Category: Collects

Rabbi Jesus, our teacher and guide to life as you intended it to be, teach us how to live according to your words and your ways, that we might live within your great love and receive through you the boundless delight and joy of the Father, through you who remained within the Father’s love on…

Loving Father, who created us to share in your perfect relationships with the Son and Holy Spirit, may we receive always, moment by moment, your gracious and overflowing love, that in receiving such largesse, we might in turn love others as we are loved, through your beloved son who rejoices with you and the Holy…

Indwelling Spirit, our counselor and presence of the Holy One with us, stir up our hearts to bear the fruit of love, hope, and faith, that we would be pleasing to the Father and so fulfill our task as followers of Jesus, through him who gave up all things for our sake and received them…

Lord Jesus, the source of our life and all that sustains us, let us stay closely attached to you, lest we become useless to you and fail to show the love and virtues that you have created for us to produce and so deserve to be cast aside as fodder for destruction, through you who…

Lord Jesus, our source of life and goodness, draw us more and more to your heart that we would live close to you, and grant us also the grace to receive you moment by moment that you would remain close to us and so live in constant connection to the one who is our very…

Lord Jesus, through whom true life flows, help us to abide in you, to remain in your presence and love, that we might receive your life and power always and so naturally walk in your ways, producing the fruit of love, goodness, and joy, through you who sacrificed yourself for our sake and was exalted…

Spirit of the Lord Almighty, the presence of God in the air we breathe, trim and prune our hearts by the words spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ, that his teachings would not fall on deaf ears or lie fallow in our souls, but would effect change and growth in our hearts, producing a harvest…

Great Father and gardener of our souls, who delights in the life and growth of all that you have made, let us not be surprised when we face difficulties and losses, knowing that you at times must prune our hearts for our own good, that we might grow more fruitful and more of a blessing…

Almighty God, who reached down into our troubled world in order to show your love with our human flesh, grant that we would likewise love those around us so much that we step into their worlds and take action for their good and so prove ourselves children of our Father, through Jesus Christ our Lord,…

Holy Spirit of God, who knows the deep places of our hearts even better than we do, fill our hearts with gratitude, awe, and love at the willingness of Jesus to give himself for our sake, that in being so filled with that love, we might be willing to freely give of ourselves for one…