Ojibwe Gathering Prayer

 Gathering Prayer ^seated                                       Ojibwe, The Rt. Rev. Mark McDonald

Presider      Creator, we give you thanks for all YOU are and all YOU bring to us for our visit within your creation. In Jesus, YOU place the gospel in the Center of this Sacred Circle through which all of creation is related. 

YOU show us the way to live a generous and compassionate life.

All           Give us your strength to live together with respect and commitment as we grow in your spirit, for YOU are God, now and forever. Amen.

-- the Rt. Rev. Mark McDonald, from an Ojibwe prayer, found in A Sampler: Native American Alaska Native and Native Hawai'ian Liturgies, Prepared for the 76th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, July 2009, Anaheim, CA

Image: Moon of the Pheasant Dance, by Joan Hill