Prayers of the Faithful This Week

Week of April 6 - April 12, 2026

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Monday

Monday, April 6, 2026

MONDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER

✚SolemnityLiturgical Color: White

Prayers of the Faithful for MONDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER

Option 1
1.For the Church, that she may run from the empty tomb with the same mixture of fear and great joy as the women ran — unable to contain the news that changes everything, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That world leaders may choose truth over convenient falsehood — unlike those who bribed the guards to suppress the news of the Resurrection — and govern with integrity, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For all who are emerging from a tomb of their own — freed from addiction, illness, depression, or despair — that this Easter week may seal their new beginning, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may embrace the feet of the Risen Christ this day as the women did, clinging to the One who is truly present and truly alive, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may share the Easter news this week with someone who has not heard it, not keeping to ourselves the joy that is meant for the whole world, 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 with Peter she may proclaim boldly: God raised him on the third day — and that this proclamation may be the foundation on which all her works of mercy and justice are built, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That civil authorities may never use their power to silence inconvenient truth, knowing that the truth of the Resurrection outlasted every attempt to suppress it, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For the newly baptised entering their first week of Easter life, that the grace they received may grow strong and that our parish may walk closely with them in these days, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may not return to our old lives after Easter as if nothing has happened, but walk in the newness of life to which the Risen Christ calls every one of us, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may hold the whole of this octave as eight days of Easter, sustaining the joy and prayer of yesterday through all the days of this week, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For the newly baptised and confirmed, that the grace of Easter may deepen in them each day.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Pro Life Option
1.That the Church may proclaim from the empty tomb that death does not have the last word — for the unborn any more than for Christ — and carry that conviction into every defence of human life, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That lawmakers may hear in the Resurrection the declaration that no life is disposable, and act with renewed urgency to protect unborn children under the law, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For women who are pregnant and afraid this Easter week, that the angel's word may reach them — do not be afraid — and that they may find the human support to make that word believable, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may carry the Easter light into every conversation about the dignity of human life, witnessing to the hope that every person — born and unborn — is known and loved by the God who conquered death, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may celebrate every new birth this Easter season as a small echo of the great Resurrection, welcoming every child as a sign of Easter life, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For all who work in pregnancy support and crisis centres, that the Easter season may renew their hope.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.

Tuesday

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

TUESDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER

✚SolemnityLiturgical Color: White

Prayers of the Faithful for TUESDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER

Option 1
1.For the Church, that she may go out each morning of this Easter Octave like Mary Magdalene — bearing the news I have seen the Lord — and bring that witness to everyone she meets, 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 the Risen Christ's word to Mary — do not cling to me, but go — may be her permanent commission: never hoarding the Resurrection but always announcing it, 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 each of the eight days of this Easter Octave may be kept as a full day of celebration — the single feast of the Resurrection prolonged and savoured — not collapsed into ordinary time too soon, 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 she may send every baptised person out as a witness to the Resurrection, not reserving the proclamation for the ordained but entrusting it to all, as Christ first entrusted it to Mary, 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.

Wednesday

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

WEDNESDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER

✚SolemnityLiturgical Color: White

Prayers of the Faithful for WEDNESDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER

