World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer – Thurs., April 23, 2015

We have come to worship you, Lord our Shepherd.  You, Lord, are our shepherd.  Like any shepherd you watch over us, lead us to the best pastures of the mind, the best waters for the spirit, and like sheep we follow.  Sheep are not stupid and neither are we.  Forgive us our tendency to act […]

World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, April 16, 2015

Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see better times!” Lift up the light of your countenance upon us, O LORD.     – Psalm 4:6   In this season of resurrection, lift up the light of your countenance upon us, O Lord, that we may see your risen Son, Jesus Christ, who walks with us, […]

World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, April 9, 2015

Loving God, we pray for the opportunity to join you in the work of creation. The Bible declares that creation occurred first with light, when the world was full of emptiness and disorder. We look around and see disorder of our own time: in the United States, we are shocked by the cell phone recording […]

World News This Week in Prayer – almost Easter, 2015

It is the in-between time. At my church, we have just ended the Maundy Thursday service, remembered Jesus’ institution of the first Eucharist, been commanded to love as he loves us, washed one another’s feet, then stripped the altar. Tonight, Jesus will spend in agonizing prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, and we, his disciples, will try […]

World News In Prayer, Thursday, March 26, 2015

Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered at the altar in a hospital chapel 25 years ago.  He wrote:   “We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence […]

World News in Prayer, Thursday 12th March 2015

 World News in Prayer for March 12, 2015   For God so loved the world… Gracious and holy one, God of all creation, God of all people everywhere, it is so easy, as we journey through this season of Lent, to get lost in the wilderness of pain and sorrow we see in the world […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, February 19, 2015

This week has seen the headline that the Mediterranean is the grave of migrants, while in the last 5 days alone over 3,000 have been rescued from sinking people-smuggling boats escaping the chaos and fighting throughout the Middle East. The freeze and massive snow falls in the northeastern states of the U.S. and Canada continue […]

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. 29, 2015

He cried out, “I know who you are, the Holy One of God.”  Mark1:24b (NRSV) Surrounded by the presence of the Holy One of God, let us pray together. Holy One, we gather in worship this morning seeking your presence, your grace and your wisdom. Humbly we gather to hear your words of hope and […]