Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
National Indigenous Day of Prayer
Holy Eucharist
June 23, 2024
St. Paul’s Parish, Charlottetown, PEI
Christ our true and only Light: receive our prayers and songs, and illumine the secrets of our hearts with your healing goodness, that no evil desires may possess us who are made new in the light of your heavenly grace. Amen.
Creator, you made all people of every land. It is our responsibility to give thanks and respect to those who first occupied this land we are upon. We give thanks to the Mi’kmaq, the first people of this land.
We offer our respect to those ancestors who may be interred in this land. We are also thankful for the gifts of the People of the land.
Creator let us be of Good Mind to reconcile the mistreatment of this land and to those who have been displaced. With thankful and respectful hearts, we pray in your name, your son the Peacemaker and the Sacred Spirit. Amen.
Let us pray,
Creator God, from you every family in heaven and earth takes its name. You have rooted and grounded us in your covenant love, and empowered us by your Spirit to speak the truth in love, and to walk in your way towards justice and wholeness. Mercifully grant that your people, journeying together in partnership, may be strengthened and guided to help one another to grow into the full stature of Christ, who is our light and our life. Amen.
Reading: 2 Corinthians 6:1-13
Let us confess the core of our belief:
We believe in the love of God,
embodied in the person of Jesus,
spread through the cosmos by the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Creator and Redeemer, as we approach you in prayer, make us walk in beauty and balance, make us open our hearts and minds, make us speak the truth. We pray first for your Community, the Church, The Body of Christ. We pray for all our relatives in the circle of life throughout all Creation; for those chosen to be our leaders and teachers.
We call upon the earth, our Mother and home, with its beautiful depths, soaring heights and deep waters, its vitality and abundance of life, and together we ask that it:
Teach us and show us the way.
We call upon the mountains and tundra, the green valleys and prairies filled with wildflowers, the snows, the summits of intense silence, and we ask that they:
Teach us and show us the way.
We call upon the land which grows our food, the nurturing soil, the fertile fields, the abundant gardens and orchards, and we ask that they:
Teach us and show us the way.
We call upon the forests, the great trees reaching strongly to the sky with earth in their roots and the heavens in their branches, the fir and the pine, the cedar and the maple, we ask them to:
Teach us and show us the way.
We call upon the creatures of the fields and forests and the waters, our brothers and sisters, the wolves and deer, the eagle and bear, the great whales and the fish. We ask them to:
Teach us and show us the way.
We call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our ancestors and our friends, who dreamed the best for future generations, and upon whose lives our lives are built, and with thanksgiving, we call upon them to:
Teach us and show us the way.
We call upon all people to show compassion, to show love and tenderness as friends, neighbours, strangers and travelers, so that those with whom we share our journey will continue to:
Teach us and show us the way.
We pray for all who have died in your peace and whose faith is known to you alone. We remember especially,
… that they may share in the risen life of Christ.
We pray for those who are ill at home or in the hospital, that you will give them assurance and strength. We pray especially for…
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… and others we may name out loud or in our hearts…
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… that they may know your love, forgiveness and presence.
Creator, you made the world and declared it to be good: the beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass speaks to us; the summit of the mountains, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the waters speak to us; the faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrops on the flower speak to us. But above all, our heart soars, for you speak to us in Jesus the Christ, in whose name we offer these prayers. Amen.
For all that separates our hearts from God and from all that closes our eyes to God’s love... silence
For what we have done, left undone, and what has been done on our behalf... silence
For the pride that prevents us from forgiving others, as we have been forgiven... silence
Jesus, forgive us.
Create in us clean hearts, O God,
and renew rights spirit within us.
The Lord enrich you with grace, and nourish you with many blessings; the Lord defend you in trouble and keep you from all evil; the Lord accept your prayers, and absolve you from your offences, for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen.
The peace of the Lord be always with you.
And also with you.
Let us pray,
Creator, you bless us with many good gifts returned to you from your creation. Feed us with the Bread of Life, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
(adapted from NZ Maori PB, and revised version from the Liturgy of St. John’s, Red Lake, MN)
God the Creator is here.
God’s Spirit is with us.
Lift up your hearts
We lift them to God the Creator
Let us give thanks to God
It is right to offer our thanks and praise.
God the Creator, our Great Spirit, from the depths of our hearts we give you thanks. We say thank you, now and forever. From the place of the rising sun in the East, to the South where the warm winds blow, from the West where the soft rain comes, to the coldness of the North. We unite with all creation from the four directions to join in the everlasting thanksgiving and praise for the gift of Jesus Christ.
God of power and might,
heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
Christ has died,
Christ is risen,
Christ will come again.
As our Saviour taught us, let us pray,
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial, and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and for ever. Amen.
Whoever comes to me shall not hunger…
and whoever believes in me shall never thirst
So, come to this table, you who have much faith and you who would like to have more. You who have been to this sacrament often, and you who have not been for a long time. You who have tried to follow Jesus, and you who have failed. Come. It is Christ who invites us to meet him here. These are the gifts of God for the people of God.
Thanks be to God.
Lamb of God you take away the sin of the world
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God you take away the sin of the world
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God you take away the sin of the world
grant us your peace.
PB 227 Such Love Verse 1 for Ablutions.
Let us pray,
Great Creator, you have fed us with bread from heaven. continue to renew us in your truth, to give light to our minds strength to our bodies, and seal us with your Holy Spirit. We ask this in Christ’s name. Amen.
Glory to God,
whose power, working in us,
can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine.
Glory to God
from generation to generation,
in the Church and in Christ Jesus,
for ever and ever. Amen.
Send us anywhere you would have us go, only go there with us.
Place upon us any burden you desire, only stand by us to sustain us.
Break any tie that binds us, except the tie that binds us to you.
And the blessing of God; the Creator, who made and knows us;
the Savior, who redeems and befriends us;
and the Spirit, who enlightens and sustains us,
be with you this day and always. Amen.
Thanks be to God.
