Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church.

Tuesday, Dec. 13:
Lucy, martyr (died 304) Lucy, a young Christian woman in Sicily, devoted her life to God and to serving the poor. We pray that we too are so devoted in our faith and service and fear no persecution, criticism, adversity or even death.

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