PRAYERS FOR PEACE:

Prayer of Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled, as to console,
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it its in dying that we are born to eternal life.
 

 

World Council of Churches

The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

Bishop Susan Wolfe Hassinger, United Methodist Church, New England Conference

The Rev. Dr. Linda Spoolstra, Executive Minister, The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts

The Rev. Karen Rucks, Executive Director, Council of Churches of Greater Springfield

The Rev. Dr. Nancy Taylor, Conference Minister and President, Mass. Conference, United Church of Christ

Prayer for peace in Iraq on the first day of Lent, The World Council of Churches

 

PRAYERS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST:

An Ash Wednesday Call to Prayer and Fasting for the Cause of Peace
Pope John Paul II address at the Sunday Angelus, February 23, 2003

U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East as posted on National Council of Churches web site.

 

Additional links:

The Peace & Justice Support Network of Mennonite Church USA:  represents the new and strengthened peace witness. Our voice speaks words of healing and hope and calls for organized response to the violence and brokenness in our world.

 

Resources:

WORSHIP RESOURCES FROM SEVERAL MAJOR DENOMINATIONS

RESPONSIBILITIES OF CHURCHES IN TIME OF WAR