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Come Sunday: Chrysostom Revisited

Prayer by Kyle Matthew Oliver (CC BY 2.0)
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This prayer is a remix of the Prayer of St. Chrysostom in response to the gospel reading from Matthew 18 from the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (aka Proper 18A):

O Christ, you promise your presence when we gather in your name, and you share with us your mind for service and solidarity.

Help us to recognize the human frailty we bring to community.

Free us from fear of disagreement. Fill us with a spirit of curiosity. Deliver us from erasing or overlooking the beautiful peculiarity that is your gift to every creature.

Above all, teach us to seek your face alike in enemy and friend, for we trust that all things are possible when we set our eyes on the Redeemer of the world. Amen.

Here’s the original prayer (CC0), which was pretty great to begin with:

A Prayer of St. Chrysostom

Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one  accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the  midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life everlasting. Amen.

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