This document contains the order of service for a religious gathering. It includes an opening song, an opening prayer asking God for guidance in truth, a gospel reading from Matthew about following Jesus, a reflection on gaining wisdom from following Christ and maintaining faith during challenges, intercessory prayers, reciting the Lord's Prayer, a closing prayer asking God's inspiration and help, and a closing blessing and song.

2. Opening Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVBHThhmHk

4. OPENING PRAYER:
O God, who through the grace of adoption chose us
to be children of light, grant, we pray, that we may
not be wrapped in the darkness of error but always
be seen to stand in the bright light of truth. Through
our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and
reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one
God, for ever and ever. Amen

6. GOSPEL READING: Matthew 8:18-22
A Reading from the holy Gospel according to St.
Matthew
Glory to you Oh Lord

7. Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he
gave orders to go over to the other side. A scribe
then approached and said, "Teacher, I will follow
you wherever you go." And Jesus said to him,
"Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests;
but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, first let
me go and bury my father." But Jesus said to him,
"Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead."

8. The Gospel of the Lord...
Praise to you oh Lord Jesus
Christ.

10. Reflection

12. GUIDE FOR PERSONAL REFLECTIONS:
1. WHAT CAN WE GET FROM FOLLOWING
CHRIST?
2. HOW DEEP IS YOUR FAITH TO OUR GOD IN
FACING THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT YOU’VE
FACE AT THIS TIME?

14. INTERCESSIONS:
FATHER, GIVE US
THE GRACE TO
FOLLOW YOUR SON

16. THE LORD’S PRAYER:
Leader: Let us conclude our prayer in the Lord’s Prayer
Our Father in Heaven. . . .

18. CLOSING PRAYER:
Father, may everything we do begin with your
inspiration and continue with your saving help.
Let our work always find its origin in you and
through you reach completion. We ask this
through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who
lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever. – Amen.

20. May the Lord + bless us, protect us from all evil
and bring us to everlasting life. – Amen.
AMETUR COR JESU….. AMETUR COR
MARIE
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF
THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. AMEN

22. Closing Song
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=walk+with+faith+in+your+heart+lyrics