Saturday, November 5, 2011

Prayer for the Bereaved

Prayer for the Bereaved

Father,

God of all consolation,

in your unending love and mercy for us

you turn the darkness of death

into the dawn of new life.

Show compassion to your people in their sorrow,

Be our refuge and our strength,

to lift us from the darkness of this grief

to the peace and light of your presence.

You Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,

by dying for us, conquered death

and by rising again, restored life.

May we then go forward eagerly to meet him,

and after our life on earth

be reunited with our brothers and sisters

where every tear will be wiped away.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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