5 Responses to “Good Friday service with our neighbors from First United Metho…”

1. Sara Ann says:

   April 14, 2017 at 12:41 pm

   Beautiful prayer! I would like a copy of it!

   • First Presbyterian Church of Champaign says:

     April 14, 2017 at 2:45 pm

     Rev. Tom Corum’s prayer was from the United Methodist Book of Worship, page 546, and is copied here:

     O Healer of Galilee,
     you are afflicted in the sufferings of your people
     and are full of compassion and tender mercy.
     Hear us as we pray for those who suffer:

     For all who suffer trauma in body or mind…

     For those whose livelihood is insecure,
     the overworked, the hungry, the homeless, and the destitute,
     for those who have been downtrodden, ruined,
     and driven to despair…

     For little children,
     whose surroundings hide them from your love and beauty,
     for all the fatherless and motherless…

     For those who have to bear their burdens alone,
     and for all who have lost those whom they love…

     For those who are in doubt and anguish of soul,
     for those who are oversensitive and afraid…

     For those who suffer through their own wrongdoing…

     For those whose suffering is unrelieved
     by the knowledge of your love…

     Set free, healer of the weak,
     the souls of your servants from all restlessness and anxiety.

     Give us the peace and power that flow from you.
     Keep us in all perplexities and distresses,
     in all griefs and grievances, from any fear or faithlessness;
     that, being upheld by your strength
     and stayed on the rock of your faithfulness,
     through storm and stress we may abide in you. Amen.

   • Sara Ann says:

     April 14, 2017 at 3:27 pm

     Thank you! Am I free to share this with others?

   • First Presbyterian Church of Champaign says:

     April 16, 2017 at 8:36 am

     Yes, you may share it.