Thursday, April 2
Genesis 17:3-9. God told Abraham, “I will maintain my covenant with you and your descendants after you throughout the ages as an everlasting pact, to be your God…God also said to Abraham: “On your part, you and your descendants after you must keep my covenant throughout the ages.”
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of hope and compassion, Holy One of Abraham and Sarah,
we remember today the country of Iraq from which they were summoned,
and call to mind our sisters and brothers in the East and with them look
to a new future. God of reconciliation, God of painful sacrifice uniting humankind, we long for the day when you will provide for all nations on earth your blessing of peace. But now with strife and war at hand help us to see in each other a family likeness a common inheritance as children of God. Keep hatred from the threshold of our hearts, and preserve within us a generous spirit which recognizes all peoples as children of God. This we ask in the name of the One who came to offer us the costly gift of abundant life. Amen. - Tecie Lardner, O.P., Dominican Sister of Blauvelt, NY Prayer from www.domlife.org |