Our diocesan prayer of hope and thanksgiving

Living and Loving God,

as your pilgrim people in Manchester Diocese we thank you for the great commission

with which you have entrusted us: to love and serve, and to bring

our parishes, schools, chaplaincies, and all our communities

into new life in Jesus Christ.

Through your abundant love lead us into your Kingdom

and grant us the trust to follow you; meet our weariness, our griefs and fears with your tender and comforting Spirit that we may greet the promise

of each new day with joy and trust.

Teach us to pray in faith, hope and love, that we may go out into your world confident in your wondrous mission

and full of the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Amen.