There's a typo in the 6th Sunday prayer, 4th petition "Your loving Son gives us our worthiness as makes us your children" where "as" should probably be "and".

For all that's a good conclusion to that petition, it seems at odds with the responsive part of the prayer: "When we set our minds on heavenly things: (C)You fill us with joy." Is that really the Good News? It sounds like Law to me--the reward of joy comes from our work of setting our mind on heavenly things. Wouldn't it make more sense to reverse the response: "You fill us with joy (C)We set our minds on heavenly things"? That sounds more like Promise to me.

Always feel free to edit the prayers to suit.

I see your point. Perhaps this would be another way to say it: "Set our minds on heavenly things (C) Fill us with (your) joy."

I like the way that new response reads.

Bp. Bansemer, we have been using your intercessions, thank you. I like the trinitarian aspect and your care to reflect the readings and just their reverent tone but at times nicely jarring play on words. Just a reflection on the fact that a couple of people in my parish and I noticed that the responses are not always what we want to say. The two traditional ones of the LBW sort of make the prayer our own and yours (not always) sometimes seem less an approbation of the petition and more a versicle/response thing. Two other (not complaints but hopefully helpful comments): Where you end with the opening for the naming of the sick, could you also include more often some remembrance of those who have gone before us, the saints in triumph? And lastly, like in your concluding portion during Lent, would you consider gathering it more around Jesus more specifically. For instance: I simply added to your remembering, that we are dust but that we are your dust (in Jesus Christ). Again, thank you for putting your words out there, for us to even make comment on... but more to use to gather our parish's needs and joys. Harvey Mozolak

Have noted that you also write for liturgical reasons and publish here and there. Thank you for using the prayers under preparation for Season A. The idea is that we will continue to put these forward, a season at a time, until all three years are complete...if interest in them remains, then make them available as a completed project in some manner, perhaps a CD, maybe something other...just don't know yet.

It's good to get these reflections from users, for they will certainly help in the composition as it continues. Suggestions made here will not result in an instant change of prayers already posted---that would be pretty hard to do, except by readers who like what's being suggested. The final text used for publication will certainly be altered from input received here.

I plan to change the responses in the prayers from season to season, and it is difficult to come up with something that is not so familiar as to have little meaning. I was present where the petitions were read in a congregational setting where I was not the leader, and was interested to note how the people were informed of the response. The lay person reading the prayer simply reported what the final sentence would be with the response (prayers were not written out for the congregation). Then the lay person repeated the first phrase, and the congregation automatically responded appropriately. They the prayer began. I like the idea of the congregation having to remember a new response, not that those responses can't be changed at will, and the LBW responses are excellent ones to use in their stead. Also glad you felt free to edit the final "dust" petition for your congregation.

Thanks for the alert on the need to remember those who have gone before us, the saints in triumph. Very helpful comment. Easter prayers are already posted, but I'll be alert to this in the Pentecost season and following years.