Let us pray together the prayer that Jesus himself has taught us: Our Father……. Individual Confession Presider: We now have the opportunity for individual confession. (offer your parish instructions regarding confession stations) After each of us has been to confession, we are invited you to come forward and pick up a small pocket stone/cross/crucifix/prayer card/scripture to serve as an everyday reminder to always be merciful and forgiving. (The parish provides enough of one of the items listed for everyone present. Scripture cards can be made in the parish using one of the readings from this service. Prayer cards can easily be made in the parish using the opening prayer listed in this service, changing the plural pronouns to singular. A bag of beautiful garden stones can be purchased inexpensively at a garden shop. Small crosses or crucifixes can be purchased inexpensively online or at a religious goods store.) Closing Prayer (after everyone has been to confession) Presider: Let us pray…… (silence) Merciful God, We praise you and thank you for your gift of forgiveness. In this Jubilee Year of Mercy, call us to our better selves. Guide us in your way of goodness and truth. Make us instruments of your merciful love. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. AMEN Blessing and Dismissal Presider: May the God of love and mercy bless you. All: Amen Presider: May the God of wisdom and truth touch your heart. All: Amen Presider: May the God of all holiness guide your path. All: Amen Presider: Let us go forth and be the face of love and mercy in our world. Closing Song Suggestion: God of Day and God of Darkness, BEACH SPRING, with text by Marty Haugen, GIA There’s A Wideness in God’s Mercy God Be In My Head, Grayson Warren Brown, OCP
Let us pray together the prayer that Jesus himself has taught us: Our Father……. Individual Confession Presider: We now have the opportunity for individual confession. (offer your parish instructions regarding confession stations) After each of us has been to confession, we are invited you to come forward and pick up a small pocket stone/cross/crucifix/prayer card/scripture to serve as an everyday reminder to always be merciful and forgiving. (The parish provides enough of one of the items listed for everyone present. Scripture cards can be made in the parish using one of the readings from this service. Prayer cards can easily be made in the parish using the opening prayer listed in this service, changing the plural pronouns to singular. A bag of beautiful garden stones can be purchased inexpensively at a garden shop. Small crosses or crucifixes can be purchased inexpensively online or at a religious goods store.) Closing Prayer (after everyone has been to confession) Presider: Let us pray…… (silence) Merciful God, We praise you and thank you for your gift of forgiveness. In this Jubilee Year of Mercy, call us to our better selves. Guide us in your way of goodness and truth. Make us instruments of your merciful love. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. AMEN Blessing and Dismissal Presider: May the God of love and mercy bless you. All: Amen Presider: May the God of wisdom and truth touch your heart. All: Amen Presider: May the God of all holiness guide your path. All: Amen Presider: Let us go forth and be the face of love and mercy in our world. Closing Song Suggestion: God of Day and God of Darkness, BEACH SPRING, with text by Marty Haugen, GIA There’s A Wideness in God’s Mercy God Be In My Head, Grayson Warren Brown, OCP