Morning and Evening Prayer from The Book of Common Prayer. What a wonderful resource! We confess that we have hidden from the light, from the light which exposes everything, the love and the hate, the good deeds and the harmful ones. The healing of our pride and fear and apathy. At the same time, it should indicate that the character of God and the saving work of the Lord Jesus are the basis for seeking forgiveness and the grace to change. The traditional Catholic Confession begins with the Penitent kneeling down behind a screen and making a sign of the cross and then saying: "Bless me father for I have sinned. Holy God, hear our prayer. To stand at the foot of the cross, to witness the suffering of an innocent man, is to be humbled in a profound way. We come before God in silence and in prayer, to open our hearts to our Creator, the one who heals, loves, and forgives. Friends, let us proclaim the Good News: And we are not only forgiven, we are also freed. We have disregarded your words, The fear that stifles us, PRAYER OF CONFESSION Please feel free to use whatever is useful. Open our hands and eyes, move our feet, toward grace and hope and trust in You. Thanks be to God! Blessings to you in your ministry! We haven’t done anything too awful, not yet. Amen. Help us set aside our prejudice and bias. There is pain and there is sorrow, there are broken relationships and broken hearts. Holy God, we admit to You that all is not right – in our hearts and in our world. Gracious God, our Wonderful Counselor, the Almighty God, Fill us with a longing to know you better. So help us, dear Lord. When we box you in, *PRAYER OF CONFESSION I have followed my own way and refused to give You the right to rule in and over my life. Pain in this city, this nation, and this world. I was very moved by your comments about the extra dirt piles in the cemetery. If confession prayer is new to you, you might want to pray something like this: Lord, you are merciful and loving. We come to you to confess. When we are complacent, O God, set a fire in our bellies. I have hoarded. Loving Mystery, we have tried and succeeded, and we have tried and failed. *INVITATION TO CONFESSION AND RESPONSIVE PRAYER Thanks for sharing your gift of word and your heart with us. renew me, send me out Amen. We have disbelieved your mercy, PRAYER OF CONFESSION Holy One: at times when we hear the bad news of the world, it is as though we’ve been in the middle of a bad dream, and then we turn over and go back to sleep, ignoring the plight of your children. “Come and see,” You said, and we looked around once more – We know, too, that you are stronger than even hate and fear and prejudice. Amen. Each prayer should include not only admission of our sins, but a request for forgiveness. You hear us say “Thy will be done” and “use me, O God” New every day is God’s love for us, and so new every day is our opportunity to come to the Creator who loves us with the truth of our lives. A Prayer of Confession . Holy God, all is not right. Beth, these prayers are beautiful. In Christ’s name we pray. Bear the burdens we feel and create. Trusting God’s love for us, let us make our confession, first in silent prayer. And in silence, let us offer God the whole of our hearts. For those times when we have not spoken up; for those times when we have not acted; for those times when we have not responded: forgive us. Forgive us when we ignore your children who cry out in distress. Heal your world, and heal us, that we might go out and be people of salvation, not of destruction. CALL TO CONFESSION PRAYER OF CONFESSION So help us in all of this, so that we truly are your partners in service and mission. I’m glad they help. To confess is to admit – to admit something that might make us feel guilty or ashamed or sad. Sometimes we are terribly sorry, and sometimes we are terribly smug. Know that we are forgiven, and be at peace. Trusting in God’s mercy, let us make our confession. Remind us that there is hope when all we see around us makes us despair. Blessings, Would like to use one of your confessions in a worship service on Sunday, July 21 in Great Falls, VA. We will give you credit. And in our attempts at understanding, whittle away all mystery. Amen. In your mercy, O God, forgive who we are and bless who we will be. . I would like your permission to use your liturgy that includes the “Come and see” prayer. Let us proclaim the Good News: We hear the taunts, and pretend our words are always sweet. So we thank you, and ask for your forgiveness, and pray that you will stay with us throughout the journey. His path is one of forgiveness and renewal. I have a congregation with an education that spans from barely made it out of a