Prayer of Confession (from Northern Ireland)

Lord, Jesus Christ, you are the way of peace. Come into the brokenness of our lives and our world with your healing love. Help us to be willing to bow before you in true repentance, and to bow to one another in real forgiveness. By the fire of your Holy Spirit, melt our hard heart, consume the pride and prejudice the separate us. Fill us, O Lord, with your love which casts out our fear, and draw us together in the unity that you call us to share as God’s people. Amen.