All in Good Faith

Author(s): Jean Potter, Marcus Braybrooke
Publisher: World Congress of Faiths

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All in Good Faith
Thank you and praise you for our brothers and sisters of indigenous traditions, for their reverence of nature and their ancient and still living cultures.
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Thank you and praise you for those of every faith tradition, named and unnamed, for the variety and richness of their spiritualities, for our common quest for truth, our yearning after love, our longing for peace and commitment to justice. Ever unite us we pray, help us and inspire us, that we might live more truly for you throughout our lives. Amen.
© From the Week of Prayer for World Peace SILENCE
Leader
There is still, sadly, much prejudice and misuse of religion.
Reader 2
Lord of all, we stand in awe before you, impelled by the visions of the harmony of all people, We are children of many traditions inheritors of shared wisdom and tragic misunderstandings, of proud hopes and humble successes, Now it is time for us to meet in memory and truth in courage and trust. in love and promise.
Forms of prayer for Jewish Worship
SILENCE
Leader
There is indifference to the sufferings of others.
Reader 3
Poverty is
a knee-level view from your bit of pavement; a battered, upturned cooking pot and countable ribs; coughing from your steel-banded lungs, alone, with your face to the wall; shrunken breasts and a three-year-old who cannot stand; the ringed fingers, the eyes averted, and a five-paise piece in your hand; smoking the babus' cigarette butts to quieten the fiend in your belly; a husband without a job, without a square meal a day, without energy, without hope; being at the mercy of everyone further up the ladder because you are a threat to their self-respect; a hut of tins and rags and plastic bags, in a warren of huts you cannot stand up in, where your neighbours live at one arm's length across the lane; a man who cries out in silence; nobody listening, for everyone's talking; the prayer withheld; the heart withheld; the hand withheld; yours and mine.
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