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... and now let us pray for God's family, the World, and ourselves, giving thanks for God's goodness.

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​Let us pray aloud, and together:

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Everlasting God, You made a covenant with our ancestors and pledged them descendants more numerous than the stars. Grant that all people may share in the blessings of your covenant, accomplished through the death and resurrection of your Son and sealed by the gift of your Spirit. Amen.

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(Short Silence) Lord in your Mercy: Hear our prayer

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Loving God, we hold the needs of our sisters and brothers as dearly as our own needs. Help us to love you with all our hearts and with all our souls and with all our minds and to love our neighbours as ourselves. With these commandments before us we offer our thanksgivings and our petitions on behalf of each of our faith communities and throughout the world.

 

(Short Silence) Lord in your Mercy: Hear our prayer

 

Creator God, we pray for the peoples of the world that they may enjoy un-perverted justice whether they be poor or rich, great or small.  We pray that those who use violence and terror to bring about their desires and those who then so readily seek revenge following acts of terrorism may instead pursue all that makes for peace.

 

(Short Silence) Lord in your Mercy: Hear our prayer

 

Father God, we thank You for our families and friends.  We thank You for modern technology which enables us to hear and see them so easily and to keep in touch even though separated by great distances.

 

(Short Silence) Lord in your Mercy: Hear our prayer

 

Holy God, friend of those in need, your Son Jesus has loosened our burdens and healed our spirits. We lift before you for those still burdened, those seeking healing, those in need within our community and across the world.

 

Give the song of joy to all who are now on the road to recovery and recuperation and the song of thanks to all who helped them on that road.

 

We especially raise before You now all those who have asked for our prayers from around the world … those we know in New Zealand, in Singapore, in Argentina, in France, in Australia, in the US, in Canada, in Austria, in Ukraine, in China, in Germany, in the Czech Republic, and any others we now name aloud, or in the silence of our hearts, and those who are known only by You.

 

(Short Silence) Lord in your Mercy: Hear our prayer

 

Loving God of all consolation, Your Son Jesus was moved to tears at the grave of Lazarus his friend. Look with compassion on those bereaved and grieving at the loss of a loved one; give to their troubled hearts the light of hope and strengthen in all of us the gift of faith, in Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

We pray for all the faithful departed, may they now rest in eternal peace as they most surely have risen in glory.

 

We especially raise before you at this time our recently departed sisters and brothers Constance and Faith (England), Yuki (Japan), Marcia (Spain), Virginia (USA), Peter, Phillip and Simon (England), Jorge and Felipe (Spain), Matt and Zane (USA).

 

(Short Silence) Lord in your Mercy: Hear our prayer

 

Gracious God, at the start of this new week, recognising Your trust in us to live and preach the Gospel, make us always more ready to please You rather than to seek the praise of the secular world.

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(Short Silence) Lord, in Your mercy: hear our prayer

 

Forth in the peace of Christ we go; Christ to the world with joy we bring; Christ in our minds, Christ on our lips, Christ in our hearts, the world’s true King.

 

Merciful father: accept these prayers for the sake of Your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ.  AMEN.

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