Join us this month as Christ’s Church Militant here in earth to raise our voices in PRAYER and SUPPLICATION to our heavenly Father as his wrath is revealed in common sickness:

   •    PRAY that our God will intervene to stop the spread of COVID-19. PRAY for Pastors and Leaders of our Diocese of the Living Word who lead worship unmasked. PRAY that they understand and teach that wearing a protective mask is a missional statement of ‘love your neighbor’.

   •    PRAY for those who are sick, that they will have access to the care and treatment they need. Give THANKS for researchers who have begun trials of a vaccine.

   •    PRAY for the health workers who are caring for those with COVID-19, for protection and stamina during long or intense hours. PRAY that effective biological safety protocols are maintained. PRAY for health care volunteers who will receive trials of the COVID-19 vaccine in the coming weeks.

   •    PRAY for grieving families who have or will lose loved ones to COVID-19. PRAY against despair; PRAY new mercies every morning. PRAY for Joyce and her children. Her husband Francis died due to complications from COVID on Easter Day.

   •    PRAY for those who are waking up each day to the fallout caused by COVID-19. PRAY for those with businesses and livelihoods ruined by the halt in many sectors of the economy. PRAY for those who may lose jobs and salaries. PRAY that our faithful Savior may walk by their side. PRAY for a member in assisted living who has found isolation in lockdown increasingly burdensome.

   •    PRAY for All Souls that took the decision to push back our return to 13 September. Give THANKS that attendance and giving has risen slightly over the lockdown period.

A Prayer for a time of any common Plague or Sickness.

O ALMIGHTY God, who in your wrath sent a plague upon your own people in the wilderness, for their obstinate rebellion against Moses and Aaron; and in the time of king David, sent a plague of pestilence that killed seventy thousand, but remembering your mercy spared the rest: Have pity upon us miserable sinners who now are visited with great sickness and mortality; and in the same way that you then accepted an atonement and commanded the destroying Angel to cease from punishing, so may it now please you to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sickness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.