Take two minutes of silence to breathe deeply in and out several times.
LEADER: Read several headlines you have brought. Let us pray for the people in our world and in our lives.
Each can make prayers of petition. All answer.
ALL: Christ be with us.
LEADER: Let us pray the protective prayer from St. Patrick’s breastplate.
ALL: Christ be with me.
Christ within me.
Christ before me.
Christ behind me.
Christ beside me.
Christ to win me.
Christ in the mouth of friend and stranger.
Add your own statements, such as “Christ beside me on the freeway.”