07/07/2024
SIGNORE IN QUESTA DOMENICA ASCOLTIAMO LA TUA PAROLA CHE CI CHIAMA ALLA PACE!
AIUTACI A NON ASPETTARE CHE LA TEMPESTA PASSI MA DONACI LA TUA VOCE E IL TUO CORAGGIO PER SGRIDARE IL VENTO E LE ONDE, PER COMBATTERE IL CAOS CHE AGITA IL NOSTRO MONDO!
(Culto domenicale con Rulan Khoury Rula Mansour, palestinese Israeliana, di Nazareth, fondatrice e direttora del Nazareth Center for Peace Studies e Paul Msiza , pastore delladella Peniel Salem Baptist Church di Pretoria).
Intercessory Prayer – Prayer for Peace and JusXce
L: Dear congregadon, let us join our hearts in prayer for peace and jusdce in our world, liring up those
affected by conflict and strife.
P: Gracious and Merciful God, we come before you with heavy hearts, aware of the many places in our
world that cry out for peace and jus`ce.
L: We pray for the people of Ukraine and Russia, caught in the midst of conflict. Grant them safety,
strength, and a path to lasdng peace.
P: Lord, hear our prayer.
L: For Syria, where years of war have brought unimaginable suffering, we ask for healing, reconciliadon,
and a return to stability.
P: Lord, hear our prayer.
L: In Yemen, where famine and violence have devastated lives, we pray for an end to the fighdng and the
beginning of recovery and peace.
P: Lord, hear our prayer.
L: We lir up Israel and Palesdne, yearning for a just resoludon and the end of hosdlides. May peace and
mutual understanding prevail.
P: Lord, hear our prayer.
L: For Ethiopia, pardcularly in the Tigray region, we ask for the cessadon of conflict, the provision of aid,
and the restoradon of harmony.
P: Lord, hear our prayer.
L: In Myanmar, we pray for the protecdon of all people, the restoradon of democracy, and respect for
human rights.
P: Lord, hear our prayer.
L: For Afghanistan, struggling with new challenges, we ask for safety, especially for women and minorides,
and for a future of peace and jusdce.
P: Lord, hear our prayer.
L: We remember Sudan and the DRC, where violence and instability condnue to cause suffering. May
peace, security, and jusdce take root.
P: Lord, hear our prayer.
L: For Haid, facing polidcal turmoil and violence, we pray for stability, prosperity, and the well-being of its
people.
P: Lord, hear our prayer.
L: God of peace and jusdce, hear our prayers for all places of conflict and strife. Guide the leaders of
nadons, comfort the afflicted, and move us all to be peacemakers in your world.
All: Amen.
Musical Offering – Paule Mignot
Sermon – Samuel Reeves
Hymn of Response – “Thy Kingdom Come, O God”
Thy kingdom come, O God!
Thy rule, O Christ begin!
Break with thine iron rod
the tyrannies of sin!
Where is thy reign of peace,
and purity and love?
When shall all hatred cease,
as in the realms above?
When comes the promised dme
that war shall be no more,
oppression, lust, and crime
shall flee thy face before?
We pray thee, Lord, arise,
and come in thy great might;
revive our longing eyes,
which languish for thy sight.
Men scorn thy sacred Name,
and wolves devour thy fold;
by many deeds of shame
we learn that love grows cold.