27th July 2024
Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? Matthew 7:9
You Lord, are the source of all good things:
We praise you.
You call us to tend and care for your creation:
May we strive to do your will.
You have made us as brothers and sisters with all that lives:
May we live together in peace.
Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Heavenly Parent, mother and father of us all,
May you be ever honoured by your people.
For you are the one who caused the earth to bring forth seed bearing plants –
wheat and barley, oats and rye and all manner of grains.
You are the one who provides the staff of life.
Hallowed be your name!
Isaiah 55: 10 -11 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Heavenly God, creator of soul and body,
May you be ever honoured by your people.
From you comes wisdom and insight
so that we may learn how to,love you and our neighbour.
You are the one who provides the staff of life.
May your kingdom come!
Matthew 14:19-20 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.
Heavenly Redeemer, sustainer of life,
May you be ever honoured by your people.
You provided manna for the long years in the wilderness,
And the harvests of the earth are sufficient to feed the whole world,
such that all should have the means to thrive and flourish.
May your will be done!
Teach us today and every day to handle bread with respect.
Teach us today and everyday to appreciate that bread is the means of life.
Teach us today and everyday to take only what we need.
Teach us today and everyday not to steal from tomorrow’s supply.
Teach us today and everyday not to hoard what comes to us as a gift.
Teach us today and everyday to share what you give us.
Teach us today and everyday not to be satisfied until everyone is fed.
The Lord’s Prayer
The Green Tau 