Above: Logo of the Evangelical and Reformed Church
Scan by Kenneth Randolph Taylor
Litany Source = Book of Worship (1942), Evangelical and Reformed Church
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I
Let us pray for deliverance from evil:
Lord, deliver us:
From the love of money:
From the forgetfulness of duty:
From anger, malice, and contempt:
From oppression, carelessness, and neglect:
From hardness, narrowness, and distrust:
From all lack of faith, hope, and charity:
Lord, deliver us.
II
For all who learn and labor truly: for men and women who face peril and bear pain:
We beseech thee:
For those who till the earth: for those who tend machinery:
For those who strive on land or sea or in the air: for those who venture in far countries:
For those who work in offices and warehouses: for those who labour at furnaces and in factories:
For those who toil in mines: for those who buy and sell:
For those who keep house: for those who train children:
We beseech thee.
III
For all who live by strength of arm: for all who live by cunning of hand:
For all women workers:
For all who organize, control, lead, or employ:
For all who enrich the common life through art, and science, and learning:
For all who guide the common thought as writers or as teachers:
For all who serve the common good as pastors, physicians, lawyers, merchants:
For all the services, and for all public servants…:
For all social workers, leaders, and statesmen…:
We beseech thee.
IV
And for all who are poor, or broken, or oppressed:
We pray to thee:
For all whose labor is without hope: for all whose labor is without honor:
For all whose labor is dangerous: for all who live in penury:
For all who have too little leisure: for those who are underpaid:
For all who cannot find their proper work: for those who will not work:
For casual workers: for the unemployed:
For those who are badly housed:
For those who have no home:
For prisoners and outcasts: for the victims of lust:
For all who are afflicted or sick: for all who are hungry or ill-fed:
For all who are luxurious, intemperate, stupid, or cruel:
For all who are striving after better things.
We pray to thee.
V
Lord’s Prayer
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