05/17/2026
Today’s Intercessory Prayer and Concluding Collect — perhaps you will find comfort in it or wish to say the prayer yourself.
Holy One of many names and beyond all naming, we pray for the world and all who dwell within it.
Strengthen communities of faith and goodwill, this gathering, and all who minister and serve, that we may embody compassion, justice, healing, and radical welcome.
Guide the nations and all in authority in the ways of peace, dignity, reconciliation, and the common good.
Help us care for the earth, our common home, and live gently with all creation.
We pray for all who suffer: the poor, hungry, sick, grieving, oppressed, imprisoned, lonely, and all in need or trouble. Surround them with comfort, healing, justice, and love.
We pray for all who seek deeper meaning, truth, and belonging.
We remember those who have died and all who mourn their loss.
May your presence strengthen us to live with courage, mercy, and hope, and transform us into people of peace for the sake of the world.
We lift to you also the prayers, thanksgivings, stories, joys, and burdens shared among our beloved community today, holding them in your abiding love and compassion.
Holy One, Loving Creator,
whose care for us is deeper than we can imagine, receive these prayers in love, bless our community and bless our worship.
