Celebrant: O Lord, in your providence and great love you have provided a Passover Lamb for the redemption of your people that we might not taste death but know life eternal.
All: Yet we have forgotten that our redemption has made us your children, and freed us from the tyranny of sin. We have ignored our Savior, and returned to idols that can never return our love, or satisfy our souls. We confess that both our individualism and our desires to glorify ourselves have dishonored you, and brought misery to our lives.
Celebrant: Hear us now Father as we individually confess our sins to you.
[Silence for self-examination and personal confession]
Celebrant: Great God of grace and compassion, and Father of all mercies, From the beginning of humanity, you have shown mercy to those who would humble themselves. We do so now and acknowledge our hearts are proud, and our desires are wrong.
All: Forgive us this day for our many failings, and remove from us forever the stain of our sin. Grant that we may walk humbly in the light of your Word. In the perfect name of Jesus we seek your forgiveness. Amen.
