Monday, February 11, 2013

Ash Wednesday, Post Communion (Redub)


God of all gentleness,
Jesus showed us what it takes
to be makers of peace,
by giving his life for love's sake.
Give us grace to follow in
that same way of peace
for the sake of your costly love.
Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 9.0 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 24.91 years.

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

The Ash Wednesday 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 link to my blog would be much appreciated.

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