The Chaplaincy team at Saint George’s College in Zimbabwe shares some of the prayers used at the school, which you can read and download from the new Global Inter-Religious Prayers and Reflections page in Educate Magis here. These prayers are included in our morning prayer routine, before breakfast.
Moreover, at Saint George’s College we also celebrate special services during Lent, here is an excerpt from the Ash Wednesday service.
Priest
We worship and confess your divinity, O God, for you
created us in your image and formed us in your likeness.
We praise your salvation, O Lover of all.
Congregation
You gave us life by your cross and set us free by your death.
Priest
Your holy hands formed mortal man and woman from
the dust of the earth, and you molded and created them
in your image. From your own mouth, you breathed the
breath of life into them.
Congregation
You gave us life by your cross and set us free by your death.
Priest
But humanity wandered, neglected your command and was
delivered up judgment. Death now entered to distort your
creation.
Congregation
You gave us life by your cross and set us free by your death.
Priest
But even after this, o compassionate and loving Lord, your
mercy prevailed. Your hands were pierced with nails on the cross.
At the hands of your executioners, you were humiliated, and your
side was pierced to give people life. New life flowed with the blood
and water from your side, and you won the people back and
renewed them.
Congregation
You gave us life by your cross and set us free by your death.
Priest
Again today, the Church petitions you, O Lord, through the mouths
of her children with the fragrance of this incense. As in the
beginning, you created out of love and then returned to save, and
give life, visit once again your creation and grant peace to the
whole world by your cross.
Congregation
By your cross, remove anger and put an end to war.
By your cross, eliminate strife and retribution.
By your cross, calm disorders and pacify the angry.
By your cross, humble the proud, expose the self-serving and remove evil.
By your cross, curb violence and anger.
By your cross, pardon sinners, forgive wrongdoers and
guard your people who now worship before you,
for your Church glories in the sign of the Cross.
Priest
Save us and all your people. Completely perfect us in
your strength. Visit us and revive us, so that our image
may be renewed and our likeness recovered. May we
emerge from this mournful vigil with every tear wiped away in the hope of your consolation.
Congregation
Make us worthy to meet the day of our resurrection as
heirs in the kingdom. Then, without ceasing, we shall
glorify you, forever. Amen
O Lord of forgiveness you are the priest who offered
yourself on the wood of the cross for foolish people.
You sacrificed yourself for the sake of us sinners. Now, O
Lord, cancel the debt of our guilt and save us from retribution.
Be gracious also to the faithful departed, for we shall praise
you together with them, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, forever
Amen.