Cantica Gaudia

Season of Easter: Monday Noonday Prayer

Opening: Victory is ours through him who loves us. Alleluia!

Psalm: Open for me the gates of uprightness
I will enter them and give thanks
This is the gate that belongs to you
The gate the upright enter

I give thanks to you for you have answered me
Become my rescue

The stone that the builders rejected
Is now become the cornerstone
Because of you
And it is miraculous to our eyes

This is the day you have made
In it we will be glad and rejoice
And we pray: Send us happiness

Blessed is the one who comes in your name
Whom we bless out of your house
You are our sovereign, our light

Glory to God, who made us, who bears our pain, and who loves us. 
As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever.  Amen.

Reading: Sophia! You of the whirling wings, circling encompassing energy of God: you quicken the world in your clasp. One wing soars in heaven, one wing sweeps the earth, and the third flies all around us. Praise to Sophia! Let all the earth praise her!

The Lord’s Prayer: Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done
On earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
As we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial
And deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours
Now and for ever.  Amen.

Prayer:  Holy and incarnate one, at whose unexpected touch the ordinary world is charged with God: we pray for those whose hardship is overwhelming, who cannot find a way out; who live in poverty, anxiety, and hunger; whose lives are fearful or lonely; who are exploited, exhausted or ill. For the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.

We pray for those whose ambition is overwhelming, who do not want to find you; whose lives are choked with overwork or consumption; who have chosen an unreal path; who have hardened their hearts. For the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.

We pray for those who have begun to find you, and are overwhelmed; for whom the risk of healing is too painful; who are afraid of your embrace, and fear your energetic power to reconstitute the world. For the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. Amen.

Going Forth: Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine; glory to God from generation to generation in the Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen.