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 Gibbs family - Leland, Diane, Haley and Sydney; Virginia Gerhart.
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, 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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Bob Farwell, friend of the Betts family
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Pray for the soul of Ted, uncle of Steve Rule, and comfort for his family.
Pray for the soul of Steve Turpie and comfort for his family.
Pray for the soul of Bob Brandt, longtime parishioner of Nativity and father of parishioner, Segrid Gladstone, and comfort for his family.
World News This Week in Prayer
"Go stand in the temple and tell the people the whole message about this life." - Acts 5: 20
In these early days after the resurrection, we wonder what it all means. We can relate to the women who fled the tomb with terror and amazement. We understand Thomas and his need for proof that would come only by touching the wounds and seeing the nail marks. We understand the fear and confusion that kept the disciples in the shadow cast by closed doors.
We also keep company with the travelers on the Emmaus road who felt the strange burning of the truth and hope and love weaving into the sadness that consumed them on their walk. We find ourselves in the eternal movement between fear and faith, doubt and conviction, wonder and worry, and we trust that you are present with us, O God.
We trust that like the disciples we will be able to stand and tell the whole message about this life that:
Love is stronger than hate
Life has the final word over death
Beyond what we can see with our eyes, there is a bond of humanness that draws and keeps us together.
We watch with anxiety as the Korean peninsula reverberates with new tensions and the fragile lines between
North and South Korea
and the world wide community is strained once again. In the midst there are also voices of reason and peace; perhaps they speak in whispers... but they speak nonetheless. May those whispers rise to shouts that proclaim the way forward with words and not weapons.
As the machines of greed and war trample the world and its peoples, we remember that there are seeds of justice and love and goodness and grace that are planted and watered every moment of every day. We give thanks for those who:
- rise early in the morning to prepare food at countless soup kitchens around the world;
- search the night streets for lost children and shepherd them to places of safety;
- keep watch amidst the sick and dying in countless hospitals and in countless places;
- speak words of compassion in the face of hate.
It is a complicated and frightening world.
Strengthen us as we stand and bear witness to this whole life...the life of the
Risen One, even Jesus Christ Our Lord.
AMEN.
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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.
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