Dear Father Mother God of all being and knowing, We come to you as a community in need of your comforting spirit. Keep us mindful of your love for us in days of sunshine and in the time of pain. Lord, we fill our hearts with the power of your love. We pray with gratitude […]
Protect us who have not seen and yet have come to believe. O Lord, we pray for your church that we, acting on your behalf, may fulfil your mission. Protect us, O God, for we take refuge in you. O Lord, we pray for Catherine, our presiding bishop, Greg, our bishop, Kate and Wray, our […]
For all who have been raised up with Christ in baptism, especially Juliette Marie Wolf McKenney and Megan Heisinger, that they may find joy in God’s wondrous love, Let us pray to the Lord. For the leaders of our Christian community, and especially for our search committee as they exercise their powers of discernment, that […]
Loving God, please hold our world of humans in your tender hands. Help us to be of the mind and heart of Jesus; help us to humble ourselves in obedience to your teachings, that we might love you and one another with all our hearts and minds and soul and strength. Dearest Lord, we pray. […]
Dear Mother Father God, We pray to you with hearts longing to know your peace. Bless Emmanuel Church as a vessel of your love, caring openly for all who enter here, for our community and for those beyond all boundaries. WE PRAY TO YOU WITH HEARTS LONGING TO KNOW YOUR PEACE. We pray for our […]
O Lord, who does not see as mortals see, we pray for the world and your church. Open the eyes of all your children. So, we may live as children of light. O Lord, help Katherine, Greg, Wray and Kate as well as all ministers be faithful leaders empowering us to fulfill your mission. So, […]
Even when we test God or quarrel with our neighbor, God lives in us, and love is perfected in us. When we thirst and do not comprehend the quenching of our thirst, God lives in us, and love is perfected in us. When poverty, illness, or death seem to overwhelm, God lives in us, and […]
Dear God the Mother and Father, May this church gathering today, draw your love through us to each other, our community, the world and to those you call us to serve. We surrender to your love, in the name of Jesus Christ. We pray for Emmanuel Church, our priests, Kate and Wray, our Vestry, Wardens, […]
O Lord, our world is often a wilderness of temptation in which we are pulled this way and that, away from you. Instruct us in the way we should go, so like Christ in the desert, the angels will attend us. O Lord, hear our prayer. O Lord, like Adam and Even in the garden, […]
O Lord, who gave the law to Moses on a mountaintop, we pray for the world and your church. Help us to realize that we are all your children and that we each are called to reflect your love. O Lord, hear our prayer. Help your church to fulfill your mission. Help Katherine, Greg, Wray […]