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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.

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