A Concord Pastor Comments: NIGHT PRAYER: Sunday 6/16

On Sundays, Night Prayer takes its inspiration from an element of the day's mass. Today's second reading today (2 Corinthians 5:6-10) is the source of the lines in Marty Haugen's well-known hymn, We Walk By Faith...

We walk by faith, Lord, not by sight

and so we pray tonight:

for the gift of faith
   for all who seek it...
for the strengthening of faith
    in those who have doubts...

for deeper faith for all
   in harder times...

for faith to help us make it
   day to day - and through the night...
for those whose faith
   is shaken, broken, lost...

for faith to give us strength
    to act on our beliefs...
for the wisdom of faith
   to guide our search for truth...
for prudent faith
    to inform our words and deeds...

for the grace we need
   to share our faith with others...

Lord, grant us the faith we need

to follow the gospel,

to love our neighbor,

to live the truth,

to bear our grief,

to do what is just,

to love our enemies,

to trust in you,

to live in hope

to work for peace,

to act with justice

and to follow where the Spirit leads...

We walk by faith and not by sight

so grant us, Lord, the grace to see

what only faith reveals...

Protect us, Lord while we're awake

and watch over us when we sleep

that awake, we might keep watch with you

and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

We Walk by Faith by Marty Haugen

Although most of us know this hymn through Marty Haugen's melody, the lyrics were written in 1844 by the Brittish composer, Henry Alford who draws both on today's text from 2 Corinthians and on the story of Thomas meeting the risen Jesus.

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