Prayer Shawls

 
The participants of St. Patrick’s Prayer Shawl Ministry have found a new way to connect with God – through their knitting and crocheting. They combine their love of knitting and crocheting into a prayerful ministry that reaches out to those in need of comfort. Prayer becomes meditation and an awareness of God’s presence in our lives. Many blessings are knitted into every shawl which is a tangible symbol of an inclusive unconditionally loving God who enfolds the recipient of the shawl. Our product is a shawl, but our purpose is prayer.

Shawls or lap-ghans can be requested by a parishioner for someone they know who is in need of prayer, comfort and a hug from God. Shawls have been gifted for many various reasons, not only sickness, and shawls are gifted to men, woman & children. Each candidate for Confirmation receives a red prayer cloth and each child in the First Eucharist class receives a small white prayer cloth. The woman, who made the prayer cloth, prays for that candidate while the prayer cloth is being made & until the candidate receives their Sacrament.