The Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast has launched a webpage of job openings, emergency tips and prayers in response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The site includes phone numbers for residents to call if they see oil along shorelines, or wildlife affected by oil.
The Rev. Canon Beverly Findley Gibson, subdean of Christ Church Cathedral in Mobile, Ala., composed a prayer addressing the specific crises of this oil spill….
God bless these intercessors. Another prayer may be found [url=http://anglicanprayer.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/gulf-coast-oil-spill/]here[/url].
I really liked the litany by the retired priest. Covered all of the bases nicely and lacked the preachiness of the prayer the sub-dean composed.
I agree, evan miller.
One of the singular faults of most modern liturgical prayers is their preachiness, which is in the end makes them rather solipsistic. Not what you want in liturgy.
But the litany gets it right.