Gracious God, you promise never to forsake us, but to bring us to life, nurture us with your presence, and sustain us throughout our life. By your Spirit, meet us in our deepest doubts when we feel abandoned, drowning in our fear of your absence. Visit us in the tension between the value we place upon ourselves and the eternal value with which you have blessed us.
Holy Father, Father of Christ who called the outcast into communion with your promise, call us to seek good and to meet oppression with justice. Teach us to find salvation in the emptying of ourselves for the sake of those in need, so that goodness may prevail and your kingdom come.
Sovereign Lord, Father of all in the power of the Spirit, bless us with your gift of faith, helping us to understand that economies may come and go, yet your oikonomia, your economy, your household, will have no end. We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever, as we continue to pray saying:
Our Father, who art in heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.