Lector: Precious Lord, have mercy on our broken world and grant us peace. Help us to engage one another with kindness and patience.

Dear Lord, teach us to love.

Precious Lord, we ask for your healing spirit as we seek love’s truth in response to wrongdoing in your church.

Dear Lord, teach us to love.

Precious Lord, help the people and the leaders of our nation to remember that love is not boastful, arrogant, or rude; that it does not insist on its own way; that is not irritable or resentful; that it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in truth.

Dear Lord, teach us to love.

Precious Lord, in your righteousness, deliver those who su?er homelessness, hunger, violence and fear. Help them ?nd refuge in the arms of your compassionate servants around the world.

Dear Lord, teach us to love.

Precious Lord, you are our rock; you are also our skies and our seas and all that swim, ?y, walk, grow, and crawl upon the earth. Teach us to honor your creation with respect and loving care for the miracle it is.

Dear Lord, teach us to love.

Precious Lord, you have sustained us since we were born. Be especially with those who su?er in mind, body, and spirit; bring solace to those who grieve. We ask for your healing presence with those we now name, silently and aloud (pause), including those on our parish prayer list:

Dear Lord, teach us to love.

Presider: In Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, you clearly describe the behaviors of love. Amen.