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Anniversary Prayers
Prayers of the People
Prayers of the People to Commemorate The Springhill Mine Disaster, October 23, 1958
As we celebrate and give thanks to God for fifty years of Anglican compassion and action around the world through The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, let us place before God our prayers for the world, the church and those near and dear to us. I invite you to respond:O God, hear our prayer.
We pray for all who suffer the results of natural disasters: earthquakes, storms, floods, drought and disease....those who have died, those who struggle to rebuild their lives.
Response: O God, hear our prayer
We pray for all victims of human error or human greed and hate in mine disasters, oil spills, conflicts, wars, genocides, unjust imprisonment.
Response: O God, hear our prayer
We pray for all those millions displaced, fleeing for their lives, seeking refuge.
Response: O God hear our prayer
We pray for all those who come to their aid, giving of themselves in time, energy and money to stand beside and support communities around the world in partnerships of caring and justice.
Response: O God, hear our prayer
We ask God to help us discern our proper roles and grant us the wisdom, compassion and strength to fulfill them.
Response: O God, hear our prayer
We pray for those near and dear to us, or known to us, who are sick, shut in, handicapped, and for those who have died. (please name them now)
Response: O God, hear our prayer
We pray for those who remember that rumble of the earth 50 years ago and have lived with the loss and lives changed by the Springhill mine disaster.
Response: O God, hear our prayer
We pray for all those who have committed themselves for fifty years in the work of The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, holding up especially our Primate, the staff, the board, the volunteers at the national and local levels all across Canada.
Response: O God, hear our prayer
We offer these prayers and all our prayers to God who hears us and calls us to respond. May God's love and comfort spread throughout the world. Amen.
PDF Version of Prayers of the People
The anniversary prayer appears on the back of the 2008 PWRDF in the World Bookmark.
50th Anniversary Prayer
O GOD, we give you thanks,
That out of the sorrow and
suffering of the Springhill
mine disaster, hope was
born, and a new light shone,
calling your Church forward
to love mercy, to do justice,
to walk humbly with you.
Give us ears to hear the voices
of all in need, hearts to
respond in love, and wills to
ensure that tables are spread,
families are gathered, and all
receive the dignity for which
they were born.
For this is your mission
O God, and we long to do
your will, for the sake of
him who died that the world
might live, Jesus Christ our
Lord.
AMEN
-Rt. Rev. Thomas Morgan
