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Daily Prayer for August 3, 2010
Finding Healing and Hope within Social Injustices
The poor, the outcast, the forgotten, the scorned are all over the world, both in distant places and close to home. Though the poor make up the largest part of the planet’s population, they often are ignored, unheard and oppressed.
Everything we know about the life of Jesus tells us this is wrong. Jesus walked with the poor. Jesus visited the most despised, calling them first in the Reign of God over many who would have been considered more worthy.
His parables caution us: if we concern ourselves with nothing greater than our own comfort, if we are indifferent to the world’s injustices, we deny ourselves the opportunity to live a complete life, a life that is as full of meaning as possible.
Prayer
Lord, in too many ways this world is far from the world You intended. The poor are victimized, discriminated against and ignored. I can know of injustices throughout the world, but often I choose not to know. In my heart I want to change what is wrong, but the task before me is monumental. Inspire us to fill the earth with Your love. Let us build a just world. Open our eyes to see that we must care for all as we would for ourselves. Amen.
Join us in prayer during the Annual Healing and Hope Novena July 28 through August 5:
Email me your Healing Novena prayer intentions.
oblatesusa.org/mami/apl.aspx?path=root/momi/Prayer/PrayerRequests
Call us to share your personal prayers: 1-888-330-6264
Listen to a Healing Novena homily.
oblatesusa.org/mami/apl.aspx?path=root/momi/MissionaryWork/Novena%20Schedule
oblatesusa.org
Finding Healing and Hope within Social Injustices
The poor, the outcast, the forgotten, the scorned are all over the world, both in distant places and close to home. Though the poor make up the largest part of the planet’s population, they often are ignored, unheard and oppressed.
Everything we know about the life of Jesus tells us this is wrong. Jesus walked with the poor. Jesus visited the most despised, calling them first in the Reign of God over many who would have been considered more worthy.
His parables caution us: if we concern ourselves with nothing greater than our own comfort, if we are indifferent to the world’s injustices, we deny ourselves the opportunity to live a complete life, a life that is as full of meaning as possible.
Prayer
Lord, in too many ways this world is far from the world You intended. The poor are victimized, discriminated against and ignored. I can know of injustices throughout the world, but often I choose not to know. In my heart I want to change what is wrong, but the task before me is monumental. Inspire us to fill the earth with Your love. Let us build a just world. Open our eyes to see that we must care for all as we would for ourselves. Amen.
Join us in prayer during the Annual Healing and Hope Novena July 28 through August 5:
Email me your Healing Novena prayer intentions.
oblatesusa.org/mami/apl.aspx?path=root/momi/Prayer/PrayerRequests
Call us to share your personal prayers: 1-888-330-6264
Listen to a Healing Novena homily.
oblatesusa.org/mami/apl.aspx?path=root/momi/MissionaryWork/Novena%20Schedule
oblatesusa.org