The Lords Prayer

The Lords Prayer Act of Worship Trusting in the compassion of God, Norwich Lent Course As our Saviour taught us, so we pray 2013 Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Some reflective Give us today our daily bread. music may be played Forgive us our sins as we forgive those This is love, not that we loved God, who sin against us. but that he loved us and sent his Son. Lead us not into temptation He is the sacrifice for our sins, but deliver us from evil. that we might live through him. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours If God loves us so much now and forever. Amen. we ought to love one another. If we love one another (or in the traditional words) God lives in us.

May God the Father, Blessed are you, Lord God of our salvation, who does not despise the broken spirit, to you be glory and praise for ever. give to you a contrite heart. Amen. In the darkness of our sin you have shone in our hearts May Christ, to give the light of the knowledge who bore our sins in his body on the tree, of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. heal you by his wounds. Amen. Open our eyes to acknowledge your presence, that freed from the misery of sin and shame May the Holy Spirit, we may grow into your likeness who leads us into all truth, from glory to glory. speak to you words of pardon and peace. Blessed be God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Blessed be God for ever.

Prayers of Penitence The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart God will not despise. Let us come to the Lord, who is full of compassion, and acknowledge our transgressions in penitence and faith.

We confess to you our selfishness and lack of love: fill us with your Spirit. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. We confess to you our fear and failure in sharing our faith: fill us with your Spirit. Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. We confess to you our stubbornness and lack of trust: fill us with your Spirit. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. May God who loved the world so much For the dying, for those who mourn, that he sent his Son to be our Saviour for the faithful forgive us our sins whom we entrust to the Lord in hope, and make us holy to serve him in the world, as we look forward to the day through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen when we share the fullness of the resurrection, let us pray to the Lord. (Reading) Lord, have mercy. Rejoicing in the communion of all the saints, Intercessions let us commend ourselves, and one another, For the peace that comes from God alone, and all our life, to God. for the unity of all peoples, Silence is kept. and for our salvation, For yours is the majesty, let us pray to the Lord. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Lord, have mercy. yours is the kingdom For the Church of Christ, for Graham, Alan, and and the power and the glory, Jonathan our Bishops, now and for ever. Amen. and for the whole people of God, let us pray to the Lord. Lord, have mercy. Open prayer may be offered and/or silence For the nations of the world, kept or the Lent Project Prayer prayed here or especially for Uganda at the end of the study for Elizabeth our Queen and for all in authority O God of all the nations, let us pray to the Lord. we thank you for our place Lord, have mercy. in your worldwide church, For our community and for our neighbours and our friends, for all that we share let us pray to the Lord. with your people in every land. Lord, have mercy. We thank you for the chance to give, For the good earth which God has given us, and also for the chance to learn and for the wisdom and will to conserve it, from those whose lives let us pray to the Lord. may be very different from our own, Lord, have mercy. but in whose faces your image shines. For the aged and infirm, for the widowed and orphans, In this season of Lent for the sick and suffering, we pray for the people of Uganda: [for …] and for all in any need, for the establishment of the clinic at Lira let us pray to the Lord. to bring hope and healing Lord, have mercy. to lives damaged and broken For the poor and the oppressed, through brutality and violence; for the unemployed and the destitute, and for Rwentobo School, for prisoners and captives, and for all who remember working to provide a safe haven and care for them, for children vulnerable to abuse; let us pray to the Lord. working to raise up Lord, have mercy. a new generation of leaders For the people living around Lira, who will follow you devastated by years of war and serve their nation. and for the hope the Clinic will bring them, let us pray to the Lord. Open our hearts, O Lord. Lord, have mercy. Give us the humility to learn, For the children of Rwentobo School, the generosity to give, for the dormitory build and the desire to grow in love for you, which will help their safety and education, for we ask this in the name of your Son, for a new generation to lead the country of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen Uganda with integrity let us pray to the Lord. Lord, have mercy.