General Intercessions

Each week Dennis Keller is posting General Intercessions for the upcoming Sunday liturgies. He is a lay Dominican from the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina. He also provides weekly input for our feature Volume II.

General Intercessions

for Eighteenth Sunday of Ordered Time

August 3, 2025

Presider: With confidence in our Father who loves us as his children: with trust that Jesus, our brother, watches over us. With joy at the presence of the Spirit in our lives, we can courageously present our concerns, our needs, and our anxieties to God

Deacon/ Lector/ Cantor: Please respond: “Lord, Hear our prayer”

1.May Pope Leo and our Bishop __________ be continually energized in teaching, inspiring, and praying for the Church of Christ to bear witness to the truth of the Gospel, we pray...

2. With faith let us offer the Father the gifts of life, of work, of family we receive, we pray...

3. Lord, protect us in our families from discord, arguments and fights over inheritance or disposal of property, we pray...

4. Lord, encourage managers and owners of businesses to share justly the wealth gained by the work of employees, we pray...

5. Lord, instill in first responders, emergency staff with the fire of your love to overcome the weariness of long hours and difficult work, we pray...

6. Lord, assist teachers, educators, administrators to discover the unique wonder of each person they teach and train, we pray...

7. Lord, fill the hearts and minds of army, navy, air force, and coast guard with an abiding respect for life and care for wounded and displaced, we pray...

8. That those who died this week (list here) and those approaching death’s door are encouraged by faith and sacrament. That the intention of this Mass, (list here) _____is (are) remembered in our prayers, we pray...

9. Let us petition God for our personal needs and for help resolving concerns of hand, mind, and heart: (pause) Let us place these intentions on the altar with the financial gifts we offer for the ministries of our community, we pray...

Presider: Accept, Lord, we pray... these petitions we offer. Through the powerful working of your grace may these petitions be heard and answered in the manner which best serves your will. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Response: Amen.

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