Let Us Pray
Since we first published our booklet of Lenten prayer, a lot has changed! COVID-19 has upset our plans, isolated us from one another and brought death, sickness, financial hardship, worry and stress to our community. Once the social distancing guidelines are lifted, our world will remain a very different place than it was in mid-March. Those living now will divide time into pre- and post-Coronavirus. We will be forever changed.
Yet it is the Easter season—a time when we remember Christ defeated death and is raised to a new life, with a new body that will never die again. We are invited to do the same: to die to sin and death and live in Christ. This is true, regardless of how we feel about it or how small our lives have become. We need to constantly remind ourselves this is true, and that is what this booklet is designed to do.
As Wisconsin’s Safer at Home order continues, we pray God’s will be done during this pandemic. We pray to be shaped us into the people God created us to be, pray God give us His own prayers and longings for the world, pray for patience and grace for the sake of those we live with and pray He prepares us to share our true hope—Jesus Christ himself—with the world.
As we move into the Easter season, pray regularly! These prayers have been updated to reflect the joy and victory of Jesus, and how that gives us hope for our current circumstances.
They are adapted from the ACNA’s Book of Common Prayer’s Daily Office for Family Prayer, found starting on page 67.
Click here for an orientation on using these offices.
If you’re interested in a fuller prayer experience, try the ACNA Office for Morning/Evening, which can be found on pages 11-57 of the Book of Common Prayer.
