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Easter Saturday #PrayersforEaster

This prayer for Easter Saturday is part of a series of Easter prayers for Holy Week. Read the prayer for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.

From Matthew Julius

God who speaks light
who forms the formless depths
maker of multitudes

Your Word reveals the darkness as the place from whence the light comes
Your grace announces truth in our fumbling, human words
Your love is entombed with us

As we wait with anticipation for your rising
As we yearn for your new day
As we sit in welter and waste

Recall to us your Anointed One
And teach us to proclaim your reign of love
in memory of the woman who anointed him

Recall to us your Messiah
And teach us to heed your coming dawn
listening to the women who first proclaimed it

God who went to the killing post
Who rests at the threshold of rock hewn tomb
God who blunts the sting of death
Whose messengers carry good news
Be near to us, be near to us

Be near to us Holy One
And speak again your Word of light and life
Reveal to us again the new life which springs forth from darkness

Enfold us into your Spirit of love,
which no death can sever

Make us confident to pray
Blessed are you Holy God of mystery
Entombed within the womb of new life.
Amen.

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