Welcome to our Prince of Peace No-Show-Pilgrimage 2011
To respond to this go to http://www.blogger.com/ and sign into our blog. Write back to socialjusticeministrypop@yahoo.com if you have problems and I'll try and work with you in the evenings to get you on to the blog site. On the blog site, you will see instructions on how to respond to a post and how to sign in to 'blog' along with us. Or, feel free to send an email to socialjusticeministrypop@yahoo.com and I'll post your blog.
Of course, if you do not wish to be on this journey with us, let me know and I'll take your email off this roster.
Over the next few weeks we'll be sending out these notes on a daily basis to ask you to pray, read, learn, discuss and begin to understand more about raising a cry for Justice and Peace in the Middle East.
Today, being our first day, let's offer up a prayer:
This is the Franciscan Blessing for Justice and Peace
May God bless you with discomfort...at easy answers, hard hearts, half-truths, and superficial relationships.
May God bless you so that you may live from deep within your heart where God's Spirit dwells.
May God bless you with anger...at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people.
May God bless you so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless you with tears...to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war.
May God bless you so that you comfort them and turn their pain into joy.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world and in your community, so that you will courageously try what you don't think you can do, but in Jesus Christ you'll have the strength necessary to do.
May God bless you to fearlessly speak out against injustice, unjust laws, corrupt politicians, unjust and cruel treatment of prisoners, senseless wars, genocides, starvation and poverty that is so pervasive.
May God bless you that you remember we are all called to continue God's redemptive work of love and healing in God's place, in and through God's name, in God's Spirit, continually creating and breathing new life and grace into everything and everyone we touch. AMEN
For tomorrow: please read up on the background of the Holy Land from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop's web pages: http://www.usccb.org/jphd/csmg/2011/2011-02HolyLandBackgrounderFinalRevision.pdf
We look forward to hearing your views on this as a starting place for future dialog. In fact there are lots of interesting suggestions and insights on their pages. If we start here, we'll have a good place to go back to when we reach a more fuller understanding.
Thanks again for being part of this and let me know if I should take your name off these sends. They will go out in the late evening of each day from May 1 - May 15. Feel free to open up a different dialog if you are so moved.
May God Bless This Trip, Peggy
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