Lord, like Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James, whose feast we mark this day,
And like every one of Your disciples throughout history,
You claim us as Your own,
And You summon us.
You summon us to link heart, hand and aim with You and with one another to foster the inbreaking of your kin-dom here and now.

Make of us Your dwelling, built together as a communion of saints.
Make of us announcers of Your Good News and doers of Your good works.
Make of us harbingers of hope, bearers of Your Spirit in the particulars of our place and our time.

Moment by moment, free us.
Always and in all ways, free us ever more fully to proclaim – more in deed than in word – Your message to all the earth.
May all that we do and all that we are herald our identity as Your holy (and admittedly broken) people,
Members of the household of God and fellow citizens with the holy ones throughout all time.

May the ordinary and extraordinary of our lives be for Your greater Glory this day and all days. Amen.