Prayer

Loving Creator,

We pray that our faith in your loving Kin(g)dom* be steadfast and true, and that when called to testify on its behalf, we answer the call with conviction, as did Peter, the ordinary man whose faith anchored your Church.

We pray that you open our hearts and our minds to your call, as you did Peter’s, and that we honor and follow it wherever it may lead, no matter the difficulty or uncertainty.  

And we pray that our hands and our works do justice to your call, to build, step by step, day-by-day, the Kin(g)dom of God among our brothers and sisters.

*a rearticulation that gendered associations and a reminder that we belong to one family.