St. Mary’s in Solon prayed this litany before Mass on Sunday. \u00a0 \u00a0With the impending conflict in Syria I wanted to this along. \u00a0It really doesn’t take too long to say this. \u00a0Although the format here makes it appear to be lengthy.<\/p>\n
Theresa<\/p>\n
Litany for Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n By Linda Friern and Tony Bartlett, in\u00a0<\/em>The Fire of Peace<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Let us pray to Jesus Christ that we may be set free from the chains of violence and war.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jesus the Christ, by your cross and resurrection<\/p>\n \u2026 deliver us.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n by your nonviolence and love<\/p>\n by your witness to truth<\/p>\n by your passion and death<\/p>\n by your victory over the grave<\/p>\n from the desire for power<\/p>\n from the conspiracy of silence<\/p>\n from the negation of life<\/p>\n from the worship of weapons<\/p>\n from the celebration of killing<\/p>\n from the slaughter of the innocent<\/p>\n from the extermination of the weak<\/p>\n from the nightmare of hunger<\/p>\n from the politics of terror<\/p>\n from a false peace<\/p>\n from relying on weapons<\/p>\n from the spiral of armaments<\/p>\n from plundering the earth\u2019s resources<\/p>\n from the despair of this age<\/p>\n from global suicide.<\/p>\n By the light of the Gospel<\/p>\n \u2026 give us your peace.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n by the good news for the poor<\/p>\n by your healing and wounds<\/p>\n by faith in your word<\/p>\n by a hunger and thirst for justice<\/p>\n by the coming of your reign<\/p>\n by the outpouring of the Spirit<\/p>\n by reconciliation of enemies<\/p>\n by gentleness and nonviolence<\/p>\n by the truth that sets us free<\/p>\n by prophecy and witness<\/p>\n by persecution because of your name<\/p>\n by the power of your love.<\/p>\n Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world,<\/p>\n \u2026 have mercy on us.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world,<\/p>\n \u2026 have mercy on us.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world,<\/p>\n \u2026 grant us peace.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" St. Mary’s in Solon prayed this litany before Mass on Sunday. \u00a0 \u00a0With the impending conflict in Syria I wanted to this along. \u00a0It really doesn’t take too long to say this. \u00a0Although the format here makes it appear to be lengthy. Theresa Litany for… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}