Peace Prayer

October

U.S. Province

If we are to serve,

if we are to care,

if we are to minister,

we have to get right inside.

And so, let us pray:

Spirit, touch me.

Touch me with your grace,

Touch me with your wisdom.

Touch me with your love so that I can help somebody,

so that I can serve somebody,

so that I can bless somebody.

Be the bridge over troubled waters,

so that I can be the balm in Gilead,

be the hands of Jesus stretched out to heal.

Sister Thea Bowman
(speech St. Stephen’s Catholic Church, 1989)