Reading of the Law
of God
You shall not
murder. Exodus 20.13
Confession of Sin
Our Father, we come
to You aware that we have not kept this commandment. We so often find ourselves
angry and impatient, thinking of our own well-being first. We understand that
in these and other ways we murder. We have broken Your Law. We acknowledge our
sin before You and ask that You would be merciful to us sinners for Jesus’ sake
alone. Amen.
Declaration of
Pardon
Jesus said to her,
“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet
shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do
you believe this?” John 11.25
God, the Father of
mercies, has reconciled the world to himself through the death and resurrection
of his Son, Jesus Christ, not counting our trespasses against us, but sending
his Holy Spirit to shed abroad his love among us. By the ministry of reconciliation
entrusted by Christ to his Church, receive his pardon and peace to stand before
him in his strength alone, this day and evermore.
The Book of Common
Prayer
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