Walking on water Opening Prayers Taken from Psalm 8 All:
How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!
Leader: Your majesty is praised above the heavens;
on the lips of children and of babes you have found praise to foil your enemy, to silence the foe and the rebel.
Group: When I see the heavens, the work of your hands,
the moon and the stars which you arranged, what are we that you should keep us in mind, men and women that you care for us?
Leader: Yet you have made us little less than gods;
and crowned us with glory and honour, gave us power over the works of your hands, put all things under our feet.
All:
How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!
All:
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
As we come together let us, either aloud or in the silence of our hearts, give thanks and praise to the Lord for all the things we have accomplished, the joys experienced, graces received and people met over the past week. Let us also remember all those in need of our prayers. Introduction to the Scripture reading Let us listen carefully to the Word of the Lord, and attend to it with the ear of our hearts. Let us welcome it, and faithfully put it into practice. St. Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) adapted
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