prayers
Prayers of the People
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Give comfort, we pray, for the aching, burdened, lonely and anxious hearts around the world and around the corner. Bring peace, we pray, to those homes where there is illness, trouble, strife, doubt, or despair. Offer love to those who feel unworthy: to the guilty, the doubting, the disappointed.
Prayers of the People
Sunday, October 12, 2025
For the many gifts you grant us and the opportunity to enjoy these things, for your daily provision and the constant signs of your healing love, for hope amidst despair, and for your light which always shines, a simple thank you seems so inadequate.
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Creative and Majestic God, Our hearts are crowded with gratitude as we bow before you on this holy day of Thanksgiving.
Prayers of the People
Sunday, October 5, 2025
We thank you, oh God, our father, our creator, our protector, our mother, our friend. We thank you for the activity of life and for the times we can be more aware of your presence. We thank you this day for those who are present through our days—family and friends, brothers and sisters in Christ, who support us and encourage us and love us, no matter what . . .
Prayer of Confession
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Forgive us, for we gave only a small part so we would not get too involved, as our lives are very busy with unimportant things.
Prayers of the People
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Make us to be agents of your love and peace. May your vision of justice guide our ways, may righteousness and kindness flow like an overflowing stream from this church, may your healing balm be made real in our own lives and words. May this be so, in the name of the one who prompts us to live in justice and love, all our days, Jesus our Lord.
St. Francis of Assisi’s Prayer for Peace
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Just pray. For faith. For justice. For love. For yourself and others, for the church and the nation and the world and all the people in it. And this week, especially for peace. Perhaps we might use the words of the man who was known for walking and praying and making his faith alive in all he did, St Francis of Assisi. – Rev. John C. Perkin
Prayers of the People
Sunday, August 31, 2025
On this summer morning, we thank you that you have not forgotten us, despite the way in which our world turns away from you. In your own Son Jesus Christ, you have given us nothing less than yourself and all that is yours, showing us how to love the world even as you do.
Prayers of the People
Sunday, July 6, 2025
This is a wondrous world, and we delight in the bounty that you have provided to us. In these long summer days, as the crops ripen and we are surrounded by the richness of good things, we give thanks for your love and care.
Prayer of Confession
Sunday, July 6, 2025
We confess that we tune out the Spirit, replacing that still, small voice with frenetic social engagements, the unceasing chatter of social media, and the banality of so-called news and entertainment.
Prayers of the People
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Make the vision of your kingdom revealed in Jesus Christ real to us and to our around the world, and hear our prayers especially for those with greatest and most urgent needs . . .
Prayers of the People
Sunday, June 15, 2025
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth!
We come into your presence with joy and expectation, for you are the creator God and you rule over all things and you care for all people.
Prayers of the People
Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2025
Come again, Holy Spirit, and fill us with your power. Ignite a fire in our hearts with a passion for justice that cannot be quenched . . .
Prayers of the People
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Open our hearts to your power moving around us and between us and within us, until your glory is revealed in our love of both friend and enemy . . .
Prayers of the People
Sunday, May 25, 2025
You are Lord not only of creation, but compassion and justice, and so we raise to you the concerns that weigh heavily on our hearts, that confuse and distract our minds, that disturb and dismay our spirits.
Prayers of the People
Sunday, May 18, 2025
In this Easter season, we still rejoice in the good news of Jesus Christ; by his ministry, word and work, and through his resurrection he brings brought hope to the distressed, promise to the despairing, and healing to the afflicted.
Lessons and Prayers for Good Friday
Friday, April 18, 2025
Prayer of Confession for Holy Week
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Prayers of the People
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Prayers of the People
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Prayers of the People
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Prayers of the People
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Prayers of the People
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Prayer of Confession
Sunday, January 26, 2025