Behold the Lamb of God – Prayer for Epiphany 2
In a few posts I’ve included prayers for the current season that have been taken from established liturgies. The following is my first hand at writing my own prayers in a liturgical style. It is based on the readings that are in the Revised Common Lectionary (a three year cycle of scheduled readings which is followed by dozens of denominations) for this week (Epiphany 2 year A) including Isaiah 49 and John 1:29-42.
The Lord be with you
(All) and also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
(All) We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
(All) It is right to give thanks and praise.
It is right, and a good and joyful thing,
always and everywhere to give thanks to you,
Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth,
For the glory of your Son
Was revealed to us as the Passover lamb
Who takes away the sins of the world,
Ending the exile of fallen humanity.
Even when we turned from you,
Each of us going our own way,
You saw our wanderings.
You took note of our lamentation.
You heard the cry of our groaning world,
beholding our affliction, our toil and our oppression.
Like a mother you could not forget your nursing infant,
or fail to have compassion on the child of your womb.
Brooding over this bent and broken world,
you sent forth your Son as the light to the nations
so your salvation might reach the ends of the earth,
That through his life he might render powerless the power of death
And save us from slavery to the fear of the same,
Leading us out of bondage and everlasting night
Through the waters of baptism and the wilderness of life
To the glorious new creation of all things:
Your new heavens and new earth
Where justice is at home.
Therefore we praise you, joining with Angels and Archangels
And with all the company of heaven
Who for ever sing this hymn to proclaim the glory of your Name:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
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