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Additional liturgical resources for Lent 107

Bella, an ex-heroin addict recently reinstated on the caravan site, shouted: ‘Listen
son, this place gives me hope, and you need a bit of hope. We all need a bit of
hope.’
Dock woke up: ‘Are there any cakes tonight?’ And the real work of justice began.

Louise Glen-Lee

It’s us again

Prayer of approach

Here we are; it’s us again –
bothering you, and wondering
if we would want to be bothered.

Yet here we are, too late to turn back,
ground down by evil, lifted up by hope,
and reaching out
for more than we see, hear, conceive or imagine.

Prayer of confession

Sorry about last week.
Things got on top of me.

I walked on by; turned up the volume.

Left you to get on with
what was mine to do.

All right,
never mind the accidents and the failures,
let’s do a deal:
Sorry for the things that I knew were wrong,
alone or in company,
but went ahead and did
or left undone.