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General Intercessions for Sunday Mass
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Sunday, April 7, 2024
Tuesday within the Octave of Easter
✚Easter Octave
Liturgical Color: White
General Intercessions for Sunday Mass for TUESDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER
Option 1
1.For the Church, that she may witness to the Risen Christ with the same joyful boldness as Mary Magdalene, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That world leaders may exercise their authority with the gentleness of the Risen Christ who came first to a mourning woman in a garden, choosing the small and the overlooked to carry the greatest news, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those who stand weeping at a tomb, so absorbed in grief that they do not recognise the Risen Christ already standing close beside them, that their eyes may open this week, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may hear Christ call our name this day as He called Mary's — personally, tenderly, without distance — and respond with the same immediacy she showed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may be sent from this Eucharist as Mary was sent from the garden, unable and unwilling to keep the news of the Resurrection to itself, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For our sick, bereaved, and all who have asked for our prayers.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Option 2
1.For the Church, that she may never cling to herself but always go forth to announce the Risen Christ, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That those who hold power may give space for mourning and for truth, knowing that the most transformative encounters in the Gospels often begin with someone weeping beside a tomb, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those who are trying to cling to a past that Christ is calling them to release, that they may trust His invitation to something new and unimaginable beyond what has been lost, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may release our grip on the way things were and open our hands to the newness the Risen Christ holds out to us in this Easter season, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may ring with the testimony: I have seen the Lord — each member carrying that conviction outward into every corner of their daily lives, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For a renewed sense of Easter mission in our parish and families.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Variations if Optional Commemoration is not celebrated
Option 1
1.For the Church, that she may celebrate each day of the Easter Octave with joy and wonder, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That leaders of nations may protect the freedom of those who grieve, who mourn publicly, and who bear witness to truth — knowing that truth endured and prevailed at Easter, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those who have recently lost someone they love and for whom the Easter Alleluia feels impossibly distant, that the Risen Christ may be especially near to them this week, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may ask Christ this week to open our eyes when He is near and we do not recognise Him — in scripture, in prayer, in the stranger, in the breaking of bread, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish's Easter Octave may be a true school of encountering the Risen Christ, each day bringing a new discovery of what the Resurrection means for our lives, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For our sick, bereaved, and all who have asked for our prayers.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Option 2
1.For the Church, that every baptised person may be sent forth as a witness to the Risen Christ, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That those in authority may create space for truth to be spoken freely, knowing that no decree can keep the Risen Christ in a tomb, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those who are encountering the Risen Christ for the first time this Easter season, drawn in by the Vigil or this week's celebrations, that a lasting faith may take root in them, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may respond to the Risen Christ with the immediacy Mary showed — not deliberating or delaying but going, telling, acting on what we have seen and heard, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may be recognised in our neighbourhood as a community of people who have seen the Risen Lord and whose lives show it, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For all who are newly received into the Church this Easter, that the joy of these days may sustain them.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, 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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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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