Carol Service Collects: Hope for a new creation (Redub)

God of all things and all people,
 give us grace

to throw off that which diminishes 
and

put on the clothes of eternal peace instead.

May we begin this, 
now,

in the time of our earthly lives.

We would like to be like Jesus, the Christ,

who came and lived with us, plainly and simply.

When, at the last, 
Christ makes a glorious return,

with mercy and love, may we come alive,
in God, in the new creation.

either

Amen.

or


through Christ who is alive and reigns with you,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
 one God, now and for ever. Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 9.42 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 40.58 years.

This is a redub of the Collect for 'The First Sunday of Advent'.
It may be suitable for use after the relevant reading/s at a Carol Service.

Carol Service Collection

Index of Prayers (writing project runs from Advent 2012 to Advent 2013).