Fourth Sunday of Easter, Additional Collect (Redub)

Christ you overcame death.

You are, to us,

like a shepherd to the sheep

and a mother hen to her chicks.

Watch over our lives and our world.

May we grow in our trust

of your love and care.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 4.93 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 14.4 years.

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

My five Fourth Sunday of Easter Collects and Post Communions are 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.