(chapel door at Prayer Fraternity)
A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR!
Dear Lord:
We are in the 15 millionth millennium of the universe.
We are in the 4.5 millionth millennium of the earth.
We are in the 4 millionth millennium of life.
We are in the 2,600 millennium of humans.
We are in the 3rd millennium of the common era.
Help us to know and understand that we are who we are today because of all that has existed before us. May we realize that we carry in our bodies and spirits the struggles and changes, joys and sorrows, loves and hates that have occurred throughout all time.
In this New Year of 2012, help us know that we are called to live with the knowledge and awareness that we are a part of all that is and that our decisions have an affect on the quality of life for all beings. We are called to live this connectedness that exists between all members of creation. We are called to put our hands upon creation and speak to it in words and touch, telling it how lovely it is because it cannot remember. We are called to remember loveliness for one another until each of us can remember, believe, and live in love.
(adapted from a prayer by Sr. Mary Goergen, OSF, in PRAYERS FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, p. 7)
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