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World AIDS Day Online Vigil
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Litany for World AIDS Day 2003
One: We praise you, Holy One, for the gift of life,
precious, stubborn, fragile and beautiful;
We are grateful for the time we have to live upon the earth,
to love, to grow, to be.
Many: We give thanks for the will to live
and for our capacity to live fully
all of the days that we are given;
One: and for those who have taken
from the devastation of AIDS
the opportunity to build lives of wholeness.
Many: We give you thanks for the partners, friends, caregivers and families
who have been steadfast in their love;
for the people who have devoted their life’s work
to the prevention, treatment and healing of HIV
with passion and commitment,
One: For the diligent science,
brilliant ideas and insights that have led to new, life-giving treatments,
For the governments who have acted
to provide health care
for people living with HIV.
Many: We give thanks for those whose prejudice and judgment
have yielded to understanding,
For those who have overcome fear,
indifference or burnout
to embrace a life of caring compassion,
One: We praise you, Eternal One,
for those who have loved enough
that their hearts have broken,
who cherish the memories of those we have lost,
and for those who console the grieving.
Many: God, grant us the love, courage, tenacity, and will
to continue to make a difference in a world with HIV;
One: Inspire us to challenge the forces
that allow the needless spread of AIDS to continue —
prejudice, unjust laws, repression, prudery, stigma and fear.
Many: Into your care we trust and lift up the 60 million souls who have contracted HIV
One: We lift up to you our dreams of a world where all are cared for,
Many: our dreams of wholeness,
One: our dreams of a world without AIDS,
Many: a dream we know you share.
— WAD 2003 Litany from the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches
Thanks for the reminder of the day and for the links. I’ve posted about it on the group inspirational site I participate in at http://www.inspiranote.com.
Thank you, Indigo!