Each week Dennis Keller will be 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 titled  Volume II.

General Intercessions for:
"Good Shepherd Sunday"
Fourth Sunday of Easter
April 21, 2024

Presider:  ”See what love the Father had bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God.” With confidence as beloved children we offer our concerns and needs to the Father through the Son within the unity of the Holy Spirit.

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

1.          That the Good Shepherd guide Pope Francis, Bishop _______, the People of God, and the clerics and religious who lead the People of God, we pray...

2.          That the Lord guide world leaders to commit to the mutual welfare of their people and the people of all nations and in doing so make war obsolete, we pray...

3.   That the Good Shepherd bring peace to Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, and all places of bloodshed and terror, we pray...

4.   That the Good Shepherd’s use of his healing and liberating power and authority be the model for powerful and wealthy nations to free all persons held chained by the slavery of poverty, we pray...

5.   That Faith in the Good Shepherd expose as thieves, robbers, and hirelings those who seek to seduce our hearts and minds into violence for their greed, we pray...

6.   That faith in the way of the Good Shepherd lead us to embrace his rod of discipline and his guiding staff, especially in suffering. May the example of the Good Shepherd increase our faith to understand that suffering leads us to being a new creation, we pray...

7.   That the Good Shepherd welcome all those who will pass through or have passed through the portal of death. May he invite them to the lush pastures and flowing streams of paradise, we pray...

8.   That the Lord strengthen the faith of those in our community who are anxious, threatened by accident, illness, or poverty. May the Lord guide them on their rock strewn, slippery narrow path, we pray...

Presider: Kind and gracious Shepherd of the faithful, look upon your people in need of your help. Grant us an increase in faith, in hope, and in an experience of charity given and received. We ask this through you of the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit.

Response: Amen.

  "Blessings on your preaching."

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