Option 1
1.For the Church, that she may walk beside those journeying away from faith as Christ walked beside the two disciples on the road — patient, attentive, opening the scriptures until the heart burns, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That world leaders who are walking in discouragement — convinced that hope has been crucified — may encounter the Risen Christ on the road and be turned back toward Jerusalem, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those who have walked away from the Church, dejected and disappointed by what they witnessed there, that the Risen Christ may join them on their road and be recognised before they reach their destination, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may ask: were not our hearts burning? — and follow that burning wherever the Risen Christ leads us in this Easter season, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may be the place where the stranger is welcomed at table, where bread is broken, and where Christ is recognised — so that people run back to tell what they have seen, 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 always be the community that says to the weary traveller: stay with us, for it is evening — making room at the table for all who need the warmth of the Risen Christ, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That those in authority may listen to the people walking in discouragement rather than dismissing their grief, knowing that the road to Emmaus begins with honest conversation, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those in our families and communities who have grown cold in their faith, that this Easter season may be the moment the stranger on the road speaks to something still alive in them, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may invite the Risen Christ to stay with us this week — in prayer, in the Eucharist, in scripture — and find our hearts set alight by His presence, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may be a community that runs back from every encounter with the Risen Christ eager to share what it has found, drawing others into the same discovery, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For a spirit of Easter joy and witness in our homes and neighbourhoods.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Pro Life Option
1.That the Church may walk beside every woman in a crisis pregnancy as Christ walked beside the disciples — without judgment, opening a word of hope they had not heard before, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That lawmakers may not walk away from their duty to protect the unborn — turning back, as the disciples turned back, once they have encountered the truth, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For women already on the road toward an abortion clinic, walking in fear and isolation, that the Risen Christ may join them on that road today and open a door they do not yet know is there, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may be the voice that joins someone on their road this week — listening before speaking, walking alongside before offering an answer, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may be a community where no one has to walk the hardest roads alone — and where the table is always set for the mother who arrives at the door, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For all who staff pregnancy support centres, that the Emmaus patience of listening and walking alongside may mark all they do.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.

Thursday

Thursday, April 9, 2026

THURSDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER

✚SolemnityLiturgical Color: White

Prayers of the Faithful for THURSDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER

Option 1
1.For the Church, that she may proclaim the tangible, physical reality of the Risen Christ — not a ghost, not a symbol — the same body broken for us, now glorified and truly present to us, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That world leaders who govern in fear and turmoil may receive the word the Risen Christ spoke in the locked room: peace be with you — a peace the world cannot manufacture but only receive, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those whose trauma has made it impossible to believe that goodness is real, that the Risen Christ may show them His wounds — proof that suffering has been entered, not avoided — and say: it is really I, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may bring to Christ our troubled hearts this day and hear His question: why are you troubled? — releasing our anxieties into hands that bear the marks of the nails, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may take seriously the call we heard today: you are witnesses of these things — and live with the conviction and courage that witness demands, 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 the moment of the Risen Christ eating fish with His disciples may remind her that the Resurrection hallows the ordinary — every meal, every table, every gathered community, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That those who exercise authority may not reduce reality to what can be quantified and controlled, but remain open to the more that the Resurrection declares is present in all created things, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those who doubt, who hold back from full belief, that they may hear not a rebuke but an invitation: touch me and see — and find that the evidence is more solid than their fear, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may know ourselves as witnesses — not only observers — and that what we have seen and heard of the Risen Christ may flow outward from us into every conversation and relationship, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish, having received the Risen Christ in the Eucharist, may go out as those who have truly touched and tasted — bearing that certainty as our gift to the world, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For a deeper conviction of the bodily Resurrection and its meaning for how we live.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Pro Life Option
1.That the Church may proclaim: touch me and see — holding out the ultrasound image, the tiny hand, the formed face — witnessing to the undeniable bodily reality of every unborn child, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That lawmakers may stand on the solid ground of this truth: every human body, however small or dependent, bears the dignity of the God who rose bodily from the tomb, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For unborn children with prenatal diagnoses of physical disability, whose bodies are judged as wrong or unworthy of life, that we may say with the Risen Christ: look at my hands, look at my feet — and refuse to discard what God has made, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may be witnesses to the dignity of every human body in this Easter season, speaking the truth we have seen clearly and without apology, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may be tangible and practical in its witness — touching and seeing the real needs of mothers and children in our midst — not content with sentiment alone, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For all who support families facing difficult prenatal diagnoses, that they may bear witness to the worth of every life.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.

