For our Church and
those in positions of leadership within it, for the dedicated priests who
service our community, and especially today for Father Tom Leclerc: may they
always be examples of faith and prophetic witness, especially in times of
trouble and heartache, pointing always to the hope of resurrection and renewal,
we pray to the Lord...
For our world,
fractured by ethnic, political, religious and economic strife, that in the
breaking and sharing of bread, all may recognize their shared membership in the
family of God, we pray to the Lord...
For those who
struggle with doubt and uncertainty, that like Cleopas and his companion, they
may find the fire of faith in unexpected places, that they may recognize Christ
in the face of the stranger and in the company of the unknown, we pray to the
Lord….
That in our
community, we always choose to follow the example of the early disciples who
sought reconciliation with those who crucified the Lord -- that all divisions
may cease, all hurts be healed, and that all walls between people and groups be
torn down, we pray to the Lord…
For those in
mourning, in pain, in sadness or in distress, that the example of the Emmaus
meal be a soothing reminder that divine comfort and hope may be as close as our
next human encounter, we pray to the Lord.
If you desire,
please now say aloud any intentions you might have. (pause) For all these
intentions, for those expressed in the silence of our hearts and for those
written in the book of intentions, we pray to the Lord.
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