Prayer

Loving Lord of Comfort.

We pray for those lives, made in your image, damaged by violence.

Response: Comfort, o comfort, your people.

We pray for those in authority that they may use their power to bind wounds, heal relationships and find common ground.

Response: Comfort, o comfort, your people.

We pray for a transforming peace, turning fear into trust, pain into hope and doubt into confidence for a better future.

Response: Comfort, o comfort, your people

We pray for world leaders that they may establish structures for justice, protecting human dignity, enabling reconciliation and building God's kingdom.

Response: Comfort, o comfort, your people.

Written by Catherine Gorman for the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)

Amen