Spirit of Truth, direct our attention to the life of Jesus

    so that we might see what you would have us be.

Make us, like him, teachers of your good law.

Make us, like him, performers of miraculous cures.

Make us, like him, proclaimers of your kingdom.

Make us, like him, loving the poor, the outcast, the children.

Make us, like him, silent when the world tempts us

    to respond in the world’s terms.

Make us, like him, ready to suffer.

 

We know we cannot be like Jesus

    except as Jesus was unlike us, being your Son.

Make us cherish that unlikeness,

    that we may grow into the likeness

    made possible by Jesus’ resurrection.

Amen

 

 

 

The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. 

And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, 

    he will give life to your mortal bodies 

    by this same Spirit living within you.