Outreach
Prayers
We can spiritually maintain our mission of serving others through prayer. You are welcome to join us in prayerful reflection during our Church's liturgical seasons.
Thomas Merton’s Prayer for Peace
O loving God, help us to be masters of the weapons that threaten to master us. Help us to use science for peace and plenty, not for war and destruction.
Show us how to use atomic power to bless our children’s children, not to blight them. Save us from the compulsion to follow our adversaries in all that we most hate, confirming them in their hatred and suspicion of us.
Resolve our inner contradictions, which now grow beyond belief and beyond bearing. They are at once a torment and a blessing; for if you had not left us the light of conscience, we would not have to endure them.
Teach us to be long-suffering in anguish and insecurity, teach us to wait and trust. Grant light, grant strength and patience to all who work for peace…grant us prudence in proportion to our power, wisdom in proportion to our science, humaneness in proportion to our wealthy and might.
And bless our earnest will to help all races and peoples to travel, in friendship with us, along the road to justice, liberty and lasting peace. Amen.
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