Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

O faithful God, whose steadfast love is sure,
O loving Father, Mother kind and strong;
your covenant forever will endure;
you bind us to your heart our whole life long.
No matter how rebellious is your child,
in you we are brought home and reconciled.

Gracious God, at this moment, Christians around the world are gathered at this
very table. We are among sisters and brothers in every land. Open our hearts
and minds to your presence in the Body of Christ around the world. Help us to
hear, to belong, and to gather others at your table. May we all hear your Word,
hear your love, in the Spirit of Christ. Makes us one, Love; make us one.
Speak to us; we are your children, and we are listening. Amen

O Lord, our God, Creator and Ruler of the universe, we give you thanks for
giving us salvation through Jesus Christ, our Savior, whose work for peace and
unity we commemorate today. We join our voices with choirs of angels, with
prophets, apostles, and martyrs, and with all the faithful of every time and
place, whoever laud your holy name.
Holy, holy, holy, Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full
of your glory.

We thank you, Jesus Christ, for risking yourself among us, vulnerable and
rejected; for living among us and teaching the radical hope of God; and
teaching peace to a world bent on vengeance and destruction.
You confronted adversity, animosity, and the challenges of the world, even in crucifixion; yet you overcame and emerged renewed, demonstrating the possibility for transformation and new beginnings for us.

Speak to us again through these gifts of bread and cup with which we celebrate you dying and rising. Christ dies, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.

Gracious God pour out your Holy Spirit upon us, and upon these symbols
of your body and blood, that the bread we break together, and the cup we
share may restate our common purpose of telling our stories of Jesus
love and his desire for unity among his children. Amen.

God , we give thanks for the diversity and unity of the human family, and for
your grace in the ways we honor that gift. And we confess the ways we resist
our unity, resist our diversity, judge those who are not like us, and ignore our
siblings including our sisters and brothers of the First Nation people.
Heal our fear, forgive our sin, and renew in us your loving Spirit.

Relentlessly God seeks us out. With abundant grace and boundless mercy,
across time and space and through the generations. God seeks us out.
This is good news!

Holy God, we are one in your love, and we thank you. It is not our beliefs or
our faith that unite us but your love for us all that make us one. Those who are
like us and those who are different, all are beloved and all are made one.
People of every continent and every race all join us at the table of grace. We
give our hearts to God, Creator of all people. We follow Jesus Christ, who
embodied God’s infinite love for insiders and outsiders, and who created a
community of love, not doctrine.

In his Spirit, we are all one Body, members of one another.
In his death and resurrection we witness the triumph of divine love over human
divisions. In his death and resurrection we witness the triumph of divine love
over human divisions. In the breaking of bread together we celebrate the
wondrous diversity of the Body of Christ, and we enact his vision of our unity
and our companionship.

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