Prayer for the World October 23, 2024
- Oct 22, 2024
- 3 min read
Peace in Chaos
Introduction
Today we pray for the peace and transformation that God creates amidst chaos: I have told you this while I am with you. The Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name—he will teach you everything and remind you of all that [I] told you. Peace, I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. John 14: 25-27
Song: Peace be not anxious by Lori True
Refrain: Peace now I give to you. My peace I pour through you. Not as the world gives. but ev - er more sure. Past all un - der-stand-ing. this gra-cious com-mand – ing: peace, be not anx-ious, God holds you se - cure.
Reading
Beginning from the very first verses of the Bible, the Pope reflected on “the Spirit hovering over the waters,” transforming primordial chaos into “something beautiful and ordered,” the “cosmos.” Later books of the Bible proclaim even more clearly the creative work of the Holy Spirit, especially in the New Testament, which shows the “intervention of the Holy Spirit in the new creation.” However, the Pope said, the relationship between the Spirit and creation has suffered due to the “sin and corruption of humanity that has dragged it into its alienation from God.” “This remains as true today” as it was when Saint Paul first described it in his letters. The solution to this alienation, Pope Francis said, can be found in Saint Francis of Assisi, who shows us “the way of contemplation and praise.” “Our vocation in the world,” the Pope said, citing St Paul, “is to be ‘praise of His glory’… putting the joy of contemplating ahead of the joy of possessing.” ‘I will put My Spirit within you’ Pope Francis emphasized that the Spirit Who transformed chaos into cosmos is at work to bring about this transformation in every person.” He emphasized that the external chaos we see in the world, whether social or political, can only be healed if we begin to heal the internal chaos within our hearts. “May this reflection,” the Pope concluded, “arouse in us the desire to experience the Creator Spirit.” May 29, 2024 General Audience Pope Francis
Silent Prayer
Petitions:
May we find the truth in our world of news and politics
we pray:
May our politicians and news reporters spread the truth in our world
We pray:
May we begin to heal the internal chaos within our hearts
we pray:
May God arouse in us the desire to experience the Creator Spirit
we pray:
May we find peace in all our chaos
we pray:
Song: Peace be not anxious by Lori True
Silent Prayer
BLESSING IN THE CHAOS by Jan Richardson
To all that is chaotic in you, let there be silence.
Let there be a calming of the clamoring, a stilling of the voices that have laid their claim on you, that have made their home in you.
That go with you even to the holy places but will not let you rest, will not let you
hear your life with wholeness or feel the grace that fashioned you.
Let what distracts you cease, let what divides you cease. Let there come an end to what diminishes and demeans and let depart all that keeps you in its cage.
Let there be an opening into the quiet that lies beneath the chaos, where you find the peace, you did not think possible and see what shimmers
within the storm.
Silent Prayer
Song: Peace be not anxious by Lori True
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