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From “Common Prayer: A Liturgy For Ordinary Radicals” (August 23rd p. 410-411)

O Lord, let my soul rise up to meet you
as the day rises to meet the sun.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever.  Amen.

Come let us bow down and bend the knee: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

You lift the lowly and humble the proud: to feed us together at your table.

Psalm 113:4-7

The Lord is high above all nations: and his glory above the heavens.
Who is like the Lord our god, who sits enthroned on high: but stoops to behold the heavens and the earth?
He takes up the weak out of the dust: and lifts up the poor from the ashes.
He sets them with the princes: with the princes of his people.

You lift the lowly and humble the proud: to feed us together at your table.

2 Samuel  7:1-17        Romans 8:31-39

You lift the lowly and humble the proud: to feed us together at your table.

Mother Teresa said, “We are called to be contemplatives in the heart of the world - by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time, and his hand in every happening; seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.”

Prayers for Others

Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

God of mercy, you cast the mighty from their thrones and lift up the lowly.  Free us from the ghettoes of poverty and the ghettoes of wealth that we might meet on the level ground at the foot of the cross.  Amen.

May the peace of the Lord Christ go with you, 
 wherever he may send you. 
May he guide you through the wilderness, 
 protect you through the storm.
May he bring you home rejoicing,
 at the wonders he has shown you.
May he bring you home rejoicing,
 once again into our doors.  Amen

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