Weekly Peace Prayer

for September 30, 2025
prepared by
Sister Carmel Little, CSJP

Constitutions:
The sharing of ourselves and our resources,
which is integral to the vow of poverty,
is central to our mission as peacemakers.
We try to make our own the concerns of the human family
and work to bring about the well-being of others,
especially those who are poor and oppressed.  #55

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

Reading:        Chief Seattle
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

Prayer
We join with the earth and with each other.
To bring new life to the land
To restore the waters
To refresh the air

We join with the earth and with each other.
To renew the forests
To care for the plants
To protect the creatures

We join with the earth and with each other.
To celebrate the seas
To rejoice in the sunlight
To sing the song of the stars

We join with the earth and with each other.
To recreate the human community
To promote justice and peace
To remember our children

We join with the earth and with each other.
We join together as man and diverse expressions
Of one loving mystery: for the healing of the earth
and the renewal of all life.
Earth Prayers, U.N. Environmental Sabbath Program

Quiet Reflection

 Prayer:
Our Father, Holy Mother,
Creator of the Cosmos, Source of Life,
You are in my mind, in my garden,
in my cup of wine and loaf of bread.
Blessed be your names;
Mother, Allah, Goddess, Beloved, Father,
Radiant One, Yahweh,  Sophia.
Your presence has come, your will is done
on earth as it is in the cosmos.

May we give each other strength, mercy,
tenderness, and joy
and forgive each other’s failures,
silence, pettiness, and forgetfulness
as we ask to be forgiven
by those we’ve hurt.

Lead us home
to ourselves, to You,
to clarity, to oneness
and deliver us from the darkness
of our ignorance and fear.

So we pray and so we receive.  Amen  
No Ordinary Time, Jan Phillips

Quiet Reflection

Blessing:
May the Creator God blees you with wonder and awe
as you enjoy and reverence the beautiful planet of Earth.

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