village school in Africa to PhDs, and this liturgy meets everyone. Life is full – full of good things and full of hard things. Alleluia, amen. As we worship you in this place, As we light these candles in hope, peace, and joy. In the same way that we cleanse our hands by washing as we begin a day, so it is good to remind ourselves in prayer that without the presence of God's Spirit … And we saw our failure. We confess to you that all is not well, that we grieve the loss of many things and people. As a Catholic follower of Christ, I must make an effort to recognize sin in my daily actions, words and omissions. I will give credit and citation.l Please let me know if there is any fee for this and thank you for your beautiful writing. Great God of all creation, who are we that you are mindful of us? We would rather debate our equals than defend the vulnerable. Give us strength to do our part. I have ignored. Father, forgive me, Endings and Blessings. I just discovered your site with your thoughtfully written prayers. *INVITATION TO CONFESSION Here are the ancient prayers of confession that Pastor Bob mentioned in a recent message. Trusting in the mercy and love of our God, let us pray, first in silence. The good we do seems to fall flat, and the wrong we do gets magnified. Let us open our hearts, minds, and souls to the One who loves us without condition, trusting that we will receive grace and mercy. I will tweak some a bit to fit and use them with our congregation if I may. It is in our confession where we realize our desire for God and our hope for God’s mercy. Thank you for sharing your gift! So often we come to you at a loss – at a loss for the right words, the right deeds, the right feelings. With clenched hands, we can neither give nor receive. As we begin the season of Lent, we are invited by God to examine our own spirits, to see what is growing, to see what needs pruning, to see what needs encouragement. Sometimes we are simply a part of them – we are the ones who suffer, we are the ones who are broken. We saw weapons and blood; Be with us always, and by your merits and prayers keep us safe and sound and protect us. And we are not only forgiven, we are also freed. That You will change our hearts and minds, I want to be transparent with what has come up for me in and through your prayer, in the mind of this text as it speaks to me. Shower us with grace so that we will be made new, That distance is sometimes a force of evil, when something conspires against us. What a blessing you are! Turn us around to you; heal us, and make us whole, we pray. A Collection of 10 Ancient and Modern Prayers for Lent. We saw daisies and peonies and daphne; But these you have written are — meaningful! ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS We have broken your law times without number, and are guilty of pride, unbelief, self-centeredness and idolatry. Hie Bath, Will be using your confession this Sunday. A Collection of 10 Ancient and Modern Prayers for Lent. We allow the Savior to die. Let us live and move and have our being in you, O God. INVITATION TO CONFESSION We are people with unclean hands and unclean hearts. Restore us, renew us, and give us the strength, courage, and love we need to be your gracious people. Trusting that God is grace, let us offer to God the truth of our lives, first in silent prayer. I’m glad they are of help. One of your prayers of confession has inspired me as I prepare for worship in the coming weeks. In this world where there is much hurt, hurt that we sometimes cause, for not acknowledging that we allow your children in our time to suffer. Amen. Enable us to let go of that which does not matter, and to see what does matter. That You will put power and courage in our hearts to do your will. I am a retired Presbyterian Pastor and was asked to lead an Ash Wednesday service for United Campus Ministries here in Terre Haute, IN. For fear of admitting our part in the separation, We are easily distracted by the next important thing; Lost and afraid, we become stubborn and intractable. Help us to share, to see, to live gratefully. Blessings to you in your ministry. Sisters and brothers in Christ, let us proclaim the Good News: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven. Amen. Forgive us, and show us Your kindness, that we might do the same. Holy God, remind us that we are loved when we find ourselves unlovable. Amen. However, we know from the Bible that often we need to quiet ourselves to hear the voice of God. Am I correct in thinking that you’ve written all of these confessions? For First Sunday in Lent: Give us grace to reach out when that is frightening or uncomfortable. I gave them for a moment, then withdrew them, The following is not so much a prayer of confession, but excerpted from an essay on the nature of confession. included in that love. God is many things to us: Creator, Father, Mother, Judge, Healer, Love, Mystery. CALL TO CONFESSION Will it be ‘love’? and be at peace. With our heads bowed and our hearts held high, let us bring to God all that is in our hearts, the whole of our lives. Although it is not mandatory, the Catholic rite is traditionally conducted within a confessional box or booth. As Christ calls us. Thanks be to God! Patient Lord, we are a culture that wants the quick and easy answers to all of life’s problems. CALL TO CONFESSION. His love and mercy should come as no surprise to us. I closed them, for I did not want to see. In our trials, we seek your justice. Blessings to you in your ministry. Help us to discern what does matter to you and to the vulnerable you call us to. I have turned away. Hear us now say, “Help us to change; turn us around, Untie the knots of envy and disappointment that dwell in our hearts. And women lug water for miles, In humility and faith, let us confess our sin to God. Let us come before God with the whole of our lives, the good, the bad, and the holy. More Confession Prayers (9) The Sacrament of Penance is the method of the Church by which individual men and women may confess sins committed after baptism and have them absolved by a priest. This page is a very helpful resource. Beth, I am pastor of a Covenant Church. Kindle in us passion for your work. To look clearly at our lives and the world, We ask for your mercy and grace, and we ask for your help, to give us courage and strength to live as you would have us live. In this week as I walk your path and sometimes stumble, Encourage us and change us, help us and inspire us, Beth, thank your for these very meaningful and beautiful prayers. For not loving our neighbor in the same way; Prayers of confession and repentance. Thank you, Elizabeth, and blessings on you and your flock! In this time of quiet, may we look within, and offer God the wholeness and truth of our lives. The pain we have inflicted on others, In Christ, who gave us those qualities and who taught us all we need to know, we pray. Help us, we pray, that we will In Jesus Christ we are forgiven. We pray for the courage to admit our fault, O Holy God, we know we have fallen short. Let us open our hearts and minds to the truth of our lives, and let us offer that truth to God. Friends, hear this Good News: the love of God is beyond measure, and you are Hear now our silent confession, offered to you in hope. The tiny light that is always present, that sliver that comes from an unknown place, Show us your power to transform hearts and minds. I am preaching on the story of the “bent-over woman.”. We ask for your healing. We put our trust in God, in our Lady, and in you, holy martyr. Merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed. James Millsaps on prayer of confession and assurance of pardon – wash and be clean; A Message of HOPE – The Wandering Priest on benedictions for Advent; A whisper of Hope – Worship @ Home, Advent Sunday, 29 November 2020 | Prophetable … COMMUNAL PRAYER We bring our confession to this God, trusting that the fullness of the divine will hear our plea and grant us mercy that makes us whole again. Aware of our shortcomings and confident of God’s grace, let us make our confession, first in silent prayer. We would rather pursue intellectual arguments than live the gospel. The Spirit works through you mightily! The doubt that plagues us. Hear our cry, Almighty God. Thank You, Father, that You have promised to hear the prayers and petitions of Your servants and to nourish us with the body and blood of Your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Trusting in God’s grace and mercy, let us make our confession. Please feel free to use whatever is useful for you and blessings in your ministry! In the days that have been, O God, we have walked along crooked paths strewn with our selfishness and greed, our prejudice, and our apathy. *COMMUNAL PRAYER Hi, Justin – I’m glad you find the prayers useful! We know that with you, nothing is impossible, not even our healing, Your prayers are wonderful and heart felt, and thank you so much for being so generous and inviting in encouraging us to use them. SILENT CONFESSION For being so smug, so anxious, so mean Help us to set aside all our jealousies and prejudices, all of our betrayals and lies, all that adds to the world’s hurt. Amen. Hear our cry, Almighty God. Thanks so much for sharing your gift with so many who need it. All fall short of the glory of God. Planning on using some of your prayers of confession in