PRAYERS FOR PEACE

On October 27, 1986, spiritual leaders from each of the world's 12 major religions came together for the first time in history, to share their most sacred prayers for the "Day of World Peace," celebrated in Assisi, Italy, in commemoration of the United Nations International Year of Peace. The 12 prayers are included in a booklet used at St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Church, Wall Street, during its daily Prayer for Peace service honoring all of those who perished on Sept. 11, 2001, the courage and compassion of volunteers and rescue workers, and the continuing efforts of all who work for peace, reconciliation and social justice around the world today.

Each week one more of these prayers is appended to the Parabola Spiritual Calender for the coming week, before being posted to Abe's Kids. This week's prayer is from the Hindu tradition.

HINDU

Oh God, lead us from the unreal to the Real.
Oh God, lead us from darkness to light.
Oh God, lead us from death to immortality.
Shanti, Shanti, Shanti unto all.

Oh Lord God almighty,
may there be peace in celestial regions.
May there be peace on earth.
May the waters be appeasing.
May all beneficent beings bring peace to us.
May thy Vedic Law propagate peace to all through the world.
May all things be a source of peace to us.
And may thy peace itself, bestow peace on all
and may that peace come to me also.


CHRISTIAN

Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be known as the Children of God.
You have heard the saying, “love your neighbor but hate your enemies.”
But I say to you, love your enemies,
do good to those who hate you,
bless those who curse you,
pray for those who abuse you.

To those that strike you on the cheek,
offer the other one also,
and from those who take away your cloak,
do not withhold your coat as well.

Give to everyone who begs from you,
and of those who take away your goods,
do not ask for them again.

And as you wish that others would do to you,
do so to them.


BUDDHIST

May all beings everywhere plagued
with sufferings of body and mind
be quickly freed from their illnesses.

May those frightened cease to be afraid,
and may those bound be free.

May the powerless find power,
and may people think of befriending on another.

May those who find themselves in trackless,
fearful wilderness – the children, the aged, the unprotected –
be guarded by beneficial celestials,
and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.


BAHA’I

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.
Be fair in judgment, and guarded in your speech.
Be a lamp to those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger.
Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light to the feet of the erring.
Be a breath of life to the body of humankind, a dew to the soil of the human heart,
and a fruit upon the tree of humility.

Fw: News Being Reported Abroad That You Won't Hear In The U.S.A.

April 23, 2008 US-British Leaders Swear Allegiance To Pope As England Is Destroyed By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo) Russian Intelligence reports to the Foreign Ministry are stating today that during last weeks visit to the United States by Pope Benedict XVI, both the American President, George Bush, and Britain's Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, knelt before the Roman Pontiff and 'swore their allegiance' to the New Holy Roman Empire in a move designed to destroy the borders of all Western Nations as they prepare for Total War against the Muslim and Eastern Power Blocks in the World. It should be noted that these two latest World leader converts to Catholicism follows that of the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who upon his resignation as the Leader of the United Kingdom, and head of the English Church, flew to Rome and also knelt before Pope Benedict XVI swearing his allegiance to the Pontiff and the New Holy Roman Empire. These latest events are particularly ominous as Tony Blair is slated to become the first President of the European Union, and which upon his taking this office, and as reported by Britain 's Telegraph News Service, will receive: "The proposed full-time president of the European Union is to be given a personal jet, a palatial official residence and a personal staff of up to 22, under plans being considered in Brussels. The prospect of a private aircraft raises the possibility that Tony Blair, the current frontrunner for the new post, which comes into effect next year, could get the "Blair Force One" he was denied as prime minister. The terms of the new president were discussed at a secret "working dinner" held on Tuesday between José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, and EU ambassadors." But, to the greatest dangers posed by the rising of this new Holy Roman Empire are the dissolutions of all National borders leading to the destruction of England , and as the Telegraph News Service further reports: "England has been wiped off a map of Europe drawn up by Brussels bureaucrats as part of a scheme that the Tories claim threatens to undermine the country's national identity. The new European plan splits England into three zones that are joined with areas in other countries. The "Manche" region covers part of southern England and northern France while the Atlantic region includes western parts of England, Portugal, Spain and Wales. The North Sea region includes eastern England, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and parts of Germany. A copy of the map, which makes no reference to England or Britain, has even renamed the English Channel the "Channel Sea". The American President has, likewise, informed his North American Counterparts of these new plans to dissolve both the United States and the European Union into a Western Alliance during their US Summit, but to which the Canadian Prime Minister, Steven Harper, and knowing his Nations destruction is imminent, warned his allies to not forget 'who has the oil'. Though their remains no evidence that the masses of American people fully comprehend the catastrophic destruction of their way of life that awaits them, this can not be said of their elite corporate leaders, and who are being warned by both their most powerful 'right' and 'left' faction propaganda media organs, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, to begin to prepare building survival homes away from their cities and to also begin to convert their available cash into food, and with, perhaps, the most strident warning being issued by the aforementioned Wall Street Journal who are telling their readers: "I don't want to alarm anybody, but maybe it's time for Americans to start stockpiling food. No, this is not a drill." As both climate change and the growing crisis in the World's ability to feed itself are rushing us towards Total World War, the advice of these powerful US propaganda media organs should, indeed, be heeded, but, and sadly, there remains no evidence to suggest that these once great American people are concerned with anything more than what pleases them in the immediate moment and have convinced themselves that all will be tomorrow what it is like today. However, with the growing strength of the New Holy Roman Empire arising in their midst's, and with the plans to subjugate all of these people to the will of a Pope they know nothing about, one can surely see how these peoples will be the first to fall into the oblivion of history that in all honesty they will have no one to blame but themselves. © April 23, 2008 EU and US all rights reserved. [Ed. 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