Lawrence McCarthy

BIDDING PRAYERS PRIEST We share a priceless treasure, our faith. With confidence, we ask God our Father for all the graces to live out that faith in today’s world. READER We pray for the Church: may she continue to keep before our minds the faith which she has been commissioned to proclaim. May she continue

BIDDING PRAYERS PRIEST Let us pray to God our Father, who sent his only Son to save us from our sins, and ask the help of his Holy Spirit for all the graces for the Church and the world. READER We pray for our Holy Father, Pope Francis: may he be guided by the Holy

BIDDING PRAYERS PRIEST In the parable of the Sower, Jesus tells us that faith is like a seed which grows to full maturity and health when it falls on rich soil. We make our prayer to God our Father, now, in the full knowledge that, if we are open to receive, he will prepare us