Prayers for the Week of November 8, 2026

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Please feel free to join us in the prayers prayed in worship Sunday, November 8, 2026:

Loving Christ,

you have loved us and all creation from the beginning.

In love, you emptied yourself of every privilege and prerogative,

entered into every bit of what it is to be human,

all the challenge, all the joy,

all the limitation, even all the suffering,

every bit of life even unto death,

all so that we might be raised up with you.

We praise you and give you thanks.

Help us to live our lives

worthy of what it means to live as the Body of Christ.

Teach us ways of humble service, justice, and compassion.

We pray today for the wars that continue to rage on.

For peace with justice in Gaza, and the West Bank,

in Israel, in Palestine,

peace in Ukraine,

peace with Iran.

Wherever there is violence, help us work for peace and healing.

We pray freedom for all who are held down by systems of oppression.

We pray for the dismantling of American systems of racism,

and for wisdom to see how we are complicit, and to stop, and change our ways.

We pray for a climate that is unravelling.

We pray for those who bear the brunt of that now,

and for all who will suffer.

Help us find ways to live that help to mend and heal this hurting world.

We pray for those who are hungry, food enough and more.

For those who are migrating, and who are unhoused,

safe shelter and a place to call home.

For those who grieve, comfort.

For those who are ailing, in body, in spirit, healing.

For those who are lonely, companionship and community.

We thank you for the love we find in you,

the comfort, the encouragement, the tender mercy,

the wisdom and strength to live each day, and then the next.

Be at work in us to bless, and to heal, and to set the whole world free.

Together, with all who have called on you, here and elsewhere,

in every time and every place,

we lift our voices with theirs, praying the prayer that Jesus taught, saying:

Our Father/Mother, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.