World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer – Christmas 2014

On this Christmas day, may we all recommit ourselves to love, to life, to saying “yes” to God’s unexpected invitations.  To seeking and meeting the Holy in unexpected places, in the powerless and the hungry, the vulnerable and the longing. May this be a year of hope, and joy. Of giving birth, from the deepest […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, December 11, 2014

World in Prayer, Dec. 11th   Stir up your power, Lord Christ, and come. With your abundant grace and might, free us from the sin that would obstruct your mercy, that willingly we might bear your redeeming love to all the world.   We long for this stirring, O God, as we look around our […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014

Oh. Dear. God. No.  Not again. I thought I knew what I was going to write for tonight’s prayers. And then I turned on the computer, and read that in the United States, yet another unarmed Black man had been shot, dead, by a police officer. Jesus. I am speechless, beyond shock. Everything I could […]

World News This Week in Prayer – November 27th 2014

“Praise and thanksgiving, Father we offer, for all things living you have made good” Hymn by Albert F.Bayly Father at the start of a new Christian year we offer our thanksgiving for all the mercies we have received over the past years. Despite the snow and difficult traveling conditions for many in Canada and the […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, November 20, 2014

God, it’s hard to be grateful.  I remember a book, “Praise God Anyway,” and I hated the idea.  Yet You, Holy God, have allowed me to live enough to know the author was right.  I must try to be grateful anyway. Holy and Loving God, we come to this season of Thanksgiving wanting to: “Count our […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, November 6, 2014

Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?  He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “Go, and do likewise.” (Luke 10:36-37) Heavenly Father, few parables are as easy to understand as the story of the good Samaritan. And […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, October 30, 2014

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a […]