Priest:
The Lord challenges us to take up our cross and to follow him. In the many challenges of life, let us ask for his merciful love, as we pray to him for our needs and the needs of the world.
Reader:
On this Father’s day, we pray for all fathers. We thank God for the blessings we received from our own fathers. We commend to his love all step-fathers, adoptive and foster fathers, all fathers and children who are separated from one another, and also all those who have never known their own father.
Lord, in your mercy.
For all peoples and nations who carry a heavy cross in their situation, our suffering brothers and sisters in the troubled areas of the world. Grant that all Christians may have compassion for them.
Lord, in your mercy.
For all who cannot cope with the cross that they bear, those in frail health, financial difficulties or emotional problems, that they may find Christ alongside them in their suffering.
Lord, in your mercy.
For all of us voting in the Euro referendum this week - that we may vote wisely, and for the common good.
Lord, in your mercy.
For the souls of those who died in the recent shootings in Orlando, and for those injured and traumatised. We pray also for the soul of the MP Jo Cox MP, so tragically murdered this week. May these terrible events not give rise to hatred, but instead inspire hope, that we may work together to build a better world, filled with the compassion of Christ.
Lord, in your mercy.
Let us commend ourselves and all God’s people living and dead to the intercession of our Blessed Lady as we say, Hail Mary…
Now in silence we remember all those who need our prayers.
Priest:
God our loving Father, we pray that you will accept these prayers in the name of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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