Understanding Through Love and Justice

ALMIGHTY GOD, Who art the Father of all things, and Who dost desire that all men should come unto Thee, of Thy lovingkindness and tender mercy make our hearts so to be filled with the fulness of understanding, that we, with all our hearts, may strive for all things that are just and right and true, as being those by which Thou canst best be known. And make us wise to remember, that whatsoever is good in man, is of God, and that all things exist in Thee and by Thee, and that Thou speakest unto us, even through ourselves. May we, then, not be giving ear to distant voices and far-off prophets, but give audience to the “still small voice,” to the solemn words of justice, to the decisions of the wise, to the searchings of holy men; and, so helped on to true knowledge, we may rightly understand Thee and how to serve Thee, and understand the love of God and the love of man; and, keeping these two great commandments, we may fulfil all the law and the prophets.

Hear us of Thy mercy, through Jesus Christ our Lord.—AMEN.