Faith and Friendship Guidelines 2009-2010

“LORD MAKE ME"

 

Format for the Monthly Meeting

 

Opening Prayer: A Prayer of Faith and Friendship

 

Father, we come together in this gathering of Faith and Friendship

 

We thank you for your gift of faith
and for the various ways we express that gift within our different faith traditions.
We thank you for your gift of friendship
and for the working of your Spirit that has brought us to this meeting place.
We ask for an outpouring of your peace on this neighbourhood where we meet.
We pray for an awakening of Christian community within this land.
Grant that we might catch a vision of the unity you desire for all your people,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

 

Reading the Scripture Passage
(Please turn to the relevant page)
Sharing on the Scripture Passage
(Is there anything in the passage that speaks directly to you or any thoughts relating to the passage that you would like to share with others in your group?)
Reading and/or Commenting on the Reflection
Suggestions for Sharing and Doing
(Please find on relevant page for each month)

 

Time to pray


PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

 

O Divine master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.

 

For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

 

Celebration of Friendship