International Peace Month

Recognizing We Are One
Written by: Sister Mary Dean Pfahler

“Loving Creator: All You have made is good. Help me to see myself as an image of God, as I really am and see everyone else as an image of God, as they really are.

Risen Christ, peace is Your Easter gift to us. You urge us to: lay down our weapons, forgive as we have been forgiven, love our enemies.

Holy Spirit of Peace: Disarm us so we can admit the violence within.

Open our ears so we encounter one another in mutual trust. Open our hearts so we recognize that we are one.

Open our hands so we use the gifts of Earth to live together in peace. Amen.”

Sister Mary Dean Pfahler with fellow Sisters of Notre Dame in Africa.

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