Prayers for the Jubilee Year at St. Charles

Renew 2000 Prayer
Gracious God and Father, we are Your people embraced by Your love.
We than You for Your presence with us throughout all time.
As we celebrate the 2000 years since the birth of Jesus, Your Son...Create us anew.
Liberate us from all that keeps us from You.
Send Your Holy Spirit, enabling us to recreate our world and restore justice.
Heal us from every form of sin and violence.
Transform us to live Your Word more profoundly.
Reconcile us so enemies become friends.
Awaken us to the sacred;
   nurture our relationships;
   enliven our parishes;
   reunite our families.
Fill us with joy to celebrate the fullness of life.
Empower us to be a community of love,
growing always in Your likeness by the grace of Christ our Lord. Amen.

Blessed are you, Father
Who, in your infinite love,
Gave us your only-begotten Son.
 
By the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate
In the spotless womb of the Virgin Mary
And was born in Bethlehem
Two thousand years ago.
 
He became our companion on life’s path
And gave new meaning to our history.
The journey we make together
In toil and suffering,
In faithfulness and love,
Towards the new heaven and the new earth
Where You, once death has been vanquished, will be all in all.
 
By your grace, O Father, may the Jubilee Year
Be a time of deep conversion
And of joyful return to you.
May it be a time of reconciliation between people,
And of peace restored among nations,
A time when swords are beaten into ploughshares
And the clash of arms gives way to songs of peace.
 
Father, grant that we may live this Jubilee Year
Docile to the voice of the Spirit,
Faithful to the way of Christ,
Diligent in listening to your Word
And in approaching the wellsprings of grace.
 
        -- Pope John Paul II

Gracious God
We are your people embraced by your love.
We thank you for your presence with us
    throughout all time.
 
As we celebrate the 2000 years since the birth of Jesus,
Create us anew.
Liberate us from that which keeps us from you.
Enable us to recreate our world and restore justice.
Heal us from every form of sin and violence.
Transform us to live your word more profoundly.
Reconcile us so enemies become friends.
Awaken us to the sacred; nurture our relationships;
Enliven our parish; reunite our families.
Fill us with the joy to celebrate the fullness of life.
Empower us to be a community of love
growing in your likeness. Amen

     
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Revised/reviewed July 5, 2000