A Prayer for the Perishing--Aug. 7, 2022

[From Aug. 9, 2020 archive]

 

God, you know how we were made;

you know how we neglect you

until we are in trouble,

then run to you.

 

Jesus, you became weak

to join the weak in suffering;

you defended those who stumbled,

and Jesus, you cared for the perishing.

 

Now the whole world is in trouble,

most of all, the poor and weak

are perishing of pandemic,

starvation, and war. 

 

God have mercy, 

Christ have mercy, 

on all who suffer

and die.

 

Lectionary Readings                                                          

Ps. 103; 150; 117; 139

Judg. 11:1-11, 29-40

2 Cor. 11:21b-31

Mark 4:35-41

 

 

Selected Verses

Ps. 103:14

For [the LORD] knows how we were made;
          he remembers that we are dust.

 

Judg. 11:7

But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Are you not the very ones who rejected me and drove me out of my father's house?  So why do you come to me now when you are in trouble?”

 

2 Cor. 11:29

Who is weak, and I am not weak?  Who is made to stumble, and I am not indignant? 

 

Mark 4:37-38

A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped.  But [Jesus] was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”