Prayer of Confession for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Salvator Mundi, by Titian

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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 19

http://ordinarytimedevotions.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/proper-19-year-a/

http://ordinarytimedevotions.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/proper-19-year-b/

http://ordinarytimedevotions.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/proper-19-year-c/

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Said in unison:

Praise be unto you, God of mercy and might, and to your only-begotten, our Savior Christ Jesus.  In spite of our sin, Christ calls us to ministry.  Christ is patient and loving, reflecting your nature.  We dishonor your name and persecute our neighbors; we are not deserving of the trust you place in us.  We confess  our wrongdoing and plead your forgiveness; through Christ accept us and cleanse us of all sin.