Good Afternoon Dear Family,
Happy Sunday!. This is an early blog because I am attending the Glass Menagerie at the Solvang Festival Theater tonight. I know that everyone must be still feeling raw following the events in Orlando a week ago Sunday. I'm giving everyone permission as if you needed mine to feel. I just can't shake the enormity of the grief that keeps wafting in like the smell of pain. I don't expect or want us to move on from this because there are many lessons to be learned and voices to be heard. We are at a time and place where we personally need to be given permission to live authentically without fear and love all of our brothers and sisters.So today brothers and sisters let us grieve well, love well, be well, and speak truth to power well. We all must be agents of change together to make this world from the tiniest village to the largest metropolis, smallest Papal state to the largest country, a place of safety, a place of unity, a place where we all can live and be the beautiful and authentic children that God made without hatred, fear, bullying, an terror forever at our backs and doors. This isn't a time to cower in the corner but a time to love and to act for the benefit and good of all.
Today I would like us to be in sync with the prayer vigil at the Cathedral of St. Luke in Orlando which begins at 6:00 p.m. EDT. So we will do our virtual candlelight prayer vigil beginning then.
Gracious and loving God we light our candles early today to join our voices, candles, prayers,and those who come to grieve and remember all the lives lost a week ago with those attending the Vigil at The Cathedral Church of St. Luke in Orlando. Give us this time to pray and be together as one family and community of love and a community in grief for all whose lives have been touched by violence of any kind. We join in remembering your blessed children who entered into eternal joy a little too early in life. We pray that we may follow their examples of living and also that they may serve as beacons of change in this world where the weaponry of hate, war, and division my be silenced and that our world , our souls, our lives, our relationships, may be healed and that we all may be one.
We pray for the victims by Name and pause for a moment. If you have a bell or singing bowl ring it after each name.
Amanda Alvear, 25 years old
Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26 years old
Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33 years old
Antonio Davon Brown, 29 years old
Darryl Roman Burt II, 29 years old
Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28 years old
Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25 years old
Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old
Cory James Connell, 21 years old
Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25 years old
Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32 years old
Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31 years old
Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25 years old
Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 years old
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22 years old
Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22 years old
Paul Terrell Henry, 41 years old
Frank Hernandez, 27 years old
Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 years old
Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 years old
Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 years old
Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30 years old
Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25 years old
Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32 years old
Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 years old
Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, 49 years old
Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25 years old
Kimberly Morris, 37 years old
Akyra Monet Murray, 18 years old
Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20 years old
Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez, 25 years old
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36 years old
Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32 years old
Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 years old
Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 years old
Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27 years old
Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35 years old
Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz, 24 years old
Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan, 24 years old
Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34 years old
Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 years old
Martin Benitez Torres, 33 years old
Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24 years old
Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37 years old
Luis S. Vielma, 22 years old
Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50 years old
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 years old
Jerald Arthur Wright, 31 years old
Respond to these petitions with: May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort be with us this night as we pray for peace in this world and that we may live into our baptismal covenant with you and each other.
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort may we seek as one family with you to find solutions that will stem the tide of all violence and terror.
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort may we seek with you to find our true calling and life path.
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort give us strength to speak out firmly and lovingly for those who haven't any voice.
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort give us all a return to common sense. Take away from us all temptation to fall into a mob and hate mentality.
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort we pray for all who are ill and in need of healing of their bodies, minds, and spirits.
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort may we be sources of comfort one to another and listen to you with our heart homes for those who are in need of help and may not be able to name their needs.
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort may we ever be mindful of our family members who are grieving losses and pre- grieving.
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort we pray for all who have been senselessly murdered for who they are. Grant to them eternal rest.
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort may all of us who struggle to live authentically without fear be able to speak and live our truth valiantly and with courage.
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort we pray and give thanks for_________________________
God of all comfort we pray for all who have been senselessly murdered for who they are. Grant to them eternal rest.
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort may all of us who struggle to live authentically without fear be able to speak and live our truth valiantly and with courage.
May we all be one and comfort one another with love, kindness and gentleness God hear our prayers!
God of all comfort we pray and give thanks for_________________________
We lift up these our prayers in the Holy name of Jesus! Amen.
Today's wish:We never forget that we have a heart to love and a purpose from which to give.
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Good Night Dear Family of Love! I love you and Give God thanks for you this day and always!May we all love, comfort, and encircle each other with compassion , mercy, grace and peace.Remember today is our weekend retreat of Self-care and Sabbath Rest.
Love, prayers, blessings and a wish for a comforting and restful day of Sabbath Rest
Sara
Today's wish:We never forget that we have a heart to love and a purpose from which to give.
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Good Night Dear Family of Love! I love you and Give God thanks for you this day and always!May we all love, comfort, and encircle each other with compassion , mercy, grace and peace.Remember today is our weekend retreat of Self-care and Sabbath Rest.
Love, prayers, blessings and a wish for a comforting and restful day of Sabbath Rest
Sara
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