Form your Church ever more clearly into the image and likeness of Christ, crucified and risen.

Strengthen single parent and all those entrusted with the care of children.

Comfort and heal those who suffer serious illness.

Inspire medical researchers in their efforts to find a cure for cancer and AIDS.

Grant that we may generously share our gifts for the good of others.

Make your Church a charitable advocate for the powerless.

Deepen the gifts of reflective prayer and contemplation in your Church.

That we might listen to the needs of those near us, we pray.

That our Church might be an example of wisdom and justice in deed and in word, we pray.

For social workers and all who tend to the suffering, we pray.

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