A reader writes

I need to trouble you and your readers for yet more prayers. A close friend’s mother has just passed away. She leaves behind a husband and three sons, ranging in age from 14 to 27. Her funeral is this coming Saturday morning.

Also, a teacher at my old elementary school – a really wonderful woman whom my entire family loved, and whom we still saw from time to time – passed away very suddenly last week. Her funeral is on Saturday morning as well.

I knew both of these people through my parish, and thus I will be attending their funeral services one right after the other. And because I am a cantor, I will be singing, in some capacity (hopefully choir), at both. Prayers that I manage to keep it together would be much appreciated as well.

Lord, hear our prayer!