Lord, Help Us To Recognize You In

It Is No Easy Task To Overcome The Bitter Legacy Of Injustices, Hostility And Mistrust Left By The Conflict. It Can Only Be Done By Overcoming Evil With Good.

For Just As Some People Want A Purely Spiritual Christ, Without Flesh And Without The Cross, They Also Want Their Interpersonal Relationships Provided By Sophisticated Equipment, By Screens And Systems Which Can Be Turned On And Off On Command. Meanwhile, The Gospel Tells Us Constantly To Run The Risk Of A Face-to-face Encounter With Others, With Their Physical Presence Which Challenges Us, With Their Pain And Their Pleas, With Their Joy Which Infects Us In Our Close And Continuous Interaction.

The Earth, Our Home, Is Beginning To Look More And More Like An Immense Pile Of Filth.

A Person Who Thinks Only About Building Walls, Wherever They May Be, And Not Building Bridges, Is Not Christian. This Is Not In The Gospel.

Lord, With So Much Violence In Iraq, May We Persevere In Our Prayer And Generosity.