Remember in Prayer
Our church: Pray for Katharine, our Presiding Bishop; Marc, our Bishop: the clergy, staff, and members of this parish.
The Ministries of our Parishioners: Kairos Inside Prison Ministry, Kairos Outside Prison Ministry, Cursillo, Sojourn - the Multifaith Chaplaincy at San Francisco General Hospital, San Quentin Prison, the Marin Interfaith Street Chaplaincy, Ohlhoff Recovery Board: the Elders Ministry of Grace Cathedral, Hospice by the Bay, West Coast Post Trauma Retreat, Alano Club and Buckelew Services.
In our Nativity Parish cycle of prayer, pray for the Ehlen family - Peter, Samantha, and Kat; Jane Le Ellis.
Our world: pray for our country, for our President Barack and Governor Jerry. Pray peace into being especially in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Darfur, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Haiti, Pakistan, Chile, Palestine, the Middle East, Japan and Honduras.
Our parish members for special grace and healing:
Carissa Betts, Bob Brandt, Alice Goss, David Wade, Virginia Gerhart, Marion Slusser, Bill Schlegel, Juliette Anthony, Muriel Hammond, Sam Wester, Daniel London, and Inge Wilde.
Prayers are asked for the following family and friends:
Polly Essinger, friend of Marian Marsh
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Jill Lerner, friend of Honor Bulkley
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Mike Antill, friend of the Wades
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Margaret Whitfield, sister of Marianne Keenan
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Brooks Parker, friend of David Wade
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Esther Yuen, friend of Marianne Keenan
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Colton James, great grandson of Marge Cole
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Kirk Snyder, son of Myrna Snyder
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Winnie Coleman, friend of Gail & Jean
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Tim Case, friend of the Singer family
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Hal, friend of Nina Woods
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Tristan Humble, friend of Susan Monahan
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Marsha Calegari, friend of Honor Bulkley
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Becca Stevenson, friend of Susan Monahan
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Pray for the soul of Steve Graham, father of Samantha Ehlen, and comfort for his family.
Pray for the soul of Ted, uncle of Steve Rule, and comfort for his family.
World News This Week in Prayer
Resurrected Christ, we praise you for this Resurrection Madness.
Your surprises take our breaths away and give our hearts wings.
We praise you
for this joy--too great for words, but not for tears and songs and sharings:
for this mercy that blots out our betrayals and bids us begin again,
to mend what is broken in and around us and to forgive the breakers.
We praise you
for this YES to life and laughter, to love and lovers and to our unfolding selves;
for this kingdom unleashed in us.
We ask you to help your people find a touch of your kingdom in their lives:
for your children throughout the world and in particular this week for:
--your children in Myanmar attacked by Muslims;
--members of the US Supreme Court seeking constitutional truth in sensitive issues affecting all Americans;
--South Koreans as they struggle with their fellow Koreans in the north;
--in Cyprus as fearful and frustrated people protest and riot because of the economic turmoil racking their country;
--in Afghanistan as women struggle to maintain the strides in leadership as the government changes leadership;
--in Guantanamo where desperate low level prisoners and others held with no official charge are engaged in a hunger strike.
We celebrate the life of Rabbi Herschel Schacter, a Jewish Chaplain in WWII who died this week. He had entered Buchenwald with the Allied forces, attended survivors and cried out "You are free!" His ministry throughout his life was defined by his chaplain experience at Buchenwald.
Gracious God, bless us with an awareness of the beauty in choices, in chances, in calls to be just; that there is no dead end to living, to making peace, to dreaming dreams and to being glad of heart.
For this resurrection madness which is wiser that we are and in which we see how great you are and how full of grace: Alleluia!
(Parts of this are adapted from a prayer by Ted Loder in his book Guerrillas of Grace) ________________________________________________________________________________________________ World in Prayer is a ministry of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist Lodi, California, USA, and is written by a team of writers representing different denominations throughout the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. |