Advent Reconciliation Service Prayers

Our Advent Reconciliation service will be held on 12/2/2013 - Monday - at St James Catholic Church in Tupelo, Mississippi.  

These prayer are adapted from the 2010 Magnificat Advent Issue –

Greeting –

Advent is a time of waiting, long, and begging.  It is a time to pray: “Come, Lord Jesus.”

We look forward to celebrating the 1^st coming of Jesus at Christmas.  We look forward with hope to the 2^nd coming of Jesus in his glory.  We seek out Jesus here and now in the mass, when he comes to us in the Eucharist.  We seek out Jesus in the people and events of our lives, when he comes to us in ordinary ways.  Today, as we examine our conscience and confess our sins, we ask Jesus to come us in his compassion and mercy.  Jesus offers us a true experience of salvation in the here and now through the forgiveness of our sins.

Opening prayer:

Let us pray:

God our Father, out of loving obedience to you, and out of love for all that you created through him, your only begotten Son became human and dwelt among us.  He was born as a baby just like us.  He went through the joys and sufferings of life just like us.  He suffered and died and rose again – just for you.  Give us hearts of repentance and conversion, so that we may weep for the one who was pierced for our sins and rejoice as our sins and impurities are washed away.  We ask this through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

Closing prayer:

Let us pray:

God our Father, open to us your promised fountain of mercy, the Word mad flesh, to wash our sins and impurities away.  Prepare us to welcome our Savior who dwells among us.  Pour forth, we beseech you, Father, your grace into our hearts, that we to whom the incarnation of Christ your Son is to be made known anew through the sacrament of reconciliation may by his passion and cross be brought to the glory of his resurrection through the same Christ our Lord.  Amen.