This document provides suggestions for a prayer service on World Water Day, including:
1) Symbols to use such as jars of clean, dirty, and empty water as well as songs about water.
2) Elements of the prayer service including readings, gestures with the water, and a story about women in Mozambique struggling to access water.
3) Questions are proposed to get participants thinking about their relationship to water and how to care for it and share it with others facing water scarcity.
Yesterday, we gathered at the same church where our friend and mentor, Fr. Don Pantle was baptized, received first communion, was confirmed, said his first mass as a newly ordained priest and this weekend was laid to rest.
He touched the lives of thousands of students at the University of Scranton over some 30 years through his unique ministry of food, cards and Eucharist which was brilliant, was Jesuit, and was incarnational.
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A few years ago Don asked that I would preach the homily at his funeral and was honored and humbled to have fulfilled my commitment to him. So take a few minutes and listen to why I feel Don made such a difference – and still does – in so many lives.
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Celebration of World Water Day
(22 nd March)
These are suggestions for a prayer on 22
March, World Water Day. Each community
should adapt it to the situation and culture in
which it is located.
A.- Symbols and elements to consider.
Find a place to pray, whether a chapel or a room, preferably the
people should be seated in a circle.
Place a table in the middle
with…
• Three jars or clear glass con-
tainers (where the water can be
clearly seen):
1.one filled with clean water;
2. another filled with dirty
water;
3.and the third empty.
• Several glasses ... if possible
one for each person.
• A Bible.
• Some well-known songs about
water.
A stereo with some songs for
meditation.
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B.- PRAYER.
a. If possible start with a song or
some soft music to help enter into a
spirit of prayer. You can project a
VIDEO.
b. Introduction. Somebody should
introduce the theme of the day.
1. A special day dedicated to
water.
2. Water symbolizes our entire re-
lationship with ecology.
3. The most important result is
that we end the day in a spirit of
solidarity with all who are suffe-
ring the consequences of environ-
mental change, especially the lack
of water, or from contaminated
water.
4. We also assume our own responsibility for this problem and
seek ways to address the things we failed to do when we should
have done them.
c. Music: soft music. It´s not necessary to employ many words
to speak about the gesture that follows. Simply explain the practical
issues.
d. Gesture: The absence of water. Pass round the empty jar
and each one make a gesture of drinking... thus feeling the lack of
water that many of our brothers and sisters experience in the length
and breadth of our world.
e. A moment of silence.
f. Gesture: pass round the jug with the dirty water which each
one can contemplate for a brief moment.
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g. Questions: What is water for you? Do you know someone
who might be missing it? Do you know of somebody who is wasting
it?
h. A moment of silence.
i. Reading. We then read a Scripture text from the book of
Genesis: (Gn 26, 19-22)
But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a
well of flowing water, the herdsmen of Gerar quarrelled with the
herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the
well Esek, because they contended with him. Then they dug another
well, and they quarrelled over it too, so he named it Sitnah. He
moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not qua-
rrel over it; so he named it Rehoboth, for he said, “At last the Lord
has made room for us, and we
will be fruitful in the land.”
j. A moment of silence.
k. Question:
what to do you with the water?
l. We read the following
story: «This water is ours, let us
care for it and share it».
Mwadia awoke this morning—like she did every morning—
when it was still dark. She left her hut and she went to get her ye-
llow jug—like she did every morning—to look for water. Her
husband and her children—like always—took advantage of the
darkness of night to get a bit more rest. Except for little Ze, who
would travel 3 kilometres on his mother’s back, so that he could
nurse when the hour for his breakfast arrived.
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Along the way, she met other women leaving from their huts,
carrying their similar yellow jugs in search of the same source of
life. Carrying water was a daily encounter that Mwadia had repe-
ated ever since he had had a family and, before that, she had ac-
companied her mother each morning.
In that Northern zone of Mozambique—like in many other parts
of Africa—looking for and carrying water and wood was the daily
work of women and children. Water, yucca, and beans were the
elements that sustained the family. Sometimes, some passing job,
a gift, or a packet of food added a bit of novelty to the diet.
The women went along, exchanging words on the way: observa-
tions about what had gone on the day before in their families, com-
ments about the weather, or a new ache that they had just felt this
morning. The place where they filled their jugs was on the outskirts
of the town. A place where everybody put their jug in a line and
waited their turn to fill it. Sometimes, if they arrived a bit late, it
could be hours. Sometimes it was possible to leave the jug with
another and to go gather firewood.
Here women of two ethnicities met—Macua and Maconde—who,
through language, culture, and history sometimes were united and
sometimes were divided, sometimes were close, and sometimes
distrusted each other. The links between the ethnic groups had pas-
sed through different stages in that broad zone of Mozambique.
