My God, my love, my encircler, Each day, each night, Each light, each dark, Be near me, uphold me, My treasure, my truth -John Philip Newell God of light and darkness, you give us seasons, reminding us of your presence in the bleak as well as the brilliance. In these days of chaos and skepticism, […]
We Dream of Days: Prayers After the Graz School Shooting and the Air India Crash (June 12, 2025)
Then afterward I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. – Joel 2:28 God of our hearts, We give thanks for the dreams you place in our lives. Dreams of safer spaces and places […]
Hopeful in the Midst of Grief: Prayers for Canada’s Wildfires, Mothers in Gaza, and Pride (June 5, 2025)
Loving God, We come before you today, in a world which feels torn apart. Our natural environment feels hopeless right now as thousands across Northern and Western Canada are fleeing due to forest fires. And as Yellowstone National Park in the U.S.A. faces wildfires and hydrothermal explosions as well as nearby earthquakes. In the midst […]
Remembering Uvalde and George Floyd: A Prayer for Prisoners, Migrants, and the Fallen (May 29, 2025)
Divine Mystery, We lay our hearts before you. Come Spirit come, and unite us in voice. Awaken us to the tribulations in this world. Perhaps a little bird is sent to visit us. A stern breeze blows the pages of a book we are reading. A clap of thunder suddenly in the night. We mourn […]
Without Bloodshed and Killing: A Prayer for Soldiers, Conscientious Objectors, and UN Peacekeepers (May 22, 2025)
Eternal God, have mercy on all soldiers and veterans buried in cemeteries and those whose gravesites are unknown. In particular, we pray for those forced into service despite their conscientious objection. Bring them all into your kingdom of light and peace and let them share joy with you and with all your saints. May they […]
Peace Be With You: A Prayer for the World as Pope Leo XIV Begins (May 15, 2025)
A week ago today, Christians around the world, Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox Christians alike, held their collective breath waiting for white smoke, the signal that a new pope had been chosen in Rome, Italy. Just a short while after the smoke signaled that the conclave had unified around one name, Robert Francis Prevost, the cardinal […]
A Web of Life: Prayers After the Vancouver Festival Attack, Strikes on Gaza, and India Pakistan Tensions (May 8, 2025)
After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. – Revelation 7:9 Holy One, as we come before you today, with people […]
Come, Risen One: Prayers for Kinshasa’s Floods, Kenya’s Assassination, and a World in Upheaval (May 1, 2025)
I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating… – Isaiah 65:17-18 Behold the newness of the season – the flowers bursting […]
A Little Bit of Mercy: Prayers Remembering Pope Francis and the Kashmir Attack (April 24, 2025)
The world lost a great leader this week – Pope Francis – head of the Catholic Church since 2013 until his death at the age of 88 on April 21st, just one day after giving his Easter address. Although World in Prayer provides ecumenical prayers, this week, in honour of the man who brought liberation […]
Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace: A Holy Week Prayer for Gaza and the West Bank (April 17, 2025)
As the Christian world celebrates the holiest three days of the year, we lift in prayer the people of the very lands that Jesus trod before he rose to deliver us from sin. Unfortunately, the first stage of the ceasefire between the Israelis and the Palestinians expired last month and the combating parties and outside […]
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