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prayer of confession

  • Confession Seeking Grace and Peace for Easter 2c

    Here, in these strange words that begin this Easter season in Revelation 1:4-8, you have a choice between the emperor and all that he stands for or the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, and the ruler of… Continue reading

    Confession Seeking Grace and Peace for Easter 2c

  • Prayers for the Second Sunday of Easter

    These prayers were written after searching long and hard for other prayers. I didn’t want to write my own. I wanted anyone else’s words to magnify my hopes for worship this Sunday but I just couldn’t find what I was… Continue reading

    Prayers for the Second Sunday of Easter

  • Pandemic Prayers for Another World Communion Sunday

    The world doesn’t feel like it did last year when I offered pandemic prayers for what I had thought would be the one and only pandemic World Communion Sunday in my lifetime. It feels different now. This is the song… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Another World Communion Sunday

  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 13B

    We have moved into our home and there is now work being done to install new heaters in our very old building. The wall of the garden behind our home was a fortification built to protect the city from Napoleon.… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 13B

  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10B

    I loved the movie. I did. I still do but I always found this one repeated line creepy. It’s the same line that I hear repeated in the Gospel Lesson forcing us to wonder how any one of us will… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10B

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Second Sunday of Lent

    I really relate to Abraham falling on his face. I don’t think that has anything to do with the pandemic but the simple fact that I’m always tripping over myself. I am my own worst critic. I am endlessly hard… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Second Sunday of Lent

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Return of Lent

    I do not feel ready for this season to arrive. I know that it will be different. It will be less disciplined but no less introspective than every other day since that first case changed our whole lives. There is… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Return of Lent

  • Pandemic Prayers for Epiphany 4

    Healings just feel like a weird thing to explore right now. Many of us are refreshing our browsers wondering when we can get in line to get the vaccine. Or we are eagerly seeking out that first dose for a… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Epiphany 4

  • Pandemic Prayers for Epiphany 3

    I am really excited when poetry takes the national stage. I was surprised when it happened in the beginning of the pandemic. Major news outlets started sharing poems chosen by their editors to speak this moment. Poetry became popular while… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Epiphany 3

  • Pandemic Prayers for Advent 3

    I hope you already found the beautiful prayers gathered by RevGalBlogPals in their weekly Worship Words. I am honored to contribute to this collection of wonderful prayers and appreciate the nudge that to remember that those in the Southern Hemisphere… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Advent 3