What is your experience of the Prayer of the Faithful? What is successful in their wording, what is not? What are best practices for their rendition? How are the concerns of the community brought in? What resources are helpful? What are the pitfalls to avoid? Share your wisdom with the Pray Tell community.
Read moreTag: General Intercessions
Praying for our Enemies?
I wish we would add such a prayer to our Sunday intercessions. I know one of the persons I would hold in prayer: the young hooded British man who beheaded the photojournalist James Foley.
Read more“Biblical” Prayers of the People?
I find myself quite ambivalent about attempts to the link the Prayers of the People with the biblical readings for the day. Why not simply announce the intentions, and leave it at that?
Read moreRethinking the Prayer of the Faithful
Why is the prayer of the faithful sometimes a sublime moment and at other times banal at best and cringe-inducing at worst?
Read moreAnd now for something completely different: “illegitimate” prayers?
The question I have pondered is whether there are “illegitimate” prayers, what constitutes them, and how to avoid them.
Read more“By Their Intercessions You will Know Them”
What we pray for (and against) reveals some of our deepest desires and commitments – at least that is what I have been pondering lately.
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