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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 Rev. Murray and Muriel Hammond, T'sa Hammond, the Hanken family - Martin, Janice and Nate.
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, Inge Wilde and Barb Braithwaite.
Prayers are asked for the following family and friends:
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Polly Essinger, friend of Marian Marsh
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Tristan Humble, friend of Susan Monahan
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Mike Antill, friend of the Wades
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Becca Stevenson, friend of Susan Monahan
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Brooks Parker, friend of David Wade
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Bob Farwell, friend of the Betts family
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Colton James, great grandson of Marge Cole
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Carol Athanasakos, friend of Gail & Jean
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Kirk Snyder, son of Myrna Snyder
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Cathy Rowe, friend of Susan Monahan
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Tim Case, friend of the Singer family
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Bob Painier, brother-in-law of Juliette Anthony
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Pray for the soul of Jared Maynard Lawson, cousin of Nina Woods, and comfort for her family.
Pray for the soul of Hattie Curtis, friend of Ceral Walraven, and comfort for her family.
Pray for the soul of the Rev. Jeremy Blodgett, interim rector of this parish and priest and friend of many.
World News This Week in Prayer O God, you have bound us together in a common life. Help us, in the midst of our struggles for justice and truth, to confront one another without hatred or bitterness and to work together with mutual kindness and respect. God, this week, you have bound us together in a common life of tragedy. In Boston (United States), a marathon was run by 20,000 people representing nearly 100 countries. These well-qualified runners were cheered by family, friends, and strangers. Two bombs exploded near the finish line, killing three people, and injuring more than 170. But what could have been a much more deadly event was curtailed by a rapid response of strangers offering tourniquets to their fallen neighbors. These strangers were first responders and people without medical training; they were men, women, and children; they represented many colors, classes, and religions. In those moments since the blasts, we have loved each other as you, God, love us. In West, Texas, (U.S.) a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant destroyed part of the plant and surrounding businesses and homes. Hundreds of people have been hospitalized, and a community has been devastated. We pray that our unity of spirit will remain with us. We pray for the authorities charged with determining who, why, and how of these events: give them answers, give them and their families solace, give them clarity and patience to persevere. We pray for the healers in these communities: medical personnel, counselors, neighbors, and religious leaders. O God, you have bound us together in a common life. Help us, in the midst of our struggles for justice and truth, to confront one another without hatred or bitterness and to work together with mutual kindness and respect. We have learned this week from a Unicef report that another common tragedy includes malnutrition: more than a quarter of children under the age of 5 worldwide (165 million) are permanently "stunted" from malnutrition, leaving them physically and intellectually weak as their bodies and brains are unable to develop properly. The United Nations report found that 24 countries with the highest levels of stunted children were concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. We pray for these children, their parents, and the relief organizations working with them. We pray for nations divided by politics and religion: ++We pray for the citizens in Venezuela, where tensions escalated after a very close election between the newly elected president and his opponent, who blamed each other for the violence that the government said had left seven people dead. ++We pray for Great Britain, deeply divided in its mourning for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a polarizing political figure. ++We pray for Egypt, who sentenced a police officer to 15 years in prison for torturing an ultra-conservative Muslim to death. We pray for your presence among all of the victims of violence, torture, and religious persecution in the world. ++We pray for continued harmonious relations between Israel and Egypt. Two rockets fired from the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula struck the southern Israeli resort of Eilat, causing no damage or injuries, according to the Israeli military. Rather than serving as a new source of tension between Israel and Egypt, Israeli officials spoke of close cooperation between the two countries over what they viewed as a joint interest. O God, you have bound us together in a common life. Help us, in the midst of our struggles for justice and truth, to confront one another without hatred or bitterness and to work together with mutual kindness and respect. 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. |
