Friday, June 17, 2016

Prayers of the Church, 6.5.16

Great and majestic Lord,

We come before you today grateful for your limitless love and thankful for your unending grace.  Our actions or inaction would most certainly cause an earthly king to question our loyalty, to consider turning us away.

Selfish desire makes us prone to wander.

Hardship makes us prone to leave the God we love.

We grieve for loss.  We lament the passing of people and things we love.  In our sorrow, we can believe that you don’t exist, and in our mourning even worse – that this is what you are really like – the God of pain.

In our pain, people can try to comfort us with the consolations of religion.  We don’t want or need that!  We need Jesus Christ, not something that resembles Him. We need the close embrace of Christ-like brothers and sisters who will nurture us and point us toward the cross.

Help us remember the resurrection.  Help us remember you are the God of love – a love so deep that you gave up what you loved most for people like us.

In the silence, Father, hear our prayers of loss…….and hear our prayers of thanksgiving that your love is the only love that is pure, unselfish, and totally full of the grace that saves us.


Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.


And now we pray together the prayer that Jesus taught us:  

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