Lord, Hear Our Prayer!

Each Sunday, we who are baptized into Christ lift up the needs and hopes of the church and the world in the prayers of petition called “the general intercessions” or “the prayer of the faithful.”   This is the first step in bearing one another’s burdens that baptized living bids us to do.  In the church’s daily prayer—lauds (morning) and vespers (evening), such intercessions are also prayed.  Since we don’t often gather as a parish for morning or evening prayer, why not include these Sunday petitions in your prayer at home throughout the week—together with your family or housemates, or when you pray alone?  Let us pray to the Lord!

Intercessions, November 1 & 2

For the community of believers around the world, God's dwelling place; for the church in Rome as it celebrates its cathedral, for Christians in India and in Vietnam who suffer persecution, for abundant life and healing for all, we pray...

For our parish family; for love of sister and brother, for courage to reach across divisions toward understanding and healing, we pray...

For a new spirit of hope and cooperation in our nation; for the blessings of liberty and justice for all people, we pray...

For men and women and children living in situations of oppression; for those who have no voice; for a revitalized compassion and wisdom in reaching out to a suffering world, we pray...

For those who suffer disaster and neglect, for the children trapped in the collapsed school in Haiti, for Palestinians left without access to food, for Hispanic immigrants endangered in the southwestern desert, we pray…

For our sick, for comfort and for peace, for all those whose names are written in our book of prayer, for those whose names have been added this week: for Cailyn Billings, born a bit too soon; for Rey Pascua, in hospice care, we pray. . .

For our dead, for communion with the saints, our models for life and our hope in death, for Michael A. Solazzo, Fr. Mike’s father; for Gertrud Dougherty, Jim Dougherty’s mother; for Philippe Silencieux, buried from St. Nicholas today, and for Wally Smith, for whom this Mass is offered, we pray. . .

For all our prayers, great and small, for those written in this, our parish book of prayers, and those written in our hearts, we pray. . .