Leader: For fathers everywhere, who have given us life and love, that we may show them respect and love.
People: Holy God, hear this prayer
for our fathers.
Leader: For fathers who have
lost a child through death, that their faith may give them hope, and their
family and friends support and console them
People: Holy God, hear this prayer
for our fathers that mourn.
For men who may or
may not have children of their own, but act like a father to someone in need of
advice, support, nurturing, and love.
Holy God, hear this prayer
for our father figures.
For stepfathers who
have assumed that role with love and joy, who have loved the children of another
as their own and created a new family.
Holy God, hear this prayer
for stepfathers.
For adoptive
fathers, who have heard the call of God to lovingly step forward for those that
need their care.
Holy God, hear this prayer
for adoptive fathers.
For fathers who have
been unable to be a source of strength, who have not responded to the needs of
their children and have not sustained their families.
Holy God, have mercy on
absentee fathers.
For fathers who
struggle with temptation, violence, or addiction. For those who do harm, and
for those whom they have harmed.
Holy God, have mercy on
fathers that struggle.
For new fathers,
full of hope. For long-time fathers, full of wisdom. For the fathers yet to be,
and fathers soon to be.
Holy God, hear our prayer
for the fathers of your Church.
For those that have
shaped our lives without claim of family or kinship. For those who have taught us,
guided us, shaped us and molded us into servants of Christ our Lord.
