Weekly Peace Prayer

for September 16, 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. 
Constitutions #56

Readings
Earth is a revelation of God and the sustainer of all life. We recognize that the exploitation and destruction of Earth’s air, water, soil and species is a sacrilege.
We are committed to a spirituality of peacemaking which compels us to live in right relationship with the entire community of life. 
Chapter Acts 2008 

Prayer:
O our Mother the Earth, blessed is your name.
Blessed are your fields and forests, your rocks and mountains,
your grasses and trees and flowers, and every green and growing thing.
Blessed are your streams and lakes and rivers, the oceans where life began,
and all your waters that sustain our bodies and refresh our souls.

Blessed is the air we breathe, your atmosphere that surrounds us
and binds us to every living thing.
Blessed are all creatures who walk along your surface or swim in your waters or fly through your air, for they are our relatives.

Blessed are all people who share this planet, for we are all one family,
and the same spirit moves through all.
Blessed is the sun, our day star, bringer of the morning
and the heart of summer, giver of light and life.

Blessed is the moon, our night lamp, ruler of the tides,
protector of all women, and guardian of our dreams.
Blessed are the stars and planets, the time-keepers,
who fill our nights with beauty and our hearts with awe.

O Great Spirit whose voice we hear in the wind
and whose face we see in the morning sun, blessed is your name.
Help us to remember that you are everywhere,
and teach us the way of peace.
Earth Prayers, Helen Weaver

Quiet Reflection 

St. Francis of Assisi
Since you speak of peace, all the more must you have peace in your hearts.
Let no one be provoked to anger or scandal by you, but may they be drawn to peace
and good will, to kindness and concord through your gentleness.

Prayer:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
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 that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.

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