Place a lighted candle and an opened bible on a table at the center of your group. Pray together these words from the first letter of John, Sunday’s second reading.
LEADER: Beloved, let us love one another —
ALL: Because love is of God.
LEADER: Everyone who loves is begotten of God —
ALL: And knows God.
LEADER: God’s love was revealed in our midst in this way.
ALL: God sent the Son to the world that we might have life through him.
LEADER: Love, then, consists of this:
ALL: Not that we have loved God, but that God has loved us.
LEADER: May our time together lead us to grow in love.
ALL: Amen.