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Planning for Year A 2023

Ann Street United Methodist Church

Sovereign God, it is your will to gather up all things in your beloved one, reigning in the universe in the power that is love, mercifully grant that the whole of creation, freed from slavery, may serve and praise you through Jesus Christ who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

A digital copy of the Lectionary for 2023 – and a review of it.

General Synod Te Hīnota Whānui has a lot of decisions to make about liturgy - not least about regularising our Prayer Book.

OK, SO TIME to change things up ‘round this column: up to now, I’ve been writing at random, bits of pieces of news here, things that bother me a lot there, and so on. In practice, though, this means I’ve been writing a LOT about COVID, and a LOT about labor issues and practices.

Compassionate God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we desire or deserve; pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those things for which our prayer dares not ask; through Jesus Christ who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

O God, you declare your almighty power above all by showing mercy and compassion; grant us the fullness of your grace, that we, who are running to obtain your promises, may be partakers of your heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Merciful God, grant to your faithful people pardon and peace; that we may be cleansed from all our sins and serve you with a quiet mind; through Jesus Christ who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

A great start to improving biblical literacy is to follow the full Sunday three-year lectionary.