Prayers for the Travelers to Italy

So Barbara and Q* are off tomorrow! Wow! Ways-of-the-World offers prayer for them in their journey and for their new work. Regarding the second, for the "Mission of the Church", The Episcopalians in Florence are hardly a "mission", but they are clearly a "community of love".

For Travelers
O God, our heavenly Father, whose glory fills the whole creation, and whose presence we find wherever we go: Preserve those who travel, especially Barbara and Q; surround them with your loving care; protect them from every danger; and bring them in safety to their journey’s end; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.


In Thanksgiving for the Mission of the Church
Almighty God, you sent your Son Jesus Christ to reconcile the world to yourself: We praise and bless you for those whom you have sent in the power of the Spirit to preach the Gospel to all nations. We thank you that in all parts of the earth a community of love has been gathered together by their prayers and labors, and that in every place your servants call upon your Name; for the kingdom and the power and the glory are yours for ever. Amen.

The Book of Common Prayer
pages 831 and 838

*and Ben too, of course. Look on Hodgepodge to see how excited he is about going.