Thanks be to you, O God
for the many guiding theological and spiritual
insights
that we have all received through the Reformation.
Thanks be to you for the good transformations and
reforms
that were set in motion by the Reformation
or by struggling with its challenges.
Thanks be to you for the proclamation of the
gospel
that occurred during the Reformation
and that since then has strengthened countless
people
to live lives of faith in Jesus Christ. Amen.
~ from Common
Prayer: From Conflict to Communion. Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of
the Reformation in 2017. Written by the Liturgical Task Force of the Lutheran-Roman
Catholic Commission on Unity. http://www.cccb.ca/site/images/stories/pdf/Common_Prayer_for_Catholic-Lutheran_Commemoration_of__Reformation_2017.pdf
