My faith has always been based on the belief that we’re all broken people, all living in a broken, violent world of people in need of God’s endless love, extravagant grace and tender mercies.
My hope and prayer is that we seek peace with even-handed justice and not with evil for evil.
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Lord in your mercy, hear the cries of people who are suffering and so in need of your mercies, whoever they are and wherever they may be.
Help us to keep our own violent impulses in check so that we don’t become the evil that we abhor.
Let your will for peace with justice prevail.
Amen.
Psalm 46
God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.
God is within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
The Lord Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Come and see what the Lord has done,
the desolations he has brought on the earth.
He makes wars cease
to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields[d] with fire.
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
The Lord Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.
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Amen. Lord in your mercy, hear our prayers.
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Nous sommes tous Français!
And yet as we read in today’s gospel: “this is but the beginning of birth pangs.”
YES, by all means PRAY for the world for after the labor there is Birth!
There is no doubt in my mind that we are sitting on the precipice of a new consciousness for the world. I may not live long enough to see it in it’s fullness on the earth, but I AM SURE it is coming! Hallelujah!
Amen!