...You gave us the whole world into our care, so that in obedience to you, our Creator, we may rule and serve all your creatures... However, our disobedience took us far from you...
We confess that we have sinned against you
by what we have done
and by what we have left undone
Have mercy on us and forgive us...
that we, fervent in prayer and in works of mercy,
may be renewed by Word and Sacrament to come into the fulness of grace...
