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A Prayer for the Women of the World

We ask your presence to be with all the women and children who suffer with AIDS, not just in our country, but throughout the whole world. We ask you to give strength, courage and wisdom to those who tend to the AIDS victims, in your power give them not only the drugs they need, but the ability check that those who receive these drugs are using them correctly. And mostly, Dear Father, we ask that they can teach them to prevent the spreading of this disease.

In Your Mercy

LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T16:03:27+00:00December 6th, 2013|

We pray for the elderly women

We pray for the elderly women, who have no safe place to stay, who are often beaten or ignored by their so called caregivers, deliver them from those who are hurting them, keep them safe, fed, and free to worship you.

In Your Mercy

LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T16:05:22+00:00December 5th, 2013|

Help that young girl

Father, Help that young girl, who has become a runaway. Do not let her become another statistic, so many of these homeless or abused teens are being blinded and are being used to satisfy the needs of strangers. Their young bodies are being misused; send them angels to get them to a safe place.

In Your Mercy

LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER…

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T16:14:08+00:00December 4th, 2013|

Allow them their freedom

We ask that you be with all the women who are oppressed, behind bars, or being held prisoner by fear, abuse or cultural custom. Allow them their freedom.

In Your Mercy

LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T16:18:22+00:00December 3rd, 2013|

Stop the pain

We ask that you stop the pain of the women who have sustained a beating from their abusers; be it husband, father, owner or master…heal their pain and keep them safe.

In Your Mercy

LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER…

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T16:23:23+00:00December 2nd, 2013|

Provide them with physical nourishment to feed their family and friends

Almighty God, Father of all mankind, creator of women, hear our prayers today for the women whom you love and care for. We ask in the precious name of your son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus…that the women who woke up hungry and unable to feed their children this morning…are fed especially with your spiritual word and that you are able to provide them with physical nourishment to feed their family and friends.

In Your Mercy

LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER…

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T16:26:05+00:00December 1st, 2013|

Stir up the Spirit

Stir up the Spirit, O’ God, that our ears may be open to hear the cries of your daughters and sons entrapped by violent relationships. Stir up the Spirit, O’ God, that our eyes may be open to see the damage perpetuated by the human trafficking – modern slavery – of women and men; young girls and young boys.

Stir up the Spirit, O’ God, that our hearts may be open to feel the pain of sexual abuse of women and young girls; men and young boys, wherever it is found; in the home; in school; in institutions; in the market place.

Stir up the Spirit, O’ God, that our minds may be open to understand and acknowledge the untold damage wrought by all sexual violence and abuse.

Stir up the Spirit, O’ God, that we may give voice to what we hear and see – to what we feel and know – and with strength and courage seek healing and transformation of our broken world. Amen.

Virginia Lief

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T16:28:30+00:00November 30th, 2013|

We offer our prayers today for the women and children who are victims of human trafficking

Merciful Father, We offer our prayers today for the women and children who are victims of human trafficking. Lord we know that human trafficking is a human rights violation and one of the gravest and most complex human rights challenges of the times. It is a crime against the dignity and integrity of people. It has devastating consequences for victims who may suffer emotional, psychological, and physical abuse. Many victims of trafficking are bought and sold many times over, multiplying the forms of violence they suffer. We ask for your divine intervention for these victims. Hold them in your loving arms Lord, free them and heal their physical, emotional and psychosocial wounds.

Lord we also pray for the perpetrators of these crimes against the dignity and integrity of your people. We ask that you grant them a change of heart and forgiveness. Move them to release every victim from the bonds of this horrific crime. Lord we also pray for ourselves. Move us in such a mightily way that we strive for justice for all victims of trafficking. Open the eyes for those of us who fail to see the gravity of trafficking, soften the hearts of those of us who do nothing and lead us into action to end this grave and complex human rights challenge. We ask this all in the most precious name of our lord and savior Jesus Christ.

Deb Gardiner Member-at-Large Social Justice National ECW Board

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T16:30:28+00:00November 29th, 2013|

Hold the victims of slavery, sex, and abuse in your hands

Dear Lord,Thank you for this day. Hold the victims of slavery, sex, and abuse in your hands. Give them the will, strength, and courage to defend themselves to your glory! Help them to bear the burden they have endured and hold fast their belief of your goodness through Christ. Amen

Shirley Greiman

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T16:32:20+00:00November 28th, 2013|

Collect for 16 Days of Activism

Stir up your power, Almighty God, and guide us in the ways of justice and truth. Help us to love one another as you love us, that we may be strengthened and renewed by the Holy Spirit to right the wrongs done by those who do not know how to love. Grant our petitions, O Lord, for the sake of Jesus Christ, your Son our Savior. Amen.

The Rev. Dcn. Nancy R. Crawford

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T16:34:51+00:00November 27th, 2013|