Loving teacher, who is patient with us and our fears, grant us courage to tell you whatever is on our hearts, trusting that you will receive it with gentleness and respect, that our faith and trust in you would be ever strengthened, and we would feel increasingly secure in your perfect love, through you who lives and reigns with the Father and Holy Spirit in joy and unity forever and ever. Amen.
‘Then they came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest.’ – Mark 9:33-34