We wait and watch
Collect
God for whom we wait and watch,
you sent John the Baptist
to prepare for the coming of your Son:
give us courage to speak the truth
even to the point of suffering.
This we ask through Christ our Saviour.
Amen
E te Atua, e tāria nei e titiro nei mātou ki a koe,
i tonoa e koe a Hoani Kaiiriiri
hei whakarite i te ara mō te haerenga mai o tāu Tama;
kia mataara, kia māia ai mātou ki te kōrero i te pono
āhakoa pēhia e te taimaha.
E īnoi ai mātou i roto i a te Karaiti tō mātou Kaiwhakaora.
Āmine.