Prayer Offered for July 27, 2020

Gracious God, as the late Congressman John Lewis lies in state at our United States Capitol, we remember how he dedicated his life to bring about racial reconciliation through nonviolence.

And as we resume our work in the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic,

We have a sense that we are at the crossroads of a new future,

Linked with our past, yet different from it.

We have a sense that something is aching to be born anew.

Many are calling us forward.

We trust that You are leading us onward.

We commit to each other to enter deeply into the richness and complexity of this journey:

To walk where there are no paths,

To listen to the cries of the desperate and the disruptive, the stray and the strange,

To seek for answers to questions that have followed us in dreams and waking hours.

Gracious God, this time, help us to find new ways to bring justice and peace to the new world that borders on our doors, this new world of grief and sorrow, of fear and anxiety, and yet of tremendous hope in a future greater than we can ever imagine.—AMEN.

Prayer Offered By: 
Senator Mitchell, written by Sr. Michelle Gorman, RSM
Prayer Date: 
Monday, July 27, 2020
Prayer Status: 
Archived