our upcoming services. And we know that fear stops us in our tracks, hinders our action, and gives excuse for not doing what you call us to do and what you empower us to do. Sisters and brothers in Christ, the mercies of God are from everlasting to everlasting. You count the hairs on our heads, and call us each by name. Trusting in God’s grace and love, let us make our confession, first in silent prayer. Prayers of Praise and Confession by Joy Kingsbury-Aitken The Darkness of Our Doubts Lord, when the darkness of our doubts robs us of the light of your promises, when our focus on what we cannot do prevents us from seeing what You can do through us, when our vision becomes clouded with prejudices so that we cannot see that we are being more For not loving you in the same way: Savior, like a shepherd lead us; So let us pray with one another, first in silence. Sin may be our self-induced separation from God. (images link to posts) Alphabetical archive of all ‘Words of Confession’ resources . Let us go out into the world as people made new by God. Each of us works to cope with the easy and with the sad, and sometimes as we try to manage all that life hands us, we ignore the pain of someone else, the struggle of another. Friends, let us proclaim the Good News: Email I will borrow and adapt from your gift – if they inspire me, they will inspire others. In all of this, forgive the wrong that we have done, and the bless the good we have accomplished. Merciful and loving God: when we are ungrateful, remind us of your grace. In this season of short days and long nights, we may find ourselves restless in the evening, too much on our minds and hearts. Alleluia, Amen. From one another and from You. Not even the restoration of the whole world. A Prayer of Confession. I believe life is a gift but now and then it feels burdensome, so I cook some more or cut up some paper or text a friend. We will be different, if you will change us, and remake us, again, in your image. Let us pray, first in silence. I’m glad they are of use! We thank you for day and night, for darkness and light, for the strife and the joy, and for making us whole. In Jesus Christ we are forgiven. Loving and merciful God, you know our hearts and you know our lives. We have buried you so deeply in our hearts, the world doesn't see you. I gave them for a moment, then withdrew them, for the work was hard. But we aren’t. New every morning is God’s love for us, and so we are bold to proclaim the Good News: And hear now our silent prayers. In our weakness, we seek your strength. Our hands are clenched, O God – In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven! And we ignore it. 0. Trusting in that divine love, let us pray, first in silence. The most visited entries in early 2020 have been “Kyrie Eleison / Lord, Have Mercy,” “In the Midst of Life We Are in Death,” “Litany of the Holy Spirit” and “Litany of the Most Holy Trinity.”. We saw the happy faces of friends; Remind us every day that there is light at the end of the tunnel. We do not add beauty to the world. We look to the darkness and not to the light. Hear our confession of sin and wrongdoing. Are you ok if we use them in worship, knowing that in these Coronavirus days they will be recorded and on our church YouTube channel as part of the service? ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS Forgive us, and more than that, Prayers of Confession and Pardon. And so we thank you. Help us look deep within ourselves for our own fault. Let us offer up the good we have left undone: Dear Beth, Words of Assurance In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven! Words seeking the deepest places Words for rigorous honesty Words to cleanse the spirit, mind and soul Newest posts . So we ask for your forgiveness, and we ask for your healing. Amen. We would be different – less judging, less selfish, less greedy; more hopeful, more graceful, more trusting. UNISON PRAYER OF CONFESSION Turn us around, and give us new eyes to see; eyes to see hope in the clouds, eyes to see life in the blade of grass, to see power in the water and stone. Amen. Transform us with your grace. Shall I site your writings at in apportion of our bulletin? We have forsaken others. Beth, in our United Church of Christ congregation we haven’t been using Confessions. Paths that lead to dread and death. I would like not only to use the prayer, but also to adapt and adopt it for the Sunday I have in mind. Blessings in your ministry! I give you the last word, O God. I preach in a range of denominations and find the ‘official’ prayers offered in each church rather restrictive – and it is the one area that is ‘easy’ for congregations to switch off. And we saw our