Additional Collect, First Sunday of Christmas (Redub)

God you are both one and three.

You hold all things together

with your perfect love.

We pray you would draw

both people and planet together.

May your love cast out fear

and the birth of Christ bring hope.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 6.0 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 18.85 years.

Here's the information on how this prayer is a redub.

First Sunday of Christmas Collection of 5 prayers is here.

You can also look at the full Index of Prayers.

The project runs from Advent 2012 to Advent 2013.

If you want to use the prayers, an acknowledgement of myself as author and, if there's space, the url to my blog would be much appreciated.