Collect

​Almighty and everlasting God,
you are always more ready to hear than we to pray
and to give more than either we desire or deserve:
pour down upon us the abundance of your mercy,
forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid
and giving us those good things
  which we are not worthy to ask
but through the merits and mediation
of Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

 

​​​​​​​Reading

Isaiah 51.1–6

Listen to me, you that pursue righteousness,
  you that seek the Lord.
Look to the rock from which you were hewn,
  and to the quarry from which you were dug.
Look to Abraham your father
  and to Sarah who bore you;
for he was but one when I called him,
  but I blessed him and made him many.
For the Lord will comfort Zion;
  he will comfort all her waste places,
and will make her wilderness like Eden,
  her desert like the garden of the Lord;
joy and gladness will be found in her,
  thanksgiving and the voice of song.

Listen to me, my people,
  and give heed to me, my nation;
for a teaching will go out from me,
  and my justice for a light to the peoples.

 I will bring near my deliverance swiftly,
  my salvation has gone out
  and my arms will rule the peoples;
the coastlands wait for me,
  and for my arm they hope.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
  and look at the earth beneath;
for the heavens will vanish like smoke,
  the earth will wear out like a garment,
  and those who live on it will die like gnats;
but my salvation will be for ever,
  and my deliverance will never be ended.

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​​​Post Communion​

God of all mercy,
in this eucharist you have set aside our sins
and given us your healing:
grant that we who are made whole in Christ
may bring that healing to this broken world,
in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.