NIGHT PRAYER: Tuesday 11/19

NIGHT PRAYER: Tuesday 11/19

Today marks 1,000 days and nights 
  since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 2/24/22.
Ukraine’s colors ’round my night prayer candle:
    a paltry nod to the nightmare 
        of bloodshed and destruction
    suffered by my family,
        5,000 miles away…
My family? Yes, my family!
We’re brothers, sisters, one and all:
    we share a common bloodline
        flowing from the Cross,
            our DNA and lineage are royal and divine;
    we’re children born of water 
        and the Spirit who unites us,
    who makes of us a family,
        the whole of humankind…
Don’t let the distance shield me, Lord,
    from what my brothers suffer,
    from the loss my sisters bear,
    from the nightmares of my grandkids,
    from the bombing and the shelling,
    from the ruins and the rubble
        that were once my family’s home…
My family’s not that far away,
    twelve hours on a plane,
    to reach and offer needed help
        from this side of the world 
    from those who gather here in prayer
        ‘neath Ukraine’s blue and gold… 
My family?  Yes, my family
    and your family, too.
Protect us, Lord, while we’re awake
    and watch over us while we sleep
that awake, we might keep watch with you
    and asleep, rest in your peace…


  

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Praying to the Virgin Mary