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General Intercessions for Sunday Mass
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Sunday, September 11, 2022
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Liturgical Color: Green
General Intercessions for Sunday Mass for Friday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time
Option 1
1.For the Church: that she may practice humility, examining her own failures before calling others to conversion, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That civil leaders may govern with genuine self-awareness, not demanding of others what they themselves refuse to do or be, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those struggling with hypocrisy in themselves, or feeling scandalized by it in others, that the honest gaze of Christ may help them first see clearly in themselves, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may have the courage to remove the great logs from our own eyes—our self-deception, pride, and inconsistency—before we offer to correct our brothers and sisters, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our community may be a place of humble self-reflection, where correction begins with each person's own heart rather than with pointing fingers at others, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For those who have been spiritually harmed by hypocritical leaders, that their faith may be restored.Lord, hear our prayer.
That N. and all who strove for integrity of heart may now see God face to face in His eternal clarity, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Option 2
1.For Pope Leo XIV and all who teach the faith: that they may lead with humility and mercy, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That all peoples may embrace honest self-examination and resist the temptation to project onto others what they refuse to see in themselves, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those misled by blind guides—teachers or communities that cannot see clearly—that Christ, the true teacher, may lead them to clarity and truth, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may submit to Christ's school of discipleship, where the teacher shapes the student in His own image through prayer, humility, and patient formation, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.For our parish, that it may be a community of continual conversion—where leaders and members alike practice the humility of the plank before the charity of the splinter, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For the humility to accept correction and the wisdom to offer it with compassion.Lord, hear our prayer.
That N. and all who have died may be led by Christ the teacher who sees clearly into eternal light and truth, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Pro Life Option
1.That the Church may first remove the log of indifference to struggling mothers from her own eye, then speak with full credibility for the unborn who have no voice, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That lawmakers may practice honest self-examination—asking what kind of world they are building for the most vulnerable—before deciding the fate of unborn children, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For women who were misled by blind guides—misleading counselors, cultural pressure, or circumstance—into choosing abortion, that Christ the true Teacher may bring them to healing, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may not project the splinter of wrongful choice onto desperate women while ignoring the log of inadequate support and social abandonment that leaves abortion seeming the only option, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.For all unborn children unseen by those around them—dismissed by the blind—that the clear and loving gaze of God may see and protect each one of them, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For women led astray by poor counsel into abortion, that Christ the true Teacher may lead them to healing and truth.Lord, hear our prayer.
That all children lost before birth may be seen clearly by God, in whose sight every life is precious, and welcomed into His eternal kingdom, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
About Our Sunday Mass Intercessions
Our general intercessions for Sunday Mass are specially crafted by Giuseppe Njualem, a seminarian at St. Peter's Seminary in London, Ontario. Each set reflects the solemnity appropriate for the principal weekly celebration of the Catholic Church.
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Crafted specifically for the principal weekly liturgy, reflecting the greater solemnity and broader congregation of Sunday Mass celebrations.
📚 Liturgically Sound
Each intercession follows the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) guidelines and addresses the four traditional categories of universal prayer.
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Formatted for immediate use by lectors and easily customizable for specific parish needs and local concerns while maintaining liturgical integrity.