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Prayer – Watches Over all Your Children

Almighty God, who watches over all your children and knows our needs before we ask: help us to understand more fully the plight of those who are imprisoned in lives controlled by human traffickers. Give us the strength and courage to unshackle these victims and bring them to your kingdom here on earth, so they may know the joy of your everlasting love. Grant this, we pray, for the sake of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Submitted by NECW President the Rev. Dcn. Nancy Crawford

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-20T16:39:52+00:00November 25th, 2014|

Almighty God of Creation and Liberation

Almighty God of creation and liberation, we send up fervent prayers for all those who are abused and enslaved around the world – most especially the women and children caught in the web of the sex trafficking trade. We lift up their physical and emotional suffering to you, merciful Lord, and ask you to give them strength and courage in bearing their present circumstances.

As your servants in ministry, we ask for wisdom and skills to work to overcome their desperate plights wherever we encounter the need, so we can help to bring each woman and child to a life free from abuse and exploitation. We ask this in the name of your most beloved Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ.

AMEN

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-20T16:41:43+00:00November 24th, 2014|

A Prayer for Our Own Empowerment

Creator Mother, as we offer our prayers for our sisters who suffer from physical and emotional abuse, and for the perpetrators of violence against them, we ask also that you create within each of us an awareness of the many subtle forms of denigration of women and girls that occur daily and hourly around us and that contribute to an environment that allows abuse of women and girls to perpetuate.

Open our eyes to see instances where women and girls are treated as ‘less than’ men and boys: in the workplace, in the media, in the family and elsewhere.

Give us the courage to speak out when language is used that objectifies women’s bodies and intellect and subtly dehumanizes them.

Inspire us to stand up to media advertising that distorts and devalues women and girls by making informed purchases from companies who show respect for women in their advertising and hiring policies.

Make us mindful of the need to raise sons and daughters, and grandchildren too, in an environment of respect for the dignity of EVERY human being.

God of Love and Mercy,

Christine Budzowski VP Information and Communication National Episcopal Church Women

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T16:51:03+00:00December 10th, 2013|

Divine Mercy for the Physically and Sexually Abused

Divine Mercy, I beg of You to protect all those helpless children who are physically and sexually abused, especially by those whose duty it is to guide and protect them on earth. Send Your enveloping cloak of Mercy and wrap it around those poor children and enfold them in Your love and protection.

Send forth Your rays of blood and water to cleanse and renew the souls of those who perpetrate these vile acts of Satan. Let there be a way to get Your powerful image of Divine Mercy into the homes of these sad families, from where graces will flow as You promise, and they shall be renewed. O’ Blood and Water which gushed from the heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy for us, we trust in You.

Amen

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Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T15:17:29+00:00December 9th, 2013|

For the Women of Our World

O gracious Lord, we humbly pray for the women of the world today.

Born of different colors and creeds, we share the same concern and needs.

Lord, lift our heads and dry our tears, as you strengthen us and calm our fears.

Comfort those who, on bended knee, seek a life where all live free.

We pray for ourselves as well as others, as we pray for the future of children and mothers.

Amen.

Lonna Paul Prayers from Lifting Women’s Voices copyright DFMS 2009

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T15:20:20+00:00December 8th, 2013|

A Prayer for the Women of the World

Divine Creator, create in us the power to speak for those who truly need your love and care but have no voice. Give us the wisdom, strength and courage to make a difference in the lives of the women we pray for: Keep us aware of their problems and empower us to somehow come to their aid.

In Your Mercy

LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER

Lastly Lord, Mother and Father of us all, we ask you to reach in to the hearts of every Christian and Stir up the Spirit within, let all of us Celebrate your Holy Name now and forever. AMEN

Episcopal Church Women2020-05-26T15:59:12+00:00December 7th, 2013|

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|