list of psalmsWe offer our prayers for: Marcia Clendenon, Sandra Cocks, Laura Craig, Anne Devlin, Marlene Elia, Tom, Jan and Mark, Suzanne Guglielmi, Aretha Jadusingh, Jerry Keucher, Julie Murphy, Willie Marcus & Dylan Schumaker, Marsha & Leighton Wynter, and the people of St. Vincent's Services.

We lift up in thanksgiving Adriana Clarke, Preston Aghailas, Ian Matthew Basso, and Betsy Kalfa, who are celebrating their birthdays this week.

 

We pray for the people of the United States, Palestine, Israel, and for all asylum seekers.

We pray for all those who are suffering from the effects of gun violence, homophobia, systemic racism, and unlawful & incompetent government administration. We pray for an end to the unconstitutional and arbitrary federal occupation of American cities and states.

We thank you for our own continued good health and prosperity and we pray for the repose of the souls of Merle Carrington, the victims of warfare in Ukraine and the Middle East, and for all the faithful departed. We pray for an end to the government-sanctioned murders taking place in our cities. We pray for a peaceful, legal end to the deplorable regime running our country.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If they shoot me down in my street someday, may my crime be compassion. May the record show from every angle that I was helping a woman up after they pushed her to the ground, that not even their weapons sould stop me from extending my hand to those in need, that I was a walking example of the best my elders taught me to be, that everyone is equal and worthy of defending. If they tell the nation, from the highest podium, that I was a domestic terrorist, let it be known that my radical act was believing the best in people when they wanted nothing more than to divide us.

Amen

Michael F. Dubois, poet/writer

God grant me the patience to work with the unjust systems I cannot change today, the courage to strategically enact progress when I know I can, and the wisdom to know that, despite structural oppression, I can still make a difference.

Amen

Gillian Farquhar Delancey