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United Dioceses of Dublin & Glendalough

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20.04.2020

Litany of Peace

By Greg Fromholz
Litany of Peace - By Greg Fromholz

Humanity, I’m speaking to you and to me, are we listening? This is our time to shine. This is where we need to continue, enabled by peace, to give beyond ourselves. For kindness cannot be isolated, hope has no barriers and love goes beyond socially distancing. It is found at the end of a phone call, through the screen of FaceTime, by food collected and dropped off.

This is the time where we need to continue to go beyond our fears and give our very best selves, selflessly:

Creators need to continue to create

Leaders need to continue to lead 

Singers need to continue to sing

Comedians need to continue to make us laugh

Our communities need to continue to welcome one another from across our gardens and streets; a smile, a wave, a kind word, a bag of groceries for our elderly and our confined.

And together we can not only pray for peace, but through our action we can be peace:

Peace for the isolated and the aging

Peace for our Gardaí, doctors, nurses and ambulance drivers

Peace for our boomers, zoomers, Gen Xers, millennials and centennials

Peace for our grandmas and grandpas, for our brothers and sisters, for our mums and dads, peace for our children

Lord in your risen glory

Hear our prayer

 

Peace for our co–workers, co–creators, co–isolators and You–tubers

Peace for our carers, makers, bakers, and our home–sewers making masks and gowns

Together we can not only pray for peace, but action and be peace:

Peace for our funeral Directors, supermarket clerks, clergy and un–employed

Lord in your risen glory

Hear our prayer

 

Peace for our entrepreneurs, government officials, refugees and artists

Peace for our baptisms, peace for our weddings, peace for our funerals

Peace for our prisoners and ex–offenders, our counsellors and bin persons

Peace for our podcasters, roasters, vaccine researchers and the desperately sick

Lord in your risen glory

Hear our prayer


Peace for our farmers and pharmacists, teachers and students and scientists 

Peace– dear God a tangible peace – for our most vulnerable and fragile; the homeless, the abused, the addicted, the alone and the lonely

And peace for all those who can list their names here…

May peace be with you today and may peace wake you tomorrow.

And may we all action prayer in saying: A piece of my life I give to you, that you may know true peace.

Lord in your risen glory

Hear our prayer

 

Greg Fromholz is Dublin & Glendalough’s Young Adults’ Officer. Litany of Peace emerged from the sermon he preached from Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, yesterday (Sunday April 19).

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