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A Collect to Be Marked Principally by Love
Great Trinity of persons, whose nature is perfect love, let love be the foundation of our character as it is with you, that our lives…
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A Collect to Love the Lord Our God
O Lord our God, who is above all, incline our hearts to love you with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, that we would value what…
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A Collect to Remember Those We Have Lost (All Souls Day)
God of the living, into whose care all who believe will rest, we remember this day those who have gone before us, who we have lost and we…
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A Collect to Be One People (All Saint’s Day)
O Lord God, who created heaven and earth and will create them anew, gather us together as one people under your reign as you have…
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A Collect to Seek What is First
Pure Lord Jesus, whose heart desires only that which the Father desires, instill in us a will to seek always what is first and of…
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A Collect to Be Inspired to Follow
Son of Man, who longs for us to trust you, work in us those things that will inspire and uplift our hearts so that we would turn to…
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A Collect for Trust Making Us Whole
Almighty and Compassionate God, our hearts long in deep places to be made whole. Strengthen our faith, that as we present ourselves…
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A Collect of Thanks for God’s Invitation to Participate with Him
Great teacher, who calls us into relationship and growth, we thank you for inviting us into your work in us, that we would neither…
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A Collect to Throw Off Our Old Life
Good Shepherd, who invites us to come into his flock, give us such hope and joy in you that we would throw off all those things that are…
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A Collect for Persistence
Lord God of hosts, who was and is and is to come, keep us from losing heart, and give us persistence in seeking you out, that the world…