Merciful God in your
holy height, we pray for prisoners:
Some are behind
prison bars and doomed to die,
even though innocent
like David and Peter.
Some are prisoners of
injury or disease
like the paralytic
healed by Jesus.
We know you hear their
groans--
help us to hear them,
too, and make us
passionate for their
release, like those who dug
a hole in a roof to
let the paralytic down before Jesus.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 42; 146; 102; 133
1 Sam. 19:1-24
Acts 12:1-17
Mark 2:1-12
Selected Verses
Ps. 102:19-20
…that [the LORD] looked down from his holy height,
from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,
to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to set free those who were doomed to die…
from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,
to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to set free those who were doomed to die…
1 Sam. 19:12
So Michal let David down through the window; he fled away
and escaped.
Acts 12:11
Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I am sure that the
Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hands of Herod and from all
that the Jewish people were expecting.”
Mark 2:4
And when [those carrying the paralytic] could not bring him
to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and after
having dug through it, they let down the mat on which the paralytic lay.
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