Prayer for Kristine’s Homecoming Reception:

We love You, Lord, and we praise Your Holy Name.
Accept, O Lord, our gratitude for all the blessings of our shared life at St. Mary’s.
We thank You, Lord, for the dedication of our Rector Kristine, and for her leadership role here among us.
Today we applaud her courage in taking on, and in completing, a very vigorous pilgrimage, and we celebrate and rejoice in her safe return, refreshed and renewed, to continue guiding us.
Now we go forward in Jesus’s Name, with new vigor and purpose in our ministries of love and service to the Lord, and to neighbor and stranger alike.
Precious Lord Jesus, we ask that You grant us the gift of time to study Your Word, to live in Your truth, and to share Your grace with those around us. 
In Jesus’s Holy Name we pray.   Amen.

Annette Foisie OSL (Order of St. Luke)