The Interim Commission for Consecrated Life in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis has designed this prayer for use by parishes at weekend liturgies. The prayer can be downloaded in various versions below.
Parishes: Feel free to copy and paste the text into your communications if it works better for your format.
Prayer for an End to the Sin of Racism in Our Land
Leader
Pope Francis exhorts us with these words: “My friends, we cannot turn a blind
eye to racism and exclusion of any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness
of every human life.” (Message to the U.S. June 3, 2020)
And so we pray:
Community
God of Heaven and Earth,you created the one human family and endowed
each person with great dignity.
Aid us, we pray, in overcoming the sin of racism.
Grant us your grace in eliminating this blight from our hearts, our communities,
our social and civil institutions.
Fill our hearts with love for you and our neighbor so that we may work with
you in healing our land from racial injustice.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in
the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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This prayer was designed by the Interim Commission for Consecrated Life of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
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