To all our graduates: Congratulations on taking your next step! We hope you will continue to explore who it is that God made you to be and to discover the gifts you have been given to use in this world. Give thanks to God!
A BLESSING FOR THE GRADUATES
Go out into the world in peace;
be of good courage;
hold to what is good;
return no one evil for evil;
strengthen the faint-hearted;
support the weak;
help the suffering;
honor all people;
love and serve our God,
rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen
From “Affirmation of the Vocation of the Baptized in the World,” in Welcome to Christ: Lutheran Rites for the Catechumen ate. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1997, page 60.