Family of God,
we join together in our joy and grief,
our sorrow and celebration
and offer our prayers on behalf of
the Church and the world.

O God, we pray for all who confess your Name.
May we be united in Your truth,
live together in Your love,
and reveal Your glory in the world.
May we join our hearts to Christ’s in praying:
that we all may be one.

Leader: Lord, in your mercy

All: Hear our prayer.

Lord, we pray for all our leaders.
Guide the people of this land, and of all the nations,
in the ways of justice and peace;
that we may honor one another
and serve the common good.

Give us all a reverence for the earth as Your own creation.
May we use its resources rightly
in the service of others
and to Your honor and glory.

Bless all those whose lives are closely linked with ours,
and grant that we may serve Christ in them,
and love one another as he loves us.

Leader: Lord, in your mercy

All: Hear our prayer.

Comfort and heal all those who suffer
in body, mind, or spirit;
give them courage and hope in their trouble,
and bring them the joy of your salvation.

Lord make me us all instruments of Your peace.
Where there is hatred may we sow love,
where there is injury, pardon,
where there is doubt, faith,
where there is despair, hope,
where there is darkness, light,
and where there is sadness, joy.

O God, grant that we may
not so much seek to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it's in dying that we are born to eternal life.

All this we ask through Christ our Lord. Amen.