With many thanks, and Every Blessing
Prayers of Intercession The prayers at our Sunday Eucharist usually include these concerns and may follow this sequence:
- The Church of Christ, our local church, and Diocese
- Creation, human society, the Sovereign and those in authority
- The local community, our families, friends, and neighbours.
- Those who suffer
- The communion of saints, the departed and the bereaved
Please use and share these prayers as you will. There is no copyright on communications with God our Heavenly Father, his beloved son Jesus Christ our Lord or with the Holy Spirit and Lord of Life.
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Blessings to all of you using these intercessions.
This site will soon be closing.
The Costa Blanca Anglican Chaplaincy have a new website where the weekly intercessions will continue to be posted. To ensure that you can still access the prayers I would advise that you go to the new site and bookmark it on your web browser
www.costablanca-anglican-chaplaincy.es/prayersforsunday0.html
I have also started posting these intercessions on a Facebook page – “Prayers for Sunday”
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571911975425
I also have a new email address specifically focused on intercessions – prayersforsunday@gmail.com
I do hope that all users will still have access to the Intercessions which have proved to be very successful over the past 10 years.
Yours in Christ
Rev’d Steve Foster (singingvicar@gmail.com)
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Intercessions for The Second Sunday of Epiphany -Year C–19th January 2025
Gracious God, your Son Jesus began his ministry at a wedding celebration and through the miracle of the wine showed us the abundance of your wonderful love for us. May Jesus continue to transform the water of our everyday lives into the new wine of your kingdom on earth, transforming by his love the ordinary into the extra-ordinary.
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Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer
Holy God, we thank you for the ministry of marriage that we carry out here in the Costa Blanca as our Chaplains perform the blessing of civil marriage, thanksgivings for anniversaries and renewals of marriage vows. May those so blessed grow old together in the knowledge that the best wine is saved till last and that Jesus is their companion on their journey through life together.
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Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer
Father God, we pray for our world and the problems faced by so many of your children. We pray for all who live under the threat of war and terrorism and the poverty which comes in its wake. Govern the hearts and minds of all world leaders and those in authority that they may act justly, honestly and according to your will.
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Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer
Father God, we pray for those we know who will be married during the coming year; be with them as they make their plans and give them patience and understanding when things are difficult. In their growing love for each other may they come to know you as the source of all love and help them to rejoice in their shared memories of joy and laughter, sadness and disappointment.
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Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer
Loving God, we pray for those who have rejected you because they are ill and blame you for their afflictions. Help them to see the reality of your desire of wholeness and health for them. Enable all who are sick to pray for help for themselves and to give thanks for those who care for them. (add names of those requesting prayer)
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Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer
Mighty God, through your son you have freed us from the grip of the tomb. We pray for those who have departed this life and ask you, through your loving kindness, to have mercy on their souls. We pray too for those bereaved by their passing. (add names of the recently departed or on Anniversary list)
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Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer
Faithful God, as we go out into the world we pray that we may reflect your love in our families, our church and our community; so that the world can witness that we are followers of Christ and draw others into his loving care.
Merciful father: accept these prayers for the sake of your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen
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Intercessions for The Third Sunday of Epiphany 23rd January 2025
Everlasting God, today finds us at the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian unity; help us to listen to your voice still calling us to unity in our diversity. We pray for church leaders everywhere that they may work together and promote unity among Christians
Faithful God, as our Gospel shows us the preaching Christ, we pray for all who preach your word week by week in our Chaplaincy and in the world wide church. Inspire them in their ministry as the lead and grow us as disciples and as they reach out to those in need in our communities.
At this time of year we pray for the success of the Archdeaconry of Gibraltar synod 2025. Tuesday 28th and Thursday 30th and the Local and Chaplaincy APCM’s
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Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer.
Creator, God of every land and nation you spoke your word and revealed your good news in Jesus Christ. We pray for our troubled world its peoples and their leaders. We pray for those caught up in war and violence, especially the innocent victims of evil and destructive act of terrorism. May peace be found and good sense flourish that we may see injustice and wrong vanquished.
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Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer.
Holy God, although we are sometimes separated by language and culture from the people we live amongst, we long to see your will done here on earth as it is in heaven. We pray for our neighbours, not only with words, but day by day, moment by moment, in the things we do and the way we do them.
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Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer.
Abundant God, be with those of us that desire and need your restoration and healing. As we remember the way your son Jesus Christ cast out demons we remember today all those who live in the depths of depression and mental illness especially when it comes from the fear of the ongoing Pandemic. Today, we ask for your blessing and healing touch upon them
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Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer.
Merciful God, your love reaches beyond the grave. At the end of our days on earth be with us and with those we love. May those who have gone before us rest in your eternal peace. We remember before you those who have died and we pray for all whose life is saddened by the death of a loved one, be with them in their loneliness
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Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer.
Faithful God, we pray for ourselves; as we go from your house today to start the week ahead, we ask that in all we do, we may we walk more closely with you at our side safe in the knowledge that your fatherly love and care knows no bounds.
Merciful father: accept these prayers for the sake of your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen
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We have been asked by The Archbishops of Canterbury and York to continue to pray for Ukraine:
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
We write to you as the world is in turmoil following recent events in Eastern Europe. I am sure that you will agree that the horrific and unprovoked attack on Ukraine is an act of great evil.
Now, more than ever, we need to place our trust in Jesus Christ, as we remember that God is not the author of confusion but of peace; and so I urge you to pray for a ceasefire, a withdrawal of Russian forces and for peace to prevail. Pray for the innocent – the women, men and children who are displaced, whose lives are disrupted, and who live in fear of the atrocities of war. Pray for those with power – that they may make a resolute and public decision to never use force, to actively work for peace and seek peaceful solutions to dispute and disagreement. Pray that there may be a recognition of common and shared humanity and God’s promise of flourishing life for all people.
The Bishop in Europe has asked us to join them in prayer for the chaplaincy in Kyiv and the churches that serve Ukraine.
At this time of great uncertainty, we place our hope and trust in God, whose love never fails. Lord, have mercy.
