Lawrence McCarthy

BIDDING PRAYERS PRIEST We often stray from the Lord’s path and do not live as we should. Let us ask God our Father to redirect our steps into the ways of the Gospel. READER We pray for every member of the Church, clerical, religious and lay: may each one be open to God’s promptings in […]

BIDDING PRAYERS PRIEST Our Lord teaches us that we are to love God, and our neighbour as ourselves. We turn in loving prayer to the Lord and ask for the grace to fulfil this greatest commandment of all.  READER Let us pray for the Church: May she reflect the love of her Lord by her

BIDDING PRAYERS PRIEST Almighty Father, you have created all men and women in your own image and likeness. As we pray for the needs of the Church and the world, we pray for all those people who do not yet know you, that they may come to recognise you as the one true God and

BIDDING PRAYERS PRIEST Gathered together to celebrate the Eucharist, a foretaste of the heavenly banquet, to which, as Christians, we are invited, let us pray to God the Father for all the graces we need. READER God continually invites us to the banquet of a fuller, deeper and more spiritual life, a life worthy of