Prayers of the People

Sunday, October 19, 2025

God be with you,

And also with you.

O God of Countless Names, O God Beyond All Names, we lift up our eyes seeking your help. We wrestle with the brute fact that we are surrounded in this world of yours by poverty, pain and profound injustice; children who starve, parents out of work, elders unable to afford medication, families separated from one another by warfare and imprisonment.   Yet we trust that, even in lonely darkness, our help comes from you: the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.   Grant justice to those who cry to you day and night, be their help, their sure defense, the shade at their right hand.  Bless us and our leaders with hearts strengthened by your mercy and your might - raise our consciences and rouse our wills to lend your suffering children our aid and solidarity.

God in your mercy,

Hear our prayer.

O God of Countless Names, O God Beyond All Names, we lift up our eyes seeking your help.   We wrestle with the difficulty of the road you have set before us as your disciples, as your Church, in this world. You call us to seek your face, believe your word, and trust your grace.  To pray always and to not lose heart. 

In the Evanston Deanery, this week, we pray to you for the people of Saint Augustine’s Church in Wilmette and Nadia their Rector. In times of plenty let your Church rejoice in your goodness.  In times of trial, let us not be discouraged, carrying everything to you in prayer.   Take and shield your people in your arms that we may find true solace there.

God in your mercy,

Hear our prayer.

O God of Countless Names, O God Beyond All Names, we lift up our eyes seeking your help. We wrestle with our many wants and wishes, with the weight of sin and weakness, with seasons of distress and grief. We bring to you those who are sick or suffering or in any kind of trouble.  We lift in our prayers today Sally, Sherry, Dorothy, Ben, Cheryl, Griffin, and Doug. Are the others?

Word of Mercy, give succor and comfort to all those in need of your aid that they may be made whole and receive your light and your joy.

We commend to your mercy all those who have died especially JoAnne Mooney, friend of John & Anne Tuohy, and Latricia Jean Reed, grandmother of Tobi Ellis, as well as those we now name silently or aloud. (Silence)  Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and may light perpetual shine upon them.  

O God you are with us, in our struggles, night and morning and you never fail to greet us each new day.  Our help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

God in your mercy,

Hear our prayer.

The Collect of the Day

Almighty and everlasting God, in Christ you have revealed your glory among the nations: Preserve the works of your mercy, that your Church throughout the world may persevere with steadfast faith in the confession of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. r.