Pauca Verba is Latin for A Few Words.

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Intercessions ~ Fourth Sunday of Easter



We pray for the mothers of the world today./ For mothers who are burdened with sickness,/ frailty,/ poverty./ We pray as well for the one in five children of this country/ who live in poverty./ For our nation to lift up the littlest and the weakest./ We pray to the Lord.

For the President of the United States,/ our Congress and those who have presented themselves for public office./ May they realize they are called to be stable servants of love./ We pray to the Lord.

We pray for the people of Ethiopia,/ South Sudan,/ Somalia and Kenya,/ where again famine-producing drought/ conflicts and terrorist attacks are leaving millions of people suffering./ We pray for our own country/ which is trying to cut funding to international aid organizations./ We pray to the Lord.

There was a school shooting outside of Denver this week./ We pray boldly for our nation,/ so often menaced by gun violence./ We pray to the Lord.

Jean Vanier died this week,/ the founder of the L'Arche Community./ May we learn to embrace special needs persons,/ not as charity cases,/ but as friends and companions along our life-way./ We pray to the Lord.

We pray for the sick,/ those who have been injured in accidents or wars,/ those who are suffering psychological illness,/ or who are mourning great losses./ For those who have died since last Easter./ We pray to the Lord.