O, gracious God, loving Father:
Visit the houses of mourning, as our Saviour did, and comfort them. Enable them to trust in the living God, the rock of ages, and enjoy the fountains of living waters, when creatures prove broken reeds and broken cisterns.
Be a father to the fatherless, and a husband to the widow, O God, in thy holy habitation. With thee let the fatherless find mercy, keep them alive, and let the widows trust in thee, and continue in thee night and day.
Speed thy Holy Spirit to fill, comfort, and encourage, that even in death, all things work for our good and your glory.
In Jesus' name,
Amen
