God of all power and love.
we give thanks for your unfailing presence
and the hope you provide in times of uncertainty and loss.
Send your Holy Spirit to enkindle in us your holy fire.
Revive us to live as Christ’s body in the world:
a people who pray, worship, learn,
break bread, share life, heal neighbors,
bear good news, seek justice, rest and grow in the Spirit.
Wherever and however we gather,
unite us in common prayer and send us in common mission,
that we and the whole creation might be restored and renewed,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
—This prayer will be used at the Pentecost service at our National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. It was written by a team of Lutherans and Episcopalians to commemorate nearly twenty years of full communion between the the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Our Presiding Bishop asks us to use this prayer from Pentecost through the first Sunday in September.
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