All: Have mercy on
us
One: Lamb of God, you take away the sins of
the world
All: Free us from the bondage of
sin and death
One: Lamb of God, you take away the sins of
the world
All: Hear our prayer. Grant us peace.
One: For the victims of war
All: Have mercy
One: Women, men and children
All: Have mercy
One: The maimed and the crippled
All: Have mercy
One: The abandoned and the
homeless
All: Have mercy
One: the imprisoned and the
tortured
All: Have mercy
One: The widowed and the orphaned
All: Have mercy
One: The bleeding and the dying
All: Have mercy
One: The weary and the desperate
All: Have mercy
One: The lost and the forsaken
All: Have mercy
One: O God -- Have mercy on us
sinners
All: Forgive us for we know not
what we do
One: For our scorched and blackened
earth
All: Forgive us
One: For the scandal of billions wasted in
war
All: Forgive us
One:
For our arms makers and arms dealers
All:
Forgive us
One: For our Caesars and
Herods
All:
Forgive us
One:
For the violence that is rooted in our hearts
All:
Forgive us
One:
For the times we turn others into enemies
All:
Forgive us
One:
Deliver us, O God
All:
Guide our feet into the way of peace
One:
Hear our prayer.
All:
Grant us peace.
One: From the arrogance of
power
All: Deliver
us
One: From the myth of redemptive
violence
All: Deliver
us
One: From the tyranny of
greed
All: Deliver
us
One: From the ugliness of
racism
All: Deliver
us
One: From the cancer of
hatred
All: Deliver
us
One: From the seduction of
wealth
All: Deliver
us
One: From the addiction of
control
All: Deliver
us
One: From the idolatry of
nationalism
All: Deliver
us
One: From the paralysis of
cynicism
All: Deliver
us
One: From the violence of apathy
All: Deliver
us
One: From the ghettos of poverty
All: Deliver
us
One: From the ghettos of
wealth
All: Deliver
us
One: From a lack of
imagination
All:
Deliver us
One:
Deliver us, O God
All:
Guide our feet into the way of peace
One:
We will not conform to the patterns of this world
All:
Let us be transformed by the renewing of our minds
One:
With the help of God’s grace
All:
Let us resist evil wherever we find it
One: With the waging of
war
All: We will not
comply
One: With the legalization of
murder
All:
We will not comply
One:
With the slaughter of innocents
All: We will not
comply
One: With laws that betray human
life
All: We will not
comply
One: With the destruction of
community
All: We will not
comply
One: With the pointing finger and malicious
talk
All: We will not
comply
One: With the idea that happiness must be
purchased
All: We will not
comply
One: With the ravaging of the
earth
All:
We will not comply
One:
With principalities and powers that oppress
All: We will not
comply
One: With the destruction of
peoples
All: We will not
comply
One: With the raping of
women
All: We will not
comply
One: With governments that
kill
All: We will not
comply
One: With the theology of
empire
All: We will not
comply
One: With the business of
militarism
All: We will not
comply
One:
With the hoarding of riches
All: We will not
comply
One:
With the dissemination of fear
All: We will not
comply
One: Today we pledge our ultimate allegiance… to the
Kingdom of God
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To a peace that is not like
the Empire's
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the Gospel of enemy
love
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the Kingdom of the poor and
broken
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To a King that loves his enemies so
much he died for them
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the least of these, with whom
Christ dwells
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the transnational Church that
transcends the artificial borders of nations
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the refugee of
Nazareth
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the homeless rabbi who had no place
to lay his head
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the cross rather than the
sword
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the banner of love above any
flag
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the one who rules with a towel
rather than an iron fist
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the one who rides a donkey rather
than a war-horse
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the revolution that sets both
oppressed and oppressors free
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the Way that leads to
life
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: To the Slaughtered
Lamb
All: We pledge
allegiance
One: And together we proclaim his praises,
from the margins of the empire to the centers of wealth and
power
All: Long Live the Slaughtered
Lamb
One: Long Live the Slaughtered
Lamb
All: Long Live the Slaughtered Lamb
alt. only by substituting the peace of Empire's for the peace of Rome, to indicate that although the model is based on the ancient Roman Empire, it is indicative of all Empires past and current.
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