THE GOSPEL
John 12:20-33I am troubled now. Yet what should I say?
‘Father save me from this hour’?
Jesus,
you are
troubled now
•by unclean water,
•by friends being trafficked.
•by racial injustice, starving children
and all the dying from a
virus and deluge of
drugs and
guns.
What can we say
but,
we call your name.
We beg you to be with us now.
Help us right the wrongs, not counting the cost,
and become abundant
fields of wheat
for you
THE FIRST READING
Jeremiah 31:31-34
I will be their God and they will be my people.
God
writes on hearts,
not on stone tablets now.
He is our God and we are his people.
We find him in all things new.
The God of surprises
loves us, forgives
and forgets
our sins.
God, we
want to receive,
and to cherish and forgive,
just as you
do.
Let it be.
