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 Second Sunday before Lent–23rd February 2025
Holy God, sometimes our lives are so full of worries that we forget how you look after us through every aspect of our lives. When our worries begin to spiral out of control, help us turn them into a conversation with you, confident that you will calm our anxiety and give us hope for the future.
(Short Silence)
Lord, in your Mercy: Hear our Prayer
Gracious God, we pray for your church, and the churches in our local community asking that there will be a growing desire to get together. We give you thanks for those who come up with fresh ways of making your name known to the wider community. We remember the General Synod, which met this last week in London and for all those who work so hard to make important and sometimes difficult decisions regarding the everyday running of the Church of England.
(Short Silence)
Lord, in your Mercy: Hear our Prayer
Creator God, we pray for our King and his family. Give them health and strength, wisdom and courage, so that they may carry out their many duties in the best interests of all our people. We remember too King Felipe here in Spain and all in government praying that they always remember that they are your servants, and that your Son came to serve rather than to be served.
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Mighty God, we pray for peace in our world. May all lands that suffer violence and injustice find peace and reconciliation. We pray for the peoples of the world and all who offer their services in the leadership of the affairs of the world that they may uphold what is right and good. We pray particularly at this time for peace in all places where there is violence, war and terrorism.
(Short Silence)
Lord, in your Mercy: Hear our Prayer
Father God, we thank you for the joy of human love, and for all those among whom we live and work. We pray particularly for loved ones who worry us with their health, or circumstances, or life direction. We pray for those among our friends and families who do not know you, or whose faith has been shaken.
(Short Silence)
Lord, in your Mercy: Hear our Prayer
Loving God, we pray for all who bear the burdens of pain, bereavement, worry and depression. We pray for those whose illness stems from anxiety. We pray that they may have an awareness of your presence and an understanding that you are bearing those burdens with them and always working towards their healing and wholeness.
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(Short Silence)
Lord, in your Mercy: Hear our Prayer
Merciful God, through your love and mercy you turn the darkness of death into the dawn of new life. Comfort those who grieve in their sorrow and those who are worried about how they will cope on their own and reassure them that you will never leave them to carry the burdens of life unaided.
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(Short Silence)
Lord, in your Mercy: Hear our Prayer
Everlasting God, we ask you to lead us into the coming week, Help us to believe that you are close by us, keep us from making mistakes and help us never to disappoint you through our words and actions.
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.
