On this Feast of St. Benedict, may his witness draw us together in a shared commitment to peace in our hearts, our community, and our world.
Prayer to St. Benedict for Peace
St. Benedict, you were a man of peace.
Through your powerful intercession with God help us to be peacemakers.
Aid us to work for peace, to take the first step
in ending bitterness, to be the first to hold out our hands
in friendship and forgiveness.Help us to achieve peace; peace in our hearts,
peace in our homes, peace in our sorely troubled world.
And at the end of our lives obtain for us the reward of peacemakers, the eternal blessed vision of God in heaven.
Amen.
“Prayer to St. Benedict for Peace,” adapted from Work of God: Benedictine Prayer, Judith Sutera, OSB, editor. ©1997 by Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. Used with permission.
