A Prayer for World Peace
 

As warfare rages in the Middle East , and Africa , let's pray to the Prince of Peace on behalf of the innocent victims- especially children.
Also, at this time, let's also lift up the people of Tibet, and their struggle against oppression.

List of current wars on the earth

Marble Feet with Sandals in the Vatican (Corey Amaro)

For the Blood that Stains the Earth:

Father, you created mankind out of the peace in your heart.
You heard the cry of our first mother
weeping over the murdered body of her son.
From his blood to the blood spilled at this moment,
we pray:

Lord, make wars cease to the ends of the earth

Jesus, at your birth you experienced the grinding
wheels of empire. In your suffering and death, you
knew the pain of every mother who cries, and
the trauma of every orphaned child, and for these
we pray:

Lord, bring your peaceable kingdom

Holy Spirit, you empower your people to be peacemakers
in a homicidal world. Cause your church to be that
mother who cradles the dying,  and nurses the
wounded back to life. Take the tears from every land
into our Eucharist cup tonight--one with the blood of Christ:

Lord, cause the violent to beat their swords into plowshares

In the name of the Father who created all
In the name of the Son who connects all
In the name of the Holy Spirit who fills all
Amen.

(David Morrison)