The Greater Our Greed Becomes: Prayer of Confession for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Poster for Wall Street (1987)

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Wall Street, of course, is the film in which Gordon Gekko, the Michael Douglas character, says, “Greed is good.”

KRT

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Prayer Source = James G. Kirk, When We Gather:  A Book of Prayers for Worship, Year C (Philadelphia, PA:  Geneva Press, 1985)

Corresponds to Proper 21

http://ordinarytimedevotions.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/proper-21-year-c/

http://ordinarytimedevotions.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/proper-21-year-b/

http://ordinarytimedevotions.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/proper-21-year-a/

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Said in unison:

God of grace, we stand in need of your forgiveness.  Desiring to be rich, we fall into temptation.  Love of money ensnares us.  Enough does not satisfy:  the more we acquire, the greater our greed becomes.  We become prosperous in our own eyes, and poor in your sight.  Rescue us from self-destruction through Christ, the giver of life.

Prayer of Praise and Adoration for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost:

https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/prayer-of-praise-and-adoration-for-the-nineteenth-sunday-after-pentecost/

Prayer of Dedication for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost:

https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/prayer-of-dedication-for-the-nineteenth-sunday-after-pentecost/