Leader: Almighty, ever-living God, make us ever obey you willingly and promptly. Teach us how to serve you with sincere and upright hearts in every sphere of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Leader: (check in time) Discuss as a community your high and a low experiences this past week.
Luke 18:1-8
Narrator: 18 Now He (Jesus) was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart, 2 saying,
Jesus: “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God
and did not respect man. 3 There was a widow in that city, and
she kept coming to him, saying,
Widow: ‘[a]Give me
legal protection from my opponent.’
Narrator: 4 For a while he was unwilling; but
afterward he said to himself,
Man: ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man, 5 yet
because this widow bothers me, I will [b]give her
legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will [c]wear me
out.’”Narrator: 6 And the Lord said,
Lord: “Hear what the unrighteous judge *said; 7
Unrighteous
Judge: now, will not God bring about justice for His
elect who cry to Him day and night, [d]and will He
delay long over them? 8 I tell you that He will bring about
justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find [e]faith on the
earth?”
Refection
questions for personal or communal:1. In what ways has your Tau community imitated God’s compassion by responding to the cries for justice in neighborhoods, country, and world?
2. Reflect and share an instance when ongoing prayer in your life carried you through a difficult time.
3. How often in your prayer life are you persistent enough to ignore the answer you want to hear and persist enough to heed the answer God wants you to hear?
4. What are you doing to bring about God’s justice in the world? In your own small world?
Petitions:
Leader: Let us pray to Christ the Lord, the sun who enlightens all men, whose light will never fail us:
All: – Lord, give us life!
Lord of the sun and the stars, we thank you for the gift of a new day;
and we celebrate the day of resurrection.
All: – Lord, give us life!
Lead us by your Spirit to do your will;
guide and protect us by your wisdom.
All: – Lord, give us life!
Bring us to share with joy this Sunday’s Eucharist;
nourish us by your word, and by your body.
All: – Lord, give us life!
Lord, grant us your gifts, though we are unworthy;
with all our hearts we thank you.
All: – Lord, give us life!
Leader: Our Father....
Leader: Almighty, ever-living God, make us ever obey you willingly and promptly. Teach us how to serve you with sincere and upright hearts in every sphere of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Blessing: May the Lord bless us, and keep us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.
All: Amen.
Leader: Let us go in peace.
All: Thanks be to God.
Peace
and all good,
Brother
Ed, OFM
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