own minds, so smart yet timid; We know that You love us, that you do not abandon us, We confess to you our part in those things. Change ). Lord, have mercy. Mend us, we pray, and make us new creations Take what is broken and mend it; take what is wrong and right it; take what is destructive and disable it; take what is useless and make it useful. Amen. You who set the stars in motion, who launched waves crashing against the shore, who knows the heights and depths of the world; Why do you bother with us? And you watch us do nothing in response to cries for help. For the mending of our hearts, torn apart by our unkindness; We pray for your forgiveness, and we pray to be forgiven. COMMUNAL PRAYER Unless we acknowledge our sins and ask for God's forgiveness, we cannot receive the grace that we need to become better Christians. Hear our prayer. *PRAYER OF CONFESSION PRAYER OF CONFESSION We turn away from You, from our neighbor, and from our true selves. “Come and see,” You said, and we looked around – Forgive us for thinking that we are the source of power and beauty and life. When we seek God’s mercy, we draw close the mystery of faith: love that cannot be undone by our sin. Share on Facebook. This we pray in Jesus’ name. God who blesses us so abundantly, who gives us so much, also promises us grace and love. Posted on November 14, 2018 April 27, 2019 Categories Christian Prayer, Prayers of the Middle Ages (Potts) Tags 10th Century, Confessions and Absolutions, dunstan, dunstan of canterbury, litany Leave a comment on Confession and Prayer for Forgiveness Confession of Sins from the Book of Cerne We saw our souls, yearning for You yet still incomplete; “Confession is a stripping away of protection, the telling of a truth which might once have seemed like a humiliation, become suddenly a gateway, an entrance to solid ground; even a first step home. You asked for my eyes Ditto to everything said above. *ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS PRAYER OF CONFESSION Merciful God, we offer you our lives, full as they are of shadow and light, of kindness and apathy, of hope and despair. Thanks & blessings to you from the UK…. We look for what is broken, and not at what is being mended. SILENT CONFESSION. We ask for your help to become the people you created us to be. What is confession? I love your prayers. O God, our God, Creator of the stars of night, CALL TO CONFESSION The 'O' Antiphons of Advent. Holy God, hear our prayer. O God who loves us, hear our prayer. We judge when we could seek understanding. May I utilize one of your confession prayers in our worship July 5, 2020? Forgive us when we forget that darkness and light go hand-in-hand; Alleluia! And in humility and hope, we ask for your help to do better, to reconcile, to heal, to soothe, to build up. Thanks be to God for this gift! Amen. Amen. Amen. . Remind us that our hearts and souls have work to do, too. Through Christ we pray. power and addiction; false peace and false community; fear and anger. Forgive us for our human impulses, and change us: We seek your presence, and bask in your love, through Christ. Encourage our hearts, and help us to be your people, to the best of our ability in these strange days. thank you. INVITATION TO CONFESSION AND COMMUNAL PRAYER Friends, this Good News is for all the world: Christ was born, lived and died, and rose Give us grace to forgive others and ourselves. I’ll be using the second prayer, though, on September 6, because it fits better with our “Come to the Table” theme (Worship Design Studio!). Through prayers of confession, we come clean with God about our mistakes and need for God’s grace, preparing our hearts to be cleansed by Christ’s sacrifice and transformed by the Holy Spirit. That we forget we are not always right, or in control, or good; Holy Spirit, you connect us to the love and power of God with your Word, have mercy. And we were afraid. Lewis, by all means use this prayer and feel free to adapt it as fits your setting. God is love. We are also deeply grateful that you are like a potter, shaping and molding us like clay on a spinning wheel. Anger and fear and disappointment rest uneasily in our hearts. *ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS Beth, Amen. But it is not only unclean lips we possess. Each week as a community we set aside time to admit our sin. Amen. Thanks be to God! Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. A prayer to St. Sebastian: Saint Sebastian, guard and defend us, morning and evening, every minute of every hour, and diminish the strength of that vile illness which is threatening us. Amen. that I might take seriously God, make us agents of healing. Indianapolis. turn us around to see all your children, with the truth of their lives, Pingback: EChurch@Wartburg – 8.3.19 Wade Burleson: All That you Will Say I Will Do | The Wartburg Watch 2019, Hi Beth, like others, I would love to use one of your prayers of confession with my congregation in worship. ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS Sisters and brothers in Christ, let us proclaim the Good News: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven, reconciled, loved, and changed. When we are courageous, or down and out, or too weary to do anything else, we admit the truth of our lives. So we ask, once again, for your forgiveness. Amen. Prayers of Confession on Justice . You call us to hold fast to what is good, but so often we flounder, unable to find that solid thing that will center us again. Forgive us for the ways in which we turn from you. We ask that you make us whole, through the love of Jesus. This we pray in Jesus’ name. For fear of being rejected when we reach out. Loving God, Our journey to You often feels like a dance, one step forward and two steps back. Let us come before our God with that which lies heavily in our hearts. But it is only in the deepest dark that we can see Help us not to dwell on vocabulary. You are more beloved than you can ever know, and God is working in you and in the world beyond our wildest imagining. with three modern prayers for your marriage, including a prayer for couples in trouble and one for those in love. Holy God, giver of life and forgiver of sin, We ask for your forgiveness for the harm we have caused. : It may sometimes be helpful to vary the form on particular occasions, in which case one of the confessions … I have gloated. There is pain in the world, O God; The Old Testament psalmists and prophets wove many such prayers of lament into their writings. The agency connects leaders with needed resourcing, training, consulting, and networking that support spiritual… I would like to use some in an upcoming service. PRAYER OF CONFESSION      Holy God, we are an imperfect people and we need your love. I will use the prayer of confession during a service giving you full credit. Gracious Creator, we seek your blessing, knowing that we have not earned it. Amen. When, Lord, did we see you? Maybe our small errors add up; or maybe there is no degree to sin, that one is as hurtful as another. Let us pray together: Authorized Forms of Confession and Absolution. Sometimes we fear that when we confess all that is wrong, we will be exposed and condemned. He uses them in his personal prayer time and would recommend them for others as well, substituting I/my for we/our. Amen. Our lives are often marked by merriment, but beneath that looms the Other: our worry; our sorrow; our shame, our guilt, our grief. I have hated. Within the strength of community, in the power of silence, we come before God with the truth of our lives, trusting in the mercy and love of our Creator. Holy God, You sent Your Son Jesus to be our peace, and yet we know so much strife and war, in the world, in our communities, in our churches, and within ourselves. Inspirational prayers for Churches and individuals, calls to worship, blessings, ourselves, healing, discipleship, adoration, confession, times of disaster and the world We do not know what we will find there. In our faults, we seek your blessing. Let us greet with world as people made new in Christ. In the midst of separation, God longs for reconciliation, walking toward us, and inviting us to walk toward our God. . PRAYER OF CONFESSION Forgive us. We admit we make You too small. Your prayers are a blessing. Grateful for all that we cannot know. In Christ we pray. Gracious and merciful God, you know us. Amen. Most High God, hear our prayer. Friends, hear the Good News: the mercy of God is from everlasting to everlasting. More Confession Prayers (9) The Sacrament of Penance is the method of the Church by which individual men and women may confess sins committed after baptism and have them absolved by a priest. Thank you for the beautiful prayers! Lord of Christmas Peace, we have done wrong. By your Spirit, teach us to live truly as beings little lower than angels. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. By your Spirit, Amen. Evening Prayer. In the season of Lent we are invited to consider how we live as followers of Christ – to look at our decisions and our actions straight on, and to hold them up to the example of Christ, and to make amends. However we understand sin, let us offer to God what lies heavily in our hearts this day, first in silent prayer. “Come and see,” You said, and we looked around – What do we confess this day? 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