Mothering Sunday, Additional Collect (Redub)

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God of love,

your bond with us is

like a mother's with her child.

Jesus, like a mother, you

gather your children together.

Inspire us, by your Spirit,

to bring your love to birth

in our world.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 6.01 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 13.48 years.

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

The Mothering Sunday Collection of 5 prayers is here.

You can also look at the full Index of Prayers.

The project began Advent 2012 and the first phase concludes in 2016.

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