Singular

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One," Deuteronomy 6:4.

(A quick, technical parenthetical note. Very often the Hebrew Bible makes reference to God using a plural form of the Hebrew word which would translate as 'gods.' In fact, in the verse above where it says 'our God,' grammatically it says, 'our gods.' But it really means the singular, God, just as translated into English. But sometimes, when we learn this idiom of Hebrew, some of us get worried that translators are trying to pull a fast one over us. Not so. When Jesus quotes that verse verbatim, but in the Greek of his day, he uses the singular form, 'God.' That's exactly how the translators of the Hebrew Bible rendered the Greek well over a century before Jesus quoted it.) The Lord is One.

As we meet a brother or sister today we love the Lord our God with all our heart, all our soul, all our strength. And together we give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed for ever and ever.