Loving, life-giving God, you have spoken to us, and called us to be your disciples.
Too often we allow ourselves to be silenced by those who are indifferent to our insights and our experience.
Forgive us and make us strong to raise our voices in hope.
We allow ourselves to be silenced by our own fear and self-doubt.
Forgive us and make us strong to raise our voices in hope.
We allow ourselves to be silenced by the structures of power which dominate and determine our lives.
Forgive us and make us strong to raise our voices in hope.
By our silence we allow the powers of injustice and death to have the last word.
Forgive us and make us strong to raise our voices in hope.
May we be silent no longer, but raise our voices to share what we have seen and heard.
It is Christ who meets us, calls us by our name, and sends us as his apostles.
Amen.
Pocket Prayers for Peace and Justice, compiled by Christian Aid. p. 51
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