2. WE INVITE YOU TO PRAY WITH US
offering our prayer to our shared God.
The writings included here are based on texts from
the region - The Qur‟an, Sufi mystics, an Arab poet
and St Mark‟s Gospel.
Thank you for joining us in prayer.
3. WE PRAY FOR THE PEOPLES OF THE MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA IN THIS TIME OF CHANGE
Iran
Sudan
4. Rescue us from this town
Whose people are
oppressors
Raise raise us up in You
One who will protect
One who will help.
Qur’an 4/75 - Icon from Monastère de la Visitation à Tazert, Mocrocco
5. Did Allah not
find you an
orphan,
And give you
Shelter, and
Care?
Found you Wandering and gave you Guidance.
Found you in need and gave you Independence.
Qur’an 93/6
6. The dewdrop mirrors
The Light because it
is one with Light,
and you reflect Life,
because you and
Life are one.
Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of the Prophet
7. Now I am called the shepherd
of the desert gazelles,
Now a Christian monk
Now a Rabi
The Beloved is Three,
yet One:
Just as the three
are in reality one.
The Way of the Sufi, The Face of Religion
Photo – postcard de Monastère de la Visitation à Tazert,
Mocrocco
8. After your night,
night of the last winter,
The soldiers pitched their camp in a
faraway place
And a white moon alighted on my
balcony
And I sat with my freedom silently
staring into the night:
Who am I?
Who am I after your night,
Night of the last winter?
Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly’s Burden, A Cloud from Sodom
9. My comrades and my friends, I
charge you by our love that you
be countless paths which cross
one another in the desert,
where the lions and the rabbits
walk, and also the wolves and
the sheep...
I teach you not silence, but
rather a song not overloud, I
teach you your larger self, which
contains all people.
Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of the Prophet
10. “Where is the donkey,
for me to ride upon?‟
„I am he,‟ said Ibrahim;
„ride on my shoulders.‟
And he carried Sahl on his back
for the rest of the journey.
The Way of the Sufi, The Ass
12. You are looking for
Jesus, who was
crucified: he has
risen… you must
go and tell the
disciples..
And the women
“He is going ahead came out and ran
of you to Galilee, away from the
that is where you tomb because
will find him, just they were
as he told you.” frightened… and
they said nothing
to anyone
because they
were afraid.
Icon from Monastère de la
Visitation à Tazert, Mocrocco Mk 16:6 - 8
13. WE JOIN IN PRAYER THE PEOPLE OF NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
We remember those who have lost their lives in these
demonstrations
We pray for an end to the violence
We hold in hope those people who are struggling
May their paths cross in peace
May their shoulders be strong
May God‟s light guide their journey
And may they find the dignity and security they seek
Amen
