Open My Eyes 1' Open my eyes Lord' Help me to see your face Open my eyes Lord' Help me to see 2' Ope

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Open My Eyes1. O-pen my eyes Lord. Help me to
see your face O-pen my eyes Lord. Help me
to see2. O-pen my ears Lord. Help me to hear
your voice O-pen my ears Lord. Help me to
hear.3. O-pen my heart Lord. Help me to love
like you O-pen my heart Lord. Help me to
love.4. I live with in you. Deep in your
heart, O Love I live with in you. Rest
now in meBridge And the first shall be
last, and our eyes are o pened, and well
hear like never be-fore. And well speak in new
ways, and well see Gods face in plac-es
weve nev er known.
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• Prayer of Peace based on the words of St. Francis
• Leader Peace I leave with you
• my peace I give you. John 1427
• All Lord, Make me a instrument of
  your peace.
• Leader Do not be overcome by evil,
• but overcome evil with good. Romans
  1221
• All Where there is hatred, let me sow
  love.
• Leader Father, forgive them
• For they do not know what they are doing
  Luke 2334
• All Where there is injury, let me sow pardon.

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• Leader Do not doubt but believe. John 2027
• All Where there is doubt, let me sow faith.
• Leader Hope does not disappoint us,
• because Gods love has been poured into our
  hearts
• through the Holy Spirit
• that has been given to us. Romans 55
• All Where there is despair, let me sow hope.
• Leader You are the light of the world.
• In the same way, let your light shine before
  others,
• so that they may see your good works
• And give glory to your Father in
  Heaven. Matt 514, 16
• All Where there is darkness, let me sow light.

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• Leader You will weep and mourn,
• but the world will rejoice
• you will have pain,
• but your pain will turn into joy. John
  1620
• All Where there is sadness, let me sow joy.
• Leader God consoles us in all our affliction,
• so that we may be able to console those
• who are in affliction with the consolation
• with which we ourselves
• are consoled by God. 2 Cor 14
• All Divine Master, grant that I may not
• so much seek to be consoled as to console.

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• Leader With all wisdom and insight
• he has made known to us
• the mystery of his will,
• according to his good pleasure
• that he set forth in Christ. Ephesians
  18-9
• All Grant that I may not so much seek to be
  understood
• as to understand.
• Leader If I speak in the tongues of mortals and
  of angels,
• but do not have love,
• I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 1
  Cor 131
• All Grant that I may not so much seek to be
  loved
• as to love.

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• Leader For those who want to save their life
  will lose it,
• and those who lose their life for my sake
• will save it. Luke 924
• All It is in giving that we receive.
• Leader Forgive us our debts
• as we also have forgiven our debtors. Mark
  612
• All I is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
• Leader Unless a grain of wheat falls into the
  earth and dies,
• it remains just a single grain
• but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
  John 1224
• All It is in dying that we are born to
  eternal life.

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• Leader May God the Father and the Lord Jesus
  Christ
• grant us peace, love and faith.
• All Grace be with all
• who love our Lord Jesus Christ with unfailing
  love.

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• LITANY FOR LOVE
• Let Us Escalate Love
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• Leader/Group Jesus, you wept over Jerusalem
• and its disregard of Samaritans and lepers,
• and you weep today over the escalating
  violence of racism and hate
• in our own society and world.
•  
• All Jesus, in the face of escalating violence,
• Let Us Escalate Love.
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• Leader/Group Jesus, you wept over Jerusalem
• and its humiliating occupation by the Roman
  Empire,
• and you weep today over the escalating
  violence of terrorism and humiliating
  occupation in the Holy Land.
•  
• All Jesus, in the face of escalating violence,

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• Leader Jesus, you wept over Jerusalem
• and its exploitation of the poor,
• and you weep today over the escalating
  violence of poverty
• in our own society and world
•  
• All Jesus, in the face of escalating violence,
• Let Us Escalate Love.
•  
• Leader Jesus, you wept over Jerusalem
• and its disregard of women and children,
• and you weep today over escalating violence
  against women and children
• in our own society and world.
•  
• All Jesus, in the face of escalating violence,
• Let Us Escalate Love.

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• Leader Jesus, you wept over Jerusalem
• and its deadly use of weapons of violence,
• and you weep today over the proliferation of
  the weapons of violence,
• from handguns to nuclear bombs, in our own
  society.
•  
• All Jesus, in the face of escalating violence,
• Let Us Escalate Love.
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• Leader Jesus, you wept over Jerusalem
• where capital punishment was rampant,
• and you weep today over the escalating use of
  capital punishment
• in our own society.
•  
• All Jesus, in the face of escalating violence,
• Let Us Escalate Love.

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• All Jesus,
• through you, love is possible.
• Keep challenging us to escalate love
• and not violence.
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• Amen.
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• Let There Be Peace on Earth
• Let there be peace on earth, and let it be gin
  with me.
• Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was
  meant to be.
• With God as our Fa ther, Fam ly all are we.
• Let us walk with each oth er in perfect
  harmony.
• Let peace be gin with me let this be the
  moment now.
• With ev ry step I take, let this be my sol
  emn vow
• To take each moment, and live each mo ment in
• peace e ter nal ly!
• Let there be peace on earth, and let it be gin
  with me.