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During this Bicentenary year there have been a number of memorable services which have taken place including the set all free Westminster Abbey service attended by the Queen, then Prime Minster Blair and current Prime Minster Gordon Brown. They have been a time to commemorate the lives of the enslaved Africans and to recognise the work carried out by freedom fighters and Abolitionists. The services have also been a time to think of the today's society paying particular attention to the legacies of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the modern forms of exploitation.

One prayer which was used around the nation to mark the Bicentenary has been the set all free prayer as well as the other shown below.


set all free Prayer

Gracious and liberating God
Lift us beyond the burdens of pain and guilt
Build our memories into life-giving resolutions
Give us the vision of a new creation
Strengthen us to act
for justice and human dignity
And set all free

 

CONFESSION

Ever living, ever loving God, our words are inadequate,
and our minds too small to encompass you.
We ask you to forgive us the times when we have acted
as if we knew you so well that we could dismiss another’s apprehension
of your nature and purposes.
Forgive us if we have spoken
as if we knew your will and purposes to the exclusion
of any possibility of new truth breaking forth.
Holy Trinity, you are one in love,
a love broader and more inclusive than the measures of our mind;
you persevere in loving, in forgiving and in hoping;
Forgive the smallness and narrowness of our loving, we pray.

 

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INTERCESSION

God who takes the side of those who bear injustice, pain and insult,
we pray for healing.
Through the telling of our stories, and through speaking the truth in love,
may we find healing and create whole and wholesome communities.
Healing Spirit, we pray for the imagination to think how we would feel
if what has been done to others had been done to us.
We pray for openness to listen to others with respect.
Grant humility and forgiveness in the hearts of all.
Heal the blindness that looks but does not see,
the deafness which refuses to listen and so does not hear,
the dullness which hears but does not comprehend;
and the lack of integrity that knows but does not act.
Gracious God, heal our wounds and set all free.
We pray in the name of the Christ. Amen 		* *
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