27th day of Lent: prayer and reading

Prayer

God of forgiveness
You pour out your life blood in love for us.
You pursue us, disturb us and accept us.
You take to your heart our sin and pain,
the gift of costly and infinite endurance.
You overcome evil with the goodness of love.
God of forgiveness, we adore you.

after Jim Cotter

Reading

Mark reads the 27th reading from Rooted in Love: Lent reflections on life in Christ.