Prayers For Our Country

You call us forward Lord,

• to repent,
• to forgive,
• to rebuild.

Guide us by the light of your love

• to a new politics,
• to a new economy,
• to a new way of being.

From our fears and sins release us, that we might have

• the vision,
• the energy,
• the compassion,
• the will,

to heal, to hope, to seek, and to be the “heroes of the future.”*

Amen

*From the papal encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” by Pope Francis, October 3, 2020, paragraph 202.

202. Lack of dialogue means that in these individual sectors people are concerned not for the common good, but for the benefits of power or, at best, for ways to impose their own ideas. Round tables thus become mere negotiating sessions, in which individuals attempt to seize every possible advantage, rather than cooperating in the pursuit of the common good. The heroes of the future will be those who can break with this unhealthy mindset and determine respectfully to promote truthfulness, aside from personal interest. God willing, such heroes are quietly emerging, even now, in the midst of our society.

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