Evening Prayer (Many Gifts, One Spirit)
EVENING PRAYER
Opening Music
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
to rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
(Alfred Tennyson; from Ulysses)
Reading (1 Cor 12:1-7)
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
Quiet Reflection
Intercessions
Give us, Lord, the courage to enter into this moment in time, into this gathering of your disciples, into this time of grace.
Lord, give us courage to enter in.
Give us, Lord, the courage to enter into the possibilities that lie before us, like shells on the seashore, waiting to be discovered.
Lord, give us courage to enter in.
Give us, Lord, the courage to enter into the tasks and challenges before us, in a spirit of exploration and generosity, in the Spirit of your Son.
Lord, give us courage to enter in.
Give us, Lord, the courage to enter into the ideas and suggestions to be voiced and to hear them with an open, receptive ear, alive to the wisdom they contain.
Lord, give us courage to enter in.
Give us, Lord, the courage to enter into your presence, to be carried along by your power, reaching out to save us.
Lord, give us courage to enter in.
Our Father
Article posted on 21st of October 2010
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