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Daily Prayer for Peace ----------- Pax Christi Thank you, Loving God For the gift of life For this wonderful world which we all share For the joy and love of friendship For the challenge of helping to build your kingdom. Strengthen MY determination to work for a world of peace and justice My conviction that, whatever our nationality or race, we are all global citizens, one in Christ My courage to challenge the powerful with the values of the Gospel My commitment to find nonviolent ways of resolving conflict - personal, local, national, international My efforts to forgive injuries and to love those I find it hard to love. Teach me To share the gifts you have given me To speak out for the victims of injustice who have no voice To reject the violence that run through so much of out world today. Holy Spirit of God Renew my hope for a world free of the cruelty and evil of war so that we may all come to share in God's peace and justice. Amen PRAYER TO END THE WAR AGAINST IRAQ Gracious God, we beg your forgiveness for the war that is being waged against the Iraqi people, for the destrucation of Iraq's infrastructure by massive bombings, and for the suffering and death of countless men, women and children. Forgive us for imposing such destructive economic sanctions. Forgive us for placing oil interests above human welfare. Heal us of our moral blindness and fill our hearts with love. Help us to renounce all killing, to stop demonizing our adversaries, to value all life as sacred, and to see the Iraqi people as our brothers and sisters. Empower us to engage in nonviolent action to end this slaughter of the innocents. O God, make us channels of your peace and reconciliation. Amen (based on a prayer for peacs by Art Laffin) | IRAQ 2004 | Pacem in Terris | Pope John Paul II | | Global Summaey: Children and HIV/AIDS 2004 | What Everyone Should Know about HIV/AIDS | UNICEF's Aims and Priorities | What can we do? | POVERTY ERADICATION (A) | Poverty Eradication (B) | The Search for Peace (A) | The Search for Peace (B) | Social Development | | News Center | For Further Information | Vincentian Issues 2004-2005 A | Vincentian Issues 2004-2005 B | The Earth Charter | Churches in the Middle East | 2003 The International Year of FreshWater | | Return Home | About Us | What's New | Focus | Articles | Great Links | E-mail | |
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