Weekly Peace Prayer

for September 9, 2025
prepared by
Sister Carmel Little, CSJP

Constitutions: 
With reverence for the blessings of creation,
we use our resources, both individually  
and collectively, in a spirit of stewardship.
The spirit of poverty also calls us to work for a more just society
so that all may be enriched by a more equitable sharing
in the goods of the earth. #56 

Prayer:
Creator of All,
From your communion of love life sprung forth like a mighty river
and the whole cosmos came into being.|

On this Earth of overflowing love, the Word was made flesh and
went forth with the life-giving waters proclaiming peace and justice
for all creation.

You called human beings to till and keep your garden. You placed us
into right relationship with each creature, but we failed to listen to
the cries of the Earth and the cries of the most vulnerable.

We broke with the flowing communion of love and sinned against you
by not safeguarding the conditions for life.

We lament the loss of our fellow species and their habitats.

We grieve the loss of human cultures, along with the lives and
livelihoods that have been displaced or perished,
and we ache at the sight of an economy of death, war, and violence
that we have inflicted on ourselves and on the Earth.

Open our ears to your creative, reconciling, and sustaining Word
that calls to us through the book of Scripture and the book of creation.

Bless us once again with your life-giving waters so that
the Creator Spirit may let justice and peace flow in our hearts
and overflow into all creation.

bless us to walk together with all people of good will so that the
many streams of the living waters of God’s justice and peace may
become a mighty river all over the Earth.

In the name of the One who came to proclaim good news to all creation,
Jesus Christ. Amen.

Quiet Reflection

The Peace of Wild Things                               
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief.  I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light.  For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry

Quiet Reflection

Prayer:
Open our hearts to receive the living waters
of God’s justice and peace,
and to share it with our
suffering brothers and sisters,
all creatures around us,
and all creation.
We pray with Jesus the Christ.

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