The same rhythms occurred in the village.
Nevertheless, it was normal to meet each day in the search for
water, that element so vital, so common, so universal. They be-
came sisters in their need to search for water.
But this morning was different than all the others. There was very
little water and, as such, the women, those of her ethnicity, couldn’t
take any of it. They would go on to the next village to try their luck
there. Strong words were had, as they wanted to fix the situation
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so they wouldn’t have to walk so far, but there weren’t any
solutions. The other group was larger and stronger.
Then, in resignation, they took their jugs and began to walk to-
ward the next village. They were used to walking a lot, but they
were only used to venturing 3 kilometres for water. Nevertheless,
on that day, what had been a daily task became a new problem
without a close solution. Because of this, they left in a bad mood.
Along the way, the children who accompanied them—the first
moment of tension having passed— began to play. What could
these children know about the ancestral conflict between these
two ethnicities? What could they understand of a more complete
reality that, for them, wasn’t very important yet? For them, it had
only been a passing moment of hot argument and, now, it was an
opportunity to visit another village.
The journey toward the water was long and tiring. The sun began
to shine and, when the time came to return, more than shining on
them, it would suffocate them.
Along the way, both coming and going, nobody imagined that this
conflict wasn’t limited to just this tiny place on the earth. Far be-
yond these seven kilometres that separated them from water, there
were so many more national and international conflicts over ac-
cess to this same li-
quid: water.
But...What could
Mwadia and the other
women know about
all of this which was
so far away from
them? Their job was
but to carry their ye-
llow jugs, filled with
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water, day after day. This resource, such a key necessity for
our human life, is generating, in our world today, more and more
conflicts.
Among them...Tibet, where its great source of water, the Brah-
maputra River, and its glaciers are a motive of discord, with China
deciding their future.
The United States and Mexico in conflict over the Rio
Bravo/Grande. Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt fighting over the fa-
mous Nile. Turkey, Syria, and Iraq in confrontation over the Tigris
and the Euphrates. The Andes mountain range which divides Ar-
gentina and Chile, where there is a fight between mineral compa-
nies and indigenous peoples, the companies able to make
enormous profits by using huge quantities of water to wash the
metal, contaminating the ecosystem of the neighbouring popula-
tions.
The conflicts between Israel, Syria, Palestine and Libya in order
to be able to possess the water of the Jordan and the Litani. Or
the scarce provision of potable water to Gaza and the West Bank.
The list could go on.... All of these, and so many other conflicts
over water—a right for all—are arising because of its scarcity,
its privatization into the hands of the hydro-mafia, its waste on
the part of those who have access to potable water or its pollution
by those who are ambitious.
The source of life is increasingly turning into a reason for death.
It is urgent that we seek a place where there is “room for us” all
as with Isaac, a fruit of another possible world, where ecology,
justice, equality, and a fair distribution of the earth’s goods based
on solidarity, reign over selfish ambition, avarice, ethnic hatred,
and the logic of the permanent search for an enemy that justifies
death. The waters of “contention” and “hostility” should be re-
placed with: “This water is ours, let us care for it and share
it”.
Essay awarded by the 2010 Latin American Agenda
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m. A moment of silence.
n. What impressed you as you read this essay? Share spon-
taneous prayers.
o. Reading:
We read a text from the Gospel Jn. 4, 5-15.
He arrived to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the
parcel of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. There was,
and there was Jacob´s well. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat
beside the well. It was about noon.
A woman of Samaria came to draw water, Jesus said to her:
Give me a drink.
His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
Therefore the Samaritan woman said to him: How can you,
a Jew, ask me a Samaritan woman, for a drink? (For Jews use
nothing in common with Samaritans.)
Jesus replied, "If you knew the gift of God, and who is sa-
ying to you," Give me a drink, you would have asked Him, and
He would have given you living water”.
She said to Him: Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the
well is deep: where can you get this living water? Are you gre-
ater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from
it himself, with his children and his flocks?
Jesus said: Whoe-
ver drinks this water
will thirst again, but
whoever drinks the
water I shall give
will never thirst; the
water I shall give
will become in him a
fountain of water
welling up to eternal
life.
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She said: "Lord, give me this water, so that I may not be
thirsty of have to keep coming here to draw water”.
p. Questions: What can you do to help take care of this? …..
to share it? As a community, what can we do to take care of it?
q. Gesture: Pass round the jug with clean water so that each is
served in a glass and drinks some of its contents, sensing the
cool delight of the water... and the life that flows through it.
Quietly, with background music.
r. Song. We all join in a final song…
Francisco Murray.
Passionist International Solidarity Comission
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