INTERCESSARY PRAYERS WITH SYMBOLS - 2

OFFERTORY PROCESSION: Empty Bowl: (Sr. Joyce) Lord I come to you with deep gratitude for the gift of my life. This empty bowl symbolizes the day I was born from nothingness into being. Thank you Lord for sharing your life with me, shower your blessings upon me and be my constant companion so that I may share my life with others and be a Gospel for others. SOIL: This soil reminds us of the family into which you planted Sr. Joyce. Thank you Lord, for her dear Parents, brothers and sisters, who have helped her to grow with their love. Bless them Lord with your love. May they experience your peace and joy in their lives. SEED: This seed reminds us of the deep faith you sowed in Sr. Joyce's heart at Baptism. This faith helped her to live a good Christian life and led her to follow you more closely your love as your disciple. Bless her Lord, may she deepen her faith in you and share with others. WATER: Thank you Lord for the water you sent along in Sr. Joyce's life's journey to nourish the seed with love and guidance she received through her teachers, relatives, friends and congregation. Shower your blessings upon them Lord. May they have good health and strength to do you will. SEEDLINGS: Lord you transformed this seed into a seedling by nourishing it with your word and your own body and blood, through her joys and sorrows, trials and difficulties and challenged her to live the Paschal Mystery all through her life. We remember with gratitude, the great gift of your call to Religious life for Sr. Joyce. We remember all those who helped her to enter into this religious life. Grant them the good desire to help many more persons to have good vocation. FLOWERS: Every flower in this vase symbolizes the various congregations through whom the Lord is at work in his act of redemption. We bring to you every religious all over the world that all of us may bring joy in the lives of people by our very life. FRUITS: Thank you Lord for all the gifts and talents you blessed Sr. Joyce with and helped her to use these down through these years to make you better known and loved by many. Lord bless all those people in her mission to whom your love has reached especially the teachers, students and their parents. May her life bring abundant fruits in the coming years too. FLAGS: Lord, we pray for the President of India, the Prime Minister and all the leaders serving our country in different capacities that God may give them wisdom and spirit of discernment to rule the country wisely. Lord fill them with the Holy Spirit. Touch their minds and hearts with love so that they may use their power and office to create a New Society, a society which guarantees equal rights and opportunities, justice, freedom of speech and religion not just in word but in deed. CHALICE, BREAD & WINE: Lord, we are grateful to you for the gift of the Church and all its leaders, the Pope, Bishops and Priests. As you transform this bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus, continue to transform us to be partakers of the mission of Jesus by bringing good news to the people by being good news in this world, till we hand over this world recreated to its original fullness to you. May we have courage to bring Mary's song of Magnificat to reality.