Prayers of Intercession

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)

4th October 2026

For Pope Leo and all the clergy, that they will always find ways to encourage their communities to build their lives on Christ the Cornerstone. 

Lord in your mercy

Let us pray that world leaders will work together to bring an end to everything that might cause disagreement, conflict and injustice within and among nations. 

Lord in your mercy

As the Season of Creation, with its theme of living water, draws to a close this weekend, we pray for a deepening awareness of our place in the glory of God’s Creation and for the responses we are being called to make.

Lord in your mercy

Let us pray that our parish communities will come together in this month of Mary, to pray the rosary and to ask for Our Lady’s intercession with her Son, especially for peace on our world. 

Lord in your mercy

For the sick and housebound.  May they know God’s comfort and healing, and may we be strengthened in our love and care for them.

Lord in your mercy

For those who have died recently, including Patricia Blackwell, Stewart Lumgair, and Margaret Smith, and whose anniversaries occur at this time, may the Lord grant them eternal rest.

Lord in your mercy

Prayer for Peace To the Creator of nature and man, of truth and beauty I pray: Hear my voice, for it is the voice of the victims of all wars and violence among individuals and nations; Hear my voice, for it is the voice of all children who suffer and will suffer when people put their faith in weapons and war; Hear my voice when I beg you to instil into the hearts of all human beings the wisdom of peace, the strength of justice and the joy of fellowship; Hear my voice, for I speak for the multitudes in every country and in every period of history who do not want war and are ready to walk the road of peace; Hear my voice and grant insight and strength so that we may always respond to hatred with love, to injustice with total dedication to justice, to need with the sharing of self, to war with peace. O God, hear my voice and grant unto the world your everlasting peace. ( Pope Saint John Paul II)