Parish Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, Greencourt Road, Petts Wood, Kent BR5 1QW
Parish Church of St Francis of Assisi Church of England Petts Wood
Act of Faith

My God, I believe in you and all that your Church teaches, because you have said it, and your word is true.

Act of Hope

My God, I hope in you, for grace and glory, because of your promises, your mercy and your power.

Act of Love

My God, I love you with all my heart and above all things, and for your sake I love my neighbour as myself.

Saying sorry

My God, I am very sorry for all the sins by which I have offended you, and I resolve by the help of your grace not to sin again.

Giving ourselves to God

My God, I give myself to you, in union with the offering of Jesus Christ on the cross and in the holy sacrifice of the Mass.
Act of spiritual communion for those who cannot come to the Eucharist.

I believe in you, Lord Jesus, present in the most holy sacrament of the altar.

I love you above all things, and I long to receive you into my soul.

Though I cannot now receive you in the sacrament, I pray you to come none the less spiritually into my heart.

I embrace you and unite myself to you, for you are already within me, as I am in you.

Let me never be separated from you.
Prayer of St Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Our Prayer Book