Carol Service Collects: Patience in the waiting (Redub)

O God, our God, help us be patient

as we hunger for your freedom.

Keep us hoping for the joy we cannot see or feel

as we wait for this Christmas

and long for the arrival of your new creation.

While it is still night, sustain our wait for liberty,

so that, as soon as the love of Jesus dawns on us,

we will be ready to receive you. 
Help us be ready too, to bring your love to the world,

both now and forever. Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 8.15 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 21.57 years.

This is a redub of the Post Communion for 'The First Sunday of Advent'.
It may be suitable for use after the relevant reading/s at a Carol Service.

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Carol Service Collects: Hope of Christ coming to us (Redub)

God of all things,

we sense your sunrise coming after the dark of night.

Help us get ready for your love,

that meets us here and take us to the new Creation,

in Jesus Christ, who loves and leads us.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 5.47 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 16.84 years.

This is a redub of the Additional Collect for 'The First Sunday of Christmas'.
It may be suitable for use after the relevant reading/s at a Carol Service.

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Carol Service Collects: Jesus Light of the World (Children's Reboot)

God you are strong. You are gentle.

We think your love is like a sunrise.

Thank you that Jesus is like the brightest sun.

Help us be like little lights.

Help us shine too.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 2.0 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading.

This is a reboot of Common Worship Collects for 'The First Sunday of Advent'.
It may be suitable for use after the relevant reading/s at a Carol Service.

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Carol Service Collects: Hope for a new creation (Redub)

God of all things and all people,
 give us grace

to throw off that which diminishes 
and

put on the clothes of eternal peace instead.

May we begin this, 
now,

in the time of our earthly lives.

We would like to be like Jesus, the Christ,

who came and lived with us, plainly and simply.

When, at the last, 
Christ makes a glorious return,

with mercy and love, may we come alive,
in God, in the new creation.

either

Amen.

or


through Christ who is alive and reigns with you,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
 one God, now and for ever. Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 9.42 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 40.58 years.

This is a redub of the Collect for 'The First Sunday of Advent'.
It may be suitable for use after the relevant reading/s at a Carol Service.

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Index of Prayers (writing project runs from Advent 2012 to Advent 2013).