Teach us a big-hearted love, That embraces the pushed aside and powerless, The exploited and those in need. A love that dares to speak truth to power, For their sake. Help us to enlarge the tents of our hearts, To share all that we are and have, To give freely… Read More »A Valentine’s Day Prayer
We watch for the morning We wait in hope for your light, your mercy. You have pitched your tent among us, Yet so often we fail to see you, to follow you. Let us not be overwhelmed by conflicts, injustice and suffering. Let us humbly spread love, stand steadfastly in… Read More »New Year’s Prayer for Peace
We thank you God for the gifts of memory, understanding and will. May the memory of the righteous ones who have trod this path before us encourage us to act for the justice of your Reign. May the contemplation of people and places desecrated by sin bring us to understanding.… Read More »Pilgrim Prayer
Be with us God and guide us. Enlighten our minds to understand how we each manufacture and scatter death and destruction in what we do and what we fail to do. Move the hearts of those whose hands make instruments of death, and draw them towards life affirming livelihoods. Help… Read More »Prayer for Bomb Makers
