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Date: May 31, 2026

Season: Ordinary Time (Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity)

Year: A

Readings: Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9 | Daniel 3:52-56 | 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 | John 3:16-18

Response: Reader: Lord, hear us.   All: Lord, graciously hear us.

Celebrant Introduction

We have heard today of a God who cannot help but show us who he is – who passes before us and calls out his own name: merciful, gracious, slow to anger, rich in kindness.

Trusting that name, and trusting one another, let us bring our needs before him.

For the Church

For the Church throughout the world – that she be a community where the fire is kept alive: where the communal experience of God draws people in, and where each person is accompanied toward their own personal encounter with the living God. That she hold both, and never sacrifice one for the other.

Reader: Lord, hear us.   All: Lord, graciously hear us.

For Leaders

For all who hold power in this world – political leaders, heads of institutions, those who shape economies – that they remain vigilant against the oldest temptation: forcing those in their care to choose between what is convenient and what is true, between the false god and the real one. That they never mistake the authority entrusted to them for something they own.

Reader: Lord, hear us.   All: Lord, graciously hear us.

For a Different Kind of Sunday

For all who are required to unnecessarily work this day – and for the corporations and systems that require it – that something in us begins to ask whether all our needs are truly so urgent, whether all our wants cannot wait. That we recover, as individuals and as a society, the sense that some things are worth keeping holy – not out of obligation, but because we understand what we lose when everything becomes available, and nothing remains set apart.

Reader: Lord, hear us.   All: Lord, graciously hear us.

For Ourselves

For ourselves – that we know what we are holding. That the name we carry, the name that is the difference between perishing and life, not become so familiar that we stop hearing it. That we live it visibly enough that someone, somewhere, learns the voice of the shepherd because they watched us follow.

Reader: Lord, hear us.   All: Lord, graciously hear us.

For Those Who Are Paying the Price

For all who confess the name of Jesus at real cost today – who face pressure, exclusion, danger, or loss for what they believe. That they know they are not alone. That someone stands with them. That the tradition which carried Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah through the fire carries them too.

Reader: Lord, hear us.   All: Lord, graciously hear us.

For Those Who Called and Heard Silence

For all who prayed and felt nothing. Who called on the name and heard no answer. Who have taken one more step, and one more, and are not sure they have another left. May they find the strength to remain. May they be able to entrust to God what they cannot yet understand – trusting that what is hidden from us now is held, not lost.

Reader: Lord, hear us.   All: Lord, graciously hear us.

For the Departed

For all who handed the faith to us – who taught us the name, who showed us how to say it, who remained faithful to the end. We remember them with gratitude. May they rest in the mercy that was always, already, passing before them.

Reader: Lord, hear us.   All: Lord, graciously hear us.

Celebrant Conclusion

God of mercy, you called out your own name on a mountain so that we would know how to call on you. Hear these prayers we bring – spoken and unspoken, named and still circling. Through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.

Practical Notes

Tone: These intercessions carry real weight – particularly the sixth and seventh. Read them slowly. The pauses between petitions matter.

Adaptability: The intercession for Sunday rest may land differently depending on your community’s context. It can be softened or expanded as needed, but the spirit – that we examine what we are actually worshipping – belongs to this Sunday.

Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: If your community is unfamiliar with these names, you may substitute ‘the three young men in the furnace’ – but the names themselves are worth saying aloud. They are part of the inheritance.

Standalone use: This post stands completely alone. Anyone arriving from a search for ‘Prayer of the Faithful Trinity Sunday’ will find everything they need here without visiting any other page.

More:

Toward Self-Disclosure –  an overview of where we are This Sunday and why it matters.

Were It Not Written – research-focused post tracing the common thread throughout all four readings.

One Sentence, One Community – a post-communion reflection built around the trinitarian blessing of 2 Corinthians 13