Healing Ministry Sunday

Theme

Compassion: Loving and Suffering Together

Collect

Our God of Compassion, our loving Parent and the Source of every life, who are the refuge of the penitent and who love, forgive, and strengthen all who seek you, we witness your steadfast love in the suffering of your Son, Jesus Christ, and in the redeeming work of the Triune God on the cross for the sake of our salvation; empower us, your people, by tilling us with your liberating Spirit, that we, like your Servant, may bring forth justice with mercy, set free those who are bound, be a voice of solidarity with the voiceless, and become instruments of healing, prayer, and proclamation, revealing Christ through acts of compassion and faithfulness in a world longing for your grace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.