WEDNESDAY

The Cross of Christ: Reconciliation and Human Relationships

Holy Father,
you have reconciled us to yourself in Christ;
by your Spirit
you enable us to live as your children.

Intercession

We pray for PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
the home, and family life....
children deprived of home....
friends, relations and neighbours....
relationships in daily life and work....
those who are estranged....
ministries of care and healing...

Thanksgiving

Holy Father, we give you thanks

for the obedience of Christ fulfilled in the cross,
his bearing of the sin of the world,
his mercy for the world, which never fails....

for the joy of human love and friendship,
the lives to which our own are bound,
the gift of peace with you and each other....

for the communities in whose life we share
and all relationships
in which reconciliation may be known....

Concluding prayer

Help us to share in Christ's ministry
and to love and serve one another in peace;
through the same Jesus Christ our Lord,
who in the unity of the Spirit
is one with you for ever. Amen.