As the school year begins/ may students feel a sense of welcome,/ belonging and being known./ In these angry days, / may children find their classrooms to be places of joy,/ peace and success./ We pray to the Lord.
For those who profess Christianity in our nation,/ who are as likely as others to be hypnotized by lies,/ power,/ shopping,/ money,/ superficiality and indifference./ May we know Christ in his Gospel Word/ inviting us to live transformed lives./ We pray to the Lord.
While we pray for the many whose lives are disrupted and set back by a great hurricane last week,/ we pray for the whole of creation,/ where climate changes are making life very difficult/ even some places becoming uninhabitable./ May we love our planet and protect it for the generations who will follow./ We pray to the Lord.
At a school board meeting this week,/ one parent yelled,/ "It's my constitutional right to be as mean as I want to you guys."/ On live television a weather reporter was physically accosted./ May balance and calm be restored;/ courtesy,/ trust and helpfulness be learned again./ We pray to the Lord.
May the pro-life heart,/ be just that,/ in beauty and truth,/ as far reaching in love as human life asks of it,/ in all its vulnerability/ need,/ pain,/ misery and sorrow./ We pray to the Lord.
Awful things happen in wars:/ death,/ loss,/ waste,/ insecurity and pain./ We ask for God to grow-us-up,/ and to give us the will and skills to stop preparing for and creating sinful wars./ We pray to the Lord.
As we pray for the healing of those who are physically sick,/ we pray too for those who are soul-sick,/ emotionally or psychosocially sick,/ whose passions,/ plans and desires are troubled./ For the healing of those who should lead and guide who are not well people,/ who do not know how to care./ We pray to the Lord.
