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Let us then offer our prayers to God for all his people, for this congregation, and for N. their Rector.

Everliving God, strengthen and sustain N., that with patience and understanding he may love and care for your people; and  grant that together they may follow Jesus Christ, offering to  you their gifts and talents; through him who lives and reigns  with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

At the Liturgy of the Word

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