Prayer for the world...

Pray for the world. The world seems more and more consumed with itself. More and more tragedy seems to be lost to the incessant news media cranking out more live drama of more tragic scenes around the world.

As we become more anesthesized to the pain and suffering in the world, the pace of that same suffering seems to be increasing. The movement of the earth's plates, waves, and eruptions are seeming to be on the rise. Man's moral sensitivity and compass seems to be whirling out of control.

My prayers are for the suffering of the world. For those who cannot pray for themselves due to their own suffering. For those who do not know the depths of their suffering. For ourselves who cannot even connect with that suffering in the world. The pain of the world is immense. The suffering in the world is unfathomable.

Only God's infinite mercy can understand it, have patience with it, and love it. It seems as though even with the number of "christians" in the word, only some of them seem to "get it" about the darkness in the world. The Catholics are closer to understanding this suffering, it seems because they are more forthright about it, and have been dealing with it for 2000 years, and directly from the mouth of Jesus.

I am so saddened by this pain, I beg for God's grace for this world, and those in it; for his mercy; and for His healing of it. There must be some good to it. Maybe the extent of it will wake some people up so that they begin to pray.

I pray for all people to begin praying in what ever way they know to push the darkness, cynicism, banality, insensitivity, blindness, deafness, and unknowing back into their corners forever. Let the evil that encourages those elements of darkness be vanquished, and dispelled forever, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Lord Jesus, I trust in YOU. Eternal Father, I offer you the body and blood, soul and divinity of your most beloved son our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Lord, can you hear them crying? Can you feel their pain, and pangs of hunger, their fear of the future, the oppression of their own races, in inequities of their lives...

This prayer is not meant to be one of hopelessness, but of encouragement; one to overcome sadness and loss of hope; one to renew life' one to reach out to feel and live; heal and hope...

Lord her my prayer and lift us all.

Amen