St. Nicolai Notes

LENTEN PRAYERS 2018: PRAYING THE DAILY GOSPEL

SECOND MONDAY 
Mark 3:7-19 

Jesus, Son of God, we rejoice that You came among us as bearer of healing and liberation. We rejoice that You drew people who were poor, sick, wounded, and spiritually oppressed to yourself, and that You enabled them to see, in You, possibilities for new life that were unavailable through the priests and politicians who dominated their lives. 

Like the crowds of long ago, we come to You with urgent hope that You will heal us and that You will liberate us for lives of wholeness that are fully responsive to You. 

Like the twelve You called to live close beside You and to expand your ministry by speaking good news and enacting liberation, many of us have answered your call. We have heard the authority in your voice and seen it in your action, and we are walking beside You, learning from You, and trying to be agents of your ongoing agenda: generating new life.   

Help us to follow your leadership closely, to tell your good news with boldness and fidelity, and to act in ways that bring true liberation to many. Amen.