For the whole church

Many small scattered pieces of broken pottery from different cups and bowls being gathered together and reassembled into one large, whole vessel.

Kind Father, we humbly pray for your whole Church everywhere. Please fill it with all truth and all peace. Where it’s corrupt, make it clean. Where it’s in error, guide it. Where anything is wrong, change it. Where it’s right, make it strong. Where it’s in need, provide for it. Where it’s divided, bring it back together. We ask this for the sake of Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, who died and rose again and always prays for us. Amen.

Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

Hebrews 7:25 (BSB)

Adapted from William Laud, via the Book of Common Prayer (1928), in plain words. The verse is from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Drawing: Mutter.