Tag: special prayers

Not again, not again, not again! we scream, O God. And yet our screams, our laments, are unheard. The cries of parents and grandparents and siblings who have lost a loved one, murdered by gun violence, go unanswered. How long, O Lord? How long, how long, how long? For though we wish You would tear […]

After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God […]

O God, we weep for Afghanistan. We recognize the bravery of those who died to help others be free. We recognize the bravery of those who died, desperate to save themselves in these days. We recognize that bravery has not saved us, and we grieve the lives lost these twenty years. We honor their memory […]

God of our ancestors, We cry out in lament. There is no justice when life is lost, for it cannot be replaced. There is no accountability when one police officer is taken away to prison while another shoots and kills a young Black girl. There is no equality when time and again it is Black […]