(Celebrant)
During this Advent
season we look to Christ, the Son of God, Emmanuel, Prince of Peace, and Lord of all. We look to Him, who is to come again.
With Christians everywhere, we lift our hearts in prayer and cry out, our response:
(R.) Come Lord
Jesus! Make all things new and bring unending peace.
(Celebrant)
Come Lord Jesus,
renew the face of the Earth, enkindle in our hearts the fire of your love, a passion for peace, a love for the poor, the victims
of racism, for all the oppressed. Make all things new! Bring peace to the world,
to Iraq,
to Afghanistan, to Jerusalem.
Raise up the suffering, the downtrodden and the oppressed. Come Lord Jesus.!
(R.) Come Lord
Jesus! Make all things new and bring unending peace.
(Celebrant)
Father most holy, in your Son Jesus Christ you have given all creatures salvation and forgiveness: look
upon us, whom you have consecrated in the name of your Only-Begotten Son. In a world often restless and violent, may
we to be messengers of glad tidings to the poor, heralds of mercy and reconciliation, makers of peace. Come
Lord Jesus
(R.) Come Lord
Jesus! Make all things new and bring unending peace.
(Celebrant)
In the words of John
Paul II we cry out: Violence never again! War never again! Terrorism never again!
In the name of God, may
every religion bring upon the earth
Justice and Peace, Forgiveness, Life and Love! (John Paul II) Come Lord Jesus
(R.) Come Lord Jesus! Make all things new and bring unending
peace
(Celebrant)
Come Lord Jesus!
Renew the face of the Earth, enkindle in our hearts the fire of your love, make all things new and bring unending peace to
all the World. Come Lord Jesus.! Amen
- recommended for prayer of the faithful or after Communion and before the final blessing.
- Adapted from World Religions Convocation Prayers for Peace, Assisi, 2002
