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PRAYERS
![[New!]](images/smallnew.gif) A
Christian Brother Creed of Justice
ALL We Christian Brothers believe in
God, who is love and who has given the earth to all children.
 LEFT
We Christian Brothers believe in Jesus Christ, who has come to heal us, and
called the children to himself.
RIGHT We Christian Brothers believe in
the Spirit of God, who works in and inspires all earth’s children.
LEFT We Christian Brothers believe in
Blessed Edmund, who responded in his time to the poor boys of Waterford
because he saw the face of Christ within them.
RIGHT We Christian Brothers believe in
the communion of our Edmund Rice Network called to be at Youth’s service,
especially the marginalized.
LEFT We Christian Brothers do not
believe in the right of domination and power over innocent youth.
RIGHT We Christian Brothers believe in
the Charter of Children’s Rights and being in solidarity with the children
of the world.
ALL We Christian Brothers do not
believe that suffering is in vain, that death is the end, that the chaos of
war and exploitation of people is what God intends.
But Christian Brothers dare to believe, always
and in spite of every thing, in God’s power to transform and transfigure,
using our hands and our hearts to fulfil His promise of a new earth. Amen.
Prayer to Make
Poverty History
 Christ
our Lord, your light shines into the shadows,
and shows us
where the obstacles to change lie.
We know that
often they are in our own hearts,
in the way we
live, and in our daily choices and actions.
We pray that
we may accept the light of your love
as a challenge
to change ourselves and our world.
We pray that,
each day, we make the choices and
take the
actions that will bring an end to poverty and hunger,
and lead us
all towards a fairer world.
Be with us,
Lord, as we face your challenge and learn how to live
our lives in
love.
Amen
© Linda
Jones
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A Lord's Prayer for Justice
Our Father
... who always stands with the weak, the powerless, the poor, the
abandoned, the sick, the aged, the very young, the unborn, and those who, by
victim of circumstances, bear the heat of the day.
 Who art in heaven ...
where
everything will be reversed, where the first will be last arid the last will be
first, but where all will be well and every manner of being will be well.
Hallowed be thy name
... may we always acknowledge your holiness, respecting your ways and not our
ways, your standards and not our standards. May the reverence we give your name
pull us out of the selfishness that prevents us from seeing the pain of our
neighbor.
Your kingdom come
... help us to create a world
where, beyond our own needs and hurts, we will do justice, love tenderly, and
walk humbly with you and each other.
Your will be done
... open our freedom to let you in so
that the complete mutuality that characterizes your life might flow through our
veins and thus the life that we help generate may radiate your equal love for
all and your special love for the poor.
On earth as in heaven
... may the work of our hands,
the temples and structures we build in this world, reflect the temple and the
structure of your glory so that the joy, graciousness, tenderness, and justice
of heaven will show forth within all of our structures on earth.
Give ... life and love to us and help us
to see always everything as gift. Help us to know that nothing comes to us by
right arid that we must give because we have been given to. Help us realize that
we must give to the poor, not because they need it, but 'because our own health
depends upon our giving to them.
Us ... the truly plural us. Give not just to our own but to everyone, including those who are very
different from the narrow us. Give your gifts to all of us
equally.
This day ... not
tomorrow. Do not let us push things off into some indefinite future so that we
can continue to live justified lives in the face of injustice because we can
make good excuses for our inactivity.
Our daily bread ... so that each
person in the world may have enough food, enough clean water, enough clean air,
adequate health care, and sufficient access to education so as to have the
sustenance for a healthy life. Teach us to give from our sustenance and not just
from our surplus.
And forgive us our
trespasses ...
forgive us our blindness toward our
neighbor, our own self pre-occupation, our racism, our sexism, and our incurable
propensity to worry only about ourselves and our own. Forgive us our capacity to
watch the evening news and do nothing about it.
As we forgive those who
trespass against us ..
.help us to forgive those who victimize us. Help us to mellow out in spirit, to
not grow bitter with age, to forgive the imperfect parents and systems that
wounded, cursed and ignored us.
And do not put us to the
test ...
do not judge us only by whether we have fed
the hungry, given clothing to the naked, visited the sick, or tried to mend the
systems that victimized the poor. Spare us this test for none of us can stand
before your Gospel scrutiny. Give us, instead, more days to mend our ways, our
selfishness, and our systems.
But deliver us from evil
... that is, from the blindness that lets us continue to participate in
anonymous systems within which we need not see who gets less as we get more.
Amen.
(From The Holy Longing by
Ronald Rolheiser, pp. 189-191)
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A
JUSTICE CREED
We Believe
All people are a revelation of the image of God. The
basic dignity that each person possesses comes from God; therefore, all
discrimination is wrong.
People take precedence over things and structures,
systems are meant to serve people, not vice versa.
We believe in the dignity of the human person.
The mystery of the Trinity involves the relationship of
complete love among the three divine persons in one God.
As persons made in God's image, we must model God's
self-giving love. Hence, the human person is both sacred and fundamentally
social. In community we realize the fulfillment of our dignity and rights in
relationship with and to others.
We believe in community and the common good.
People have basic rights and
responsibilities because of their human dignity that reflects the fact that they
have been created in God's image. Catholic teaching emphasizes that people have
a right to life and to the basic necessities that provide quality of life: food,
shelter, health care, education, and employment. We are called to respects the
rights of others and to seek the common good.
We believe in rights and
responsibilities
The Gospel calls Christians to put the
needs of the poor first. A common moral test of society is how it treats its
most vulnerable people. Wherever there is structural injustice, Christians are
called to oppose it. Those with the greatest need require the greatest response.
We believe in our responsibility to the
poor.
Work is an expression of our dignity and
of our involvement in God's creation. People have a right to decent work, fair
wages and private property. The economy exists to serve the people and not vice
versa.
We believe in the dignity of work.
We are all one human family in the
world. As we realize our dignity, rights, and responsibilities, in relationship
with others, we need to continue to build a community that empowers people to
attain their full human potential. By working for justice, we fulfill our
mandate to build the Body of Christ.
We believe in solidarity
We believe in stewardship of the earth and its
resources.
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