Prayer for systemic change

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Prayer for Systemic Change


We praise and thank you, O God, Creator of the Universe.
You have made all things good and have given us the earth to cultivate.

Grant that we may always use created things gratefully,
and share them generously with those in need.
Give us creativity in helping the poor meet their basic human needs.

Open our minds and hearts so that we might stand at their side
and assist them to change whatever unjust structures keep them poor.

Enable us to be brothers and sisters to them, friends who walk with them
in their struggle for fundamental human rights.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. AMEN.