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A Prayer for the Virginia Tech Community
Let us take a moment of silence and hold in our hearts the Virginia Tech community…
Loving God, we grieve the lives of the people who died in this tragedy and ask you to welcome them home and surround them with your love. Be with your people who mourn their loved ones and friends and with all who have been touched by this event. Thank you for those who are ministering to this community through counseling, prayer, hospitality, and presence.
Teach us, Lord, to be a people of peace and compassion, to minister to all those who are suffering including those who act out in violence. Forgive us and help us to forgive others. Help us to erase all violence from our own lives no matter how seeming small or insignificant.
We ask this in your name, Jesus, you who knew violence and answered it with love. Amen.
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As we remember those who were gunned down, let us not leave out, so soon after the feast of Divine Mercy, the gunman who committed this horror. May God have mercy on his tortured soul and give strength to his loved ones as well.
Amen and Amen
Amen to your prayer. Also let us remember the men & women in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’ve been watching the series on PBS called America at the Crossroads and have been moved to tears. My teachers in grade school and high school were IHM sisters from Monroe. I have fond memories of them all.
Beautifully written, Sister, as always.
Many thanks.
Amen. And as a college student, I’d like to add a prayer for the safety of all college campuses; that this will never have to happen again.
thank you. what more can we really do than pray that people return to love. I am not Catholic, and I am not religious, but I believe in the end that no matter what our individual beliefs are, all that matters is love and forgiveness. I enjoy your blog very much…
Amen…I keep thinking how this could’ve been any classroom on any campus. Then I start worrying about my friends and colleagues here…
Thank you so much for the prayer. We have used it all week at our school and it has provided many of us with the words that are difficult to articulate in order to express our feelings. Bless you.
Hi,
My name is Julie. I was born on april 19. I thought that was odd. My uncle is Jack. He is an awesome priest. I cant spell that word. My dad needs your prayer.
Thanks,
Julie
Thanks for writing, Julie. I’ll keep your dad in my prayers.
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