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 Segrid Gladstone, Alice and Jim Goss, Tanya Graham, Florence Graybill.
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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Margaret Whitfield, sister of Marianne Keenan
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Mike Antill, friend of the Wades
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Esther Yuen, friend of Marianne Keenan
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Brooks Parker, friend of David Wade
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Kirk Snyder, son of Myrna Snyder
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Colton James, great grandson of Marge Cole
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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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Jill Lerner, friend of Honor Bulkley
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Bob Farwell, friend of the Betts family
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Carol Athanasakos, friend of Gail & Jean
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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.
Pray for the soul of Jared Maynard Lawson, cousin of Nina Woods, and comfort for her family
World News This Week in Prayer
"He brings fire
for forging;
the hammer strikes
with skill
but I'm not yet unbent.
He brings fire for greening;
the new life
covers the bush
but I'm not yet full spent.
He brings fire
for feasting;
with much laughter
on the wind
but I'm not yet content."
� Bruce Prewer, 2000
Let us identify with God's compassion for all humanity.
God of Christ Jesus, please hear our prayers for the human family in its happiness or its distress. Gather us up into the reconciling fire of your love, that we may be purged of all that fosters misery, and inducted into everything that creates love, joy and peace.
We commend to you:
-- those who feel ground down or broken, isolated or alienated and who feel unheard or unloved.
-- the hungry or homeless, the anxious or in agony of body, mind or spirit.
-- those who through terrorism and war are shattered and despairing. We remember in particular the children and women who according to this
week's UN report suffer most violence and sexual abuse during and after wars and fighting; for all refugees especially those from Syria and other
conflicts which have slipped from the news headlines.
-- the frightened and insane, the dying and grieving and for understanding and compassion of those who have not experienced that and think that
those who mourn should recover and move on quickly.
-- the tempted and the fallen, the fearful and the faithful.
-- those leaders who maintain and fight for their idealistic and just aims despite opposition, and for those who have compromised and surrendered
their integrity through a thousand small choices for the easy option
-- the people of all countries striving for peace often amidst financial chaos and political war-mongering. We remember especially the people of
North and South Korea and in South East Asia, Syria, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, and the litany of countries that come to mind.
-- the church worldwide with its truth and error, its faith and its fear, its love and hypocrisy, its serving heart and judgmental attitude.
-- all who love Christ, and work for his way of reconciliation, justice, compassion and peace.
Most loving God, to journey with Christ is to warmly live, to fall away is to grow cold and slowly die, help us who have prayed for other people, to recognize our own weaknesses and to trust your Spirit to supply the kind of help which we most aptly need.
God of Christ Jesus, we submit these prayers to your refining fire. Purify all that pleases you for the service of your kingdom of grace, where no good thing is discarded, and no loving deed wasted. For your love's sake.
Amen
________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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. |