O God, Father of all people, you call us all to carry love where the poor are downtrodden, joy where the Church is discouraged, reconciliation where people are separated — father from son, mother from daughter, husband from wife, those who believe from those who don’t believe, the Christian from his unloved Christian brother. You prepare our way so that the wounded Body of Christ, your Church, may become the leaven for the community of the poor on earth and for the entire family of mankind.

Amen.”