"If it infects one of us...it affects all of us."
Today is World AIDS Day. Many of us have been directly affected by AIDS, losing family, friends and other loved ones to the disease. Today, let us take time to remember those we have lost and pray for those who are suffering, those who care for them and for a cure.
HIV/AIDS
Prayer
God of our
weary years, God of our silent tears O Good and gracious God, You are the God
of health and wholeness In the plan of Your creation, You call us to struggle
in our sickness and to cling always to the cross of Your Son. Father, we are
Your servants. Many of us are now suffering with HIV or AIDS. We come before
You and ask You, if it is Your holy will, to take this suffering away from us,
restore us to health and lead us to know You and Your powerful healing love of
body and spirit. We ask you also, to be with those of us who nurse Your sick
ones. We are the mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children and friends of
Your suffering people. It is so hard for us to see those whom we love suffer.
You know what it is to suffer. Help us to minister in loving care, support, and
patience for your people who suffer with HIV and AIDS. Lead us to do whatever
it will take to eradicate this illness from the lives of those who are touched
by it, both directly and indirectly. Trusting in You and the strength of Your
Spirit, we pray these things in the Name of Jesus. Amen
Prayer by
National African American Catholic HIV/AIDS Task Force
Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me. (Matt 25:45)
