Category: Collects

  • A Collect to Love the Least

    A Collect to Love the Least

    Lord Jesus Christ, who rejects none, help us to receive those of no importance to the world, that we might be instruments of your love to everyone who needs your acceptance, comfort, and grace, through you who delights in all your children and intercedes for us all before the Father in the Holy Spirit. Amen.…

  • A Collect to Love Serving Others

    A Collect to Love Serving Others

    Lord Jesus, who washed the feet of your followers, teach us to serve one another in love as you did, that we would not be enticed by status, but be ever motivated by love, through you who lives and reigns in goodness and intercession for all your children before the throne of the Father in…

  • A Collect to Delight in Being Last

    A Collect to Delight in Being Last

    Lord Jesus, who emptied yourself for our sake, grant us the courage and delight to humble ourselves, so that we might be elevated at the appropriate time and, in the meantime, learn to love others well, through you who was raised to the right hand of the Father in the Holy Spirit. Amen. ‘He sat…

  • A Collect to be Unconcerned with Status

    A Collect to be Unconcerned with Status

    Great teacher, who humbled yourself and took on the nature of a servant, guide our hearts to be unconcerned with our status and place, trusting that your great love embraces and accepts us all and that we are ever secure with you, who knows what it is to be low and to be raised above…

  • A Collect to Open Our Hearts Freely to Christ

    A Collect to Open Our Hearts Freely to Christ

    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…

  • A Collect to Trust in Jesus’s Love

    A Collect to Trust in Jesus’s Love

    Gentle savior, who knows our hearts and judges us not, help us to not be ashamed and hide from you whatever it is that we fear, but grant us faith and trust in your goodness and your eagerness to forgive and help us always, through you who loved us to the end and now intercedes…

  • A Collect to Bless Others

    A Collect to Bless Others

    Lord and Father, who has blessed us with all good things, grant us the strength to put far from our mouths words that curse our brothers and sisters, that even if difficulty we might still bless those around us and so follow in your loving footsteps, through Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with…

  • A Collect to Attend to Small Things

    A Collect to Attend to Small Things

    Spirit of truth, who knows our words before they reach our mouths, help us to not dismiss the small things, knowing that such things may grow great in time and may reveal truths to which you would have us attend, through Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns forever in you with the Father in…

  • A Collect to Speak Well

    A Collect to Speak Well

    Spirit of the Lord, who knows the thoughts and intentions of all people, teach us to be careful with what we speak so that we would do good with our words and put forth into the world blessings as you have blessed us, through Christ our redeemer who lives and reigns with you and the…

  • A Collect to Not be Ashamed of Christ

    A Collect to Not be Ashamed of Christ

    Lord Jesus, who took on great shame upon the cross, keep us from being ashamed of you and your life, that we might not shame you yet more and would speak of your goodness openly to the world, through you who now reigns in glory forever with the Father and Holy Spirit. Amen. “Those who…