NIGHT PRAYER: Thanksgiving Eve

 Tomorrow, Lord,
    we'll overeat and drink too much,
 we'll stuff ourselves like turkeys,     

    then joke about how much we've had,
        with no room left for more...

 

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And then for several days:

    turkey sandwiches 

        and steaming bowls of turkey soup!
 

What we call left-overs, Lord,

    millions would think a royal feast...

Tomorrow, Lord,
    we'll eat all day and night
while others go for days and weeks,
    their cupboards bare, 

        their bellies empty, hungry...

May the day not pass tomorrow, Lord, 

    'til I find or fund a way to feed

those whose tables never groan
    beneath the weight of too much food
        and too much drink
            with plenty still left over... 

 

I'll do more than pray this week

    for those who hunger all year 'round;

I'll share my bounty with the poor

    whose cry is your cry, too...

   

Lord, open our hearts as wide as our mouths,
    let blessings flow as wine is poured:
        freely, gladly, to the brim 

    to share the best of all we have

        with those have so little...    

Protect us, Lord while we're awake

    and watch over us while we sleep

that awake, we might keep watch with you

    and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen. 

 

This quote from Dan Berrigan was on the cover of the program for my first mass, 52 years ago... 

 

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Tonight's song has Eucharistic overtones - but then, our feeding others in the name of Christ is always a share in the breaking of the bread and the blessing of the cup...

 

Come Share the Table

    by Victor C. Johnson   

 

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