deliver us from evil
Voice 2 and help the strength of our spirits endure for earth and all its people
Voice 3 and set us free from the evil one & his worthless ways.
Voice 1 For the kingdom, the power, & the glory are yours forever
Voice 2 this day, tonight, and forever.
Voice 1 Amen!
Voice 2 Yes, I commit!Voice 3 Aho! May it be so!
Texts from Matthew 6: 9-13 (NRSV),
"Celtic Benediction," by John Phillip Newell,
First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament.
Closing Prayer
through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ
you have brought us out to a spacious place
where we are called to live as those redeemed.
Empower us by your spirit to keep your commandments,
that we may show forth your love
with gentle word and reverent deed
to all your people. Amen.
