The LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. – Psalm 121:8 God of Memory, hear our prayers, Hear our prayer among the dailiness of our lives wherever we make our home on this earth, wherever we walk our dogs, tend our gardens, scrub our pots and pans, read our books, receive our […]
Prayers for Sudan
Civil war shapes most of what is prayed for Sudan, with famine, displacement and aid that struggles to arrive. Drought, floods and a landslide in the west are named, as are refugees who found little safety in neighboring countries. Thanksgiving is given for humanitarian organizations and for those who fund their work.
O Lord, Hear Our Prayer: A Lament for Palestine, Sudan, Haiti, and Ukraine (August 28, 2025)
“Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.” Teresa of Avila O Lord, hear our […]
Bread of Life: Prayers for Hunger in Gaza, Sudan, and Mali, and Protest in Togo (July 24, 2025)
Living God, you are here with each and every one of your beloved creations across the world right now and always. You hurt when we hurt, you cry when we cry, and you rejoice when we rejoice. Let that comfort us, but also instill in us a desire for change; knowing we can and must […]
You Hold the Whole World: Prayers for Gaza, Wildfires in Canada and France, and Unvaccinated Children (July 17, 2025)
Loving Creator, You are the One who holds the whole world in Your hands. And so, we pray today for areas in our city, nation, and world in need of Your healing and presence. For Palestine where over 58,000 have been killed so far, with the latest Israeli strike killing at least 32. We pray […]
O Lord, Hear My Prayer: After the Texas Flash Floods and for the Hungry in Gaza and Yemen (July 10, 2025)
Note from this week’s writer: Many of us in the U.S. can’t get the images out of our minds of the disastrous flash flood in Texas this week. We hold those images before us as we pray for all all facing disasters throughout the world. Read Psalm 46:1-7. O Lord, hear my prayer; O Lord, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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