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A Lenten Collect to Serve God Before Ourselves
O Lord our God, whose glory is visible in every corner of your creation, keep us from using your name or your church for our own…
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A Lenten Collect to Devote Ourselves First of All to God
You who are God alone, who forged the pillars of the earth and set them in place, keep our hearts from worshipping and devoting…
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A Lenten Collect for Devotion to God Alone
Lord God of Israel, who preserved your people and brought them out of bondage, show us where our hearts are devoted to things before you,…
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A Lenten Collect to Approach God with Reverence
Our Father, who reigns over all things from your heavenly throne, teach us to respect your presence and your ways, that we would enter…
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A Lenten Collect to Escape Greed
God of justice, who sees all that is done for both good and evil in your creation, let not our desire for money and earthly power consume…
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A Lenten Collect to Desire and Value What Jesus Desires
Son of Man, who will one day return in the glory of the Father, shape our hearts that we would value what you value and desire that which…
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A Lenten Collect to Desire That Which is Good for Our Souls
Almighty God, who has given us boundless wonders and treasures in your creation, draw our hearts to things that bring life and goodness…
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A Lenten Collect to Cease Clinging
Great Teacher, who spoke words of perfect wisdom to your people, show us where we cling to our lives to our own detriment, that we might…
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A Lenten Collect for the Willingness to Suffer
Lord Jesus Christ, who went willingly into the hands of those who abused you, grant us willing hearts to suffer in the same way, that we…
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A Lenten Collect to Recognize What We Must Deny of Ourselves
Rabbi Jesus, who walks in the ways of the Kingdom of God, show us where our hearts cling to our own ways and pleasures and desires, that…