Lawrence McCarthy

BIDDING PRAYERS PRIEST Through the light of faith, we are given a new vision of life. We make our prayers to the Lord asking that this vision may be given to all his people.      READER Let us pray for those with a prophetic vision in the Church: may they communicate their message in sympathy and

BIDDING PRAYERS PRIEST God has made us for himself and our response in love to him gives meaning to our Christian lives. Let us ask him to open his grace to the world so that everyone may come to know and serve him.   READER Let us pray for the Church: may she always give praise

BIDDING PRAYERS PRIEST Nothing must come in the way of our following of Jesus Christ. Let us pray to the Lord, therefore, for a clearer understanding of his call.     READER Let us pray for the leaders of the Church: may they always value the poor in spirit who follow the example of Christ himself, those

BIDDING PRAYERS PRIEST God instituted the sacrament of matrimony and endowed it with all the graces by which a man and a woman grow in love and, if so blessed, raise up a Christian family to God’s glory. We ask the Lord for the graces which married couples need in today’s world. READER We pray