A New Heart
The Collect of the Day
Give Us This Day
Hungry God
Luke 17
Mother Theresa
The Opportunity to Give Back
God of Love, God of Peace
This fractured word
Cries out in pain
Burns deep into my soul
And challenges me
To make a difference
God of Love, God of Peace
God of this world
Scarred by grief and tears
Ignorance and fear
Soften hearts of stone
And begin with mine
God of Love, God of Peace
Create within me
A heart for people
A desire for change
For new beginnings
To start this day
— written by John Birch, and posted on his Faith and Worship website.
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God of mercy and compassion,
where You speak there is light and life;
where You act there is justice and love.
Inspire Your children with the fire of your love,
that we may serve You by serving one another
and so bring Your love to all the earth.
We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and forever. Amen.
— from Service of the Word, published by the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (the Anglican Church of Canada). www.pwrdf.org
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Generous, loving God, we ask You
to give us today our daily bread.
Creator of the world we share,
give us today our daily bread.
As we store the crops
and fill the barns,
stack the shelves.
pile high the tins,
and wander the aisles
of supermarket choice,
show us how to see the world
through the eyes of the hungry.
Teach us how to share with all
our daily bread.
We ask this in the name of Jesus,
who taught us how to pray,
Amen.
— Copyright © Linda Jones/CAFOD, http://www.cafod.org.uk/ from A Non-Eucharistic liturgy on food and hunger. Used by permission.
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Hungry God,
hungry for justice,
hungry for a world spending on hungry children as it spends on football games,
hungry that Your promise of blessing the hungry be fulfilled,
draw us into Your hunger
so we discover the life you offer when we give ourselves away,
and others do not have their lives taken away by the greedy and corrupt.
Give us the courage to risk a new hunger to do Your will through Jesus Christ. Amen.
— prepared by the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, for a service of worship for The Churches’ Week of Action on Food, October, 2010
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(based on Luke 17:5-10)
Boundless God,
help us to see the world differently—
not with our own limited vision
but with the gaze of love and justice.
Give us the foolishness to believe that we can change
what the world says is impossible;
and when we lose sight of the power of love to change the world
increase our faith. Amen.
— posted on the Christian Aid website
http://www.christianaid.org.uk/ for October 3, 2010
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Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those throughout the world
who live and die in poverty or hunger.
Give them, through our hands, this day their daily bread;
and by our understanding love, give peace and joy. Amen.
— Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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Self-giving God,
we give You thanks for all the blessings we know in this life
and for the opportunity to give back.
Use our offerings and our service
to touch human lives and communities
with the gentleness of Your grace
and the vitality of your goodness.
This we offer in the name of Jesus. Amen.
— Written by The Rev. Dr. Art Van Seters, Principal Emeritus, Knox College,
Toronto, and published in Believe It! God’s Riches are Here, published by the Presbyterian World Service & Development,
www.presbyterian.ca/pwsd the development and relief agency of The Presbyterian Church in Canada.
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