Cantica Gaudia

Season of Easter: Tuesday Noonday Prayer

Opening: Let your gentleness be known to everyone: God is near.

Psalm: You are sovereign
Clothed with goodness
Dressed in strength

And so the world is firmly established
And it cannot be moved

You, addressed by the world’s voice
Are firmly established from the first
And before and after the first

The rivers have been lifted
The rivers’ cries, the rivers’ shouts have been lifted
The rivers have lifted their dark waves

But more than the thunder of the waters
More than the thumping of the seas
Is you

Your witnessing is steadfast
Your house is ever whole

Even past the end of time

Reading: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way to the place where I am going." Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?" Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him."

The Lord’s Prayer: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be,
Father and Mother of us all,
Loving God, in whom is heaven

The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom
Sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love,
Now and for ever.  Amen.

Prayer: Come Holy Spirit, our helper and advocate:
Open our hearts and minds this day,
Entice us with your presence.
Spark us with a word of life –
A message that we may share with others
As we seek to live Christ’s love in the world.
All this we ask in the name of God,
Who creates, redeems, and sustains us.  Amen.

Going Forth: May the risen Christ give us his peace. Amen.