Your Kingdom Come

Lord God,
in Jesus, you came in the body:
flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone.
We thank you that you did not remain an idea,
even a religious idea,
but walked, wept, and washed feet among us.
By your love,
change our ideas, especially our religious ideas,
into living signs of your work and will.

Through our lives and by our prayers,
your kingdom come.

Lord God,
in Jesus your body was broken
by the cowardly and the powerful.
The judgment hall of Pilate
knew your silence as surely
as your critics knew your voice.
In word and silence,
take on the powerful of the world today:
those whose words sentence some to cruelty
or unmerited redundancy;
those whose word transfers wealth or weapons
for the sake of profit or prejudice;
those whose silence condones the injustice
they have the power to change.

O Savior of the poor, liberate your people.

Through our lives and by our prayers,
your kingdom come.

Mark 15:1-5; John 1:14