Nurture the Soul

A Prayer for Reconciliation

(adapted from the Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation 2)

Father, all-powerful and ever-living God,
we praise and thank you through Jesus Christ our Lord
for your presence and action in the world.

In the midst of conflict and division,
we know it is you
who turn our minds and thoughts to peace.
Your Spirit changes our hearts:
enemies begin to speak to one another,
those who were estranged join hands in friendship,
and nations seek the way of peace together.

Your Spirit is at work
when understanding puts an end to strife,
when hatred is quenched by mercy,
and vengeance gives way to forgiveness.

For this we should never cease
to thank and praise you.

God of power and might,
we praise you through your Son, Jesus Christ,
who comes in your name.
He is the Word that brings salvation.
He is the hand you stretch out to sinners.
He is the way that leads to your peace.

God our Father,
we had wandered far from you,
but through your Son you have brought us back.
You gave him up to death
so that we might turn to you
and find our way to one another.

Therefore we celebrate the reconciliation
Christ has gained for us.
We ask you to bless us this day,
And to use us and our work
as signs of unity and instruments of reconciliation
throughout our broken world. Amen.

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