Prayer for the Caravan

Written on: October 23, 2018

The attached prayer from Education for Justice, a project of Center of Concern reminds us that Christ is at the door of our border with “the least of God’s people” who need our compassion and mercy. Let us pray it daily for their safety and for our Nation that we may be graced with new eyes that see all with the mind and heart of God.

Christ, we hear you knocking at the door in the voices of those seeking asylum; they call out to us for compassion, for justice.

Will we hear you, will we respond to the least of these who have left their homes out of despair, who traveled with only hope to sustain them.

Christ, you are with these migrants in their suffering; you call us to be with them also, to be present to their need.

Christ, we hear you knocking at the door in the voices of those seeking asylum; they call out to us for compassion, for justice. 

Will we hear you, will we respond to the least of these who have left their homes out of despair, who traveled with only hope to sustain them.

Christ, you are with these migrants in their suffering; you call us to be with them also, to be present to their need.

Give us the courage to open doors, to offer welcome to those who have been created in your image, to those who are your children, blessed with human dignity that has so often been disrespected and denied.

Christ, we hear you knocking at the door, we see you in the faces of the caravan, we know your mercy extends to them. Like water in a parched border land.

May we be moved to see as you see, to be merciful as you have been to us. May we open our hearts, tear down the walls and receive your beloved ones as our sisters and brothers. Amen.

This prayer reminds us that Christ is at the border door with “the least of these” who need our compassion and mercy. Copyright © 2018, Education for Justice, a project of Center of Concern.

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