prayer for world peace
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Prayer for World Peaceduring Advent
• Welcome• Peace Greetings from around our
World• Call to Worship - Words from the Hindu Tradition
Gathering Song: Prayer of Saint Francis
All:
1. Make me a channel of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring your love. Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord. And where there’s doubt, true faith in you.
2. Make me a channel of your peace. Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope. Where there is darkness, only light. And where there’s sadness, ever joy.
Refrain:
O Master, grant that I may never seekSo much to be consoled, as to console,To be understood as to understand,To be loved as to love with all my soul.
3. Make me a channel of your peace. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, In giving of ourselves that we receive, And in dying that we’re born to eternal life.
Sebastian Temple © 1967, OneLicense.net. #115472.
Gracious God, We have gathered to pray for peace: open our hearts to the message of Advent.
All:May Christ dwell in our hearts through faith; May the peace of Christ dwell in the hearts of all people. May peace surround all our Advent preparations here at school and in our homesfor the coming of the Prince of Peace.
All:At all times, may we remember that you came to saveall nations and to draw all people into your kingdom of peace.
Emmanuel
Grade 4 then All:
Come, Come Emmanuel,
Son of God appear.
Heaven and earth rejoice!
Salvation is drawing near.Salvation is drawing near. (Repeat)
Grade 4:
O Come, Desire of Nations, bindIn one the hearts of humankind.Make all our sad divisions cease,And be for us the Prince of Peace.
All:Come, Come Emmanuel, Son of God appear.Heaven and earth rejoice!Salvation is drawing near.Salvation is drawing near. © 2004 Steve Angrisano. OCP Reprinted LincenSing online.
Reflections on Peace
• From the prophet Isaiah
– Quiet reflection
• Response by Grade 4:
What a goodly thing
If the children of the world
could dwell together
in peace.
Isaiah’s Vision of the Coming of the Prince of Peace
Grade 4
Alleluia! Hurry the Lord is near!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Hurry the Lord is near! (All repeat)
A Prayer for the Worldby
Rabbi Harold Kushner
Let the rain come down and wash away the ancient grudges, and bitter hatreds held and nurtured over generations.
Let the rain wash away the memory of the hurt and the neglect.
Then let the sun come out and
fill the sky with rainbows.
All:
Let the warmth of the sun
heal us wherever we are
broken. Let it burn away
the fog so that we can see
each other clearly, so that
we can see beyond labels,
beyond accents, gender
or skin color.
Let the warmth and
brightness of the sun melt
our selfishness, so that we
can share the joys and
feel the sorrows of our
neighbors.All:
Let the light of the sun
be so strong that we will
see all people as our
neighbors.
Let the earth, nourished by rain, bring forth flowers
to surround us with beauty. All:
And let the mountains teach our hearts to
reach upward to heaven. Amen.