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Seeds of Hope: Interfaith Gardening Prayers

Seeds of Hope: Interfaith Gardening

The following litergy was used at the Enviro Week Interfaith Gathering on May 2nd at Macquarie University. Photos coming soon...

WORDS OF GREETING

Sisters and brothers who are here today, we greet you with the greeting of peace. We have come because we want to commit ourselves to uphold and respect the lives of persons and peoples, and the life of all creation. We remember the Darug people, on whose land we stand and to whom sovereignty was never ceded. We remember all whose lives have been sacrificed to the powers of death, to acknowledge that our own communities and nations have been party to those powers, to express our common longing for a new world, and to commit ourselves to building it together: people of different faiths, sharing the same hope of peace based on justice and the integrity of creation.

CLOSING PRAYER

LEADER: The Earth does not belong to us.
ALL:        WE BELONG TO THE EARTH.
LEADER: All things are connected and interdependent.
ALL:        LIKE THE BLOOD THAT UNITES A FAMILY.
LEADER: We did not weave the web of life.
ALL:        WE ARE MERELY A STRAND IN IT.
LEADER: Whatever we do to the web,
ALL:        WE DO TO OURSELVES AND TO OUR DESCENDANTS.
LEADER: Let us give thanks for the gift of creation.
ALL:        THANKS BE TO GOD

These prayers have been adapted from the book 'Holy Ground', Wildgoose Publications, 2005.