CPT Colombia
Up From The Ashes - A Lenten Liturgy
Welcome: Today we call to mind those listed for death in Colombia
and around the world and burn the death lists. Then we pray for new life to
rise up from the ashes.
Song/Hymn: e.g. Ashes, #84 in Glory & Praise
Leader: [For this first section of Liturgy, see the new verse
written by the Colombia team each week]
People: deliver your children.
Leader: from our complicity in the killing, from profiting by
arms sales, from providing training for those who kill
People: deliver your children.
Leader: from the violence everywhere in the world, from the
effects of violence suffered by innocents
People: deliver your children.
[Burning a death list: Add other names to those listed by the Colombia
team for the given week. Burn the list and pray silently for a cleansing
of hearts and minds]
Leader: by infusing hope in the midst of death, by transforming
the hearts of those bearing arms, by enlightening armed leaders in the
power of nonviolence,
People: raise us up from these ashes.
Leader: by our rejection of violence as a means to justice, by
our refusal to cooperate in the export of violence, by our confronting
of unjust systems,
People: raise us up from these ashes.
Leader: by seeing your image even in enemies, by teaching all
children to celebrate life, by converting economies of greed to ones of
sharing,
People: raise us up from these ashes.
All: O Loving Creator, grant us peace. Amen.
Song/Hymn: e.g. Peace Prayer, #40 Glory & Praise
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