Prayers and Blessings

Episcopal Church Women’s Prayer

Almighty God, we pray that You will bless our work in mission and ministry in the world. Help us pray fervently, labor diligently and give liberally to make known the power of your love given through your Son Jesus Christ. Let us not forget the lessons from the past nor fear the challenges of the future. Anoint us with your grace and shine in our hearts as we reflect your light throughout the world. – Amen.

Oración de las mujeres de la Iglesia Episcopal

Dios todopoderoso, oramos para que Tú bendigas nuestra misión y ministerio por el mundo. Ayúdanos a orar fervientemente, laborar diligentemente y dar sin ataduras para anunciar el poder de tu amor por medio de tu Hijo Jesucristo. No dejes que olvidemos las lecciones del pasado, ni temamos a los desafíos del futuro. Úngenos con tu gracia y brilla en nuestros corazones a la vez que reflejamos tu luz a través del mundo. – Amen.

Member Submitted Prayers and Blessings

Renewal Prayers – Communique Spring 2024

Lord,

Renew us with your love
Energize our souls
Nourish our spirit
Empower us to show our faith
Walk with you
Abide with us
Lead us and we will follow

Amen

By Cindy Mohr

God our Father, Lord of Creation

Refresh our spirits
Encourage inspiration
Nudge us to action
Enliven our hearts
Water buds of hope
Abolish seeds of doubt
Lift us with […]

Prayer for this time in the world

Prayer for this time in the world
When we wake and discover our lives
Are suddenly in a never-before time,
A never-again-the-same time,
Grant us courage, O God, in knowing
That all times are yours,
That you are ever before and after,
That with you there is no “never.”

Remind us that although mountains may become plains,
Seas may […]

Prayer for Caregivers

Gift us, Lord, with the humility
of those who care beyond knowing
and being known; who give their time ungrudgingly
with simple and wordless presence;
who listen like the patient dawn
holding its breath,
anticipating birdsong even
from a dark and starless sky.

Teach us, Lord, the humility
of healing that seeks no cure
but peace, that knows no power
but […]

Prayer For a Friend in Need

Heavenly Father, a Friend most dear
has asked for prayer.
For she and her family have had
an awful lot to bear.

So many of us hold her dear
but simply are unable to hold her near.
So we pray Father that you bestow
comfort and hope that only You can give
to those near the end of […]

I tried to capture you

Moon-Patti-PosanYou alluded me. I smelled fresh moonlight, felt your light bless me and I wonder…

Perhaps these moments are just to be between us, deep within, held close in the tapestry of my inner being, gazing at the moon.

I am offered a window to […]

A Prayer of Hope and Guidance

Almighty and most merciful Father, we thank you for all the blessings of this life. We thank You especially for the Episcopal Church Women. We ask you to guide us as we work to find more ways to serve our global village and the local communities. By Your grace, equip […]

Praying with Sparrows – A poem of the 2020 pandemic

Praying with Sparrows

A poem of the 2020 pandemic

I never thought to pray with sparrows, black throated wild
and scrambling for seeds cast carelessly on the hillside.
They hover throughout the hours like unceasing prayers
Giving thanks when no words can.

Warily they brave the rains, the frenzied force, even my hoarse voice
an unknown thunder […]

A Breathless Moment

It is a breathless moment
when, coming to the edge
Of what confounds me,
I pause and ask myself
if I have courage
To trust completely
and risk failure,
Sometimes I have faltered,
Turned back into the
Wilderness of self-contained
existence and stumbled,
But when I listen to the
beating of my heart
I hear the voice of
My Creator calling me
to step outside […]

The Knitting Shoppe

I finger the yarn,
Checking its strength and quality,
Comparing the weights and colors.
The shop keeper watches me,
Unsure and unconvinced.
I am a foreign woman in a foreign land.
Possessing only the barest words of her language.

I pick up a particularly beautiful skein.
It is soft and obviously hand-dyed.
And sighing the sigh of true appreciation
I […]

What is Heavy Turns to Spirit

All that is hard and heavy turns to spirit.
It cannot help but eventually
Become like a cup of ink
That is poured into the ocean.
I do not doubt that for a time
The ink darkens the water,
Obscures and displaces the light,
Leaching out its tendrils
Staining what it touches.
But eventually,
Finally,
The ink must break down into […]

Collection From ECW Board Meeting October 2015

Jennifer KennaFour prayers and blessings from Jennifer Kenna

Celtic Invitation
A Blessing
Reading from Soul Weavings
Homily, Sunday October 25, 2015 – NECW Board Eucharist

Celtic Invitation

This is the table not of the church, but of the Lord.
It is made ready for those who love God and […]

Fear of Transformation

Evita KrislockFrom “The Essene Book of Days” by Danaan Parry

Sometimes I feel that my life is a series of trapeze swings. I’m either hanging onto a trapeze bar swinging along or for a few moments I’m hurtling across space in between bars.

Most of […]

Navajo Blessingway Prayer

Navajo Bessingway“WALK IN BEAUTY”

In beauty may I walk
All day long may I walk
Through the returning seasons may I walk
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk
With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk
With dew about my feet may I walk
With beauty […]

Perseverance and Renewal

As we pause to feed our bodies in the middle of the day, we pause also to feed our souls by vowing again to live faithfully.

Living God,
long ago, faithful women
proclaimed the good news
of Jesus’ resurrection,
and the world was changed forever.
Teach us to […]

A crack, a slap, a painful plea

A crack, a slap, a painful plea A cry for help Heard, unheard, denied.

Cultural Institutional Interpersonal And… Really…personal Denied.

Don’t tell Embarrass Blame Shame

A bruise, a cut, an unhealed ache. This is not the mark of Cain.

A prayer? Jesus, in the temple, outraged. Injustice, imbalance, unsettled.

A hope? Move, toward me. […]

Just and Loving God

Just and Loving God, you created us in your image; mercifully grant that we may seek creative, life-giving ways to change systems of injustice in this world; empower us to transform that which is evil and corrupt, bless us with energy to maintain the struggle for justice for […]

To Act on Their Behalf

Almighty One, we praise you and give you thanks for life, and for all children who start life in innocence, laughter and play. Make us mindful of the world’s children in the name of your beloved Son, who took them into his arms and blessed them. Grant us grace to […]

Prayers of the People

Human Trafficking Conference, 10/26/13

The Universal Church, its members, and its mission:

So much of your Church on Earth seems blind to the suffering of the victims of human trafficking.  Your body here on Earth seems blind and deaf to the suffering and exploitation of the enslaved.

How long, O […]