We come before you, the one God and Father of all, knowing you have called us to live in unity, and yet we are divided: person from person, group from group. May the Lord Jesus Christ forgive our favouritism, and free us from the selfishness that diminishes us. And so may we find courage: to open ourselves to others, to grow into mature unity, and thus to be pleasing to Jesus, who lived and died so that we might be one. Amen.