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On Sept 11, our Pastor added the following prayer to our Liturgy (before some masses and after the Opening Prayer:
**A PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR 9/11/03 Come Holy Spirit, breathe down upon our troubled world. **
Shake the tired foundations of our crumbling institutions.
Break the rules that keep you out of all our sacred spaces.
And from the dust and rubble, gather up the seedlings of a new creation.
Come Holy Spirit, enflame once more the dying embers of our weariness.
Shake us out of our complacency. Whisper our names once more, and scatter your gifts of grace with wild abandon.
Break open the prisons of our inner being
And let your raging justice be our sign of liberty.
Come Holy Spirit, and lead us to places we would rather not go.
Expand the horizons of our limited imaginations.
Awaken in our souls dangerous dreams for a new tomorrow,
And rekindle in our hearts the fire of prophetic enthusiasm.
Come Holy Spirit, whose justice outwits international conspiracy;
Whose light outshines spiritual bigotry,
Whose peace can overcome the destructive potential of warfare,
Whose promise invigorates our every effort
To create a new Heaven and a new Earth, now and forever. Amen.
I question first if the Pastor can modify the Liturgy by adding such a prayer to the service. Would there be a time that a special prayer could be added? Perhaps at the General Intercessions or with the brief announcements in the Concluding Rite? I assume he felt that since it was the anniversary of 9/11 it would be acceptable to add a prayer to commemorate the tragedy.
Second, the prayer was displayed on the overhead screen and the congregation was asked to join in the reading of the prayer. This made me very uncomfortable.
Third, I have found information that Diarmuid O’Murchu is a dissenting priest and has been involved in Call To Action conferences. From this, and my initial impression of the prayer itself, I can assume that there is a hidden message within this prayer. I would like some assistance identifying parts of the prayer that can be considered theologically unsound or against the Catholic church.
Can someone help me identify any theologically unsound parts to this prayer? A friend of mine confronted our Pastor with objections to the reading of a prayer by a dissenting priest, but our Pastor insisted that there is nothing wrong with this prayer. To say that it just didn’t feel right wouldn’t carry any weight because the opposing argument (it felt good to me) would wash it out.
The general feeling I get is that the Pastor insists that he can do whatever feels right to him, but if it doesn’t feel right to us then he considers us anathema!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
**A PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR 9/11/03 Come Holy Spirit, breathe down upon our troubled world. **
Shake the tired foundations of our crumbling institutions.
Break the rules that keep you out of all our sacred spaces.
And from the dust and rubble, gather up the seedlings of a new creation.
Come Holy Spirit, enflame once more the dying embers of our weariness.
Shake us out of our complacency. Whisper our names once more, and scatter your gifts of grace with wild abandon.
Break open the prisons of our inner being
And let your raging justice be our sign of liberty.
Come Holy Spirit, and lead us to places we would rather not go.
Expand the horizons of our limited imaginations.
Awaken in our souls dangerous dreams for a new tomorrow,
And rekindle in our hearts the fire of prophetic enthusiasm.
Come Holy Spirit, whose justice outwits international conspiracy;
Whose light outshines spiritual bigotry,
Whose peace can overcome the destructive potential of warfare,
Whose promise invigorates our every effort
To create a new Heaven and a new Earth, now and forever. Amen.
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- Diarmuid OMurchu, 2003Second, the prayer was displayed on the overhead screen and the congregation was asked to join in the reading of the prayer. This made me very uncomfortable.
Third, I have found information that Diarmuid O’Murchu is a dissenting priest and has been involved in Call To Action conferences. From this, and my initial impression of the prayer itself, I can assume that there is a hidden message within this prayer. I would like some assistance identifying parts of the prayer that can be considered theologically unsound or against the Catholic church.
Can someone help me identify any theologically unsound parts to this prayer? A friend of mine confronted our Pastor with objections to the reading of a prayer by a dissenting priest, but our Pastor insisted that there is nothing wrong with this prayer. To say that it just didn’t feel right wouldn’t carry any weight because the opposing argument (it felt good to me) would wash it out.
The general feeling I get is that the Pastor insists that he can do whatever feels right to him, but if it doesn’t feel right to us then he considers us anathema!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
