Priest: God, our Father, confident in your loving care, we bring to you all our needs.

Reader: The response to our prayers is: Hear our prayer

May we come to recognise the times when we are blind to Your promptings, and may we seek Your healing.

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Lord in your mercy: Hear our prayer

As the Synod on the Family reaches its conclusions this weekend, we pray that they will bring hope and welcome to those who feel excluded by the Church.

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Lord in your mercy: Hear our prayer

We pray that, as we go forward with our consultation on Mass times and other pastoral care, we keep in mind the bigger picture of the needs of the whole Archdiocese, and find a way forward that does not deprive others, and which includes compassion for all our priests as their numbers decline, and they still seek to respond to all our varying needs.

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Lord in your mercy: Hear our prayer

As the political party conference season continues, and we see the first signs of campaigning for the Assembly elections, may all the parties incorporate Christian values into their policies, and into their style of campaigning.

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Lord in your mercy: Hear our prayer

We ask you to receive into your kingdom all those killed in the coach accident in France, and to comfort their grieving families.

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Lord in your mercy: Hear our prayer

We pray for all those children and teachers killed in random shootings, and for their families: may our schools continue to be places where no young people feel excluded, and where vulnerability is met by understanding and help. May the initiatives to identify and help teenage depression, and other mental illness, be successful, so that no teenager feels they have to face that situation alone.

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Lord in your mercy: Hear our prayer

In the silence of our hearts we pray for all our other needs.

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We ask Mary, our loving mother, to join our prayers to her own as we say: Hail Mary…….

Priest:  Heavenly Father, we ask You to hear our prayers and to look with mercy on our troubled world, bringing us healing, and reconciliation with You and with each other.  We ask this through Your Son, Jesus Christ, Our Lord.

Amen