Prayers of the People

Sunday, October 25, 2025

God be with you,

And also with you.

O Lord our God, Ruler of Creation, you are gracious and full of compassion, the works of your hands are faithfulness and justice.  Guide the leaders of our nation and of all nations away from narrow roads of self-interest and pride into following the footsteps of your righteousness and into the path of your wisdom.  Bestow a hearty share of that righteousness and wisdom upon the leaders of Israel and Hamas that they will be able to continue to find a way forward in dialogue into a just and lasting peace.

God in your mercy,

Hear our prayer.

O Beckoning Spirit, you offer us a path of change, challenge and light in following you as your people.  Grant your Church throughout the world grace to embody, with all that we have and are, our calling to care for those in need, to be bearers of mercy, nourished by prayer.  

Inspire, sustain and guard Archbishop of Canterbury-elect Sarah Mullally.   Equip her for the ministry ahead of her and, through her leadership and presence, bless and uphold the Anglican Communion around the world that we may praise you, O God, in mutual love and glad adoration. 

In the Evanston Deanery this week, we pray for the people of Saint David’s Church in Glenview and Paul their Rector.   Open our hearts to generously accept your invitation to holy friendship, blessed rest, and sacred struggle - the life of discipleship that is both our call and our quest.

God in your mercy,

Hear our prayer.

Immortal Love, you are forever full, a never-ebbing sea.  Your goodness and mercy attend all your children and uphold all your creatures.  Clothe and make whole with your grace all who are sick or who suffer, who live in fear, who are separated from those whom they love, who despair of their future.  We bring to you all those we now lift in our prayers today, silently or aloud, for Sally, Sherry, Dorothy, and Ben. Are there others?

O God your grace always precedes and follows us.  You give both life and death.  We commend to your mercy all those who have died especially those we now name silently or aloud. Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and may light perpetual shine upon them.

Pardon, feed and heal us, mighty, humble, courteous One.

God in your mercy,

Hear our prayer.

Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Amen.