Lenten Prayer to help us Remember:
Prayer For Refugees, Immigrants, and all Homeless
Leader: Heavenly Father, Your Son was born in an animal stall because there was no
room for Mary and Joseph at the Inn. A restless homelessness journeying from village
to village preaching and healing marked his public ministry. He identified with those
uprooted, abandoned, and rejected and proclaimed, “In my Father’s house there are
many dwelling places.” (John 14: 2) Hear us now imitate your Son as we pray for those
wandering the lands throughout our world seeking a home; and seek to be their
advocates for justice.
Community: We pray for the more than 220 million people wandering the face of our earth
searching for safety, stability, work and basic human needs. We pray in sorrow for the
hostility they often endure and for the exploitation and violence that crushes their souls.
We pray that their search for welcome and peace be fulfilled with compassion of the
nations and the support of all believers in God. We ask this through Our Lord Jesus
Christ your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God
forever and ever, Amen.
From United Stated Council of Catholic Bishops -
http://www.usccb.org/about/justice-peace-and-human-development/upload/Lenten-Prayers.pdf
Prayer Attributed to St. Francis of Assisi:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, the truth;
Where there is doubt, the faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
and
Where there is sadness, joy.
O, Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying to ourselves
that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
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