Prayers of Intercession

2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (year A)

18th January 2026

We pray for the bishops, clergy and all who offer ministries, that they may serve Christ with glad and generous hearts.   

Lord in your mercy

We pray for the Church throughout the world, that her message of love will be heard with reverence and acceptance.

Lord in your mercy

We pray for all the needy, the exile, the prisoner and those in slavery, that their voice will be heard by people of conscience.

Lord in your mercy

We pray for ourselves as we begin this new year, that The Spirit will aid us to be people who respond to all who need us. 

Lord in your mercy

We pray for the souls of the recently dead, that they will experience the happiness and peace of heaven. We pray especially for Salvatore D’Amico,  Alison Rose and Alan Harding, Esther Constantino

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)