Sundays November

"Our loving Father in heaven, for all your goodness to us we thank you, and we pray that we may honor and revere your great and holy name. May we so reverence you that your name may ever awaken in us a sense of devotion, and never be used carelessly. May your day be a day of privilege, rather than a day of limitation, and may we look forward to it with anticipation and joy. In the Saviour's name. Amen."

Sundays in October

"Gracious and loving Father, teach us the joy and blessedness of appreciation and gratitude. You have filled our lives with good things; help us to honor you with joy and thanksgiving. Help us to make this Sabbath day a day of inward joy, that we may scatter happiness everywhere. In Jesus' name. Amen."

Sundays in September

"O you who are the Lord of the Sabbath, may we keep this day for you and for your thoughts. May we know the worth of giving one seventh of our time to eternal things. May we spend the day in a simple and natural way, and think during its hours upon you and yours. Amen."

Sundays in August

"We thank you, our Father, that Jesus Christ was his own natural self on the Sabbath as at all other times, that he allowed the ears of grain to be plucked, and healed the sick on your day, thus solemnizing it by deeds of necessity and mercy. Amen."

Sundays in July

"We pray you, O God, that we may know the laws of life and health, and regard them conscientiously, that we may not be so eager to do that we recklessly overdo. May we remember the value of resting one day with you, that we may work worthily six days for you. In the Master's name. Amen."

June Sundays

"O God of the temple, help us to enter your courts with praise. May we early gain the spirit of worship. May we never feel the obligation rather than the blessing of church attendance. Make the services reverential and inspiring, in praise, in prayer, and in preaching. We ask in Christ's name. Amen."

May Sundays

"O God of the Sabbath, may we be more careful to observe and value your day. Deliver our Christian lands from this growing disregard of your holy day. May the privilege and delight of ythe Sabbath be known, that we may give our attention on that day to the thoughts of evernal things. For Christ's sake. Amen."

Sundays in April

"Almighty and most merciful God, forgive us as individuals and as a nation for breaking the command to keep holy the Sabbath day. Deliver us, we pray thee, from a careless disregard of the Sabbath. May we do our part to restore the day to its proper place in our home and national life. For Christ's sake. Amen."

March - Sundays

"Help us, O Lord of the Sabbath, to gain a spirit of genuine worship and helpfulness. May we destroy the critical spirit within us by fostering the helpful and sympathetic outlook. May mercy and compassion control our motives that we may fill each Lord's day with deeds of worship and praise. Amen."

Sundays in February

"Our great God and loving Father, may we estimate your day with the sacred value you have given to it, and prepare for its temporal needs beforehand. May we remember that this rule of preparation applies to those in our households as well as to us, and may our servants see and know that we honor your holy day. In Christ's name. Amen."

For Sundays in January

"Dear Lord, this day is yours by sacred appointment and right. May we fully understand to-day that sin and death are conquered by you, and may we accept and appropriate this fact. May this glorious holy day of yours be a day of many divine victories in human life, as sin meets defeat at your hand. And yours be the glory. Amen."