We offer our prayers for the people on the Christ Church prayer list and especially for: Buster Black, Joseph Bonner, Marcia Clendenon, Sandra Cocks, Laura Craig, Anne Devlin, Nick Dowen, Tom, Jan and Mark, Mary Larimer, Steve Gross, Suzanne Guglielmi, Aretha Jadusingh, Jerry Keucher, Nick Lettiere, Julie Murphy, Willie Marcus & Dylan Schumaker, Lorelei Shull, Linda Tuell, John Watson, Marsha & Leighton Wynter, and the people of St. Vincent's Services.

 

We lift up in thanksgiving Buster Black and Alidel Zayzay, who are celebrating their birthdays this week.

We pray for all those who are suffering from the effects of gun violence, homophobia, systemic racism, and unlawful & incompetent government administration.

We thank you for our own continued good health and prosperity and we pray for the repose of the souls of Colin Howard, the victims of warfare in Ukraine and the Middle East, and for all the immediate and eventual victims of the 9/11 attacks,

 

O God, You are our gracious and loving Father.
We ask for your guidance and presence so that we may have the wisdom and unity to make decisions and discern your will during our period of transition. Through your son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever, Amen.

 

Almighty God, author of my life, help me learn to read what you have written on my heart. Give me discerning eyes and an untiring spirit to look within me in order to understand how to reach outside of me.