Prayer for the Day
A prayer for God to guide us
Loving God,
Fill us with your grace, so we can:
know the way and walk in it,
hear your word and respond to it,
see injustice and address it,
be attentive to pain and alleviate it,
seek transformation and bring it,
through your empowering Spirit. Amen.
Alternative Prayer for the Day
A prayer that God upholds us
God of compassion, comfort our loneliness. God of tenderness, confirm our faith. God of the Cross, strengthen our endurance. Amen.
A Prayer in response to the attack at Bondi Beach
Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who grants us light, sustains us in life and guides us in the ways of holiness.
On a day when peaceful celebration has been distorted through acts of violence and hatred, we pray for those who have died and been injured in the attack at Bondi beach at the beginning of Hanukkah.
Comfort those who have lost loved ones. Strengthen them and grant them peace.
Stand close to those who seek answers and with those tasked with understanding and responding to these acts of violence.
May the deep darkness of this day be met by responses of respect, compassion and solidarity as we continue to draw alongside our sisters and brothers of Jewish faith in our prayers.
We pray for an ending to all acts of religious or racially based hatred that we may dwell in your light and seek a world in which all may walk safely alongside their neighbour.
Amen.
A Prayer in response to the attack at Bondi Beach
Sunday 14 September 2014
"Then his lord summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. Should you not have had mercy on your fellow-slave, as I had mercy on you?' And in anger his lord handed him over to be tortured until he would pay his entire debt. So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart." (vv. 32-35)
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