Here’s
a pastoral prayer for Lent 5A, from the Kir-shalom website.
Prayer of
Intercession for Lent 5A
We
thank you, loving God,
for
the vulnerable yet wonderful gift of life.
To
be alive and to know it is a unspeakable honour.
We
thank you, that from start to finish our life is precious in your sight.
May
we always praise you for it...
Lord,
hear our prayer...
We
thank you, loving God,
that
our movement towards death and decay
is
not the final sentence in our life story.
We
thank you that by your faithfulness we are born to a new and living hope
in
a future where love will never be terminated and life will never end.
May
we always trust in you...
Lord,
hear our prayer...
We
thank you, loving God,
for
the Spirit that is able to cloth dead bones with new flesh
and
give to them the breath of life.
We
praise too for Jesus who, by his own death,
has
conquered death for us all
and
who, by his resurrection and offers the gift of eternal glory to all.
May
we accept your gift and walk in obedience to your living word...
Lord,
hear our prayer...
We
thank, loving God,
that
those who believe in Christ Jesus
have
already passed from death to life,
and
are even now fed with the bread of heaven.
We
praise you for the communion of the saints,
the
forgiveness of sin,
and
the life everlasting.
May
we ever proclaim the hope we have to those who despair
and
live so that your light shines in the darkness of our world...
Lord,
hear our prayer...
Loving
God,
whose
Spirit gave breath to the valley of dry bones,
whose
touch healed the lame and whose word raised the dead,
hear
our prayers today for those who are afflicted by sorrow and illness,
by
injustice and by despair,
or
by fear and weakness.
Breath
into their hearts, touch their bodies, speak their names,
and
bring new life to them.
We
especially pray today for... (bidding prayer).
Lord,
hear our prayer...
We
ask all this in the name of Christ Jesus,
who
lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one
God, both now and forevermore. Amen
