NIGHT PRAYER: Saturday 11/28

At sundown today we began to celebrate the season of Advent: a season of joyful expectation of Christmas; a season for renewing our hearts as a dwelling place for Christ today; and a season for contemplating Christ's coming again at the end of time...

If you have an Advent Wreath at home, pray for peace this week

   as you light the first candle each day.

If you don't have an Advent Wreath

   - light any candle and pray for peace.

If you have no candle,

   simply stay right here with candle above and pray for peace...

You may offer this prayer

   each time you light the candle on the wreath this week...

Let us pray for peace... 

Let us pray for an end to war,

    to terrorism, violence and bloodshed...

let us pray for the safe return of those in harm's way,

    far from home and family and friends...

let us pray for peace at our nation's borders 

   and at the borders of nations around the world...

let us pray for racial peace and harmony in our nation...

let us pray for peace and an end to the violence of mass shootings...

let us pray for political peace and unity in America...

let us pray for those who have died in war 

   and for their loved ones who grieve their loss... 

let us pray for our enemies...  

let us pray for the poor who suffer war's hardships... 

let us pray for the peace the world cannot give or make for itself,

   the peace that only the Lord can give...

 

Let us pray for peace in the Church... 

Let us pray for healing peace in the hearts and minds and souls

   of those who have been abused by the Church and her ministers...

Let us pray for the peace

   of truth, honesty and transparency in the Church...

Let us pray for peace among those divided

   by theological and liturgical differences...

Let us pray for the unity of all who believe in Christ...

Let us pray for peace among the people of God...

Let us pray for the peace the Church cannot give or make for itself...

   the peace that only the Lord can give...

 

And let us pray for an end to the little (and larger) wars

    we wage in our own families and neighborhoods, 

        at work, at school and in our parishes... 

let us pray for peace and safety

   of all who live with domestic violence...

let us pray for those we've harmed by our stubbornness... 

let us pray for those we make our personal enemies... 

   and those who make enemies of us...

let us pray for an end to the wars we fight within ourselves... 

let us pray for healing peace in the minds and hearts

   of all who live with anxiety, fear and depression... 

let us pray for the peace we cannot give or make for ourselves... 

let us pray for the peace that only the Lord can give...

Amen. 

Peace by Dan Loewen

   

 

The waters are raging, the storm clouds are near 

How long till this chaos will cease 

Come silence the waves of our worry and fear 

Will you come, will you come, bring us peace 

 

Come O Come Emmanuel 

Come O Come Emmanuel 

 

The waves would obey you 

If you just speak the word 

So we wait in the silence 

For your peace here on earth

 

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