Friday

Friday, April 10, 2026

FRIDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER

✚SolemnityLiturgical Color: White

Prayers of the Faithful for FRIDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER

Option 1
1.For the Church, that she may return to her ordinary daily work with Easter eyes — knowing that the Risen Christ stands on every shore of ordinary life, speaking into every night that has yielded nothing, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That leaders of nations, when their policies have fished all night and caught nothing, may have the humility to listen for the voice that says: cast the net on the other side, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For all who are exhausted by fruitless effort — who have laboured long and caught nothing — that the Risen Christ may speak from the shore of their lives this week with a word of direction and renewed hope, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may learn to recognise the Risen Christ in the ordinary moments of our daily work, as the beloved disciple recognised Him from the boat: it is the Lord, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may embody the hospitality of the Risen Christ on the shore — come and eat — warmly prepared for all who arrive hungry, weary, or in need, 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 the 153 fish may be her vision — that no one is too many, the net does not tear, the Risen Christ draws in all without exception, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That those who govern may provide for the basic daily needs of those entrusted to them — as the Risen Christ provided bread and fish on the shore — attending to the small and concrete before the grand and abstract, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those who labour in dangerous or exhausting work — fishermen, seafarers, night-shift workers, and all who toil in obscurity — that the Risen Christ may meet them in their place of work, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may leap toward the Risen Christ with Peter's reckless urgency — not waiting for the boat to dock but throwing ourselves into the water to reach Him, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may have the charcoal fire burning — the warmth of genuine welcome — so that all who arrive at dawn after a long night find comfort and the presence of the Risen Lord, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For a spirit of Easter hospitality and practical service in our community.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Pro Life Option
1.That the Church may declare with the abundance of 153 fish that every life is a gift to be drawn in — not discarded — and that no pregnancy, however unexpected, is a catch too many for God's net, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That lawmakers may cast their policies on the right side — the side of life — and discover that laws which protect the unborn yield more human flourishing than those that do not, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For young mothers who have fished all night and caught nothing — exhausted, alone, without support — that the Risen Christ may speak from the shore today and that a real person may step forward to help them, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may leap into the water for the unborn as Peter leapt for the Lord — not calculating the cost, not waiting for the moment to be convenient, but acting now, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may have the fire burning and the breakfast ready for the mother who arrives with nothing, so she finds not an empty shore but a community prepared to receive her, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For all who run pregnancy support services, that they may keep the fire burning through every season.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.

Saturday

Saturday, April 11, 2026

SATURDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER

✚SolemnityLiturgical Color: White

Prayers of the Faithful for SATURDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER

Option 1
1.For the Church, that the commission she hears today — go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature — may be received not as an obligation but as the irresistible overflow of an Easter heart, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That world leaders may be open to the Gospel transforming the societies they govern — softening the hardness of heart that locks people out of dignity, justice, and peace, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those who have heard the Easter message and still cannot bring themselves to believe, that the Risen Christ may appear to them as He appeared to those who disbelieved the first reports — patiently, persistently, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may receive the commission of this final day of the Octave personally: go, proclaim — and find in the days ahead someone who needs to hear what we have encountered, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may close this Easter Octave not with relief but with momentum — carrying the Resurrection outward as a living fire into the weeks and months ahead, 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 acknowledge with humility the hardness of heart the Risen Christ gently reproached in His disciples — and ask to be opened again to the full wonder of the Resurrection, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That those in authority may not dismiss inconvenient testimony as too strange to believe — knowing that the truth of the Resurrection was first refused by those who should have been most ready to receive it, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For all who are skeptical about the faith, that they may be met with the same patient persistence the Risen Christ showed His doubting disciples — not condemned but invited closer, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may not let the Octave end without asking the Risen Christ to do something new in us — a deeper opening, a firmer conviction, a bolder love, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may enter the Easter season with a clear sense of its mission: to go, to tell, to proclaim — and that no one in our neighbourhood may be left unreached by the joy we carry, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For a renewed sense of Easter mission as the Octave concludes.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 having kept the whole Easter Octave she may carry its light into the fifty days of Easter — not letting the flame diminish when the celebrations end but nurturing it through every ordinary week, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That leaders of nations may govern with the hope the Resurrection brings — that no situation is beyond remedy, no people beyond redemption, no future beyond the reach of God's renewing power, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For all who have been received into the Church this Easter and now begin their first full week as members — that the community may surround them with warmth and support as their new life unfolds, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may pause today to name one thing the Easter Octave has changed in us — one door opened, one fear lessened, one love deepened — and offer it as a prayer of thanksgiving, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may be a community where Easter is never merely a Sunday but a whole season — where the Alleluia shapes Monday and the Resurrection colours everything we do together, 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 the final day of the Octave may deepen her commitment to the mission Christ entrusted to her: the proclamation of mercy, the forgiveness of sins, the healing of the broken, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That civil society may be shaped by the Easter conviction that every person can change, every wound can be healed, and no life is beyond the reach of new beginning, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those who will not gather tomorrow for Divine Mercy Sunday — who are far from the Church — that someone from this community may reach out to them with an invitation and a word of welcome, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may enter tomorrow's celebration of Divine Mercy with hearts emptied of self-sufficiency and filled with the wonder of being loved by God without condition, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may cross the threshold of the Easter season with courage, knowing that the Risen Christ goes before us into every day of the year, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For those preparing to celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday tomorrow.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.

