Thursday, January 10, 2013

Baptism of Christ, 1st Sunday of Epiphany, Collect (Redub)

Loving God,
your love is stronger than death.
You showed your great love for
your son Jesus at his baptism.
Your Holy Spirit helped him sense you.
We pray that we will also feel your
presence close at hand.
We ask that we will discover what
it is to be a child loved by God.
Help us be transformed by your love
so we may dare to change the world.
Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 5.24 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 29.53 years.

Here's the information on how this prayer is a redub.

Baptism of Christ Collection of 5 prayers is here.

You can also look at the full Index of Prayers.

The project runs from Advent 2012: the first stage concludes in 2016.

If you want to use the prayers, an acknowledgement of myself as author and, if there's space, the url to my blog would be much appreciated.

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