THE GOSPEL
John 12:20-33‘Father save me from this hour.’
Jesus said,
“I am troubled.
Yet what should I say?”
Jesus,
you are
troubled too
by unclean water,
by friends being trafficked.
By children dying from a deluge of
drugs and
guns.
What can we say?
Jesus!
We call
upon your name.
We ask your presence.
Help us to rise and die in you.
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.
And in return we beg
God to open us
and forgive us
and forget
our sins.
God, we
want to receive,
and cherish and forgive,
just as you
do.
THE SECOND READING
Hebrews 5:7-9
He offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears.
Jesus
you knew fear.
You called for help
with loud
cries.
Your tears knew
our worst
pain.
Yet you pick us up,
you hold us,
and you
weep
with
us.
We give great
thanks to
you,
savior,
friend.
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