Prayer Offered for April 8, 2021

Gracious and merciful God, in this season of refreshment and renewal, and in these days of solidarity with the Jewish people who observe Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we pray: 

That new hope may rise from human discouragement;

That new faith may rise from human doubt;

That new love may rise from human indifference;

That new courage may rise from human timidity;

And that new joy may rise from human sorrows.

Bless us for the tasks that lie before us this day, that through our efforts, others may come to experience liberation from hate, oppression, or confinement of any kind. We ask this in Your name.—AMEN.