St. Paul’s Cycle of Prayer: Sunday Clergy, Staff, Wardens and Vestry and the Rector Search (click HERE to read the Rector Search prayer)

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A Collect For the Church

Gracious Father, we pray for your holy Catholic Church. Fill it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in any thing it is amiss, reform it. Where it is right, strengthen it; where it is in want, provide for it; where it is divided, reunite it; for the sake of Jesus Christ your Son our Savior. Amen.

As the Episcopal Church gathers in Salt Lake City for the 78th General Convention (GC), I hope you will hold all of us in prayer. May God grant us the courage to do what is right and the wisdom to discern the movement of the Holy Spirit amongst us.

The Task Force on the Study of Marriage, on which I serve, will be quite busy at GC. I would appreciate your prayers for us, for the special Legislative Committee on Marriage, and for those who will seek God’s will regarding what we have to say about marriage at this GC.

Meanwhile – I ask your prayers for all fathers today, in every shape and form they may come.

Lastly – I ask your prayers for all those who preach this day. With the Charleston news so heavy on our hearts, may God grant us all courage, wisdom, and, as Paul says in the 2nd lesson today, the power of God.