Celebrant: Let us confess our sins to God and one another.
People: Merciful God, we know that you love us and that you call us to fullness of life, but around us and within us we see the brokenness of the world and of our ways. Our successes leave us empty; our progress does not satisfy. We abuse your good gifts of imagination and freedom, intellect and reason, and have turned them into bonds of oppression. Lord, have mercy upon us.
Celebrant: Hear us now Father as we individually confess our sins to you.
(Silence for self-examination and personal confession).
Celebrant: God of grace and compassion, and Father of all mercies,
All: Our prosperous land is not the Promised Land of our longing. Forgive our willful neglect of your word, our insensitivity to the needs of others, and our failure to obey your Spirit that is within us. Help us, forgive us, and set us free to serve you in the world, as agents of your reconciling love in Jesus
Christ. Amen.
