Sharing with you our meditative thoughts on the day with God.

Go to Prayer

Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey and thus reveals himself to the crowd as prince of peace. Before Pilate he say solemnly that his kingdom is not of this world. Christ is our peace and through him we are reconciled with God the Father. He commands us to love one another as he and the Father love us and so we can be reconciled with our fellow human beings. In our own day we can be tempted to build up our own security through the oppression of others and the amassing of weapons of war. To do so is to seek a false kind of peace which contrary to the will of God. We should make peace by seeking reconciliation with one another and building up understanding and justice. We must not seek revenge but leave the final judgment to God. If we are to call for this kind of peace in our international life, then we must demonstrate it in the life of our churches. Christians must seek to understand one another and work and pray for the unity of the church. Such peace and unity is the work of the Spirit in us.

One Body. One Spirit

Lord, that we may become 'one body and one spirit', according to our common calling and vocation, repenting of our divisions, we commit ourselves to working together for reconciliation, peace and justice. We stand together in asking you to help us to live as your disciples, overcoming selfishness and arrogance, hatred and violence.

Give us the strength to forgive. Inspire our witness in the world, that we might foster a culture of dialogue, and be bearers of the hope which your gospel has implanted in us.

Make us instruments of your peace, so that our homes and communities, our parishes, churches and nations might resonate more fully with the peace you have long desired to bestow upon us.

Grace us with "conversion of heart" that respects the sacredness and dignity of Marriage, and the Life of the unborn, the elderly, and the unwanted and rejected.

This we ask in Jesus Name. Amen.