Daily Prayer
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Antiphon (mantra) repeat quietly:
Together we pray in Jesus’ name.
Psalm 79
O God, nations have destroyed your heritage;
they have profaned your holy temple.
They have reduced Jerusalem to ruins.
They have left the bodies of your faithful
to be food for the birds
and prey for the beasts.
Throughout Jerusalem
they have poured out blood like water.
No one is left to bury the dead.
We are insulted by our neighbors,
mocked and scorned by those around us.
How long will this endure?
How long will your anger burn like fire?
Pour out your wrath on the nations
that do not acknowledge you,
on those who do not call on your name.
They have destroyed the tribes of Israel
and laid waste their land.
Do not hold against us the guilt of the past.
May your compassion enfold us;
we are in the depths of distress.
O God, come to our help.
For the glory of your name,
deliver us and forgive our sin.
Why should the nations ask,
"Where is their God?"
Let us see the nations repaid
for the blood that they shed.
Let the cries of prisoners come before you;
free those condemned to die.
Pay our neighbors seven times over,
for they have insulted you, O God.
We, your people, the flock of your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
We will sing your praise from age to age.
Pray the Prayer of Jesus (Our Father)
Translation © 1998 Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Inc.
