One: We are here,
Voices strong, bodies proud, hearts bold.
Living testimony to your great diversity,
Sign and sacrament of your loving justice,
For such a time as this.
All: We rise in love seeking justice.
One: We acknowledge
The ways in which we have failed,
Failed to take in the fulness of your love
To believe the breadth of your grace
To see the rainbow colours of Your hope.
All: We breathe in humility seeking hope.
One: We repent
From the traditions that constrain Your promise
The use of texts to demean and abuse
Mission that distorted Your radical welcome
All: We turn from hate seeking change.
One: We celebrate
The unfolding mystery of Your presence,
Communities learning and transforming,
Movements of rites and rights that change the world
All: We open in faith seeking transformation.
One: We pray in the name of the Three in One God,
Ever in relationship,
Risking daring creation, intimate solidarity, prophetic love.
All: Amen
Words: Susie Henderson and Jennifer Henry, 2022