1st Sunday after Christmas - 1 January 2006
December 20, 2005
This collect is part of a series produced for Anglican Youth Yeah! - Advent 2005 to Advent 2006. You can read the others that have been produced online, or alternatively download the full compilation.
Readings
First Reading Isaiah 61:10 - 62:3
Second Reading Galatians 4:4-7
Gospel Luke 2:22-40
Theme
Witnesses of Salvation
Sentence
“Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples.”
Luke 2: 29-31
Collects
Loving Father,
We thank you so much for the promise that you have kept throughout the generations.
We thank you that you allowed your servant Simeon to witness with his own eyes the arrival of our Salvation.
We pray that we may all become the Simeon of this generation, so that we may be witnesses of the Lord of our Salvation and become instruments of Salvation to others while we are strong and active, some as Youth of our church.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God now and forever.
AMEN
Samoan
Le Tama alofa e,
Faafetai tele i lou faamaoni ua molimauina mai lea tupulaga i lea tupulaga.
Faafetai ina ua fai lau auauna o Simeona ma molimau ma vaai tino i lau faaolataga.
Avea i matou ma Simeona o lenei talutalu fou, fai ai i matou o ni molimau a lo matou Alii ma lo matou faaola, e talai atu le tala o le faaolataga ao maua le malosi ma le sogasoga a le autalavou a lau ekalesia. Ona o Iesus Keriso lo matou Alii, o loo afio faatasi ma lau afio, faatasi ma le Agaga Paia le aso e faavavau lava,
Amene.
Tongan
Tamai Anga’ofa Lahi
‘Oku mau fakamalo ko ho’o tala’ofa kihe to’utangata kotoa pe
‘Oku mau fakafeta’i kiate koe, ‘ihe fakamo’oni ‘a ho’o sevaniti ko Simione, kihe hoko mai ‘ae faka mo’ui.
‘Oku mau lotu ke tuku ke mau hoko ko Simione ki homau kuonga ni,
Ke mau hoko koe faka mo’ui ki he kakai kotoa pe lolotonga ‘emau kei Talavou mo e Finemui.
‘Oku mau kole ‘eni ‘ia Sisu Kalaisi,’a ia ‘oku mo’ui mo pule fakataha mo Koe , mo e Laumalie Ma’oni’oni.
‘Ameni.
Contributed by
The Youth of St Paul’s Anglican Church, Tonga
We are a Youth group made up of teenagers and young adults between 12 and 36. We belong to St Paul’s and we provide a youthful Christian environment and teaching based on Christian principles and values. We generally meet twice a week at the church hall from our own programmes. We also have monthly meetings at the beginning of each month. We have a wide range of programmes ranging from spiritual to physical activities. But you could say that from Monday to Friday, the young people are always at the church compound, either for a programme, or playing volleyball, or for church activities such as singing and drama practice - or sometimes just cleaning the church compound. We hope to provide the youth with a safe environment in which they feel at home, and secondly to give them a taste of ‘being youthfully alive in Jesus’, yet feeling free to express themselves. Please pray for Youth Ministry, Protection and Guidance of youth, for the Youth voice to be heard in their respective churches, for Young people and elders of the church to be both open minded and complement each other in their ministry, and for youth to be an instrument of the Lord.
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