Sunday

Sunday, April 12, 2026

2ND SUNDAY OF EASTER (DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY)

✚SolemnityLiturgical Color: White

Prayers of the Faithful for 2ND SUNDAY OF EASTER (DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY)

Option 1
1.For the Church, that she may receive again today the Easter gift of peace — peace be with you — and carry it as her answer to every fear, every locked door, every paralysis that holds the world captive, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That those who govern in locked rooms of fear and suspicion may hear the Risen Christ passing through every sealed barrier — bringing not threat but peace, not judgment but mission, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those who were absent when the others encountered the Risen Lord — who have missed the moment and believe it is too late — that Christ may come again eight days later as He came for Thomas, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may make Thomas's confession our own this day — my Lord and my God — spoken not as a formula but as the full surrender of a heart that has finally touched the wounds and knows that this is real, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish, commissioned as the Father sent the Son, may go out from this Eucharist as a community of the forgiven who forgive — bearing the mercy of the Risen Christ into the week ahead, 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 the water and blood flowing from the pierced side of Christ may be her unending source — every sacrament, every act of mercy, every proclamation springing from that one wound of love, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That those who lock themselves behind walls of cynicism or self-protection may hear the Risen Christ entering without a key — not to condemn but to breathe new life into what has grown stale and afraid, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those crippled by doubt who feel unable to believe what others seem to receive so easily, that the Risen Christ may extend to them the same invitation He gave Thomas: come, touch, see — and do not be unbelieving but believe, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may receive today the beatitude of those who have not seen and yet believe — knowing this faith is not credulity but a gift we may ask for and a grace we may grow in, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may be renewed in the Holy Spirit on this day — receiving the Risen Christ's breath as the disciples received it — and exercise the ministry of mercy and forgiveness boldly, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For a deeper trust in God's mercy — Jesus, I trust in you.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Pro Life Option
1.That the Church may proclaim Divine Mercy without reserve: that no wound is too deep, no situation too far gone, and no unborn child too small for the love flowing from Christ's pierced Heart, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That lawmakers may not be unbelieving but believe — accepting the evidence of fetal humanity — and act on it with the courage that the truth demands, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For women who believe their crisis pregnancy is beyond help — who feel too alone, too late, too broken to turn anywhere — that on this Divine Mercy Sunday the love of Christ may reach into exactly that place of hopelessness, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may be instruments of Divine Mercy for the unborn and their mothers — not pronouncing judgment but extending the same mercy we ourselves have received, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may be known as a house of mercy — where the door is never locked to the mother in need and where the mercy of Christ is given a human face, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For all who bring Christ's mercy to mothers and children in crisis, that Divine Mercy Sunday may renew their calling.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.

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