Advent Group (UK)

Here is the opening prayer for Palm Sunday produced by ICEL but not permitted for public consumption by the Vatican. The prayers were printed in a book Opening Prayers, Collects in contemporary language - Canterbury Press - ISBN 1 -85311 -428 -6 £9.99  Purchase > http://www.scm-canterburypress.co.uk/bookdetails.asp?ISBN=9781853114281

O God of eternal glory,

you anointed Jesus your servant to bear our sins,

to encourage the weary,

to raise up and restore the fallen.

Keep before our eyes

the splendour of the paschal mystery of Christ,

and, by our sharing in the passion and resurrection,

seal our lives with the victorious sign

of his obedience and exaltation.

We ask this through Christ, our liberator from sin,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

holy and mighty God for ever and ever.