Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. Philippians 3 : 13
The Abbey Building is celebrating 160 years in Parnell Square Dublin
Our Morning Worship Services will look at the past in order to look to the future
Dear Lord,
thank you for drawing us into community
in this church that has been a place called home for so many.
Inspire us with the lives of those before us, who have lived here in faith
and opened and given your love to all those who needed it.
May you change us with a vision to continue here
as a constant presence for those who travel through life,
a community of welcome that cares for all, believing into what is still yet to be.
Teach us to discern your voice as those before us have discerned your voice, guided by its call and feeding on its promise of life and hope and belonging.
May we hear your word: a comforting word in its familiar sound,
yet a disturbing word in what it speaks anew and longs for us to become.
Hold us within the faith of our forebears, those who chose to meet you here in this church,
who recognised this thin place as a trysting place where your miracle of grace abides.
May we be moved by that grace into all the places that make up our community,
sharing what you have given abundantly like an ever-flowing stream.
Call us from our past, through the voices of those before us, in the songs they have sung
and the prayers they have spoken that have shaped peace within this place,
And may we join our voice with their voice, in the one great song of love
that will be lived and celebrated yet, from this very building
