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29 Nov 2023
A Prayer for World Aids Day (1 Dec)
God of Promise, today we are mindful of our sisters and brothers suffering with HIV and AIDS. We ask your healing presence on millions of people living with the disease today; particularly the children who are infected or who have been orphaned by the disease. Make of us a safe haven for those who are abandoned, discriminated against and rejected on account of their illness. Inspire us to speak out for a just distribution of health care and medical aid in all countries and for generosity in sharing our resources with those struggling under the weight of this epidemic overseas.
As we begin our Advent celebration of waiting in hope for the birth of your Son, let us remember those across the world who wait in hope for a cure. Amen.
22 Nov 2023
A Prayer for Red Wednesday
God our Father, on this Red Wednesday we offer our heartfelt prayers for the persecuted Church throughout the world. Confident in the saving blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, whose death brought life to the world, we pray for all who profess the Name of Jesus the Nazarene and for all people of goodwill who suffer, even unto the blood of martyrdom, on account of violence, religious discrimination and intolerance on religious grounds.
We pray for all those unjustly held or kidnapped because of their faith. May they be freed.
We pray for all those suffering with mental or physical illness, especially those facing constant discrimination and oppression. We pray that you may ease their pain.
We pray for leaders, religious and secular, that they may be inspired by the spirit of co-operation, dialogue and mutual respect for all peoples in society, so we may together build up a civilisation of love.
We pray for the faithful departed, remembering especially those martyred for their faith, now triumphant witnesses to Christ and his Church through the ultimate sacrifice of pouring out their blood to sow seeds of renewal. We pray too for deceased friends and benefactors of Aid to the Church in Need. May they all rest in peace.
And may we, through the intercession of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, be strengthened in faith, hope and charity to follow Christ Our Lord along the road to the heavenly Jerusalem, with all the saints and martyrs, washed clean in the Blood of the Lamb, and brought to the glory of eternal joy. We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. Amen.
15 Nov 2023
A Prayer for Safeguarding Sunday – 19 Nov 2023
Dear God,
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Help us to be a church that:
Loves, welcomes, protects.
Listens, learns, serves.
Repents, restores, transforms.
Values, cares, believes.
God of Justice and compassion, hear our prayer.
Help us, heal us, guide us, we pray.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
08 Nov 2023
Prayer in a time of hopelessness
We entrust to you, eternal God,
those times when we can see only shadows and lose sight of the
hope to come;
the times when suffering seems so senseless,
life so fragile, war so unstoppable and death so permanent.
Bless us with the assurance that you are in all things,
the tragic and the beautiful,
the nightmare and the dream,
the light and the darkness.
This we ask in the name of Jesus Christ,
the peace of the world, today, tomorrow and forever.
Amen.
Remembrance Resource for the Methodist Church, November 2023
01 Nov 2023
| ‘Prayer is at its heart reminding ourselves every single day that God made us, God loves us and God is with us. Everything else flows from these eternal truths.’ So writes Martyn Payne in The BRF Book of 100 Prayers, just before this prayer: |
| Father God, when the news is bleak, steady us; when the pain is bitter, surround us; when the days blur, sustain us; when despair burdens, still us. In our weakness, make us strong; in our lowness, lift us up, confident that our Redeemer ever lives and prays for us and will never let us go. Amen. |
| Pray not for Arab or Jew, for Palestinian or Israeli, but pray rather for ourselves, that we might not divide them in our prayers but keep them both together in our hearts. (prayer from the ecumenical prayer vigil for peace in Gaza) |
