Suffrages - Responsive Prayer 2

 

Responsive Prayer 2 (Suffrages)

For use at other times of day and before travel.

L: Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and immortal,

C: have mercy and hear us.

C: Our Father….

C: I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord….

L: Show us your mercy, O Lord,

C: and grant us your salvation.

L: Clothe your ministers with righteousness.

C: Let your people sing with joy.

L: Give peace, O Lord, in all the world;

C: for only in you can we live in safety.

L: Lord, keep this nation under your care,

C: and guide us in the way of justice and truth.

L: Let your way be known upon earth;

C: your saving health among all nations.

L: Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten,

C: nor the hope of the poor be taken away.

L: Create in us clean hearts, O God,

C: and sustain us with your Holy Spirit.

L: The Lord be with you.

C: And also with you.

L: Let us pray.

[The Prayer of the Day is said. Additional prayers may follow.]

EVENING

L: We give thanks to you, heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ your dear Son, that you have this day so graciously protected us. We beg you to forgive us all our sins and the wrong which we have done. By your great mercy defend us from all the perils and dangers of this night. Into your hands we commend our bodies and souls, and all that is ours. Let your holy angels have charge of us, that the wicked one have no power over us.

C: Amen.

L: Let us bless the Lord.

C: Thanks be to God.

L: The Lord bless us, defend us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.

C: Amen.

The text of the order for Responsive Prayer 2 is reprinted in part from LUTHERAN BOOK OF WORSHIP, copyright © 1978, by permission of Augsburg Fortress. [License on file in the administrative offices of the parish church.]