White Birch Trees in Snow
May we be protected from our worst selves:/ our willful ignorance,/ neediness,/ and blind loyalty./ In these weeks of liturgical green/ before Lent,/ may we grow in the ideas God has in mind for us./ We pray to the Lord.
Monday is the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the seventeen million Holocaust Victims./ Grant us the intelligence and clean-ness of heart to see each human person as a child of God./ We pray to the Lord.
Safety and political concerns thwart the Pope's desire to visit South Sudan,/ Iraq,/ Argentina,/ Cyprus,/ Lebanon,/ East Timor,/ Indonesia,/ Russia and China./ We pray for the Pope's message of peace,/ human dignity and justice to be advanced/ as God wills./ We pray to the Lord.
We are living in a time of great emergency:/ animal and plant extinction,/ global heating and pollution./ Grant that we would be wise,/ creative and enduring in taking care of our planet./ We pray to the Lord.
For the President of the United States and for all who are in positions of leadership and authority./ We pray for those who abuse power,/ lie or manipulate to hold onto power./ May we learn the servant way of Christ and his saints./ We pray to the Lord.
We ask for our families and friends to take on the heart and mind of Christ./ May they be healed of what ails them,/ strengthened in all that is before them,/ comforted in their struggles and sorrows./ We pray to the Lord.
Safety and political concerns thwart the Pope's desire to visit South Sudan,/ Iraq,/ Argentina,/ Cyprus,/ Lebanon,/ East Timor,/ Indonesia,/ Russia and China./ We pray for the Pope's message of peace,/ human dignity and justice to be advanced/ as God wills./ We pray to the Lord.
We are living in a time of great emergency:/ animal and plant extinction,/ global heating and pollution./ Grant that we would be wise,/ creative and enduring in taking care of our planet./ We pray to the Lord.
For the President of the United States and for all who are in positions of leadership and authority./ We pray for those who abuse power,/ lie or manipulate to hold onto power./ May we learn the servant way of Christ and his saints./ We pray to the Lord.
We ask for our families and friends to take on the heart and mind of Christ./ May they be healed of what ails them,/ strengthened in all that is before them,/ comforted in their struggles and sorrows./ We pray to the Lord.
