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God bless Africa |
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GOD BLESS AFRICA GUARD HER CHILDREN GUIDE HER LEADERS AND GIVE HER PEACE, FOR JESUS CHRIST’S SAKE, AMEN. |
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This prayer has taken a new meaning and relevance when viewed from the background of the currently unfolding famine in the horn of Africa. When pictures of the suffering people, especially children, are rolled down the television screens, one is hit with the very harsh reality of suffering.
The inevitable question “Why, O Lord, is this happening again,” almost always follows. We may ask about the future for Africa whenever we are confronted with such depths of pain. How has the promise of independence turned into such misery? Oh cry the beloved continent. Now, with the background of the disaster in Somalia and the horn of Africa in mind and spirit, let us share meditate on the first part of the Lord’s prayer: |
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Let us pray with our Lord: |
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OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN, |
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Beloved God, creator of heaven and earth, and of all the people of the earth,
Bring peace and righteousness to all peoples. In your grace may equity grow.
Turn our hearts to you in healing and transformation. |
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HALLOWED BE THY NAME; |
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Be present to all people, that we may open our eyes and recognize you in our history, In our cultures, in our struggles.
Deliver us from enchantment by the false gods of money, markets and status.
Help us to praise you in our faith and action that, seeing our loving service in your name, others, too, may bless that name. |
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THY KINGDOM COME |
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Where people resist injustice, live in solidarity, and seek a more human social order, help us to recognize the ferment of your kingdom already at work,
Bless those who are poor, those who suffer for the sake of justice, those who promote and defend human rights.
Bless the children of our countries, and protect them from terror and oppression. |
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THY WILL BE DONE; |
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Yes! That your wisdom would be our wisdom!
Deliver us from adjusting to unjust systems,
Move our herts and the hearts of women and men everywhere to act in love, that we may resist the seductions of power and greed And may live in right relationships with all. |
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ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN |
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God, present in every movement of creation,
Let us be responsible stewards of our garden of life, striving for sustainability, And as the firmament in all its mystery and glory displays your cosmic will, so may our lives display the mystery and glory of love, your will for life on earth. |
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GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD |
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That no one may be threatened by hunger, malnutrition, scarcity, give bread to those who have no one, and hunger for justice to those who have bread.
Teach us what is enough for today, and to share with those who have less than enough, for in this, it is Jesus whom we serve. |
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AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS,
AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS,
AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION,
BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL,
BECAUSE YOURS IS THE KINGDOM, THE POWER AND THE GLORY,
FOR EVER AND EVER
AMEN. |
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(Taken from the “Celebrate life”, WARC 24th General Council Worship Book, Accra, Ghana, July, 2004) |
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