A very special event will take place on Friday, March 7, 2025 right here in Devils Lake. For many years the churches of the city have come together to host the World Day of Prayer taking turns presenting the program and worship service based on scripture and prayer. It falls the first Friday of March each year and is celebrated in many different churches all at the same time around the globe.
This year it will be hosted by St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, and the service program was written by the World Day of Prayer Committee of the Cook Islands. The scripture reading is woven together with stories of women from the Cook Islands. The 2 p.m. Worship Service invites us to notice aspects of our divinely created bodies that we often take for granted. We come to understand that God knows us, is always with us, and made us unique and special.
The service leads us to offer prayers of adoration and thanksgiving to our Creator, followed by prayers of confession and longing.
Finally, the prayers of intercession guide us to ask God for wisdom, courage and healing, that our world would come to treat all people as “fearfully and wonderfully made.”
The theme of this year’s World Day of Prayer is inspired by Psalm 139:14, “I made you wonderful.”
Following the Worship Service, members of St. Joseph’s Church Altar Society will host a luncheon for guests and participants at the Parish Center.
