PRAYER
Send us, O Lord, as your messengers, to hearts without homes, to lives without love, and to a multitude without direction.
Send us to children whom no one has blessed, to the hungry whom no one has fed, to the fallen whom no one has raised, to the desolate whom no one has consoled.
Light your fire on the altar of our hearts so that others may receive its warmth. Let your light shine through our souls so that others may see the path before them. Keep our compassion and discernment ready, our will fervent and alive, our hands reaching to help our brothers and sisters in their time of need. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
- Adapted from the closing prayer at the first National Convocation of Deaconesses, 1951
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