Prayer of Petition for The Forty Day Fast for The Truth of Gospel Nonviolence
For Uniting All Churches in Proclaiming The Truth of The Nonviolent Jesus and His Way of Nonviolent Love of Friends and Enemies
By Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
Abba, in the name of Jesus we ask you to send the Holy Spirit to gather the Churches together, so that with one voice they may proclaim as God’s Way Jesus’ Way of Nonviolent Love of all people—friends and enemies—and thereby teach that
violence is not the Christian Way,
violence is not the Holy Way,
violence is not the Catholic Way,
violence is not the Apostolic Way,
violence is not the Way of Jesus,
and thus set Christians free forever from bondage to the unholy, uncatholic, unapostolic, unChrist-like ways of the false gods and philosophies of holy, good and justified homicidal violence and enmity.
We plead this grace so that the Nonviolent Lamb may be our Lord in deed, as well as, in word and sacrament.
We request this gift so that the Christian Community may be—for afflicted humanity—a faithful witness to Jesus’ Way of overcoming evil.
We implore this healing so that the Church may be an authentic extension in time and space of the Way of the Lamb of God, of the Way of the Nonviolent Jesus which is the Way to renew the face of the earth. Amen.
