World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News in Prayer This Week- Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015

Gracious and Good God, we come towards All Saints’ Day with darkness in our world and with hope for your light.   We pray for the saints who have entered your kingdom who healed individuals and neighborhoods. We pray for those angels among us: those who feed the hungry, comfort the aggrieved, and love their neighbors. […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, June 18, 2015

Well may the world go, The world go, the world go, Well may the world go, When I’m far away. — Pete Seeger (c. 1973) For months now, this has been my wake-up song, a conscious choice to spend my first moments of each day letting go of all I can’t control, of all I cannot […]

World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015

The story has it, God, that only a few generations after you created the world and pronounced it “Good”, you looked down and saw that it was filled with wickedness. So much so, that you decided to wipe out every living creature. Except for the family of one righteous man – Noah – and a […]

World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, Jan.15, 2015

Throughout the world, this Sunday marks the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, and so together we pray for the church of Christ, that we may all be one. Litany of Thanksgiving Because I love you, O my people, I was born in Bethlehem. They called me Emmanuel, for I am God […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, October 9, 2014

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines […]

World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, June 19, 2014

Dearest One, How can I ask forgiveness for letting a person die? How can we ask forgiveness not just for ourselves, but for the whole world?  Not just for this moment in time, but for all of human history, for all lives to come? Four sleeping homeless people were run over – apparently deliberately – […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, May 22, 2014

Two thirds of our planet are covered by sea. Two thirds of our planet are still unexplored.  (Hans Hass) Lord, you are so immense, intelligent and intangible, that we think you are incomprehensible, impenetrable, inscrutable.  Somehow that gives us the idea that you cannot know or understand us, our environment, our planet.   We act […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, April 17, 2014

I write this during the long vigil between Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. The time when those who follow the ancient traditions of the Christian church year stay up and keep watch with Jesus, as he prays in agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. We have, once again, been present as he washes the disciples’ […]

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

First, a story. The first time I came to an Ash Wednesday service – in a time when churches were still very clear as to what the not-yet-baptized could participate in – I hadn’t thought to ask beforehand if I could receive the ashes.  So I rather uneasily followed the line forward, and the Rector paused, hesitated, when […]