Pause for Prayer : Mar 2023

29 Mar 2023

Kathy Galloway, from Spring, Ruth Burgess (Ed.), Wild Goose Publications
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15 Mar 2023

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08 Mar 2023

Cornish Children pray on International Women’s Day

Prayers from school children across Cornwall, written specially for Truro Cathedral’s International Women’s Day ‘Chorister Mega Zoom Assembly’. The Chorister Mega Zoom Assemblies join thousands of children across the county with the purpose of leading each other in faith and music.

A prayer for International Women’s Day (8 March)


Lord, make me an instrument of peace:

Bless all women who daily strive to bring peace to their communities, their homes and their hearts. Give them strength to continue to turn swords into ploughshares.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love:

We pray for all women who face prejudice, inequality and gender disparities. Help us to see and to face the discrimination against women in all the many forms it may take.

Where there is injury, pardon:

Comfort all women who suffer from the pain of war, violence, and abuse. Help them to become instruments of their own reconciliation and peace.

Where there is division, unity:

Forgive all women and men who let differences breed hate and discrimination. Let your example of valuing all of creation help us to see that we are equal partners in the stewardship of your world.

Where there is darkness, light; where there is untruth, truth:

Comfort all women who struggle in the darkness of abuse, poverty, and loneliness. May we stand with them in light to acknowledge their suffering and strive to remove the burdens of shame or embarrassment.

Where there is doubt, true faith:

We pray for all women who live in fear of their husbands, fathers, and forces that control their lives. Help them to be empowered to be their true selves through your everlasting love and faith.

Where there is despair, hope:

We pray for all women who live in the despair of poverty, violence, trafficking, slavery, and abuse. May the light of your love bring them hope.

Where there is sadness, new joy:

Help us to see the strength and goodness in all women and men.
Transform our hearts to celebrate the love and grace of all people.

Amen

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01 Mar 2023

A Prayer as we begin Fairtrade Fortnight

Tilt the scales,
O God of the mustard seed:
That the poor shall see justice.

Share the feast,
O God of Eden’s abundant garden:
That each crop may fetch a fair price.

Upset the tables,
O God of the upside-down Kingdom:
That the least can benefit from their trade.

Open our eyes,
O God of life in all its fullness:
That we may learn to walk the way of your Son
tilting, sharing, upsetting this world.

Not satisfied
until the products we bring to our table
Give a better deal, to all who hunger for one.
In His name, Amen.

St Joseph’s Prep School (2014)

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