General Intercessions

Each week Dennis Keller is posting General Intercessions for the upcoming Sunday liturgies. He is a lay Dominican from the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina. He also provides weekly input for our feature Volume II.

General Intercessions

for Seventeenth Sunday of Ordered Time

July 28, 2024

Presider: Father, the eyes of all creation look hopefully to you for food in due season. You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living being. Hear our plea for nourishment for spirit and body.

Deacon/ Lector/ Cantor: Please respond: “Lord, hear our prayer.”

1.That Pope Francis, Bishop _______, and all ministers be nourished by the Spirit to respond to the signs of the times with ministering and evangelization to the needs of the Church, we pray...

2. That the faithful in these contentious times be open to the movements of the Spirit and seek truth in every relationship, we pray...

3. That leadership of all nations commit to the power and prosperity of peace and dialogue for solutions to disagreements, we pray...

4. That the daily Bread and Cup heal us of broken heartedness, nourish our bodies and spirits, and unit us in the One Lord, we pray...

5. That those who have died this past week may be joined to family and friends with the Lord in Paradise, we pray...

6. That those who will die today and this week may be fortified by the Bread of Heaven and the Oil of Salvation, we pray...

7. That the economy of violence be reformatted into an economy eliminating poverty, we pray...

8. We pause now and in our hearts and minds to bring to the table of the Lord our anxieties, our fears, our material needs, our cherished and our frayed relationships, and our loves and joys (pause) we pray...

Presider: As through the ages your people brought to your abiding presence a hunger for the Food and Drink of mercy, compassion, and love that conquers hate; listen now with open ears and loving heart to these prayers of your people. Provide us with the healing, the nourishment, and the unity of your love. Let us not go hungry in our journeying. We ask this in the name of your Son who lives with you and the Spirit as One God, now and forever.

Response: Amen.

(Click Here for a "Printer Friendly" version.)