Page 67 - Prayer Book

Ι Heard You…
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Lighten the pain of women in labor.
Give patience, faith, and joy to new mothers.
Open the hearts of the (poor) rich
to feel the pain of the poor
and viscerally share
their wealth with them!
Grant the poor hope and patience
and trust in Your Love.
Reward generously those who have done us good!
Embrace the orphans with affection and warmth.
Accompany those who live in loneliness.
Give joy to the sorrowful.
Give meaning, joy, and freedom
to those who are dependent.
Through us, host the refugees, the migrants, and the
strangers.
Give hope and joy to the elderly.
Give hope, goals, and anticipation to the young girls
and boys.
Give the sick courage and trust in You.
Bring the exiled back to their homeland.
Free the captives.
Be companionship and hope for the prisoners.
Do not allow those with goodness to lose it,
but rather, increase it with Your Patience.
And to the (temporarily and supposedly) wicked
grant to acquire goodness with Your Love.