Prayers of Church & Community, April 7, 2024, Easter 2
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Holy God, eternal light …
Maker of heaven and earth …
You are the Good Shepherd of body and soul … you are the LORD God Almighty, and to you we belong.
We pray for our schools - our teachers and staff … we pray for their students, and the homes from which they come …
We pray, O God, for the leaders of great corporations, banks and financial institutions … those who sit on corporate boards and shape the policies for the flow of wealth … who manage the goods, the stocks and bonds, the buying and the selling, that energize the economy …
We pray for the people of Taiwan … and for the efforts of recovery and rebuilding.
We pray for the people of Gaza and Israel … we pray for the aid workers, and for the families of those killed and injured.
We pray for Ukraine and Russia …
We celebrate NATO’s 75 years of work and hope … and all such alliances that promote peace and provide protection.
Be with those who suffer in mind and body, heart and soul … provide healing, we pray … bring about hope and peace, assurance and love, give encouragement and guidance.
Thank you, dear God, for the Table in our midst - bread offered freely, the cup of blessing poured without question - kindness and mercy from the hands of Christ … help us, O God, help us.
In the name of our LORD Jesus Christ who taught us to pray, saying:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
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