I will arise and go to my Father, and say to him, 'Father, I have sinned, against heaven and in your sight, and am no more worthy to be called your child.'
In penitence we confess the many ways in which we have squandered our inheritance and imperilled our relationships, within our families and beyond them.
Have mercy upon us, our Father. Give to us, and to all who turn to you in hope, the liberating assurance of sins forgiven. Mend what is broken. Continue towards completion your liberating work among all people.
Lord, we come to ourselves when we come to you. We pray that you will so draw us to you that we may become truly ourselves, now and to all eternity.
Amen.
--adapted from Contemporary Prayers for Church and School, 1975, from SCM Press Ltd., p. 15
Based on Luke 15:11-32
Image: Return of the Prodigal Son, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1667.
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