A Prayer for our churches and our cities and communities for Trinity Sunday 2019 (JUN16); based on Psalms 8 and 29, Proverbs 8, Isaiah 6:1–8, Romans 5:1–5, Revelation 4:1–11, John 16:5–15, and the Collect and Preface for this Sunday from BCP79/BCP19

O Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. You are above and beyond understanding as God who is three in one and one in three, and yet it is this very mystery of how you have revealed yourself that leads us to praise your name. May the the whole world praise your name, and would you lead us here at our churches and in our cities and communities to praise your name today. Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Would you give strength to your people at our churches today, and bless your people with peace. Give us wisdom, that we may show our cities and communities what you do in our lives as you forgive our many sins and work in our hearts. Give us, our churches, your instruction today, Lord, in the preaching, in the worship, that we may take it out to our cities and communities for your glory. Give us wisdom to know how to reach our cities and communities for Jesus, and empower us, Holy Spirit. Holy, holy, holy, is your name, Lord Jesus, for you bring forgiveness of our sins. Send us out from our churches today that we may see sinners in our cities and communities find you and come to you for your mercy and by your mercy. We thank you that we have been justified by faith, that we have peace with God through you, Lord Jesus Christ, and we ask that you truly produce in us character and endurance and hope, even if it is through suffering. Preserve us in suffering, Holy Spirit. We are willing to suffer in our cities and communities for you Lord, but let our churches not be put to shame. We know, Father, that you have given us the Holy Spirit, that we may glorify you, that all you have belongs to us because of our belief in Jesus. And so we come to you, asking you to convict our cities and communities of sin only so that they may join in rejoicing and worshipping your Holy, holy, holy, name as they discover your love, if by your mercy, you show your love and wisdom to our cities and communities through our churches. For, with your co-eternal Son and Holy Spirit, you are one God, our Lord, in Trinity of Persons and in Unity of Substance; and we believe and celebrate the one and equal glory of you, O Father, and of your Son, and of the Holy Spirit, without any difference or inequality. Amen.