Mr CatOLick offers for our personal use a prayer for the Crown Nominations Commission as they begin the process of choosing candidates for the position of Archbishop of Canterbury.
Dear Father,
Help the CNC members to put away their own agendas and let them know that they, and their tribes have had their time.
Help them to listen to people outside of London and not to just give lip service to the northern folk.
Father, we just ask that you show them how to get their secretarial work right and pass on information.
Father, put your protecting power around their photocopier so that documents can be read.
Father, help them to remember more and more that Oxford and Cambridge are not the only universities in England.
Father, help them to show compassion and love, cast out any spot of arrogance and high handedness, and protect them from snobbery and pomposity.
Father, let your Holy spirit come down and work amongst them. Let them know that you know the secrets of all our hearts and know even the secrets of the CNC.
Amen.
And almost everyone said, "That would be very good."
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