Cantica Gaudia

Season of Lent: Tuesday Compline

Confession: Gracious God, we come before you in need of forgiveness and grace. You call us to trust in you completely, but we do not. We are timid and fearful as we follow your lead. We justify our actions and words, though we know they are not what you require. We struggle to understand the new life Christ offers, preferring old habits to risky change. Forgive us, we pray. Help us to be born again into the life of Christ, trusting that you have included us by grace into the family of grace. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.

Canticle: Christ revealed our frailty and our falling,
Our trespasses and our humiliations.
Christ also revealed his blessed power,
His blessed wisdom and love.
He protects us as tenderly and as sweetly when we are in greatest need;
He raises us in spirit and turns everything to glory and joy without ending.
God is the ground and the substance, the very essence of nature;
God is the true father and mother of natures.
We are all bound to God by nature,
And we are all bound to God by grace.
And this grace is for all the world,
Because it is our precious mother, Christ.
For this fair nature was prepared by Christ for the honor and nobility of all,
And for the joy and bliss of salvation.

Reading: Our failing is dreadful, our falling is shameful, and our dying is sorrowful: but in all this the sweet eye of pity and love is lifted never off us, nor the working of mercy ceaseth.

The Lord’s Prayer: Creator of all,
Alive in all things and greater than all things,
Your naming be held holy.
Your vision of our goodness be made manifest throughout the universe,
And your desires for us brought to fulfillment.
Give us that which is essential for our growth and work.
Offer forgiveness and healing to us as we forgive and heal those around us.
Protect us from unnecessary suffering and wasteful pain.
For all that is beautiful, strong and glorious has its roots in you
and expresses your will and your nature, which we share in, unendingly.  Amen.

Prayer:  Be present, Spirit of God,
Within us, your dwelling place and home,
That this house may be one where
All darkness is penetrated by your light,
All troubles calmed by your peace,
All evil redeemed by your love,
All pain transformed in your suffering,
And all dying glorified in your risen life.  Amen.

Blessing: 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.