Prayers of the People

God be with you.

And also with you.

Let us pray.

 O Love that made the distant stars, we thank you today for the wonders of your Creation glimpsed these past weeks through the eyes of the Artemis astronauts and witnessed by our own eyes as spring blossoms gloriously all around us here in Glencoe. This is your world, Eternal God.  You ground all being, teach open hearts, and judge your people impartially according to their deeds.     We implore you to guide all parties to a just and lasting peace in Iran, Israel and Lebanon.  Free our nation and all the nations of the earth from sinful, futile ways, from fear, hatred, and envy and a vain pursuit of perishable things.  Purify our imaginations to dwell in grateful humility recognizing your awesome power at work in all that you have made.  Restore your Creation in your unfailing Love.

God in your mercy,

Hear our prayer.

Compassionate Heart of our own hearts, abide with the people of this parish, move in our midst, nourish us with sacrament and sacred story and make of us a servant Church whose deeds of love rise to you as our highest form of praise.  We pray to you also today for the Evanston Deanery, particularly for the people of St. Giles Church in Northbrook and Court their Rector.  We are your body, Risen One, and we offer up all that we are that, through us, your healing presence may abound in your world.

God in your mercy,

Hear our prayer.

Companion at Emmaus, beside us in all our days, we bring to you all of this world’s many griefs.  We beg that you will accompany with your might and mercy the sick, the sorrowing, those in danger, and all those who struggle today.  We pray to you, in a particular way for Sally, Sherry, Aidan, Isabelle, Ben, Chuck & family, Heather, Norris, Vicki, Donna, James, Lexi, and Christine.

Are there others?

God in your mercy,

Hear our prayer.

O Love that marks the sparrow’s fall, we ask that you embrace in your eternal, undimmed light all who have died, particularly our friend Ken Mines.   And we pray that you will draw near to those who grieve the loss of those they love.  Bear them up upon the strength and power of your grace.  

And, Giver of Life, join our lives and our hearts with all those who weep and help us to bear one another’s pain and burdens - that reaching forth our hands in compassionate action we may write divine love in human deeds, making present your eternity in our time.

O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Book of Common Prayer

Amen.