This prayer can be used in conjunction with the Palm Sunday drama, Sunday Morning Live.
Pray with me.
God of Promise,
we are taken by surprise at each Palm Sunday parade.
We so want Jesus to be powerful, a ruler who will smite the world of all evil,
and make all things good and easy for us.
Rather, he comes in humility to serve,
and calls us to have the strength to be humble servants.
Hosanna, save us from ourselves, that we might be the best we can be.
In the words of St Francis,
“Make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
[Eternal One],
grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life.”
Show us the Way this Holy Week, O Eternal One. Amen.
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- photo by Ben Ulrich
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- photo by Ben Ulrich
