In the Ember Weeks — The Ministers of Christ’s Church (9)
Book of Offices, Methodist ChurchGrant, O God, we beseech thee, that the same mind may be in all the ministers of thy Church that was in Christ Jesus: his self-forgetting humility; his interest in common things; his love for common people; his compassion for the fallen; his tolerance with the mistaken; his patience with the slow; and in all their work and converse make them continually sensitive to thy guidance and ready for thy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord.