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A prayer for those in ministry, written by Philip Nation, read by Alyssa Forsberg.

They devoted themselves to the Apostles' Teaching and to Fellowship,

to the Breaking of Bread and to prayer, acts 242.

In 1979, John Cardinal Dearden

recited the following prayer.

It came from Muhammadly he gave it a mass for deceased priest.

Those words were words drafted for Dearden by Bishop Ken Untiner.

Though there is a significant difference in my view of doctrine from those serving in the Roman

Catholic Church, I nevertheless see a great wisdom in this prayer for those in ministry by Ken Antinor. It helps now and then to step

back and take the long view. The Kingdom of heaven is not only

beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a

tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.

Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.

No statement says all that could be said.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

No confession brings perfection.

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