A Prayer for Peace
You are invited to join with the Catholic Communities Australia wide to pray for Peace on Monday 7th October
Loving Father,
Our community prays for peace in our time.
We pray for those who suffer at the hands of those who bring war and violence, longing for the day when, as Isaiah prays:
“The wolf will live with the lamb, the panther lie down with the kid, calf, lion and fat-stock beast together, with a little boy to lead them.
The cow and the bear will graze, their young will lie down together. The lion will eat hay like the ox.
The infant will play over the den of the adder; the baby will put his hand into the viper’s lair.
No hurt, no harm will be done on all your holy mountains’. (11:6-9)
We hold before you, Lord, the innocent victims of violence: the men, women and children whose homes are lost, whose security is abandoned, whose futures are uncertain and whose homelands are torn and destroyed in times of war.
We stand, Lord, with the peoples of the birthplace of your Son, our Saviour, and pray for the softening of hardened hearts, the forgiveness of wrongs, and an end to vengeful acts so that all peoples may live in peace, together.
We pray for human dignity lost to war, the blindness that fails to see the human face in an enemy, and the common createdness of each one in your image, Father.
We pray for those whose lives are cut short in times of war.
We pray for peace and an end to war.
May your healing and peaceful breath, Lord, rest in places of conflict so that your world may know only peace, the peace your Son came to bring.
We make this prayer,
Amen
