Here is a prayer that Steve and I pray every day as we feel that our world is soooo broken with violence. Perhaps others would benefit from it as well. (We have permission to share this prayer)

Abba,        

In the name of Jesus, we ask you to send the Holy Spirit to gather the churches together so that with one voice they may proclaim as God’s Way Jesus’ Way of Nonviolent Love

of all people-friends and enemies – and thereby teach that

          Violence is not the Christian Way,

         Violence is not the Holy Way

         Violence is not the Way of Jesus,

And thus set Christians free from bondage to violence and enmity.

We plead this grace so that the Nonviolent Lamb may be our Lord in deed, as well as in word and sacrament.

We request this gift so that the Christian Community may be for afflicted humanity a faithful witness to Jesus’ Way of overcoming evil.

We implore this healing so that the Church may be an authentic extension in time and  space of the Way of the Nonviolent Jesus which is the Way to renew the face of the earth.

Amen.

Our Lamb has conquered; let us follow

                                                     Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy