Pedagogy for Active Citizenship:

Educating for the Common Good

August 25, 2007

Prayer of St Teresa of Avila

Prayer of Oscar Romero

Reader 1: Christ has no Body now but yoursNo hands, no feet on earth but yoursYours are the eyes through which he looksCompassion on the worldYours are the feet with which he walksTo do goodYours are the hands with which he blessesAll the world.

With My Own Two Hands Jack Johnson and Ben Harper

CD: Sing-a-longs and Lullabies for the film Curious George

I can change the world

With my own two hands

Make it a better place

With my own two hands

Make it a kinder place

With my own two hands

With my ownWith my own two hands

I can make peace on earth

With my own two hands

I can clean up the earth

With my own two hands

I can reach out to you

With my own two hands

With my ownWith my own two hands

With my ownWith my own two hands

I'm going to make it a brighter place

With my own two hands

I'm going to make it a safer place

With my own two hands

I'm going to help the human race

With my own two hands

With my ownWith my own two hands

With my ownWith my own two hands

I can hold you

In my own two hands

I can comfort you

With my own two hands

But you've got to use

Use your own two hands

Use your ownUse your own two hands

Use our ownUse our own two hands

With our ownOur own two hands

With our ownOur own two hands

With my ownWith my own two hands

Reader 1: Christ has no body now but yours:

Yours are the hands

Yours are the feet

Yours are the eyes

You are his body

Reader 2: It helps, now and then, to step back

And take the long view.

The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts

It is even beyond our vision.

Loving God, help us to build communities of wisdom and honesty

Reader 1: We accomplish in our lifetimeonly a fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work

Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that theKingdom always lies beyond us.

Lord, help us to build communities of hope and justice

Reader 2: No meeting says all that could be said.No prayer fully expresses our faithNo course brings perfectionNo class brings wholenessNo set of goals and objectives includes everything

Lord, help us to build communities of reverence

Reader 1: This is what we are about.We plant the seeds that one day will grow.We water seeds already plantedKnowing that they hold promise.We lay foundations that will need developmentWe provide yeast that produces effects

far beyond our capabilities.

Lord, help us to build communities of unity and compassion

Reader 2: We cannot do everythingAnd there is a sense of liberation in realizing thatThis enables us to do something,And to do it very wellIt may be incompleteBut it is a beginning,A step along the way, an opportunity for God’s grace to enter and do the rest.

All: Lord, help us to build communities of peace

Reader 1: We may never see the end results,But that is the difference betweenThe master builder and the worker.

All: We are workers,Not master builders,Ministers,Not messiahs.We are prophets of a futureNot our own.

Reader 2: Lord, we trust in youTo eternally renew our belief in youIn ourselves and in each otherIn this is our joy.

Amen

Testify To Love

By Wynonna: CD: Touched By An Angel

All the colours of the rainbow

All the voices of the wind

Every dream that reaches out

That reaches out to find where love begins

Every word of every story

Every star in every sky

Every corner of creation lives to testify

For as long as I shall live

I will testify to love

I’ll be a witness in the silences

When words are not enough

With every breath I takeI will give thanks to God above

For as long as I shall live I will testify to love

From the mountains to the valleys

From the rivers to the sea

Every hand that reaches out

Every hand that reaches out to offer peace

Every simple act of mercy

Every step to kingdom come

All the hope in every heart All the hope in every heart will speak what love has donewill speak what love has done

For as long as I shall live

I will testify to love

I’ll be a witness in the silences

When words are not enough

With every breath I take

I will give thanks to God above

For as long as I shall live I will testify to love

For as long as I shall live

I will testify to love

I’ll be a witness in the silences

When words are not enough

With every breath I take

I will give thanks to God above

For as long as I shall live

I will testify to love

For as long as I shall liveI will testify to love

I’ll be a witness in the

silences

When words are not enough

With every breath I take

I will give thanks to God above

For as long as I shall live I will testify to love

Reader 1: Christ has no Body now but yoursNo hands, no feet on earth but yoursYours are the eyes through which he looksCompassion on this worldChrist has no Body but yours

Yours are the handsYours are the feetYours are the eyesYou are his body.

Sign of Peace