‘He sent his servants to all who were invited to the Feast’ … that the Synod Assembly gathered in Rome as part of the Global Synod will be led by the Holy Spirit to walk the path of reform and renewal, building a radically inclusive Church, where all are welcome and valued
[READER] GOD OF PEACE…
[Response] Gather all to Your Feast…
‘There is nothing I cannot master with the help of the One who gives me strength’, writes St Paul … we pray in a world addicted to injustice and poverty, that the World’s poorest will be the world’s first priority, so that the poor will have an equal share in the Feast of the Earth’s Banquet
[READER] GOD OF PEACE…
[Response] Gather all to Your Feast…
‘God will remove the mourning veil and the shroud enwrapping the nations’ … we pray urgently for an end to the war, brutality and terrorism afflicting the peoples of Palestine/Israel and that from the ashes of this horrifying conflict there may emerge a miracle of reconciliation, a peace built upon the rock of Justice and Security for Palestinian and Israeli alike
[READER] GOD OF PEACE…
[Response] Gather all to Your Feast…
All were given the wedding garment free … we pray for Stephen and Francisca married in this church yesterday; for our whole baptised community and for those journeying in Faith towards Sacraments of Initiation: may we discover the joy of living in Christ, robed with garments of holiness and moving towards the eternal feast of heaven
[READER] GOD OF PEACE…
[Response] Gather all to Your Feast…
That as a community we will gladly go the crossroads of our world and fill God’s house with rich, poor, black, white, healthy, addicted, secure and disturbed – may the banquet of His Love which we celebrate here be healing and life for all
[READER] GOD OF PEACE…
[Response] Gather all to Your Feast…
As we grieve the inhumanity and brutality being inflicted upon the women and children of Gaza and Israel, we pray for the hostages held in Gaza and plead for a conversion of heart to peace in the people of violence and in those leaders calling for and justifying vengeance … we dare to pray in this darkest hour for the dawning of a new peace
[READER] GOD OF PEACE…
[Response] Gather all to Your Feast…
We pray for the thousands of victims of the horror of war in Gaza and Israel and those medical staff in hospitals without power, medicines or food … we pray too for …
we that all who have died recently now enjoy the Heavenly Banquet, especially, Fr Donal Daly and the victims of war, violence and famine;
and for all whose anniversaries are at this time,
[READER] GOD OF PEACE…
[Response] Gather all to Your Feast…
Mary Queen of Peace and Mother of the Church, pray with us for the Renewal of the Church in humility and mercy through the Synod…
HAIL MARY…
Let us pray in silence for the Church to be truly Good News to the Poor …